Patent ID: 7590560

Claim:
An image server connected to a user terminal and a print server through a network, comprising: a user registration unit that receives personal data from the user terminal and registers the personal data associated with a user ID which is for uniquely recognizing a user of the user terminal; an image registration unit that receives image data from the user terminal and registers the image data in a first memory area, in association with the user ID; an order reception unit that receives, from the user terminal, an order for printing the image data registered by said image registration unit; an image copying unit that copies the ordered image data registered by the image registration unit after settlement processing of the received order; a copy registering unit that registers the copy of the ordered image data in association with an address which is used to access the copy of the ordered image data by the print server in a second memory area different from the first memory area in which the image data is registered in association with the user ID; a notification unit that notifies the print server of the address registered by the copy registering unit; a command reception unit that receives, from the user terminal, a withdraw command to withdraw the user from membership; and a deletion unit that deletes the personal data registered by said user registration unit and the image data registered by the image registration unit, which are associated with the user ID respectively, in response to reception of the withdraw command by the command reception unit.