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Mecca's General Site Policy |
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Mecca's
General Site Policy applies to anyone who visits the Mecca Web site
or uses any of our services. In this General Site Policy and generally
on the Mecca Web site,
- "we",
"our" or "Mecca" means Mecca Group Limited;
- "you"
means you, the person using our services or visiting our Web site;
- "services"
means all goods or services we provide and anything else we do
for you, including allowing you to access our Web site.
If
you are a Mecca customer, then other contractual terms may apply
to some services. It is important that you are familiar with the
terms applying to your use of our services. Nothing in this General
Site Policy is intended to affect any of those terms.
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2.
Other policies may apply |
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In
addition to this General Site Policy other policies may apply to some
of our services, such as chat and discussion groups, or to particular
communities. |
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3.
Complying with our policies |
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By
using Mecca's services, you agree to comply with this General Site
Policy and with any other policies which apply to particular services
or communities. The policies are designed to make sure that accessing
Mecca is a positive experience for everyone. If you do not comply
with any term of this General Site Policy, or the other applicable
policies relevant to your use of a particular service, we may take
any of the measures set out at paragraph 10 - Site Management Rights. |
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4.
Changing the policies |
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We
may change this General Site Policy and our policies applying to particular
services at any time by changing or removing existing terms or adding
new ones. Changes may take the form of completely new policies. We
will tell you about any changes by posting an updated version of the
particular policy on our Web site. Any change we make applies from
the date we publish it on the Web site. |
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Disruptive activities |
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You
must not:
- use
any of our services to threaten, abuse, defame, harass or stalk
others
- use
objectionable language or expressions of bigotry, racism or hatred
on our Web site
- disrupt
activity online, including making persistent off-topic comments
- spam,
including sending unsolicited emails, bulk email, or distribution
to multiple discussion groups, mailing lists or communities, distributing
chain letters, pyramid schemes or hoaxes. For more information
on spam, refer to our spam policy
- access
or use anybody else's computer system, communications services
or data, including by hacking or by attempting to circumvent user
authentication or other security measures
- view,
collect, forward or intercept email or other private communications
not intended (by the sender) for you, or attempt to do any of
these things.
- post
or use any software or device which may facilitate a continued
connection or degrade or impede the service of another user, such
as pinging, mail bombs or war dialling
- run
network scanning software or use open relay to distribute messages
- introduce
anything harmful or destructive (such as viruses, worms, Trojan
horses, time bombs or bots) to, or interfere in any way with,
our or anyone else's computer system or communications services
- create
or use a false identity for the purpose of misleading others as
to the identity of the sender or origin of any message.
- use
false message headers or omit message headers.
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Your Responsibilities |
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You
are responsible for:
- all
your activities while using any of our services and for anything
you say or post on the site
- using
your own judgement when evaluating information you access by using
our services, remember some information could be from anyone of
any age or experience level
- your
personal information. We recommend you do not give your name,
address, phone number or credit card numbers unless the site you
are visiting and the method of access are secure. Make sure you
know who you are giving your information to even if it is on a
secure site
- what
you see on the Internet, including information that your children
access. Some content and some links may contain adult content
and may not be suitable for children. We encourage you to join
your children as they explore the Internet. We can provide you
with information about the Internet access management utility,
Cyber Patrol
- make
sure everyone else who uses our service meets these responsibilities.
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7.
Material and copyright |
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While
every endeavour has been made to supply accurate information, errors
and omissions may occur. Accordingly, Mecca does not accept any liability
for any loss or damage which may directly or indirectly result from
any advice, opinion, information, representation or omission, whether
negligent or otherwise, contained on or accessed through our Web site. |
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8.
Material you post or access |
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Material
that you see on our Web site may be protected by copyright, trade
mark, patent or other protections, even if it is not stated to be.
Do not upload material or files unless you have the right or appropriate
consent to do so.
By posting material in publicly accessible places on our Web site,
you allow us to reproduce, publish, modify and distribute any part
of that material, or incorporate it in other works in any form. If
you do not own the material you must get the owner's consent before
you post or upload it. |
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Objectionable material |
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The
Department of Internal Affairs is responsible for censorship in New
Zealand. If you are concerned that something you have seen on a Web
site or bulletin board we host is objectionable or should be classified,
you should contact the Department's Classification Office, and let
us know that you have done so. More details on what is objectionable
and the ways to contact the Department can be found on its Web site. |
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10.
Site management rights |
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If
you
do not comply with this General Site Policy or any other policy applying
to a particular service, we may withhold, suspend, restrict or terminate
your access to our services, or to Mecca. We may also require you
to edit material we consider to be unauthorised, misleading, offensive,
defamatory, illegal or detrimental to our reputation or to our brand.
If you do not do so to our satisfaction, we may edit that material
ourselves, and we may withhold, suspend, restrict or terminate your
use of the service without further notice. Nothing in this General
Site Policy or in any other policy is intended to affect our rights
to withhold, suspend, restrict or terminate services as set out in
the applicable Terms of Service or any other applicable contractual
terms.
We may filter, delete or restrict access to material posted on our
Web site or transmitted via our servers if you or anyone else does
not comply with this General Site Policy or any other applicable policy. |
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11.
Using information about you: Our Privacy Policy |
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If
you are just surfing and reading information on our Web site, then
we may collect and store the following information about your visit:
- the
IP address of your machine when connected to the Internet and
the domain name from which you are accessing the Internet;
- the
operating system and the browser your computer uses, and any search
engine you are using;
- the
date and time you are visiting;
- the
URLs of the pages you visit;
- if
you provide it, your email address.
We
can use that information to measure the number of visitors to different
parts of the site and, for example, to measure the effectiveness of
advertising. We do not disclose information about individual machines
except for the reasons set out below.
We do not sell information which identifies you personally.
We may gather more extensive information if we are concerned, for
example, about security issues. If we think it is necessary, we can
disclose information to relevant law enforcement authorities, such
as the Police or the Department of Internal Affairs. |
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