Privacy Policy

This website is run by the Oblate Province of Jaffna (Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate), 657/1 Hospital Road, Jaffna, Sri Lanka. For any question about your personal information, write to omi.jafprovince@gmail.com or call 021-2222721.

• Contact form: your name, email, phone number (optional), the reason for writing and your message.
• Member accounts (Oblate fathers and staff): name, email address, OMI ID, and a securely hashed password. We never store passwords in readable form.
• Content you add as a member: profile details, photos, documents, events and articles you submit for the website.
• Technical data: standard server logs (such as IP address and browser type) used to keep the site secure and to limit abuse.

• To answer your enquiries and pastoral or vocation requests.
• To let members sign in, manage their profile and publish approved content.
• To send account emails, such as password reset links.
• To protect the website against misuse.

We use only the cookies the site needs to work: a sign-in cookie that keeps members logged in, and a cookie that remembers your light or dark theme. We do not use advertising or tracking cookies.

• Our own server, where the website and its database are hosted.
• Brevo, to deliver account emails such as password resets.
• Google Drive, to store daily backups of the website database.
• Map tiles from Esri (ArcGIS) on the mission map, and embedded YouTube videos on some pages.

We do not sell or rent personal information. We share it only with the services above, so they can do their part, or when the law requires it.

Enquiries are kept as long as needed to answer and follow up. Member accounts are kept while the account is active. Backups are deleted automatically after 30 days.

You can ask to see, correct or delete the personal information we hold about you by writing to omi.jafprovince@gmail.com. Members can also update their profile from their dashboard.

If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date below.