Privacy & Cookie Policy

Last updated May 8. 2020

WHO WE ARE

Dear Members, as you know, we at Amasa Institute of Professional Studies (Pvt) Ltd, maintain www.alpanthiya.lk and A/L Panthiya mobile application, as a service-oriented CSR project. We focus mainly on assisting you in achieving your academic goals in passing A/L examinations, obtaining scholarships and securing a seat in an Internationally recognized Commonwealth University Local or Overseas.

Our websites are www.alpanthiya.lk and A/L Panthiya mobile application, www.studyoverseas.lk website and Study Overseas.lk mobile Application.

This Privacy Policy was compiled by the management of Amasa Institute of Professional Studies (Pvt) Ltd.

WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT THEM

We highly respect your privacy and we would like to explain why we collect few personal details from you at the time of registration. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information. Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.

We hereby reserve the right to make any changes to this Privacy Policy at any given time and for any reason whatsoever. We will be alerting you about any such changes we make, by updating the “Last Updated” date shown on the top of this Privacy Policy. Any changes or modifications as such, will be immediately effective upon posting the updated Privacy Policy on the Site. And you waive the right to receive specific notice of each such change or modification. It is your complete responsibility to read this policy and be updated on changes we make.

We encourage and advised you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed of updates we make. You will be deemed to have been made aware of, will be subject to, and will be deemed to have fully accepted all the changes in any revised Privacy Policy, by your continued use of the Site after the date such revised Privacy Policy is posted.

COLLECTION OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may collect your personal information in a variety of ways. All such information gathered on the Site includes:

Personal Data

Personally identifiable information, such as your full name, updated shipping address, email address, mobile and fixed-line telephone numbers, demographic information, such as your age, gender, academic qualifications, school, class, hometown, and interests, that you voluntarily give to us [when you register with our sites www.alpanthiya.lk and www.studyoverseas.lk [or our mobile applications A/L Panthiya and Study Overseas.lk,] or] when you choose to participate in various activities related to the all above mentioned our Sites and our mobile applications, such as online chat, discussion and message boards, various competitions, study and sports scholarships applications and any other such applications deemed by us, raffle draws etc,….

You are under no obligation to provide us with any of your personal information of any kind, however your refusal to do so may prevent you from using certain features of our sites www.alpanthiya.lk and www.studyoverseas.lk or our mobile applications A/L Panthiya and Study Overseas.lk

Derivative Data

Our servers automatically collect your IP address, your browser type, your operating system, your access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the sites.

If you are using our mobile applications, this information may also include your device name and type, your operating system, your mobile and fixed line phone numbers. And your country, your interests, likes and replies to a post And other interactions with the application and any other users via server log files, as well as any other information you choose to provide us.

Financial Data

Any data related to your payment methods (e.g. valid credit or debit card numbers, card brand, expiration date) may be collected when you purchase, order, return, exchange, or request information about our services from the sites.

We store only very limited, if any, financial information that we collect.

Otherwise, all financial information is stored by our payment processors whom we may choose to take services from time to time. Such as Amazon Payments, Authorize.Net, Braintree Payments, Chargify, Dwolla, Google Checkout, Paypal, SafeCharge, Stripe, WePay, 2Checkout and any other we may use in future.

And you are encouraged to review their privacy policy and contact them directly for responses to any of your questions.

Facebook Permissions

Our sites and apps may by default access your Facebook basic account information. Such as your name, email, gender, school, university, class, birthday, current city, and profile picture URL. Also any other information that you choose to make public in your profile settings. We may also request access to other permissions related to your account. Such as friends, checkins, interests and likes. And you may choose to grant or deny us access to each individual permission as you deem. For more information regarding Facebook permissions, please refer to the Facebook Permissions Reference page.

Data Collected From Social Networking sites if you connect following accounts to our sites

Apple’s Game Center, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter or any other social network you use. Your name, social network username, location, gender, school, university, class, birth date, email address, profile picture, and public data for contacts are collected. If you are using our mobile applications this information may also include the contact information of anyone you invite to use and/or join our mobile application as well.

Mobile Device Data

Device information collected, such as your mobile device ID, model, manufacturer, information about the location of your device, if you access our sites.

Third-Party Data

Information from any third parties, such as various networks of friends. when you connect your account of our sites to any third party and grant the site permission to access this information.

Data From Contests, Giveaways, and Surveys

All your Personal and other information you may provide when entering contests, raffle draws, selections etc or giveaways and / or responding to surveys.

Mobile Application Information

If you connect using our mobile applications A/L Panthiya and studyoverseas.lk -

• Geo-Location Information : We shall request access or permission from you to and track your location-based information from your mobile device you are logging into our sites or apps. If you may wish to make any changes to our access or any of such permissions, you may do so at any time, in your device’s settings.
• Mobile Device Access : We shall / may request full access or permission to certain features from your mobile device. Which include your mobile device’s Bluetooth, calendar, reminders, camera, contacts, SMS messages, microphone, sensors, storage, social media accounts, and many other such features as required by us from time to time. This is in order to provide you a better service.
  If you may wish to change our access or permissions, you may do so at any time in your device’s settings.
• Mobile Device Data : We shall / may collect device information from you, such as your mobile device ID, model and manufacturer, operating system, latest version information and your IP address.
• Push Notifications : We shall / may request to send you periodicals, newsletters or regular push notifications. That may be regarding our accounts and the Applications and other products we offer. If you do not wish to receive these types of communications from us, you may turn of your device’s settings.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION FOR THE BEFIT OF THE SITE AND OTHER SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES OWNED BY AMASA HOLDINGS (PVT) LTD

Having your personal accurate and updated information with us, permits us to continuously provide you with an effective, smooth, efficient, and customized experience.
We shall / may specifically use your information collected via our sites to :

• Administer surveys, sweepstakes, raffle draws, promotions, give-away, contests and selections.
• Assist prevailing law enforcement and respond to legal subpoena.
• Compile accurate anonymous statistical data and analysis for our internal use or with any third parties.
• Complete, Create and accurately manage your account.
• Deliver specified targeted advertising, fliers, coupons, newsletters, articles, blog letters, sms messages, emails, and other information to you. Regarding promotions and all the services we offer.
• Email you regarding your account or requests and orders you make.
• Enable user-to-user communications.
• Fulfil and manage purchases, orders, payments, and other transactions.
• Generate a personal profile about you to make future visits more personalized and friendly.
• Increase the accuracy of information, efficiency and operation.
• Monitor and analyse accurate usage and developing new trends to improve your personal experience with us.
• Notify you on time, of all necessary updates to our sites and apps,
• Offer new products, services, websites, mobile applications,and/or recommendations to you.
• Perform other various business activities as deemed required by the management team.
• Monitor and prevent any fraudulent transactions, regularly monitor against any theft, and protect against possible criminal activity.
• Accurately Process all payments and necessary refunds.
• Request feedback information and contact you at any time deemed necessary by us,
• Resolve all disputes and troubleshoot reports and problems.
• Respond to product and customer service requests.
• Send you periodicals, blog articles, messages, notes, articles, emails, sms messages through various social media sites and newsletters.
• Solicit any support for our sites alpanthiya.lk and www.studyoverseas.lk or our mobile applications A/L Panthiya and Study Overseas.lk.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION GIVEN TO US TROUGH OUR WEBSITES WWW.STUDYOVERSEAS.LK, WWW.ALPANTHIYA.LK OR OUR APP. AND OTHER SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES OWNED BY AMASA HOLDINGS (PVT) LTD

We shall / may share some or all of your personal information we have collected about you in certain situations.
Your information may be disclosed as follows:

By Law or to Protect Rights
If we believe that the release of your information you have voluntarily provided us is necessary to respond to any legal process, to investigate or remedy any potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation. This definitely includes exchanging all your information with other entities for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Third-Party Service Providers
We shall / may share all or part of your information with third parties that perform various services for us or on our behalf. Which includes payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer services, and various marketing assistance programmes.

Marketing Communications
With your consent, or with an opportunity for you to withdraw your consent, we shall / may share all or part of your information with third parties. For various marketing purposes, as permitted by law.

Interactions with Other Users
If you interact with other users of our sites, or any other subsidiary companies owned by our mother company Amasa Holdings (Pvt) Ltd. Those users may see your name, profile photo, and descriptions of your activity. Also including sending invitations to other users, chatting with other users, liking posts, following blogs etc,….

Online Postings
When you post pictures, comments, contributions or other content to our sites, your posts are viewed by all such users. And these contents shall / may be publicly distributed outside these sites in perpetuity.

Third-Party Advertisers
We shall / may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our sites. These companies may use information about your visits to our sites. Which will include all online properties owned by any subsidiary company owned by our mother company Amasa Holdings (Pvt) Ltd. and other websites that are contained in web cookies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that you are interested in.

Affiliates
We shall / may share all your information with our affiliates, in which case we shall / will require those affiliates to honour this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company Amasa Holdings (Pvt) Ltd, and any other subsidiaries, joint ventures partners or other companies that any of our Directors control or that are under common control with us.

Business Partners
We shall / may share all your information with all or some of our business partners in order to offer you better services, certain products or promotional purposes.

Offer Wall
Our mobile applications A/L Panthiya and Study Overseas.lk. shall / may display a third-party hosted “offer wall.” Such an offer wall will allow third-party advertisers to offer virtual currency, gifts, or many other items to their users in return for acceptance and completion of an advertisement offer. Such an offer wall may appear in our mobile applications A/L Panthiya and Study Overseas.lk. and be displayed to you based on certain data, such as your accurate geographic area or accurate demographic information. When you click on such an offer wall, you will automatically leave our mobile application. A specific unique identifier, such as your user ID, will be shared with this offer wall provider in order to prevent fraud and properly credit your account.

Social Media Contacts
If you connect to our sites www.alpanthiya.lk and www.studyoverseas.lk or our mobile applications A/L Panthiya and Study Overseas.lk through a social network, your contacts on the social network will see your name, profile photo, and descriptions of your activity.

Other Third Parties
We shall / may share all or part of your information with advertisers and investors for the purpose of conducting general business analysis. We may also share all or part of your such information with such third parties for various marketing purposes, as permitted by law.

Sale or Bankruptcy
If Amasa Institute of Professional Studies (Pvt) Ltd – AL Panthiya IT Team reorganize or sell all or a portion of our assets, undergo a merger, or are acquired by another entity, we may transfer all your provided information to the inheriting entity. If at any point we go out of business or unexpectedly enter into bankruptcy, all your information provided to us would be an asset transferred or acquired by some third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that the transferee may decline or honour commitments we made in this Privacy Policy.

We the Amasa Institute of Professional Studies (Pvt) Ltd and the AL Panthiya IT Team, or our Mother company Amasa Holdings (Pvt) Ltd, or any other subsidiary company of Amasa Holdings (Pvt) Ltd, are not responsible for any actions of third parties with whom you share your critical personal or sensitive data, and we have whatsoever no authority to manage or control such third-party solicitations. If, at any given time, you no longer wish to receive any correspondence, emails or other such communications from third parties, you are responsible for contacting the third party directly for this purpose.

TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Cookies and Web Beacons
We shall / may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and many other new tracking technologies available today or any other such tracking technologies which may be invented & introduced in future, for a better productive service on our sites www.alpanthiya.lk and www.studyoverseas.lk or our mobile applications A/L Panthiya and Study Overseas.lk which will be used to improve our services and your experience.

When you access our sites www.alpanthiya.lk and www.studyoverseas.lk or our mobile applications A/L Panthiya and Study Overseas.lk your personal information is not collected through the use of tracking technology. Most browsers are by default set to accept cookies. You can at any time remove or reject cookies, but always be aware that such actions could affect the availability and functionality of our sites www.alpanthiya.lk and www.studyoverseas.lk or our mobile applications A/L Panthiya and Study Overseas.lk.

You shall / may not decline web beacons. However, they can be rendered ineffective by declining all cookies, or by modifying your web browser’s settings to notify you each time a cookie is tendered, which would permit you to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis.

We may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies on our sites www.alpanthiya.lk and www.studyoverseas.lk or our mobile applications A/L Panthiya and Study Overseas.lk to help customize and improve your experience. By using the Site, you agree to be bound by our Cookie Policy as well.

Internet-Based Advertising
Additionally, we shall / may use third-party software to serve ads on our sites www.alpanthiya.lk and www.studyoverseas.lk or our mobile applications A/L Panthiya and Study Overseas.lk, to implement various email marketing campaigns, and manage various other interactive marketing initiatives. This third-party software may use cookies or similar tracking technology to help manage and optimize your online experience with us. For more information about opting-out of interest-based ads, visit the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Tool or Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Tool.

Website Analytics

We shall / may also partner with selected third-party vendors, such as Adobe Analytics, Clicktale, Clicky, Cloudfare, Crazy Egg, Flurry Analytics, Google Analytics, Heap Analytics, Inspectlet, Kissmetrics, Mixpanel, Piwik, and many others which may be formed and serve in future, to allow tracking technologies and remarketing services on our sites www.alpanthiya.lk and www.studyoverseas.lk or our mobile applications A/L Panthiya and Study Overseas.lk, through the use of first party cookies and third-party cookies, to, among other things, analyze and track users’ use of the sites and our mobile applications, determine the popularity of certain published content and better understand the online activity. By accessing our sites www.alpanthiya.lk and www.studyoverseas.lk or our mobile applications A/L Panthiya and Study Overseas.lk, you consent to the collection and use the of your information by these third-party vendors as well. You are highly encouraged and advised to review their privacy policy on their sites and contact them directly for responses to any of your questions. We do not transfer your personal critical information to these third-party vendors. However, if you do not want any information to be collected and used by tracking technologies, you can visit the third-party vendor on their sites and mention your concerns to them.

You should be clearly aware that getting a new computer or installing a new browser, upgrading an existing browser, or erasing or otherwise altering your browser’s cookies files may also clear certain opt-out cookies, plug-ins, or settings.

THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES

Our sites www.alpanthiya.lk and www.studyoverseas.lk or our mobile applications A/L Panthiya and Study Overseas.lk may contain links to third-party websites and applications of various interests, including advertisements and various external services, that are not affiliated with us. Once you have used these links to leave any of our sites www.alpanthiya.lk and www.studyoverseas.lk or our mobile applications A/L Panthiya and Study Overseas.lk, any information you provide to these third parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy, and we cannot by any means guarantee the safety and privacy of your information you provided to them. Before visiting such sites and providing any such critical personal information to any other third-party websites, you should inform yourself of the privacy policies and practices of those third parties who are responsible for that website, and should take necessary steps, in your discretion, to protect the privacy of your information. We are not at all responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third parties, including other sites, services or applications that may be linked to or from our sites www.alpanthiya.lk and www.studyoverseas.lk or our mobile applications A/L Panthiya and Study Overseas.lk.

SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION

We always use administrative, technological, technical, and physical security measures to assist us to help protect your personal critical information. While we have taken required reasonable steps always to secure all the critical personal information you have provided and will be providing to us time to time, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or 100% impenetrable, and no current so called secure methods of data transmission can be guaranteed 100% against any interception or other type of hacking or misuse. Any such information of your’s disclosed online is definitely vulnerable to interception and hacking or misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we definitely cannot guarantee complete security if you provide personal information to us.

POLICY FOR CHILDREN

We never knowingly solicit any information from or market to children under the age of 05. If you become aware of any such data we have collected from children under age 05, please contact us using the contact information provided below.

CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES

Most of the web browsers and some mobile operating systems and our mobile applications A/L Panthiya and Study Overseas.lk include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your preferred privacy preference so not to have personal data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No such uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been yet finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will surely inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Policy. Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and our sites www.alpanthiya.lk and www.studyoverseas.lk or our mobile applications A/L Panthiya and Study Overseas.lk include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. If you set the DNT signal on your browser, we will respond to such DNT browser signals.

OPTIONS REGARDING YOUR INFORMATION

[Account Information]
You shall / may at any given time review or change any of the information in your account or terminate your account by :

• Logging into your account settings and updating your account information.
• Contacting us using the contact information provided below.

Upon your proper request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and all your information from our active databases. However, some information may be retained in our files to prevent fraud, and troubleshoot problems, assistance with any future investigations, and to enforce our Terms of Use and/or comply with legal requirements necesary.

Emails and Communications

If you no longer wish to receive any correspondence, emails, or other such communications from us, you may opt-out by :

• Noting your preferences at the time you register your account with our sites alpanthiya.lk and www.studyoverseas.lk or our mobile applications A/L Panthiya and Study Overseas.lk.
• Logging into your account settings and updating your personal preferences.
• Contacting us using the contact information provided below.

If you no longer wish to receive any correspondence, emails, or other such communications from any third parties, you are responsible yourself for contacting the relevant third party directly.

CONTACT US

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Company Name : Amasa Institute of Professional Studies (Pvt) Ltd.
Street Address : No. 81, Wattaranthanne Passage, Kandy.
City, State Zip : Kandy. 20000
Phone Number : +94777840028
Email : alpanthiya@amasa.lk