Privacy Policy for LawMate

Last Updated: November 10, 2025

Introduction

Welcome to LawMate, an AI-powered web application developed to simplify the daily workflows of Sri Lankan legal professionals. Our goal is to provide a user-friendly platform that reduces the complexities involved in legal work, enabling legal professionals to focus on strategic and high-value activities. By leveraging advanced technology and a deep understanding of Sri Lanka's legal environment, we offer tools designed to enhance productivity, minimize manual effort, and efficiently manage routine legal tasks.

We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of our users' personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit or use our services at lawmate.lk. By using our website and services, you consent to the practices described in this policy.

Information We Collect

Personal Identification Information

When you visit our website or use our services, we may collect certain information about you, including:

  • Registration Information: Name, email address, phone number, and other details provided voluntarily during account registration or service subscription.
  • Payment and Billing Information: Credit card details, billing address, and other financial information necessary to process your orders and subscriptions. This information is securely handled by trusted third-party payment processors.
  • Professional Information: Details about your legal practice, firm affiliation, or educational institution that you choose to provide.

Browsing and Usage Information

We automatically collect certain technical information when you use our website:

  • Device Information: IP address, browser type, operating system, and device information.
  • Usage Data: Pages visited, features used, time spent on the platform, and interaction patterns.
  • Location Data: General geographic location based on your IP address.

This information is collected using cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience and improve our services.

Comments

When users leave comments on our website, we collect the information provided in the comments form, including your IP address and browser user agent string, to assist with spam detection. This data helps us maintain a secure environment by monitoring suspicious activity.

Media

If you upload images or documents to our website, please ensure that embedded location data (such as EXIF GPS data) is removed. Visitors to our website may be able to download and extract location information from these files, potentially compromising your privacy. To protect your privacy, we advise removing any such data before uploading.

How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information for the following purposes:

  • Service Delivery: To provide, maintain, and improve our AI-powered legal tools and features.
  • Order Processing: To process and fulfill your subscriptions, including payment processing and service activation.
  • Communication: To communicate with you regarding your account, provide customer support, respond to inquiries, send service updates, and deliver relevant notifications.
  • Personalization: To personalize your experience and present relevant features, recommendations, and content tailored to your legal practice needs.
  • Platform Improvement: To analyze user feedback, usage patterns, and browsing behavior to enhance our platform's effectiveness and develop new features.
  • Security and Fraud Prevention: To detect and prevent fraud, unauthorized activities, abuse of our website, and to address technical issues.
  • Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, and legal obligations.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies to enhance your browsing experience, analyze website traffic, and gather information about your preferences and interactions with our website.

Types of Cookies We Use

  • Comments Cookies: If you leave a comment on our website, you may opt to save your name, email address, and website in cookies to facilitate future comments. These cookies last for one year.
  • Login Cookies: When you visit our login page, we create a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is deleted when you close your browser. When you log in, we use cookies to save your login information and screen display preferences. Login cookies are stored for two days, while screen options cookies last for one year. If you select "Remember Me," your login will persist for two weeks.
  • Article Editing Cookies: If you edit or publish content, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser containing the post ID of the content you edited. It expires after one day.
  • Analytics Cookies: We use cookies to track website usage patterns and gather aggregate statistics about user behavior.

You have the option to disable cookies through your browser settings, but this may limit certain features and functionality of our website.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

We respect your privacy and do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to third parties without your consent, except in the following circumstances:

Trusted Service Providers

We may share your information with third-party service providers who assist us in:

  • Operating and maintaining our website
  • Processing payments and managing subscriptions
  • Providing cloud hosting and data storage
  • Delivering customer support services
  • Conducting analytics and improving our services

These providers are contractually obligated to handle your data securely and confidentially and may only use your information to perform services on our behalf.

Legal Requirements

We may disclose your information if required to do so by law, in response to valid legal requests or court orders, or to:

  • Comply with legal obligations
  • Protect and defend our rights or property
  • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing
  • Protect the personal safety of users or the public

Business Transfers

In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you of any such change and any choices you may have regarding your information.

Data Security

We implement industry-standard security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. Our security measures include:

  • Encryption of sensitive data during transmission and storage
  • Secure servers with firewall protection
  • Regular security assessments and updates
  • Restricted access to personal information on a need-to-know basis

However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. While we strive for optimal security, we encourage you to take precautions to protect your account credentials and personal information.

Data Retention

Comment and Content Data

When you leave a comment, feedback or create content, both the content and its metadata are retained indefinitely unless you request deletion.

User Account Data

For registered users, personal information provided in user profiles can be viewed, edited, or deleted by the user at any time through account settings (except for the username, which cannot be changed).

Subscription and Payment Data

We retain payment and subscription information for as long as necessary to fulfill our legal, accounting, and regulatory obligations.

Inactive Accounts

We may delete or anonymize data from accounts that have been inactive for an extended period, in accordance with our data retention policies.

Your Rights Over Your Data

You have the following rights regarding your personal information:

  • Access: Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
  • Correction: Update or correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
  • Deletion: Request deletion of your personal data, except for information we are required to retain for administrative, legal, or security reasons.
  • Export: Request an export of your personal data in a portable format.
  • Objection: Object to certain processing activities or withdraw consent where we rely on it.
  • Restriction: Request restriction of processing in certain circumstances.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at privacy@lawmate.lk.

Where Your Data is Sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Your data may also be processed by third-party services that help us manage the website and deliver our services. These services may be located in different countries, and by using our services, you consent to the transfer of your information to these locations.

Children's Privacy

LawMate is designed for legal professionals and law students. We do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under the age of 18. If we become aware that we have collected information from a minor without parental consent, we will take steps to delete that information.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or other factors. Any changes will be posted on this page with a revised "Last Updated" date at the top. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we collect, use, and protect your information. Your continued use of our services after any modifications indicates your acceptance of the updated policy.

Contact Information

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding our Privacy Policy or the handling of your personal information, please contact us:

Email: hi@lawmate.lk
Website: lawmate.lk

Data Protection Officer

For specific privacy-related questions or to exercise your data rights, you may contact our Data Protection Officer at the email address above.


Your trust is crucial to us, and we are committed to safeguarding your privacy and protecting your personal information.

Last updated :
11-10-2025 4:33 PM