(i) to consider initiating and to initiate, maintain and develop our relationship with you in connection with our offering and servicing of products and services;

(ii) to administer billing and accounting services and security measures in relation to your business with us;

(iii) to monitor your customer history, evaluate your credit standing, to share or exchange credit reports and information with credit reporting agencies and credit bureaus and to collect any unpaid amounts owing to us;

(iv) to promote and to market additional products, goods and services offered by us, including by means of direct marketing;

(v) to provide personalized features and services;

(vi) to analyze traffic and use of the Mecca Portal Web site in order to determine which features and services people like and don't like so that we can improve what we do;

(vii) to prepare aggregated user statistics or information summaries in order to describe our services to third parties such as prospective business partners and advertisers and for other lawful purposes (a Mecca Portal advertiser will never have direct access to your Personal Information);

(viii) to present Web page advertisements that we hope will be of particular interest to you. Mecca may also use customer information to provide customers with system information or information about new or upgraded products;

(ix) to comply with any legal and regulatory requirements, including requirements or requests of government agencies or pursuant to a subpoena or other legal proceeding.

Disclosure of information we collect

You consent to our collection from, verification with, communication to, any third party and our use of, Information for these purposes. You authorize these parties to give us the Information. You acknowledge that your name, address, telephone number, email address are not considered confidential Information and may be disclosed by us.

Mecca will not, except for reasons stated below, disclose to third parties the contents of any information or other electronic communications that Mecca stores or transmits for its customers. The circumstances under which Mecca will disclose such electronic customer communications are when:

(i) any person who, in our reasonable judgement, is seeking the Information as your agent; or

(ii) a person involved directly or indirectly in supplying the Service to you, including, without limitation, our sales agents, to the extent the Information is required and used only for such purposes, including the efficient supply of Services to you, and provided that person is required to keep such Information confidential; or

(iii) a person retained by us to collect amounts which you owe us or to enforce our rights under these Terms and Conditions, if the Information is required for, and is to be used only for that purpose and that person is required to keep such Information confidential.

We may also use Information in our records for as long as it is needed for the purposes described above and your consent remains valid after the termination of our relationship with you. You understand and agree that, unless we are notified in writing (letter, email or facsimile) to the contrary, we are further authorized to disclose, on a confidential basis, to any party with whom we have business relations all relevant information relating to your dealings with us and our Service.

Maintenace of Information we collect

We reserve the right to conduct statistical analyses of your behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of Mecca's Services, Mecca's proposed services, the Mecca Portal Website and the Internet and to provide advertisers with information such as the number of users that have been exposed to or clicked on their advertising banners. We will provide only aggregated data from these analyses to third parties

Mecca will review, delete, or block access to communications that may harm Mecca, its customers or third parties. The grounds on which Mecca may take such action include, but are not limited to, actual or potential violations of Mecca's Terms of Use.

.You are also advised that we may permit third parties to offer subscription and/or registration-based services through the Mecca Portal. We are not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties and you should check the applicable privacy policy of each such third party when providing personal information. We are also not responsible for any actions of any third party sites which you access through the Mecca Portal and the Internet and you are responsible for checking the applicable privacy policy of such third party sites.

You should also be aware that when personal information is voluntarily disclosed (i.e. user name, e-mail address, etc.) in the discussion areas or other public areas of the Mecca Portal and the Internet, that information, along with any information disclosed in your communication, can be collected and used by third parties and may result in unsolicited messages from third parties. Such activities are beyond our control.

At your request, we will:

(a) allow you to decline receiving further electronic advertising from us at any time;

(b) provide you with reasonable access to your information that is in our records;

(c) use reasonable efforts to allow you to update/correct personal information which you state is incorrect to the extent such updating/correction will not compromise our privacy or security interests, subject to the understanding that it may be impossible to completely delete your information without some residual information because of backups.

You may opt out of receiving promotional and/or marketing information from us. Notwithstanding your wish to cease receiving such promotional and/or marketing information, we reserve the right to contact you regarding account status, changes to your Internet service agreement and other matters relevant to the underlying service and/or the personal information collected. Please send your request to admin@mecca.ca, you must identity your domain name and contact information along with your request.

Any submissions to discussion areas or other public areas on the Mecca Portal and the Internet are accepted with the understanding that they are accessible to all third parties. If you do not want your comments to be viewed by third parties, you are advised not to make any submissions.

We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time and you are advised to check this page periodically for any changes. Your continued use of Mecca's Services, the Mecca Portal and the Internet will constitute your acceptance of such changes.

Please note that Mecca reserves the right to send bulletins and other important information regarding our services at our discretion.