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Yahoo! Personals Guidelines

By Yahoo! Personals Updated: Nov 2, 2008
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Yahoo! Personals gives Yahoo! users a way to find and interact with other people who may share their interests and goals. Just like a real community, different people may have different opinions and personalities in Yahoo! Personals. To make the most of your Yahoo! Personals experience, please read these Guidelines carefully and act accordingly. In addition, you may want to check out the writing tips, photo tips, online dating tips.
In the interest of making Yahoo! Personals a fun way to connect with other people, we ask that everyone follow a few key rules, including:
  1. You must be 18 years old or older to use Yahoo! Personals. Do not post profiles that seek out or advertise users who are younger than 18.
  2. Do not post a profile on behalf of another person. You may only post a profile for yourself.
  3. Do not post your (or anyone else's) full name, email address, street address or phone number. Do not request this same information from other people in your profile.
  4. Do not post URLs, websites, Yahoo! Profiles, Yahoo! IDs, or instant messenger IDs/numbers. Do not alter the appearance of your profile by using HTML tags.
  5. Do not post adult-oriented content (e.g., nudity, overtly sexual language or images, etc.).
  6. Do not post obscene, offensive, illegal or otherwise objectionable material.
  7. Do not harass, threaten or use abusive or vulgar language.
  8. Do not post detailed descriptions of physical characteristics (e.g., measurements, sizes, etc.) or the types of sexual activities that interest you. Such information is better conveyed in communications with individuals who reply to you.
  9. Do not post a profile if you are not looking to connect with another person for a personal relationship or if your profile does not provide a general description of the type of person that interests you. If this is not your goal, Yahoo! may offer another service better suited to your needs.
  10. Do not post a profile unless you are single, widowed, divorced or separated. If you are currently involved in a relationship you cannot post a profile. Do not post a profile that solicits married people.
  11. Do not post a profile that solicits multiple partners or additional partners for existing couples.
  12. Do not post a profile if you're only looking for a pen pal.
  13. Do not post a profile that includes discussions of illegal activities.
  14. Do not write your profile title and description in a foreign language, characters or symbols. Yahoo! Personals is only able to support English language profiles at this time.
  15. Do not post a personal profile if you live in a country other than the United States or Canada.
  16. Do not post more than one personal profile at a time.
  17. Do not post a profile or gather profile information using automated tools, unless specifically authorized (e.g., robots, crawling software).
  18. Do not use this service for commercial purposes (i.e. spam, information gathering, etc.).
  19. Do not post copyrighted content without permission from the owner.
  20. Do not post a primary photo if:
    • you are not in it
    • your face is not clear
    • it contains an image of you as a child
    • it contains more than two recognizable people
    • it is something other than a JPG file
    • it includes contact info
    • it is not rightside-up
    • it is a "collage" of images
    • it is a duplicate of another photo
    • it is larger than 5MB in size
  21. Do not post an additional photo if:
    • it contains an image of you as a child
    • it is something other than a JPG file
    • it includes contact info
    • it is not rightside-up
    • it is a "collage" of images
    • it is a duplicate of another photo
    • it is larger than 5MB in size
Please keep in mind that Yahoo! reserves the right to review, reject and remove any content that Yahoo! determines, in its sole discretion, to be in violation of these Guidelines, the Yahoo! Terms of Service, or the Yahoo! Personals Billing Terms of Service. Also, because the Yahoo! Personals service is designed to help facilitate relationships between individuals in the offline world as well as cyberspace, Yahoo! reserves the right to terminate your account or use of this service if we become aware of information indicating a safety concern for you, other Yahoo! Personals users, or the general public. Please report any violations of the Guidelines or Terms of Service to our Customer Care.
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No Photo
How do you go on a date if you can not contact or meet up with someone out of the internet? I do not understand how this works?
A Yahoo! Contributor
People who are &quot;separated&quot; are still married to someone. Why do you allow them to post a profile seeking someone else/new, when they are not free from an existing relationship?
No Photo
is spell check available in personals email?
Stephen
I too was e-mailing a woman from Wisconsin, then she said her uncle raped her so she went back to nigeria, then she wanted to come back to the states but didnt have the (airfare) be cause she had to support her mother, do you see it comming, well I sure did and reported her to yahoo which deleted her profile. So watch out
TOM
I READ THE ABOVE QUESTIONS BUT I CAN NOT FIND ANY ANSWERS? THIS IS VERY TYPICAL OF THE COMPUTOR AND ME---I GET TO A POINT AND AM LEFT FLUSTRATED--ANOTHER EXAMPLE IS YOU SAY POST A PHOTO AND I WOULD BUT YOU ONLY SHOW HOW TO DO SO FROM YOUR CAMERA. I HAVE EXISTING PHOTOS AND I CAN NOT FIND AN EXPLANATION ON HOW TO DO THIS. I HAVE A PRINTER THAT SCANS ETC..WHILE I&#39;M GRIPING ONE MORE THING---YOU STATE , UPDATE YOUR MAIL SERVICE ITS FREE---BUT AFTER A FEW CLICKS IN TRYING TOGET THIS FREE UPDATE IT SAYS YOUR PHONE MIGHT BE SUBJECT TO CHARGES ETC.---TO BE HONEST I DONT EVEN KNOW WHERE TO LOOK FOR ANY UPCOMING ANSWERS FROM YOU,I GUESS IT WOULD BE ON MY EMAIL
No Photo
what should u do if you dont get return messages from someone, ho wmany i s to many is there a time frame to wait ?
No Photo
Me, too! I tried to cancel, and everything flew off my screen. I have searched two days and WAITED to talk to a number of people, and have been unable to find a way to be sure I&#39;ve cancelled. I do not want to be billed further!
No Photo
Changed billing options from monthly to quarterly. Now can not respond to inquiries, they want me to subscribe!!!! I am sure I will not be rebated for time lost. I have heard Eharmony has live people to talk to.
Diana
This guy--Douglas Hale from Nebraska City, NE said i was the women of his dreams and gave me a sob story of how he was an Orphan........ Read for yourself::::Hello My Dear Diana, How are you doing?Thank you million times for the sweet and wonderful mail that you wrote back to me.Infact you really made my day by sending me a mail and you have really made my day very happy and very special and thank you very much for that.I really enjoy reading your short mail that you wrote to me.I came across your profile and it sounded like u are a nice person to get to know and that was why i wrote to you in the first place.I want you to know that i will be delating my profile from the dating site b&#39;cos i have found what i have been looking for all of my life and i was on that site looking for my dream woman and that is you b&#39;cos my heart is telling me that you are the woman i have been waiting for all of my life.To me if you really do want someone and you sure that is the right person for you then you should do by wanting to delate my profile so that i will not be recieving mails from any other women and for me to be faithful to you always. let me also take this chance to tell you more about my self.My name is Douglas Hale and i was born an Orphan in Nebraska and at the age of 4 i was adopted by a Jamaica couple and we moved to Jamaica so i can say i grew up in Jamaica but i had most of my education in the Jamaica.I lost both my adopted parents when i was just 15 years old so i had to stay with the family Lawyer till i was of age to take care of the business my parents left behind.I lost the family lawyer when i was 25 but i was old enought to stay on my own and take care of my family business.I got married at the age of 30 ye
A Yahoo! Contributor
I, too, bumped into this guy with the same story, word for word on another dating site. His pictures , I assume, are lifted from a modelling portfolio, and he states, in roughly one minute of chat, how he&#39;d like to marry. Women, beware! As my grandmother used to say, if it&#39;s too good to be true, It usually is. Good Luck everyone. In this day and age, honesty is everything.
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