Privacy Policy

We are the Private Medical Laboratories Society Limited has been registered as a specially authorized society under section 3(b) of the societies ordinance (chapter 123).
Annual membership fee follows
  1. Large scale Laboratories Rs. 50,000
  2. Medium Scale laboratories Rs. 30,000
  3. Small Scale Laboratories Rs. 15,000

Membership fee is NON-REFUNDABLE

As part of our operations, we deal with information relating to individuals. We take the privacy of all the individuals we interact with very seriously and are committed to protecting your personal information. We comply with all applicable data protection laws and undertake to process your information in line with this policy. If you have any enquiries relating to the policy, can be contacted secretary @pmls.lk
This Policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we (PMLS, and our subsidiaries) collect from or about you, or that you provide to us, will be used or processed by us.

1. Privacy Notices

1.1 We deal with information relating to our Membership, including those of the private laboratories; (including all past, present, future, and prospective members)
1.2 We deal with information relating to our membership for the purposes of providing them with various products and services and communicating with them about membership news and information, subscription fees, examination information and updates on professional issues and about the society and about society events or courses. We do this because we have a contract with members and we need to do all this under that contract. The information we deal with may include (for example) various details about members (such as contact and career details, bank details and details of their interaction with the society). Please note that for some of this information where relevant we share responsibility, we may also use information relating to members to analyse the make-up of membership in the Society and we do this because it is in our legitimate interests to properly administer membership and make sure it is suitable for all members.
1.3 We also deal with information relating to our membership for the purposes of fundraising. The information we may use includes contact details, any donations you may have made to the PMLS and other information to inform our fundraising activity. It is in our legitimate interest to further our charitable objective that we believe our membership will be interested in supporting these objectives.
1.4 We will provide verification of the membership status of individuals to organisations for the purposes of employment, academia, awards..
1.5 We deal with information relating to our Representatives and Volunteers We also deal with this information for the purpose of updating some of them about other member volunteer roles at the Society (although anyone can opt out of receiving these updates). We do this because it is in our legitimate interests to increase maximise participation and diversity in the Society, and it is in our mutual legitimate interests to update the profession on professional issues and about the Society. The information we deal with may include (for example) contact and career details and details of the interaction of each

2. Our Website


Your use of our website signifies your consent to us collecting and using data about you as specified below in accordance with this policy statement.
2.1 How do we collect information about you and how is it used?
  • You may provide personal information when contacting or communicating with us, and we may keep a record of that correspondence
  • You may use our services and give your name and e-mail address to make a comment about our services or website.
  • We will collect information about your tastes and preferences, both when you tell us and by analysis of customer traffic, including using "cookies".
  • It may be that you provide us details of credit or debit cards or bank accounts in making payment to us. Any such information (confidential financial information) will be disclosed only in accordance with the disclosure policy below.
  • Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.
  • We may use personal information collected about you through cookies to help us develop the layout of our website to ensure that our site is as useful and enjoyable as possible.
  • We may use personal information collected to let you know about functions on our website or changes to our terms and conditions of use.
  • Personal data provided to us by third parties in accordance with the law.

2.2 Security
Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology and any credit, debit card or payment details you submit online will be processed and held by our third party payment processor. We do not hold credit or debit card data ourselves.
Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do what we reasonably can to protect your personal data and we have had this website security tested by a third party, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site and any such transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use appropriate procedures and security features to try to protect your personal data against unauthorised or unlawful access or accidental loss, destruction or damage.