Privacy Policy

Section 1: Data Collection Principles

Creative Thinkers Magazine (Operated by ITEC) is deeply committed to protecting your digital privacy. This comprehensive policy outlines our rigorous protocols for data handling, continuous encryption, and secure third-party processing interfaces implemented in full compliance with modern international privacy standards.

Section 2: Information We Collect

We only gather data necessary to ensure an efficient, seamless learning experience. This includes:

• ✦ Account Data: Full Name, verified Email address, working Phone Number (utilized for operational automated WhatsApp integration via safe Waha API layers), and designated Professional Title.
• ✦ Payment Information: We strictly adhere to security standards and do NOT store, process, or hold your credit/debit card numbers in our active databases.
• ✦ Usage Data: Anonymized analytical data regarding generalized AI system prompt utilization metrics collected solely to optimize response performance.

Section 3: Payment Data Security

We employ a strict, absolute "No-Storage Policy" regarding sensitive financial credentials. All transactional activities are direct-tunneled to certified processing gateways:

• ✦ Recurring Subscription Packages: Safely executed via PayHere. Your banking tokens are verified directly inside PayHere's protected data vaults, which are fully PCI-DSS Level 1 Certified. PayHere enforces active EV SSL Encryption models to guarantee transactional absolute data integrity.
• ✦ One-Time Store Purchases: Processed immediately through Onepay, subject to their encrypted token security compliance protocols.

Section 4: Third-Party Data Sharing

We do not lease, trade, or sell your personal data assets to external marketing networks. Data profile access points are only synchronized with essential global infrastructure platforms:

• ✦ Payment Gateways: PayHere and Onepay (for safe billing executions).
• ✦ Cloud Infrastructure: Hetzner and Google Server Pools (for highly secured data hosting services).

Section 5: Cookies

We utilize operational cookies and localized session tracking mechanisms to study platform stability metrics, track service stability, and store preference attributes to continuously upgrade user configurations. You maintain the sovereign right to configure your browser parameters to decline cookie components, though some software paths may adapt functionality as a result.

Section 6: Your Rights

You reserve the legal right to request complete data erasure and deletion of your profile files from our active operating databases at any time. This is executed promptly, excluding datasets required for mandatory corporate compliance matching financial transaction auditing laws in Sri Lanka.