Privacy Policy

1. About This Website

This website is a personal portfolio platform created to present my background, academic journey, skills, projects, achievements, certifications, ideas, and professional profile. It may also allow visitors to contact me, submit feedback, or interact with selected content.

Because this is a personal website, the information collected is limited to what is reasonably necessary for communication, website improvement, and basic visitor interaction.

2. Information That May Be Collected

Depending on how you use this website, the following types of information may be collected:

• Personal Information You Provide: name, email address, phone number (if provided), feedback, messages, comments, inquiries, and any information you voluntarily include in forms or communication.
• Technical and Usage Information: IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, pages visited, time spent on pages, referring source, general location derived from IP, and click/navigation behavior.
• Cookies and Similar Technologies: cookies or similar tracking tools used to improve user experience, understand traffic patterns, and support site functionality.

3. How Your Information Is Used

I do not collect personal information for unnecessary or unrelated purposes.

• Respond to messages, inquiries, or feedback.
• Improve website content, structure, and user experience.
• Understand visitor interaction and website performance.
• Maintain security, monitor technical issues, and prevent misuse.
• Communicate with you if you voluntarily contact me.
• Review feedback for profile or project improvement.

4. Legal Basis and Good-Faith Use

Where applicable, personal information is handled in good faith for legitimate purposes related to operating and improving this personal website, communicating with visitors, and protecting the website from abuse, unauthorized access, or misuse.

5. Data Sharing

I do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties. Information may be shared only in limited circumstances where necessary, such as with trusted hosting/service providers, analytics providers, legal obligations, safety/integrity protection, and misuse/fraud investigations.

6. Data Storage and Security

Reasonable steps are taken to protect personal information and website data from unauthorized access, misuse, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

However, no internet-based platform or electronic storage method is completely secure. While efforts are made to protect information, absolute security cannot be guaranteed.

Visitors submit information at their own discretion and risk.

7. Retention of Information

Personal information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for communication, website improvement, legal compliance, dispute handling, and protection against misuse.

Feedback, emails, or messages may be retained for record-keeping, response history, or quality improvement unless deletion is requested and retention is not otherwise required.

8. Visitor Feedback and User Submissions

I reserve the right to remove, ignore, or retain submissions that are inappropriate, abusive, spam-related, irrelevant, or harmful.

• Submitted information may be reviewed and stored.
• Do not submit unlawful, abusive, defamatory, misleading, malicious, or infringing material.
• Feedback may be used to improve this website, profile, project presentation, or user experience.
• You remain responsible for the content you submit.

9. Protection Against Misuse

This website and its content must not be misused. Unauthorized conduct may include scraping/copying without permission, harmful use of personal or project information, unauthorized access attempts, impersonation, fraud, spam, abuse, unlawful use, or unauthorized data collection.

Where misuse or harmful behavior is identified or reasonably suspected, I reserve the right to restrict/block access, preserve logs, report incidents, and take legal/protective action.

10. Third-Party Services and Links

This website may link to third-party websites or platforms. I am not responsible for their privacy practices, content, or policies. Please review the policies of any external site you visit.

11. Cookies

You can manage cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect some website features.

• Maintain core site functionality.
• Improve speed and usability.
• Understand traffic and engagement.
• Remember visitor preferences.
• Support analytics and performance measurement.

12. Your Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or object to processing of your personal information.

To make a privacy-related request, contact: vidula.hwick@outlook.com.

13. Children’s Privacy

This website is not intentionally designed to collect personal information from children. If such data is identified as submitted without appropriate consent, reasonable steps will be taken to remove it.

14. International Visitors

If you access this website from outside Australia, your information may be processed and stored in locations where the website owner, hosting services, or service providers operate, where permitted by law.

15. Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated over time to reflect changes in website features, legal requirements, technologies, or privacy practices. Updates will be posted on this page.

16. Contact

Vidula Wickramasinghe

Email: vidula.hwick@outlook.com

Website: www.vidulawickramasinghe.com