Flickr
Flickr is a photo sharing community which provides you with an easy
way to post and share photos online and add meaningful metadata and comments to photos. You do not need
to be registered to search or view public photos on Flickr, however you must be a registered member of
Flickr or Yahoo! to post.
Account Information
- In Profile Privacy, you can
control who is able to see different parts of your profile, including email address, IM names, real
name, and current city.
- In your Account Settings, you may also
hide photos or
your profile from searches on
flickr.com as well as from searches on 3rd party sites that use the Yahoo! API, including Yahoo! Image
Search.
Information Collection and Use Practices
- In your Privacy Settings, you can choose to
make your photos default to public for anyone to access, restrict access to a limited number of other
Flickr users, or keep those photos private so only you can access them. On each photo page, you will
also find more granular controls to change each photo setting.
- Advertisements shown to you may be related to textual information, such as metadata and notes,
associated with the photo you are seeing, or the search term you entered.
Location Information and Sharing
- When you upload a photo with geographical data (i.e. from a mobile device) or manually geotag
your photo, the photo's location can be shown on a map.
- You can also set your
geopreferences to decide who can see the location of your photos by default. Further, you can
change the geopreferences setting on
individual photos by clicking on the map to the right of each photo.
EXIF Data
- You may elect to hide a link showing EXIF data about photos or video you upload. The link, where
applicable, shows on all your individual photo pages, and displays the make & model of the camera you
used to take the shot.
- Some cameras can store GPS (location) coordinates in a photo's EXIF header. If you like, you
Flickr can import that data and use it to place your photos on your map
automatically.
Geofences
- A geofence is a hotspot on a map that has special default geo privacy settings. These are useful
for locations such as "home" or "school" that you would like to make more private than your global
default. Click here to create your
geofences.
Information Sharing and Disclosure Practices
- In your Privacy Settings, you can choose to
make your photos default to public for anyone to access, restrict access to a limited number of other
Flickr users, or keep those photos private so only you can access them. On each photo page, you will
also find more granular controls to change each photo setting.
- You may link your account to Facebook, Twitter,
Tumblr, or other sites to link your photos directly to other social sharing sites and blogs.
- Your Guest Pass history allows you to
manage Guest Passes you have created for sharing your photos with others.
- On the desktop Flickr experience, you may give certain Yahoo! apps (including Aviary, ImageKind,
and Moo) different levels of permissions to interact with your account to take advantage of things like
photo editing tools. If you want to stop using one of these apps and revoke your permission, click
the"Remove Permission" link under “
sharing and extending” on your account page and remove that permission.
Practices Regarding Your Ability to Update or Delete Information
- You can delete individual photos that you have on Flickr by selecting the photos that you wish to
delete, then clicking the delete button. Or you can delete groups of photos using batch operations.
- Visit your Flickr account information to edit your
profile, default privacy settings for photos, and more.
Communication
Other
This page describes current Yahoo! practices with respect to this particular service. This information
may change as Yahoo! revises this service by adding or removing features or using different service
providers. To find out how Yahoo! treats your personal information, please visit our
Privacy Policy.