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Terms of Use

Terms governing your access to and use of Lanka News Room.

Last updated: July 4, 2026

1. Acceptance of Terms

These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of Lanka News Room, available at https://www.lankanewsroom.xyz.

By accessing or using Lanka News Room, you agree to these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, you must 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.

The platform may include news summaries, AI-powered answers, saved articles, bookmarks, reviews, improvement suggestions, issue reporting, and other related features.

3. Informational Purpose Only

Lanka News Room is provided for general news, educational, and informational purposes only.

Content on the website should not be treated as professional legal, medical, financial, investment, safety, or emergency advice. Users should verify important information from official sources, original publishers, government notices, emergency services, or qualified professionals before relying on it.

4. AI-Generated Summaries and Answers

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

AI-generated content may sometimes be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, unclear, or misleading. Lanka News Room does not guarantee that AI responses, summaries, translations, or explanations will always be correct.

Users are responsible for verifying important information before making decisions based on AI-generated content.

5. News Sources and External Content

Lanka News Room may gather, rewrite, summarize, organize, or link to publicly available news and information from external sources across the web.

External publishers and websites are responsible for their own content. Lanka News Room does not control third-party websites and is not responsible for their accuracy, availability, privacy practices, or policies.

Where possible, users should refer to original sources for full context and verification.

6. User Accounts

Some features may require a user account or Google Login.

You agree to provide accurate information when creating or using an account. You are responsible for keeping your account secure and for all activity that happens under your account.

You must not:

  • Use another person's account without permission
  • Create fake, misleading, or abusive accounts
  • Attempt to access accounts, systems, or data without permission
  • Use the website in a way that harms, disrupts, or abuses the service

We may suspend or remove accounts that violate these Terms.

7. Reviews, Suggestions, and Issue Reports

Lanka News Room may allow users to submit reviews, improvement suggestions, issue reports, or similar community feedback.

By submitting content, you grant Lanka News Room a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free permission to use, store, display, review, edit, moderate, remove, or process your submission for website operation, improvement, safety, and community purposes.

You remain responsible for the content you submit.

8. User Content Rules

Users must not post, submit, upload, share, or send content that:

  • Is false, misleading, or intentionally deceptive
  • Promotes fake news, spam, scams, or manipulation
  • Contains hate speech, harassment, threats, or abuse
  • Contains adult, sexually explicit, or inappropriate content
  • Encourages violence, illegal activity, or harm
  • Violates another person's privacy
  • Contains copyrighted material without permission
  • Impersonates another person or organization
  • Contains malware, harmful code, or phishing attempts
  • Disrupts the website or other users' experience
  • Violates Sri Lankan law or any applicable law

If users violate these rules, Lanka News Room may remove the content, restrict access, suspend accounts, or take other appropriate action.

9. No Adult Content

Lanka News Room does not allow adult content, sexually explicit content, or inappropriate community submissions.

Any such content may be removed without notice, and the related account may be restricted or suspended.

10. Moderation and Removal Rights

Lanka News Room reserves the right to review, moderate, edit, reject, hide, or remove any user submission, review, suggestion, issue report, account, or content at any time if we believe it violates these Terms, creates risk, harms users, affects website quality, or is otherwise inappropriate.

We are not required to publish or keep any user-submitted content.

11. Intellectual Property

The Lanka News Room name, website design, features, summaries, platform structure, original text, graphics, branding, and other materials created by Lanka News Room are owned by or licensed to Lanka News Room, unless otherwise stated.

Users must not copy, reproduce, republish, sell, scrape, misuse, or redistribute Lanka News Room content or platform features without permission, except where allowed by law.

Third-party news content, trademarks, logos, images, and source materials remain the property of their respective owners.

13. Payments, Subscriptions, and Paid Features

Lanka News Room may offer paid features, subscriptions, premium tools, donations, or other paid services.

If you purchase or subscribe to a paid feature, you agree to provide accurate payment information and follow the payment terms shown at the time of purchase.

Fees, renewal terms, cancellation options, and refund rules may be shown separately during checkout or on the relevant payment page.

Lanka News Room may change, suspend, or discontinue paid features at any time, subject to applicable law and any terms shown at the time of purchase.

14. Advertisements

Lanka News Room may display advertisements, including ads from third-party advertising partners.

We are not responsible for the products, services, claims, websites, or content shown in third-party advertisements. Any interaction with advertisers is between you and the advertiser.

15. Prohibited Uses

You agree not to use Lanka News Room to:

  • Break any law or regulation
  • Spread fake news, harmful misinformation, spam, or scams
  • Harass, threaten, or abuse others
  • Post adult or inappropriate content
  • Attack, overload, scrape, or disrupt the website
  • Reverse engineer, copy, or misuse platform features
  • Attempt unauthorized access to accounts, systems, data, or servers
  • Use bots, crawlers, or automated tools without permission
  • Submit malware, phishing links, or harmful code
  • Misuse AI features to generate harmful, unlawful, or abusive content
  • Violate the rights of Lanka News Room, other users, publishers, or third parties

16. Service Availability

We aim to keep Lanka News Room available and functional, but we do not guarantee that the website will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, fast, or error-free.

The website may be unavailable due to maintenance, technical issues, updates, internet problems, third-party failures, or other reasons.

17. Changes to the Website

Lanka News Room may add, modify, suspend, or remove any feature, page, content, tool, account function, AI function, payment option, or service at any time.

We may also update or remove content to improve accuracy, quality, safety, performance, or compliance.

18. Disclaimer of Warranties

Lanka News Room is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we do not guarantee that:

  • The website will always be accurate, complete, or updated
  • AI-generated answers will be correct
  • News summaries will include every detail from original sources
  • The website will be uninterrupted or error-free
  • The website will be free from bugs, security issues, or harmful components
  • External links or third-party websites will be safe or accurate

Users use Lanka News Room at their own risk.

19. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Lanka News Room and its owner will not be responsible for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or other losses arising from:

  • Use of or inability to use the website
  • Reliance on news summaries or AI-generated content
  • Errors, delays, omissions, or inaccuracies
  • Third-party content, ads, links, or services
  • Account misuse or unauthorized access
  • Technical issues, data loss, or service interruptions
  • User-submitted content
  • Decisions made based on information found on the website

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law.

20. Privacy

Your use of Lanka News Room is also governed by our Privacy Policy.

By using the website, you agree that we may collect and use information as described in the Privacy Policy.

21. Termination

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to Lanka News Room if we believe you have violated these Terms, misused the website, created legal risk, harmed other users, or affected the safety or quality of the platform.

You may stop using Lanka News Room at any time.

22. Governing Law

These Terms of Use are governed by the laws of Sri Lanka.

Any disputes related to Lanka News Room, these Terms, or your use of the website shall be handled according to applicable Sri Lankan law, unless another law applies by mandatory legal requirement.

23. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms of Use 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 Terms.