Our website address is: https://www.villagelanka.lk/.
We, at Web Solutions Lanka, are committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. We believe that honesty and transparency in how we collect information and its use will allow you to make an informed decision regarding your continued use of our website and services.
This Policy applies only to the villagelanka.lk (“Website”) and not to other websites to which we provide links. Please do read the privacy policy of such other websites if you should choose to access such links.
Our collection and use of your personal information are with the objective of providing you with a more relevant personalized service that meets your individual preferences and needs, in line with the main reasons outlined above. By using the Website, and submitting your personal information as applicable, you indicate your consent to the collection and use of such information in accordance with the following Privacy Policy.
You can use our Website without divulging any personally identifiable information including your email address. Our Website does not collect personally identifiable information about individuals except when such individuals specifically provide such personal information on a voluntary basis, such as when:
We use such information collected to provide the information or services you request, to improve and customize the content you see, to ensure the best possible experience when using our website or dealing with us, to contact you effectively should you contact us, request information or about special events and new Programs if requested.
We collect your name when you submit a form from our website. We use this data to greet you when we reply to your message.
We collect your contact number when you submit a form from our website. We do not publish or hand over your contact number to any website or to a third party. We collect your contact number so that we can contact you and get more details about your requests or complaints.
We collect your email address when you submit a form from our website. We use this data to send you thanking emails and to be able to contact you effectively should you contact us or request information.
Google’s advertising requirements can be summed up by Google’s Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users. Learn more.
We use Google AdSense Advertising on our website.
Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy.
We have implemented the following:
We, along with third-party vendors such as Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.
Opting out: Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page or permanently using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser add-on.
CalOPPA is the first state law in the nation to require commercial websites and online services to post a privacy policy. The law’s reach stretches well beyond California to require a person or company in the United States (and conceivably the world) that operates websites collecting personally identifiable information from California consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website stating exactly the information being collected and those individuals with whom it is being shared, and to comply with this policy. Learn more.
According to CalOPPA, we agree to the following:
When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under 13, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online.
We do not specifically market to children under 13.
The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.
In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices, we will take the following responsive action should a data breach occur:
We also agree to the Individual Redress Principle, which requires that individuals have a right to pursue legally enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or government agencies to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.
The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.
We collect your email address in order to:
To be in accordance with CAN-SPAM, we agree to the following:
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, and the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics. Log Data is collected via cookies, which are small files of letters and numbers that are downloaded onto your computer or mobile or other handheld devices when you access our website. Cookies allow a website to recognize a user’s device and help your browser navigate through the website by remembering settings you selected during earlier visits (amongst other functions). Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that it will refuse Cookies, Cookies will be set when you access this website. By using and browsing this website, you consent to cookies being used in accordance with this Cookie Policy.
If you do not consent, you must either disable cookies or refrain from using this website. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can choose to accept or decline cookies from your device. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify the browser settings on your device to decline cookies as follows:
For other browsers, check with your provider to find out how to disable cookies.
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics advertising service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). This is to enable us to obtain information on user preferences and customer profiling to be used for product development and marketing activities of https://www.villagelanka.lk/ and its affiliated companies.
Google advertising cookies and identifiers are used in the following manner:
You may prevent the collection of the information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of this data by Google if you download and install the browser plug-in available at the following: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
This Website has social plugins for Facebook, which may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information about visitors to our Website. The data collected is used by Facebook to provide measurement services and target ads. If you are a Facebook user and are logged onto Facebook at the moment you visit this Website, Facebook may be able to connect the visit on the Website to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugin – for example, if you press the like button or comment on something – the browser will transmit this information to Facebook. If a user is not a member of Facebook, Facebook may collect and store the user’s IP address.
The reason for and scope of the data acquisition and information about the way in which the data is processed and used by Facebook, as well as the user’s rights in this respect and settings options for protecting the user’s privacy, can be found under: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php. Facebook does not permit access to user accounts or share personal information with us at any time.
If you are a member of Facebook and do not wish Facebook to collect personal data via this website and to link this with your data stored on Facebook, please log off from Facebook before visiting this website. You may also block Facebook’s plugins using add-ons for the user’s browser, for example, the “Facebook Blocker”.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
We are not sharing your personal data with third parties.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can request to edit or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username/email). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
If you have any questions, concerns, comments, or requests regarding your personal information, the handling of your personal information, or our Privacy Policy, you are welcome to contact us at any time. You can contact us via email at info@villagelanka.lk.
We are committed to safeguarding and protecting personal information and will implement and maintain appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to protect any personal information provided to us from accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to personal information transmitted, stored, or otherwise processed. Some of the protections we use are firewalls, antiviruses, and access controls. Please note that transmission of information by electronic means (i.e., internet/web-based transmission), as well as physical means, is not completely secure, though we will adopt reasonable measures for the security of all communications and the content thereof. Hence, all transmission is and must necessarily be at the risk of the user.
In compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:
Complaints and Supervisory Authority Contact Information If you believe that our processing of your personal data is not in compliance with applicable data protection laws, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority. We encourage you to contact us first at info@villagelanka.lk to address any concerns. For matters related to data protection, you can also contact Sri Lanka’s Data Protection Authority under the Ministry of Technology at: Sri Lanka Data Protection Authority Ministry of Technology Data Protection Authority, First Floor; Block 5, Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH), Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka. Email : info@dpa.gov.lk For more information about filing complaints, you can visit their website or contact the authority directly.