Terms & Conditions

Platform terms and conditions

These terms define how PathLK should be used, what responsibilities remain with the student, and the boundaries of responsibility around education and career guidance.

Advisory Nature of the Platform

PathLK is an advisory education and career planning platform. It does not guarantee admissions, scholarships, programme seats, interviews, internships, employment offers, migration success, salary levels, or institutional acceptance.

User Eligibility and Intended Audience

PathLK is intended primarily for students in Sri Lanka who need support with A/L stream selection, university or institute pathway planning, and career direction. Parent or guardian use is allowed where relevant, but recommendations remain student-profile-specific.

Truthful Information Requirement

Users must provide accurate, current, and honest information when completing registration, profile updates, and assessments. Incomplete, misleading, or intentionally false inputs can reduce the quality and safety of the generated guidance.

No Substitute for Official Sources

Any final decision regarding A/L subject choices, higher-education routes, degree selection, institutional applications, professional routes, or employment action must be checked against official university, institute, government, examination, or employer sources before commitment.

Guidance Output and Decision Risk

PathLK uses automated analysis to synthesize route recommendations and explain educational direction. The guidance may be incomplete, conservative, outdated, interrupted, or wrong. Users accept that PathLK content is only one planning aid and must not be treated as final authority.

Institution and Admissions Non-Guarantee

PathLK may reference public universities, non-state providers, institutes, and professional routes as part of an evidence-based pathway view. Such references do not mean the institution will admit the student, that the programme is currently open, or that fees, entry conditions, and recognition remain unchanged.

Use of Saved Results

The platform may store assessments, analysis results, roadmap sections, and profile settings so users can revisit prior guidance. Saved outputs may be regenerated, replaced, or updated when platform logic or live catalogue data changes.

Availability and Service Changes

PathLK may change interface design, data sources, recommendation methods, roadmap formats, export formats, and internal catalogue behaviour as the Sri Lanka education landscape or system architecture evolves. Features may be improved, restricted, or removed without guaranteeing uninterrupted service.

Acceptable Use

Users must not misuse the platform to impersonate others, submit abusive content, manipulate assessments dishonestly, scrape protected internal data, interfere with service operation, or attempt unauthorized access to administrative or internal-only surfaces.

Administrator and Internal Views

Administrative analytics, live catalogue status, and internal monitoring surfaces are not part of the public student experience. Access to those areas is restricted. Public users must not expect raw internal data access simply because a recommendation references the existence of background evidence.

Limitation of Responsibility

PathLK and its operators are not responsible for losses or consequences arising from blind reliance on one generated result, failure to verify official sources, third-party institutional changes, admissions competition, programme closures, or employment-market changes beyond the platform's control.

Changes to These Terms

These terms may be updated as the platform develops. Continued use of PathLK after updated terms are published means the user accepts the revised version.