Privacy Policy

Your privacy is vitally important to us at MahendraPerera.com. We have a few principles that guide us:

  • We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our Products and Services, or protect our rights.
  • We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our Products and Services.

Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals: Note, this privacy policy is governed by a Creative Commons Sharealike license and the original policy was provided by the good folks at Automattic.com.

MahendraPerera.com provides a number of Products and Services with Accompanying Materials. It is MahendraPerera.com’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our Website and providing our Products and Services. If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal information please contact us.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, MahendraPerera.com collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. MahendraPerera.com’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how our visitors use our Website. From time to time, MahendraPerera.com may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, for example by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its Website or Products and Services.

MahendraPerera.com also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in people and for people leaving comments on a blog or using an Account on our site.

We anonymize the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for non-logged in visitors to our website.

MahendraPerera.com only discloses logged in person and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to MahendraPerera.com’s websites choose to interact with MahendraPerera.com in ways that require MahendraPerera.com to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that MahendraPerera.com gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for our email list to provide a name and email address.

Those who register an Account or engage in transactions with MahendraPerera.com – by purchasing Products or Services, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the billing address, payment method and other information required to process those transactions. In each case, we collect such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with MahendraPerera.com.

We do not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

We may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to our website. For instance, MahendraPerera.com may monitor the most popular blog posts, Products and Services, and Membership meetings. We may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, we do not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

MahendraPerera.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on MahendraPerera.com’s behalf or to provide services available at MahendraPerera.com’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using our website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.

We will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, MahendraPerera.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when MahendraPerera.com believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of MahendraPerera.com, third parties or the public at large.

If you have registered an Account at MahendraPerera.com or signed up for an email list on MahendraPerera.com website and have supplied your email address, MahendraPerera.com may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with MahendraPerera.com and our Products and Services. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request, for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms, we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. MahendraPerera.com takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. MahendraPerera.com uses cookies to help MahendraPerera.com identify and track visitors, their usage of the MahendraPerera.com Website, Products and Services, and Accompanying Materials, and their website access preferences.

MahendraPerera.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using MahendraPerera.com’s Websites, with the drawback that certain features of MahendraPerera.com’s Websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If MahendraPerera.com, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that MahendraPerera.com goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of MahendraPerera.com may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our Website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by MahendraPerera.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

GDPR

Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to have any personally-identifiable information altered our removed from our records. Please contact our Data Controller via email at to submit any requests.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, we may change our Privacy Policy from time to time, and in our sole discretion. We encourage you to frequently check for any changes to our Privacy Policy. Your continued use of MahendraPerera.com after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.