Sri Lanka’s Largest Online Machinery Market

machines.lk needs to collect, use and share personal information to provide a secure and a beneficial service to its clients who make use of the website

Any information posted on machines.lk is publicly available. Accordingly, it is understood that anyone inputting the personal information has  consented to the transfer and store that information in our servers. The most likely personal information we collect and store but not limited to are as follows:

  • Email address, contact information, and financial information (depending on the nature of the transaction.
  • Computer sign-on data, statistics for analysis on page views, traffic to and from machines.lk and response to advertisements.
  • Other details, such as users' IP address and standard web login information.

We use users' personal information to:

  • Provide an efficient and effective service
  • Attend to matters concerning disputes, collection of our charges and fees, and help to troubleshoot problems
  • To enforce our policy requirement and promote a healthy trading pattern among clients
  • Customize user liking and develop a prospective group of customers who will be interested in our services and products
  • Provide advance notices to our users about services and updates with a view to improving our service

Cookies are text files containing basic information that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device which helps us to identify a person and recognise his device used to visit our site. Website also makes use of cookies to improve your browsing experience, for example, to keep you signed in, remember your site preferences, and to serve your requirements.

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect and personalise content and ads that may have attracted your liking  through, social media or any other media, to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional material and to analyse our web page traffic. We may also share information about your use of our site with our social media advertising and analytic partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services.

You may refuse to receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by clicking on the unsubscribe link. Personal data stored with machines.lk can be removed by contacting our support team, or following instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us.

Types of cookies we use:

  • Session cookies: information to operate our service.
  • Preference cookies:  remember your preferences and settings required for browsing.
  • Security cookies: security purposes.

It is inevitable that the following third-party service providers, whom we may use to monitor and analyse the use of our service, have access to your data because of our linkage to their private policy.  

  • AppNexus
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Google
  • Open X
  • PubMatic
  • PubNub
  • Sendgrid
  • WebEngage

You are at your liberty to either accept cookies or decline them altogether when notified. However, please note that whenever you decline the cookies, you might also be foregoing some part of our service as certain features are liable to be deactivated automatically.

It is not our policy to sell or divulge users' personal information to any third-parties without the users' explicit consent. However, we may be compelled to reveal personal information on account of any or all of the following :

  • Order received from Court,
  • Deviation from our policies
  • Respond to a valid claim
  • Copyright infringement

You agree to receive marketing communications about machinery and services on behalf of our third party advertising partners unless you have opted to decline receiving such communications. If you don't wish to receive marketing communications from us, simply indicate your preference by following directions provided with the communication. You must not use our site or communication tools to increase the network beyond your scope, send spam or otherwise breach our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy. We may automatically scan and manually filter email messages sent via our communication tools for malicious activity or prohibited content. If you use our tools to send content to a colleague, we don't permanently store your colleague's addresses or use or disclose them for marketing purposes. To report spam from other users, please contact customer support.

We use lots of tools (encryption, passwords, physical security) to protect your personal information against unauthorized access and disclosure.

All personal electronic details will be kept private by the Service except for those that you wish to disclose.

It is considered unacceptable to disclose the contact information of others through our Service channel.

If you violate the laws of your country of residence and/or the terms of use of the Service, you shall be liable to forfeit your privacy rights over your personal information.

If at any time you wish to have your information reviewed or removed from our active databases, please contact us at support@ machines.lk. Additionally, you will be able to unsubscribe anytime by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of all our email communications.

This website makes use of Display Advertising, and uses Re-marketing technology with Google Analytics to advertise online. Third-party vendors, including Google, may show our ads on various websites across the Internet, using first-party cookies and third-party cookies together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to our website.

Visitors can opt-out of Google Analytic for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads using the Ads Preferences Manager.