Privacy Policy

1. About This Policy

MeccaDirection.com (“we,” “our,” or “us”) provides an online tool that helps visitors calculate the geographic direction of the Kaaba in Makkah. This policy describes the types of information that may be processed when you use the website, why it may be processed, and the choices that may be available to you.

2. Location Information

Our Qibla Finder may use a location you choose to provide so it can calculate a Qibla bearing.

• Current location: If you select the location button and approve your browser’s prompt, your browser may provide geographic coordinates to the page.
• City search: If you search for a city, the search term may be sent to the location-search provider used by the website to return matching places.
• Manual coordinates: You may be able to enter latitude and longitude yourself instead of using GPS.

Browser location permission can usually be withdrawn through your browser or device settings. The Qibla calculation requires a location, but you can choose an available alternative, such as city search or manual coordinates.

We do not claim that location information is never processed by third parties. Hosting, security, map, or location-search services may process information according to their own practices. Check the services actually enabled on this site before publishing this statement.

3. Information Collected Automatically

Like many websites, our hosting provider or security services may process technical information in server logs. Depending on the configuration, this may include an IP address, browser and device details, pages requested, referring page, timestamps, and diagnostic information. Such information may be used for site delivery, troubleshooting, abuse prevention, and security.

Whether analytics tools, advertising technologies, or additional tracking are used depends on the services configured on the live website. We will identify those services here when they are enabled.

4. Cookies and Similar Technologies

WordPress, hosting, security tools, analytics, advertising, or embedded third-party services may use cookies or similar technologies depending on the site configuration. These technologies can support core functionality, remember preferences, measure website performance, or deliver and measure advertising where enabled.

You can manage cookies through your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect certain website features. If the site uses non-essential cookies that require consent under applicable law, appropriate consent controls should be implemented.

5. Maps and Third-Party Services

The website may link to or embed third-party services, such as online maps, or use an external provider for city search. When you open or interact with those services, the provider may receive information such as your IP address, browser information, requested map location, or information you submit to the service. Their own privacy policies apply to their processing.

Review and list the exact third-party providers currently used by the website, along with links to their privacy policies, before publishing this page.

6. How Information May Be Used

Information may be processed, where applicable, to:

• Provide the Qibla Finder and respond to location or city-search requests.
• Operate, maintain, secure, and troubleshoot the website.
• Respond to messages sent to our contact email.
• Understand website performance if analytics are enabled.
• Support advertising and measure its performance if advertising services are enabled.
• Meet legal obligations and protect the website against misuse.

7. Sharing of Information

We may rely on service providers that help host, secure, maintain, or operate the website. Information may also be processed by third-party tools you choose to open or use. We may disclose information where required by law or where reasonably necessary to protect rights, safety, and website security.

Do not describe information as “never shared” unless you have verified that statement against your hosting, plugins, logs, analytics, maps, and other integrations.

8. Data Retention and Security

Retention periods depend on the systems involved, including hosting logs, security tools, email records, and any enabled analytics or third-party services. We take reasonable steps appropriate to the website to protect information, but no internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Before publishing, document the actual retention periods where they are known and relevant.

9. Your Choices and Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live and the laws that apply, you may have rights to request access to, correction of, deletion of, or information about the processing of your personal information. You may also be able to withdraw permissions or object to certain processing.

To make a privacy-related request, contact us using the email address below. We may need to verify your request and may be unable to fulfil it where a legal exception applies.

10. Children’s Privacy

MeccaDirection.com is a general-purpose utility website and is not intentionally designed to collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us through a contact message, please email us so we can review the matter.

11. International Visitors

Our website may be accessed from different countries. Depending on your location and the services used to operate the site, information may be processed in countries other than your own, subject to applicable legal requirements.

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this page when the website’s features, service providers, or legal requirements change. Updates will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.