You can browse our sites without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. Once you give us your personal information, you are not anonymous to us. If you choose to provide us with personal information, you consent to the transfer and storage of that information on our servers located in the United States.

We may collect and store the following personal information:

• E-mail address, physical contact information, and (depending on the service used) sometimes financial information, such as credit card or bank account numbers;
• Transactional information based on your activities on the sites (such as buying, selling, item and content you generate or that relates to your account);
• Shipping, billing and other information you provide to purchase or ship an item;
• Community discussions, chats, dispute resolution, correspondence through our sites, and correspondence sent to us;
• Other information from your interaction with our sites, services, content and advertising, including computer and connection information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the sites, ad data, IP address and standard web log information;
• Additional information we ask you to submit to authenticate yourself or if we believe you are violating site policies (for example, we may ask you to send us an ID or bill to verify your address, or to answer additional questions online to help verify your identity or ownership of an item you list);
• Information from other companies, such as demographic and navigation data; and other supplemental information from third parties (for example, if you incur a debt to MeccaBay, we will generally conduct a credit check by obtaining additional information about you from a credit bureau, as permitted by law).

Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience.

You agree that we may use your personal information to:

• Provide the services and customer support you request;
• Resolve disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot problems;
• Prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities, and enforce our User Agreement;
• Customize, measure and improve our services, content and advertising;
• Tell you about our services and those of our corporate family, targeted marketing, service updates, and promotional offers based on your communication preferences; and
• Compare information for accuracy, and verify it with third parties.

MeccaBay enables you to share personal and financial information to complete transactions. We encourage you to disclose your privacy practices and respect the privacy of other users. We cannot guarantee the privacy or security of your information and therefore we encourage you to evaluate the privacy and security policies of your trading partner before entering into a transaction and choosing to share your information. To help protect your privacy, we allow only limited access to other users' contact, shipping and financial information to facilitate your transactions. When users are involved in a transaction, they may have access to each other's name, User ID, email address and other contact and shipping information. In all cases, you must give other users a chance to remove themselves from your database and a chance to review what information you have collected about them.

You agree to use user information only for:

• MeccaBay transaction-related purposes that are not unsolicited commercial messages;
• Using services offered through MeccaBay (e.g. escrow, insurance, shipping and fraud complaints), or
• Other purposes that a user expressly chooses.

Your password is the key to your account. Use unique numbers, letters and special characters, and do not disclose your MeccaBay password to anyone. If you do share your password or your personal information with others, remember that you are responsible for all actions taken in the name of your account. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personal information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately notify MeccaBay and change your password.

We use "cookies" (small files placed on your hard drive) on certain of our pages to help analyze our web page flow; customize our services, content and advertising; measure promotional effectiveness, and promote trust and safety.

A few important things you should know about cookies are that:

• We offer certain features that are available only through the use of cookies.
• We use cookies to help identify you and maintain your signed-in status.
• Most cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session.
• You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although doing so may interfere with your use of some of our sites or services.
• You may encounter cookies from third parties on certain pages of the sites that we do not control. (For example, if you view a web page created by another user, there may be a cookie placed by that web page.)

Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document addresses only the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. If you disclose your information to others, whether they are bidders, buyers or sellers on our sites or other sites throughout the internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. MeccaBay does not control the privacy policies of third parties, and you are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties where applicable. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others.