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Privacy Policy

How Lanka News Room collects, uses, stores, shares, and protects your personal information.

Last updated: July 4, 2026

1. Introduction

Lanka News Room respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information of users who visit and use our website.

This Privacy Policy explains how Lanka News Room collects, uses, stores, shares, and protects your information when you access or use https://www.lankanewsroom.xyz, including our news summaries, AI-powered news features, saved articles, reviews, improvement suggestions, and issue reporting features.

By using Lanka News Room, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use the website.

2. About Lanka News Room

Lanka News Room is a unified news platform that gathers publicly available news and information from sources across the web and presents rewritten summaries in Sinhala, English, and Tamil.

Our goal is to help users access news in a clear, simple, and organized way. We may use automated and AI-assisted systems to summarize, organize, translate, and present news content.

3. Information We Collect

We may collect the following types of information:

3.1 Information You Provide Directly

When you use Lanka News Room, you may provide information such as:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Reviews
  • Improvement suggestions
  • Issue reports
  • AI chat questions or prompts
  • Saved articles or bookmarks
  • Payment-related information for paid features, subscriptions, or services, if applicable

3.2 Information From Google Login

If you choose to sign in using Google Login, we may receive limited account information from your Google account, such as:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Profile photo
  • Basic account identifier required for login

We use this information only to create, manage, and secure your Lanka News Room account.

3.3 AI Chat and Interaction Data

When you use AI-powered features, we may collect and process your questions, prompts, news-related queries, and generated responses to provide the service, improve the user experience, prevent abuse, and maintain platform safety.

You should not submit private, sensitive, confidential, or highly personal information into AI chat features.

3.4 Location and Device Information

We may collect general location information, such as country, region, or approximate location, based on your device, browser, IP address, or permissions you provide.

We may also collect technical information, including:

  • IP address
  • Browser type
  • Device type
  • Operating system
  • Pages visited
  • Time spent on pages
  • Referring website
  • General usage activity

3.5 Cookies and Similar Technologies

Lanka News Room may use cookies, local storage, pixels, tags, and similar technologies to:

  • Keep users signed in
  • Remember preferences
  • Measure website performance
  • Understand website traffic
  • Improve content and user experience
  • Show advertisements
  • Prevent fraud, spam, and misuse

You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. However, some parts of the website may not work properly if cookies are disabled.

4. How We Use Your Information

We may use your information to:

  • Provide and operate Lanka News Room
  • Create and manage user accounts
  • Enable Google Login
  • Provide AI-powered news chat and summaries
  • Save articles and bookmarks
  • Display relevant news content
  • Process reviews, improvement suggestions, and issue reports
  • Improve website performance and user experience
  • Understand how users use the website
  • Detect and prevent spam, abuse, security threats, and policy violations
  • Display ads and measure ad performance
  • Process payments or subscriptions, if applicable
  • Communicate with users about support, updates, policy changes, or account issues
  • Comply with legal obligations

5. AI-Generated Content and Accuracy

Lanka News Room may use AI-assisted systems to summarize, rewrite, translate, organize, or answer questions about news.

AI-generated answers and summaries may be incomplete, outdated, inaccurate, or misunderstood. Users should verify important news, emergency updates, financial information, legal information, health information, political information, and public safety information from official sources or trusted original publishers before relying on it.

Lanka News Room does not guarantee that AI-generated responses will always be accurate or error-free.

6. News Sources and Third-Party Content

Lanka News Room gathers publicly available news and information from sources across the web and rewrites or summarizes content into a unified format.

We may link to external websites, publishers, official sources, or third-party pages. We do not control the privacy practices, accuracy, availability, or content of external websites. When you visit third-party websites, their own privacy policies and terms apply.

7. Google Analytics

We may use Google Analytics to understand how users interact with Lanka News Room. Google Analytics may collect information such as pages visited, session duration, device information, browser information, approximate location, and interaction activity through cookies or similar technologies.

This information helps us improve our website, content, performance, and user experience.

You may control cookies through your browser settings or use available opt-out tools provided by Google where applicable.

8. Google AdSense and Advertising

Lanka News Room may display advertisements through Google AdSense or other advertising partners.

Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to Lanka News Room or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads based on visits to this website and other websites on the internet.

Users may be able to manage personalized advertising through Google's ad settings or other available privacy controls.

9. Payments

If Lanka News Room offers paid features, subscriptions, donations, or services, payment-related information may be collected and processed to complete the transaction.

We may collect or store limited payment-related details such as billing name, email address, payment status, subscription status, transaction reference, and purchase history. Full payment card details are generally handled by payment service providers and should not be submitted directly through public forms, reviews, issue reports, or AI chat.

10. Reviews, Suggestions, and Issue Reports

Users may submit reviews, improvement suggestions, and issue reports.

By submitting content to Lanka News Room, you understand that we may review, moderate, store, use, display, or remove such submissions to improve the platform, maintain safety, and protect the community.

You must not submit unlawful, harmful, abusive, false, misleading, hateful, adult, spam, or copyrighted content that you do not have permission to use.

11. Sharing of Information

We do not sell your personal information.

We may share limited information with trusted service providers who help us operate, secure, analyze, advertise, improve, or support Lanka News Room. These may include providers for hosting, authentication, analytics, advertising, email, payment processing, security, and AI-powered functionality.

We may also disclose information if required to:

  • Comply with applicable law
  • Respond to lawful requests from authorities
  • Protect our rights, users, website, or public safety
  • Prevent fraud, abuse, spam, or security threats
  • Enforce our Terms of Use

12. Data Storage and International Processing

Your information may be stored or processed in Sri Lanka or in other countries where our service providers operate.

By using Lanka News Room, you understand that your information may be transferred, stored, or processed outside your country of residence, subject to reasonable safeguards and applicable legal requirements.

13. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including account management, website operation, security, legal compliance, dispute resolution, and service improvement.

Some information may be deleted sooner upon request, unless we are required or permitted to keep it for legal, security, fraud-prevention, or operational reasons.

14. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect user information from unauthorized access, misuse, loss, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no website, internet transmission, database, or digital system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Users are responsible for keeping their login details secure and for using safe browsing practices.

15. Children and Young Users

Lanka News Room is intended to be a general news and information platform. The website does not allow adult content.

Users of all ages may access the website, but young users should use the platform responsibly and with parent or guardian guidance where appropriate or required by law.

We do not knowingly encourage children to submit unnecessary personal information. If a parent or guardian believes that a child has submitted personal information that should be removed, they may contact us at lanka.news.room.contact@gmail.com.

lanka.news.room.contact@gmail.com

16. User Rights and Choices

Depending on applicable law, you may have rights to:

  • Request access to your personal information
  • Request correction of inaccurate information
  • Request deletion of your personal information
  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
  • Object to certain processing
  • Request information about how your data is used
  • Disable cookies through your browser settings
  • Manage advertising preferences where available

To make a privacy request, contact us at lanka.news.room.contact@gmail.com.

We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests.

lanka.news.room.contact@gmail.com

17. Account Deletion

If account features are available, users may request account deletion by contacting us.

When an account is deleted, we may delete or anonymize personal information linked to the account, unless we need to keep certain information for legal, security, fraud-prevention, payment, dispute, or operational reasons.

18. Marketing and Email Communication

If you provide your email address, we may contact you for account-related messages, support, important updates, service notices, or other communications related to Lanka News Room.

If marketing emails are introduced, users will be given a reasonable way to unsubscribe where applicable.

20. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make changes, we may update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page.

Continued use of Lanka News Room after changes are posted means you accept the updated Privacy Policy.