Privacy Policy
The Lanka Guide (the “Website”), located at thelankaguide.com, is governed by the following Privacy Policy. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what information we may collect and how it may be used.
This Privacy Policy applies to information collected on our Website and in email and other electronic messages between you and the Website. It does not apply to information collected offline or through channels other than this Website.
By using this Website, you accept and agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Contact Form
If you contact us through the form on our Contact page, we receive the information you submit — your name, email address, subject, and message. We use this information only to reply to you. It is not shared with third parties or used for marketing.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
Analytics
We may use analytics services such as Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the Website — for example, which guides are most popular and which countries our readers visit from. This data is aggregated and does not personally identify you.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., YouTube videos, maps, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Advertisers
Some of our advertising or affiliate partners may use cookies on our site in the future. If that happens, we will update this policy accordingly.
How We Use Your Information
We may use the information collected in the following ways:
- To operate and maintain our Website
- To respond to your comments and questions
- To improve our guides based on how readers use the site
- To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity
How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have left comments on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us at any time.
Last Updated August 24, 2026