Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device by your browser. They allow a website to remember information between pages and visits, such as whether you are signed in.

Essential and Functional Cookies

These are set whenever you use the portal. They do not need your consent, because the platform cannot work without them.

• Authentication session - keeps you securely signed in as you move between pages, so you do not have to log in repeatedly.
• Security - helps protect your session and guard against fraudulent or unauthorised activity.
• Preferences - remembers basic functional settings, such as your chosen theme, to improve your experience.

Your answer to our analytics question is kept in your browser's local storage, not in a cookie. It stays on your device and is not sent to us.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand which parts of the portal people find useful, so we can improve it. It works in two tiers, and the portal works exactly the same whichever applies to you.

Without cookies, for every visitor. Google Analytics runs for every visitor in a cookieless mode. It sends Google the page you view and its title, the page you came from, your device type, operating system, browser and language, and an approximate location. It sets no cookie and stores no identifier that could recognise you on a later visit. To work out the approximate location, your IP address is sent to Google, including to servers in the United States. Google states that it uses the IP address only for this and does not log or store it. This continues if you decline analytics cookies or do not answer.

With cookies, only if you consent. We ask before we set any analytics cookie. Declining is a real answer that we remember. If you accept, the following cookies are set in your browser:

• _ga - holds a randomly generated identifier used to recognise a returning browser, so that repeat visits are not counted as new people. Expires two years after it is last set.
• _ga_<measurement id> - used by Google Analytics 4 to keep track of a single visit (the session). Expires two years after it is last set.

Neither cookie contains your name, your email address, or anything else that identifies you to us directly. Google acts as our processor for the cookieless measurements and for the cookies, and processes this data outside Sri Lanka, including in the United States; our Privacy Policy sets out the basis for that transfer. We configure Google Analytics to delete event-level data after 14 months.

We have deliberately turned off the Google Analytics features that would capture what you type into the portal. Site search is disabled, so what you search for in our directories is not sent to Google, and Form interactions is disabled, so what you enter into a registration form is not either.

Changing Your Mind

You can withdraw your consent to analytics cookies at any time, and taking it back is as easy as giving it. Select Cookie settings at the bottom of this page. That forgets the answer we hold and asks you again, so you can decline.

Turning analytics cookies off applies from your next page load onwards. It does not delete a cookie that is already set. After you decline, Google Analytics carries on only in the cookieless mode described above.

Clearing this site’s stored data in your browser settings also works, and removes the analytics cookies themselves along with our record of your decision, so we will ask you again on your next visit. Deleting the cookies alone, without clearing the stored decision, will let them be set again on your next visit.

If you do not want even the cookieless measurement, you can block Google Analytics in your browser, for example with a content blocker. The portal works the same without it.

What We Do Not Do

We do not use marketing or advertising cookies. We always tell Google Analytics that its data may not be used for advertising or ad personalisation. We do not build advertising profiles, we do not sell your browsing data, and we do not use analytics to follow you across other websites. Analytics cookies are used only if you consent, only to measure how this portal is used, and never for advertising.

Managing Cookies

You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Please note that disabling essential cookies will prevent you from staying signed in and may stop parts of DigiT Portal from working correctly.

More Information

To learn how we handle your personal data more broadly, please read our Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about our use of cookies, contact us at privacy@digitaltrust.lk.