Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Skilllift Education operates www.skilllift.lk (the "Service"). This Privacy Policy governs your visit to the Service and explains how we collect, safeguard, and disclose information that results from your use of our Service. Our Terms and Conditions govern all use of our Service and together with this Privacy Policy constitute your agreement with us (the "Agreement").

2. Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

Service means the www.skilllift.lk website operated by Skilllift Education.
Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).
Usage Data is data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
Cookies are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device).
Data Controller means a natural or legal person who determines the purposes and means of processing Personal Data. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, Skilllift Education is the Data Controller.
Data Processors (or Service Providers) are natural or legal persons who process data on behalf of the Data Controller.
Data Subject is any living individual who is the subject of Personal Data.
The User is the individual using our Service and corresponds to the Data Subject.

3. Information Collection and Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

4. Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data"). This may include, but is not limited to:

Email address
First name and last name
Phone number
Address, Country, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
Cookies and Usage Data

We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving these communications by following the unsubscribe link in those messages.

Usage Data

We may collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service or when you access the Service by or through any device ("Usage Data"). This may include your IP address, browser type and version, pages visited, time and date of visit, time spent on pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Location Data

We may use and store information about your location if you give us permission to do so. This is used to provide features of our Service and to improve or customise the Service. You can enable or disable location services through your device settings at any time.

Tracking & Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with small amounts of data (which may include an anonymous unique identifier) that are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies include beacons, tags, and scripts.

If you instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent, some portions of our Service may not function properly.

Examples of Cookies we use:

Session Cookies: to operate our Service.
Preference Cookies: to remember your preferences and settings.
Security Cookies: for security purposes.
Advertising Cookies: to serve advertisements that may be relevant to you.

Other Data

While using our Service we may also collect additional information such as sex, age, date of birth, place of birth, passport details, citizenship, registration address, telephone numbers, education and employment details, NDA agreements, information on compensation, marital status, family members, taxpayer identification numbers, office location and other data where it is relevant and necessary.

5. Use of Data

Skilllift Education uses collected data for various purposes including, but not limited to:

to provide and maintain our Service;
to notify you about changes to our Service;
to allow you to participate in interactive features when you choose to do so;
to provide customer support;
to gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service;
to monitor usage of our Service;
to detect, prevent and address technical issues;
to fulfil purposes for which you provide the information;
to carry out obligations and enforce rights arising from contracts between you and us (including billing and collection);
to provide account and subscription notices (including expiration and renewal notices);
to provide news, special offers and general information about goods and services which are similar to those you have purchased or enquired about (unless you opted out);
for any other purpose with your consent.

6. Retention of Data

We will retain your Personal Data only as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, and to the extent needed to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements and policies. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period unless needed for security or functionality improvement, or required by law.

7. Transfer of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where data protection laws may differ. If you are located outside Sri Lanka and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer data to Sri Lanka and process it there. By submitting information you consent to this transfer.

We will take reasonable steps to ensure your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and will not transfer Personal Data to an organisation or country unless adequate controls are in place.

8. Disclosure of Data

We may disclose personal information we collect or that you provide in the following circumstances:

Disclosure for Law Enforcement: when required by law or in response to valid public authority requests.
Business Transaction: if we or our subsidiaries are involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred.
Other cases: we may disclose information to our subsidiaries and affiliates; contractors and service providers; to fulfil the purpose for which you provided it; to include your company logo on our website (where applicable); with your consent; or if we believe disclosure is necessary to protect rights, property or safety.

9. Security of Data

The security of your data is important to us. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Personal Data, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

10. Your Data Protection Rights (GDPR)

If you are a resident of the European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.

These rights may include:

the right to access, update or delete the information we hold about you;
the right of rectification;
the right to object to processing;
the right to restriction of processing;
the right to data portability;
the right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.

To exercise these rights, please email us at info@skilllift.lk. We may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. Note that we may not be able to provide the Service without some necessary data.

11. Your Data Protection Rights under CalOPPA

We comply with the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA). In particular:

users can visit our site anonymously;
our Privacy Policy link includes the word “Privacy” and can be easily found on the home page;
users will be notified of privacy policy changes on the Privacy Policy page;
users can change their personal information by emailing info@skilllift.lk.

Do Not Track: We honour Do Not Track signals and do not track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track browser mechanism is in place. You can enable or disable Do Not Track via your browser settings.

12. Your Data Protection Rights (CCPA)

If you are a California resident, you have the right to know what personal information we collect about you, request deletion of your data, and opt out of the sale of your personal information (if applicable). To exercise these rights, send a request to info@skilllift.lk.

Specifically, you may request up to two disclosures in a 12-month period about the categories and specific pieces of personal information collected in the prior 12 months, sources of that information, the business purpose for collection, and categories of third parties with whom we share the information.

13. Service Providers

We may employ third parties to facilitate our Service, provide Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services or assist us in analysing how our Service is used. These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks and are obligated not to disclose or use it for other purposes.

14. Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyse the use of our Service.

15. CI/CD tools

We may use third-party Service Providers to automate the development and deployment process of our Service. These providers may have access to portions of our systems and data only as required to perform their functions.

16. Behavioral Remarketing

We may use remarketing services to advertise on third-party websites after you visit our Service. We and our vendors use cookies to inform, optimise and serve ads based on past visits to the Service.

17. Payments

We may provide paid products and services. Payment processing is handled by third-party payment processors; we do not store your payment card details. Those processors are governed by their own privacy policies and comply with PCI-DSS standards.

18. Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to sites not operated by us. If you click a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit; we have no control over and assume no responsibility for third-party sites or services.

19. Children’s Privacy

Our Services are not intended for children under 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. If you become aware that a child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us at info@skilllift.lk. We will take steps to remove such information.

20. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and by email and/or a prominent notice on our Service prior to the change becoming effective. The "Effective date" at the top will be updated accordingly. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

21. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email: info@skilllift.lk.

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