PRIVACY POLICY

Introduction

At Around Sri Lanka, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website or use our services.

Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site or use our services.

Information We Collect

Personal Information

We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you:

• Make a booking or reservation
• Create an account on our website
• Subscribe to our newsletter
• Contact us through our website or customer service
• Participate in surveys or promotions

This information may include:

• Name, email address, and phone number
• Billing and payment information
• Driver's license and identification details
• Travel preferences and itinerary details

Automatically Collected Information

When you visit our website, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and usage, including:

• IP address and browser type
• Operating system and device information
• Pages visited and time spent on pages
• Referring website addresses
• Cookies and similar tracking technologies

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

• To process and manage your bookings and reservations
• To provide, operate, and maintain our services
• To improve, personalize, and expand our services
• To understand and analyze how you use our website
• To develop new products, services, features, and functionality
• To communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
• To process your transactions and send you related information
• To find and prevent fraud

Information Sharing and Disclosure

We may share your information in the following situations:

With Service Providers

We may share your personal information with service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our service, to process payments, and to contact you.

For Business Transfers

We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

With Affiliates

We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.

With Business Partners

We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.

With Your Consent

We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and store certain information. The technologies we use may include:

• Cookies: Small files stored on your device
• Web Beacons: Electronic files used to track browsing activity
• Local Storage: Data stored by your web browser

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.

Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our services is at your own risk.

Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following data protection rights:

• The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
• The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Children's Privacy

Our service does not address anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

Last Updated: January 2025