Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy Last Edited on 28-09-2023

This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their ‘Personally Identifiable Information’ (PII) is being used online. Here at website www.gazette.lk, we take personal privacy very seriously. Our content is original or re-written under certain policies. Moreover, all the re-written articles are published with the specific source and original articles are written by our writers under our website policy. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.

What personal information do we collect from the people that visit our website?
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information we receive from users of the site. Generally, we do not require any personal detail, we use your presence only for improving the site.

Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our website. This log data may include such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, the page of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time you spend on those pages and other statistics.

When and why do we collect information?
Your basic information are collected when you subscribe to a newsletter or enter information on advertisements on our site. Furthermore, we allow third parties, including carefully selected ad networks and business partners such as Adsense, Revcontent , Audience Network, etc. to display advertising on our website. As above mentioned our Partners may, for instance, collect, use and share your information to make or help us make predictions about your interests, and may provide you with offers, promotional materials, and advertisements.

How do we use your information?
We may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:

To personalize your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
To improve our website in order to better serve you.
To send periodic emails regarding new content and offers that may interest you.

How do we protect your information?
We only provide articles and information and use regular Malware Scanning. Also, we do not use vulnerability scanning and/or scanning to PCI standards or ask for credit card numbers. We implement a variety of security measures when a user enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information. All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers. Especially, we do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old.

How we use ‘cookies’?
As a general rule www.gazette.lk we do not share personal information with third parties nor do we do store information we collect about your visit to the site for use other than to analyze content performance through the use of cookies. As an example, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction in order to provide better performances in the future. In case if you do not prefer to see cookies, you can turn off at any time by modifying your internet browser settings. Moreover as a result, if you turn cookies off it will turn off some of the features of the site.

Involvement of third-party
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information. Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies.

Especially, Push notification which is an individual Marketing Software that pops up on a web browser or mobile device, allows you to receive notifications from our website according to your wish, you can either allow or deny it. If you are not aware of PushCrew, please visit pushcrew.com for further information.

Advertising
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 website 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.

How can you be updated about our privacy policy?
We link it on our home page as our Privacy Policy link includes the word ‘Privacy’ and can easily be found on the page specified above. This privacy policy is subject to change without notice.

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us at admin@gazette.lk

We collect your email address in order to Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.

We agree to the following:
Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.
Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.
Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.
Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can email us at admin@gazette.lk and we will promptly remove you from ALL correspondence.

Contact Us: admin@gazette.lk

Do not hesitate to contact us using the information below if there are any questions regarding this privacy policy.

Old Privacy Policy of www.gazette.lk

At www.gazette.lk, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information is received and collected by www.gazette.lk and how it is used.

Log Files
Like many other Web sites, www.gazette.lk makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and a number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track users movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

Cookies and Web Beacons
www.gazette.lk does not use cookies.

DoubleClick DART Cookie

.:: Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on www.gazette.lk.

.:: Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to www.gazette.lk 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 at the following URL – http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include …….

Google Adsense

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on www.gazette.lk send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies ( such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons ) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see.

www.gazette.lk has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. www.gazette.lk’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or websites.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

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