Website Privacy Policy
Version 1.0 · updated on 1 November 2026
The Association of Corporate Lawyers Sri Lanka (the “Association”, “ACLSL”, “we”, “us” or “our”) respects the privacy of individuals who visit our website, contact us or register for events. This Privacy Policy explains how we may collect, use, disclose, store and protect personal information in connection with those activities.
The categories and practices described in this Policy apply where relevant to the feature or service you use. Additional notices may be provided where a particular activity requires more detail.
What is personal data?
By personal data we refer to any direct or indirect identifier through which you as an individual can be identified, including but not limited to name, email, online identifier and such other related data as defined under the PDPA.
Principles of Data Processing
We are committed to processing your personal data in accordance with the following principles:
- Lawfulness, Fairness, and Transparency: We will process your personal data lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner.
- Purpose Limitation: We will collect your personal data only for specified, explicit, and legitimate purposes.
- Data Minimisation: We will collect only personal data that is adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary for the purposes for which they are processed.
- Accuracy: We will make reasonable efforts to keep your personal data accurate and up to date.
- Storage Limitation: We will retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected.
- Integrity and Confidentiality: We will process your personal data in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction, or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures.
- Accountability: We as the data controller will be responsible for compliance with the principles outlined in this Privacy Policy.
What Personal Data Do We Collect?
We may collect, store, and use the following kinds of personal data, which may include, but are not limited to:
- Contact Details: Name, address, email address, and phone number, where applicable.
- Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, and services.
How do we collect your personal data?
We may collect or obtain your personal data in the following ways:
- Directly from you:
- When you contact us
- When you visit our websites
- When you participate in competitions or surveys
- Automatically:
- When you visit our websites, we may collect certain information automatically, such as your IP address, browser type, and browsing behaviour.
How do we use your personal data?
We may use or process your personal data for the following purposes:
- Communicating with you:
- To respond to your inquiries
- Ensuring security and preventing fraud:
- To protect our systems and data from unauthorised access and use
- Complying with legal obligations:
- To comply with applicable laws, regulations, and legal processes
- To respond to requests from government authorities
Legal Basis for Processing
We will only process your personal data when we have a lawful basis for doing so. We are processing your personal data here on the basis of the consent you have given us. Your explicit consent to process your personal data is recorded in our website.
Data Security
We have implemented appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorised access, use, disclosure, alteration or destruction. These measures include but are not limited to, the use of encryption to secure sensitive information, deployment of firewalls, and limiting access to personal data strictly to authorized personnel.
Data Retention
We will retain your personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, or as required by applicable laws or regulations. When we no longer need your personal data, we will securely delete or anonymise it.
Your Rights
You have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- Right to Access: You have the right to request access to your personal data that we hold.
- Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data that we hold about you.
- Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, where applicable.
- Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data, where applicable.
- Right to Withdraw Consent: You can withdraw your consent at any time, affecting future data processing based on that consent. We may continue processing your data for other purposes where we have different lawful basis.
To exercise your rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below. We will use our best efforts to respond within a reasonable time period.
Children’s Privacy
We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of 16 without parental consent. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided us with personal data without your consent, please contact us, and we will take steps to delete such data. If you are under the age of 16, please ensure that your parent, guardian, or person who has parental responsibility over you has consented for the disclosure before providing us with your personal data.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our data processing practices or applicable laws. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy on our website periodically.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data processing practices, please contact us at:
- Email: aclsl.secretary@gmail.com
- Postal address: Association of Corporate Lawyers (ACLSL), No 146, Dawson Street, Colombo 02, Sri Lanka.
Terms and Conditions
Version 1.0 · effective date 1 November 2026
These Terms and Conditions (the “Terms”) apply to the public website operated for the Association of Corporate Lawyers Sri Lanka (the “Association”, “ACLSL”, “we”, “us” or “our”). Please read them before using the website.
By accessing or using the website, you agree to comply with these Terms to the extent permitted by applicable law. If you do not agree, please discontinue use of the website.
1. Scope of the website
The website is intended to provide general information about the Association, its objectives and activities, and information, and details of past and upcoming events, including conferences, seminars and related professional activities. The Association may update these Terms if website functions change.
2. The Constitution and Association rules
The Association’s Constitution, as amended from time to time, governs its internal affairs, including membership, member rights and obligations, office bearers, committees, meetings, elections and internal procedures.
These Terms concern use of the website only. They do not amend, replace or override the Constitution or valid Association rules. If these Terms conflict with the Constitution on an internal Association matter, the Constitution shall govern, subject to applicable law.
3. Permitted and prohibited use
You may use the website for lawful, personal, educational and professional information purposes. You must not use it in a way that breaches the law, infringes the rights of others or interferes with the website or its users.
- attempt to gain unauthorised access to the website, its hosting environment or any restricted system;
- introduce malicious code or attempt to disrupt, damage, overload or impair the website;
- use automated tools, scraping or bulk extraction to collect website content in a way that is unlawful, unauthorised or harmful;
- knowingly submit false or misleading information, impersonate another person or use another person’s contact details without authority;
- infringe copyright, confidentiality, privacy or other legal rights; or
- use the Association’s name, logo or identity to imply sponsorship, endorsement or official representation without permission.
4. Intellectual property
Unless stated otherwise, the website’s text, articles, publications, graphics, photographs, design elements, documents, logo and other materials are owned by the Association, their respective authors or other rights holders, or are used with permission. Rights remain with their respective owners.
You may view and use website material for personal, educational or professional reference, subject to notices accompanying the material and applicable law. Unless authorised by the relevant rights holder or permitted by law, you must not republish, adapt, distribute, sell or commercially exploit protected material, remove copyright or attribution notices, or use the Association’s branding in a way that suggests unauthorised endorsement. Attribution alone does not necessarily grant permission to reproduce content.
To report suspected infringement, contact the Association using the contact details below and identify the material, its location on the website, the right you believe has been infringed and your contact details.
5. Communications and user conduct
The Website may enable users to submit enquiries or other information. Please do not submit confidential client information, legally privileged communications, passwords, financial account details, or sensitive personal information.
The Association may use the information you submit to review and respond to your enquiry, maintain an appropriate record of the correspondence, protect the Website, and address any related legal or administrative matters, as further explained in the Association’s Privacy Policy.
6. Data Privacy
The Association’s Privacy Policy explains how information submitted through the website is handled. Please read the Privacy Policy for more details.
7. External links
The website may display links to external websites for event information, registration details provided by organisers, legal resources or other information that may be useful to visitors. These are links to third-party websites and do not, by themselves, mean that the Association endorses those websites, their operators, their views or their services.
The Association does not control the content, availability, security, terms or privacy practices of external websites. If you choose to open an external link, you do so at your own discretion and should review the relevant website’s terms and privacy information. The Association is not responsible for third-party content or services except to the extent that responsibility cannot lawfully be excluded.
8. Availability and security
The Association may update, correct, suspend or remove website content and may temporarily restrict access for maintenance, security, technical or operational reasons. Reasonable steps may be taken to maintain the website, but uninterrupted availability, compatibility with every device and operation free from error cannot be guaranteed.
You are responsible for using suitable and reasonably secure devices and software when accessing the website. You must not attempt to bypass security measures or interfere with the website’s operation.
9. Liability and Indemnification
The Website and its content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. The Association makes reasonable efforts to ensure that the information published on the Website is accurate and up to date. However, the Association does not warrant that the information will always be complete, accurate, current or free from errors, or that the Website will operate without interruption or technical issues.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Association shall not be liable for any loss or damage arising from a user’s reliance on Website content without appropriate verification, temporary unavailability of the Website, technical errors, or the content or operation of external websites. The Association shall also not be liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from the use of, or inability to use, the Website, to the extent that such liability may lawfully be excluded or limited. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability or legal right that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited under applicable law.
Articles, publications, legal updates, commentary and other materials available on the Website are provided for general informational, educational and professional awareness purposes. Unless separately agreed in writing, such information does not constitute legal advice or an opinion tailored to a particular person or matter, nor does it create a lawyer-client relationship with the Association or any contributor. Laws, regulations and professional requirements may change. Users should verify information with appropriate authoritative sources and obtain independent professional advice before relying on it in relation to a particular matter.
Users agree to use the Website lawfully and in accordance with these Terms. To the extent permitted by applicable law, a user shall indemnify and hold harmless the Association and its office bearers, officers, employees and authorised representatives against third-party claims, losses, liabilities and reasonable legal costs arising directly from that user’s unlawful use of the Website, material breach of these Terms, or infringement of a third party’s rights through information knowingly or unlawfully submitted by that user. This indemnity shall not apply to the extent that a claim or loss results from the Association’s own unlawful conduct or any act or omission for which the user cannot lawfully be held responsible.
10. Changes to these Terms or the website
The Association may revise these Terms to reflect changes to the website, its activities or applicable law. The updated version should be published on the website with a revised effective date.
The Association may also change, update or discontinue website content or features. If the website begins to provide new functions, additional terms may be introduced as appropriate.
11. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. If you have a concern about the website or these Terms, please contact the Association first so that the issue may be considered and, where appropriate, resolved amicably. If it cannot be resolved in that way, the dispute may be referred to a competent court in Sri Lanka, subject to applicable laws.
12. Contact the Association
Questions or concerns about these Terms or the website may be sent to the Association using the official contact details below.
- Email: aclsl.secretary@gmail.com
- Postal address: Association of Corporate Lawyers (ACLSL), No 146, Dawson Street, Colombo 02, Sri Lanka.