This Privacy Policy describes how WeBE collects and uses the personal information you provide to WeBE through our Website (www.webe.lk) or by other means. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information. By accessing or using the Website, you signify that you have read this Privacy Policy, and you expressly consent to our collection, use, disclosure, storage and protection of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.
WeBE will not rent or sell your personal information to third parties.
When you apply for a micro loan through the Website, we collect basic information about you through the registration process to uniquely identify you, perform credit verification and to confirm with statutory requirements.
Except as noted in Section 5 below, WeBE will not disclose your personally identifiable Loan Transaction information to any third party without your consent.
Cookies are small text files created by a website that store information on your computer, such as your preferences when visiting that website. Similar to many websites, if you have enabled cookies in your browser, WeBE, independently and through enabled third party tools and programs, collects certain technical information using cookies, such as the path of users to the Website, pages visited, originating IP address, browser type, browser language and the date and time of the user's visit. This information helps WeBE track trends and improve areas of the Website and Program, and are common analytics used by most websites. If you have disabled cookies, the Website may not work as it is intended because WeBE uses cookies when you sign in to keep track of your personal session.
Web beacons are tiny graphics with a unique identifier that are similar in function to cookies but, instead of being stored on your computer, are embedded invisibly on web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. Web beacons are used to track the online movements of internet users. WeBE uses them to better understand User interaction and engagement with the Website (including without limitation, in electronic Communications), such as by learning whether certain users have accessed the Website via links from other websites
WeBE can use this information to tailor its audience for advertisements promoting WeBE. You may set your browser preferences to opt out of the collection and use of this tracking information for ad targeting purposes.
WeBE also uses cookies for remarketing, by placing a cookie in your browser to signal that you've visited the Website. This gives us the option to show you ads for WeBE when you visit other websites that host advertisements. WeBE supports the Do Not Track preference available on most internet browsers. The use of cookies by third parties on the Website is for the purpose of making the Website easier to use and to enable certain features of the Website and is not covered by this Privacy Policy. We do not have control over these cookies.
From time to time you will receive disclosures, notices, documents and information based on your current loan status ("Communications") from WeBE (for example, confirmations of Loans obtained by you, confirmation of email address or password changes, or customer service inquiries regarding the status of or activity). By creating an account with WeBE on the Website, you agree that all Communications from WeBE relating to your use of the Website and participation in the Program may be provided or made available to you electronically by mobile SMS, by e-mail or at the Website.
By registering on the Website, you acknowledge that you can access the electronic Communications, and you consent to having all Communications provided or made available to you in electronic form and to obtain loan utilizing the online service provided by WeBE. We may also provide you with Communications through physical mail.
We will disclose your personal information to third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy statement. WeBE's affiliates and service providers, agents and representatives of WeBE and its affiliates may be provided access to your personally identifiable information as part of, or incident to, their provision of services to WeBE. All such access shall be under appropriate confidentiality agreements and limited to use to provide services to WeBE
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Use, you acknowledge, consent and agree that WeBE may disclose information in order to: (a) comply with applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; (b) protect the rights, property and safety of WeBE, Users and others, including intellectual property rights; and (c) enforce or apply our agreements and policies.
In addition to the uses (including display and disclosure) of your information that we have described above in this Privacy Policy, WeBE uses your information that WeBE has collected as described above in this Privacy Policy in order to facilitate activities and transactions for the operation of the Website and Program, improve User experiences on the Website.
If you follow any links which remove you from the Website (for example, the independently operated PayPal, Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, Wordpress, Salesforce and any other websites), this Privacy Policy no longer applies - i.e., the privacy policies and practices of other websites and other parties are governed by their respective terms of use and privacy policies
WeBE takes reasonable steps to maintain appropriate physical, technical such as encrypting transmission of information using SSL and administrative security to help prevent loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure and modification of personal information. While we take these reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal information, no system or transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
WeBE reserves the right to retain your personal information for a period of 3 years or more to satisfy legal requirements such as recordkeeping and tax and credit reporting requirements, as well as for purposes of fraud prevention, audit and data integrity. In addition, WeBE reserves the right to retain, as well as to use and disclose as permitted pursuant to this Privacy Policy, your personal information for such period of time as reasonably needed by WeBE to facilitate activities and transactions for the operation of the Website, improve User experiences on the Website. WeBE reserves the right to retain information that does not directly identify you, for example, aggregated or anonymized data.
WeBE may update or modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. If any changes are made, WeBE will reflect the date on which any such changes are made and posted by updating the "last updated" date at the top of the page. If we make any material changes we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on this Website prior to the change becoming effective. Please be sure to check this page periodically for changes.