Last updated: 5 September 2026
The St. Peter’s College Old Boys’ Union respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect personal information through stpetersobu.com.
Information We Collect
Depending on how you use the website, we may collect:
- Your name
- Email address and telephone number
- Billing, delivery, or collection details
- Order details and purchase history
- Payment references or proof of bank transfer
- Information submitted through contact, membership, registration, or subscription forms
- Technical information such as your IP address, browser, device type, pages visited, and approximate location
- Any other information you voluntarily provide
We do not collect your online banking password or card details through the website.
How We Use Your Information
We may use your information to:
- Process and manage orders
- Verify bank-transfer payments
- Arrange order collection or delivery
- Respond to enquiries
- Manage registrations, memberships, or subscriptions
- Send service-related communications
- Send newsletters or updates where you have agreed to receive them
- Maintain the security and operation of the website
- Understand website usage and improve our services
- Meet legal, financial, or administrative requirements
WooCommerce and WordPress
Our website uses WordPress and WooCommerce. Information submitted through the shop may be stored within our website system to process orders, maintain transaction records, and provide customer support.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the website. Google Analytics may collect information through cookies or similar technologies, including pages visited, time spent on the website, device information, and approximate location.
Where a cookie consent facility is provided, you may use it to manage non-essential analytics cookies. You may also control cookies through your browser settings.
Google processes information according to its own privacy terms.
Sharing Your Information
We may share information only where reasonably necessary with service providers that support our website, hosting, email, analytics, order fulfilment, or administration.
We may also disclose information where required by law or to protect the rights, property, or security of the OBU, its members, website users, or others.
We do not sell your personal information.
Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including order processing, record keeping, legal obligations, dispute resolution, and security.
Data Security
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information. However, no website or online transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Your Choices and Rights
You may contact us to:
- Request access to the personal information we hold about you
- Ask us to correct inaccurate information
- Request deletion of information, where applicable
- Withdraw consent for marketing communications
- Raise a concern about how your information is used
- Some information may need to be retained for legal, financial, security, or administrative reasons.
You may unsubscribe from marketing emails using the unsubscribe link provided in the email.
Third-Party Links
Our website may link to third-party websites. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies, and we are not responsible for those practices.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when our website, services, or legal obligations change. The revised version will be published on this page.
Contact Us
For privacy-related questions or requests, please contact:
St. Peter’s College Old Boys’ Union
OBU Secretariat
R. A. De Mel Mawatha
Colombo 04
Sri Lanka
Email: secretary@stpetersobu.com