Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how cookies and similar technologies are used on this website. It is intended to support transparency and consent practices under Sri Lanka’s Personal Data Protection Act, No. 9 of 2022, as amended in 2025, and internationally recognized privacy standards for online services.

1. What cookies are: cookies are small text files placed on your device by a website to help it function, remember preferences, improve security, and measure how the website is used.

2. Essential cookies we use: this website uses essential cookies and session technologies that are necessary for core functions such as keeping you signed in, protecting forms and requests against abuse, remembering secure chat-room session state, and maintaining service stability. These cookies are required for the site to work properly.

3. Analytics cookies: with your consent, we use Google Analytics to understand aggregated usage patterns, improve performance, and measure how visitors use the website. Analytics cookies are not loaded until you choose “Accept All” in the cookie notice.

4. Third-party services: if analytics is accepted, Google may place or read cookies such as analytics identifiers to help generate usage statistics. These cookies are subject to Google’s own service practices in addition to this policy.

5. Cookies and technologies currently in use may include: the website session cookie used by the framework, the XSRF-TOKEN security cookie used to protect requests, a consent preference cookie named slc_cookie_consent, and Google Analytics cookies if analytics consent is provided.

6. Your choices: you can choose “Essential Only” or “Accept All” from our cookie notice. If you choose essential only, the website will continue to use only the cookies necessary to deliver the service. You may also control cookies through your browser settings, although blocking essential cookies may affect site functionality.

7. Retention: consent preferences are stored for a limited period so we do not ask on every visit. Session-related cookies may expire automatically at the end of a browser session or after the configured session lifetime.

8. Updates: we may update this Cookie Policy when our technologies, legal obligations, or service practices change. Any material update will be reflected on this page.