Privacy Policy

Blue Harvest Publishing, Inc. (“BHP,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) explains in this Privacy Policy how we collect, use, and disclose personal information through our website, inquiries, manuscript submissions, reader signups, orders, and related services.

Personal information may be shared with service providers, other authors, publishing partners, and advertising or analytics providers for the purposes described below. Submitted manuscript content receives the separate treatment described under Manuscript submissions and AI assisted reviews. This policy does not promise that all information will remain confidential or that information will never be disclosed.

Information we collect

Information you provide may include your name, pen name, email address, phone number, mailing or billing information, author biography, book title, genre, publishing interests, project requirements, questionnaire answers, messages, manuscript files, and related materials. We also collect information needed to arrange services, manage orders, document permissions, and maintain the publishing relationship.

When you use the website, cookies and similar technologies collect information such as your IP address, browser and device information, pages viewed, referring pages, interactions, and approximate location inferred from your IP address. Advertising and email technologies may record whether you viewed or interacted with a page, advertisement, email, or link.

We may receive information from payment providers, booking or communication tools, advertising platforms, referral partners, and authors with whom you interact through our services. The information received depends on the service and your settings or choices.

Manuscripts and messages can contain sensitive information, including religious beliefs, health information, or details about other people. Provide only information you have the right to submit and that is appropriate for the requested service. Do not include passwords, government identification numbers, complete payment credentials, or unnecessary sensitive personal details in a manuscript or ordinary contact form.

How we use information

We use information to respond to inquiries; assess project fit; evaluate manuscripts; recommend services; arrange consultations; process and administer orders; provide publishing and marketing services; communicate about projects; deliver requested resources; maintain reader or author relationships; and improve our website and services.

We also use information for relevant marketing, referrals, author collaboration, cross-promotion, advertising measurement, fraud prevention, security, recordkeeping, legal compliance, and resolving disputes. A manuscript submission is not permission to publish the manuscript or a transfer of copyright. Any publishing license or other rights arrangement requires the applicable agreement or authorization.

Sharing with other authors and publishing partners

We may share relevant contact, author, and project information with other authors, prospective collaborators, referral partners, and publishing or promotional partners. This may include your name or pen name, email address or other business contact information you provide, biography, book title, genre, publishing interests, and general project information supplied separately from the manuscript. Mobile information, phone numbers, text messaging originator opt-in data, and SMS consent records are strictly excluded from all promotional, author, referral, or marketing sharing.

The purposes may include author introductions, collaboration opportunities, referrals, events, cross-promotion, and relevant book or publishing communications. We do not treat this information as automatically confidential merely because it was submitted through our website.

Routine author or partner sharing does not include submitted manuscript files, manuscript text or excerpts, confidential manuscript evaluation content, payment credentials, or unrelated sensitive personal information. Any sharing of manuscript content requires the separate authorization or limited exceptions described below.

We provide additional notices, obtain permissions, and honor applicable restrictions or opt-out rights where required by law. You may contact us to request that we stop future discretionary sharing of your contact information with other authors or partners. We will address the request subject to applicable law and any ongoing service you have requested. A request does not necessarily retrieve information already lawfully disclosed; recipients may also need to receive your privacy or unsubscribe request directly.

Authors or partners using information for their own purposes may have their own privacy practices. Their practices do not replace BHP’s responsibilities for its own collection and disclosure of information.

Manuscript submissions and AI assisted reviews

BHP does not circulate submitted manuscripts to other authors, marketing partners, beta readers, independent reviewers, or other outside individuals for their own review or use. We do not publish submitted manuscripts or excerpts without separate authorization. BHP uses submissions to evaluate the project and provide services you request.

Within BHP, access is limited to people who need it to handle the submission or requested service. The limited outside disclosures necessary to receive, store, transmit, secure, and process a file may involve website, hosting, storage, communication, and AI service providers and their subprocessors. A disclosure required by law is also possible. These processing and legal disclosures are exceptions to the restriction on circulating manuscripts.

If a later publishing engagement calls for manuscript access by an outside editor, designer, beta reader, or other person, that access must be covered by your separate instructions or the relevant service agreement. Uploading a manuscript for an initial assessment alone does not authorize BHP to circulate it to those people.

When you request an AI-assisted review, your manuscript and related submission information may be transmitted to a third-party AI provider for document extraction, analysis, assessment, and preparation of a response. Before submitting a file for AI review, review the provider information and links to its terms in the AI submission notice. Any additional consent required for that processing is obtained separately.

The AI provider’s handling of information depends on its applicable terms, privacy practices, subprocessors, account settings, and retention arrangements. These may address storage, logging, human access or review, model training or service improvement, security, and deletion. BHP does not guarantee that an AI provider will never retain, review, or use submitted material. Do not assume that every AI service offers the same confidentiality or deletion protections.

BHP’s own handling remains subject to this policy and applicable law. An AI provider’s terms do not remove privacy rights or obligations that cannot lawfully be waived. If you do not want third-party AI processing, do not use the AI submission feature; contact BHP to ask whether another review arrangement is available.

Service providers, non-sharing clause, and other disclosures

No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. Information sharing to subcontractors in support services, such as customer service, is permitted. All other use case categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.

We disclose information as needed to companies supporting website operation, customer relationship management, forms, file storage, communications, scheduling, payments, AI processing, analytics, advertising, and requested publishing services. Mobile information, SMS originator opt-in data, and text consent records are strictly excluded from all third-party marketing, referral, or promotional sharing arrangements. These providers may process information on our behalf or, for some activities, under their own terms.

We may disclose information when legally required, in response to valid legal process, or as permitted by law to protect rights, investigate fraud, address security concerns, or enforce agreements. For submitted manuscript content, the more restrictive manuscript rules above apply. Information may also be disclosed in a business transfer, such as a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or asset sale, subject to applicable legal restrictions and any required notice or consent. Submitted manuscript content is excluded from voluntary business-transfer disclosures unless you separately authorize the disclosure or the law requires it.

Reader signups and author mailing lists

If you sign up through a book-specific page, QR code, free-resource offer, or author promotion, the information requested may be shared with BHP and the author or other recipients identified at signup. It may be used to deliver the requested resource and communications described in that offer.

An author may receive access to or an export of readers who subscribed to that author’s list. Mobile phone numbers and text messaging opt-in data or consent records are excluded from author subscriber exports and sharing. Where an author operates a separate mailing list, the author is responsible for its use and applicable privacy and marketing requirements. Review the signup notice to understand whose communications you are choosing to receive. A signup for one author does not by itself authorize unrelated authors to market to you.

Cookies, analytics, and advertising

We use cookies, pixels, local storage, and similar technologies to operate website features, remember preferences, understand activity, measure performance, and support advertising and marketing. Some technologies are necessary for a feature; others support analytics, advertising, or personalization.

Third-party analytics and advertising providers may receive device identifiers, IP addresses, pages or links visited, and interaction or conversion information. They may associate activity on our website with activity on other websites or services, depending on their practices and your choices. Email tracking may indicate whether a message was opened or a link was selected.

Some disclosures through advertising or other arrangements may qualify as a “sale,” “sharing,” or targeted advertising under particular privacy laws even when no money changes hands. Where those laws apply, we provide and honor the required choices.

You can manage cookies through your browser and any privacy or cookie controls made available on our website. Blocking cookies may affect forms, checkout, or other features and may not stop every form of tracking. You can also contact us about applicable opt-out requests. Where consent is legally required for nonessential technologies, those technologies require the relevant consent.

A browser’s older Do Not Track setting does not necessarily change the operation of every technology on the website. Where applicable law requires us to recognize opt-out preference signals, we honor supported signals such as Global Privacy Control for the processing covered by that requirement. A legally recognized opt-out signal is distinct from simply blocking cookies or enabling an older Do Not Track setting.

Marketing and service communications

We may send publishing information, offers, resources, and other relevant marketing communications as permitted by law and consistent with the choices or permissions that apply. Marketing emails include a way to unsubscribe. We may continue sending necessary project, order, payment, security, or other nonmarketing communications after a marketing opt-out.

If text messaging or another communication program is offered, the applicable signup and consent terms govern. This Privacy Policy does not by itself supply any separate consent required for marketing calls or texts. You may need to unsubscribe separately from an individual author’s mailing list.

Payments and transaction information

Payment providers process payment information under the terms and privacy notices presented for the transaction. BHP receives or maintains order, billing, transaction, and payment-status information needed to administer services and records. The information available to BHP depends on the payment method and system configuration. Do not send complete card details through a manuscript upload or general inquiry form.

Retention and security

We retain information according to the purposes for which it was collected, the status of a submission or project, the service relationship, accounting and legal requirements, security needs, and dispute-resolution needs. Different categories of information may have different retention periods. We do not promise immediate deletion from every active system, backup, or provider system following a request; applicable rights and legal requirements still apply.

We use safeguards appropriate to the information and the services involved. No website, transmission method, storage system, or service provider can be guaranteed completely secure. We do not promise that unauthorized access, loss, or other security incidents can never occur.

Your privacy choices and requests

Depending on where you live, the law that applies, and whether a particular law covers BHP or the processing involved, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, or a copy of information; opt out of certain sales, sharing, targeted advertising, or profiling; withdraw consent; or appeal certain decisions. Applicable rights may have exceptions, verification requirements, and legal response periods. We do not deny rights that applicable law grants.

Submit a request using the contact method below and identify the choice or right you want to exercise. We may request information reasonably necessary to verify a request or an authorized representative, where permitted or required. Some records may need to be retained for legal, security, accounting, or service-related reasons. Withdrawing consent or requesting deletion may affect a service that depends on the information.

International processing and outside services

Information may be processed in the United States and in other countries where our providers operate. Privacy protections may differ by location. Where applicable law requires additional transfer protections or consent, those requirements apply. Website links, retailer pages, embedded services, and independent author sites may have their own privacy notices.

Children and submissions by minors

Our website and services are intended primarily for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13 without any consent required by law. A parent or guardian should manage submissions and purchases for an author under 18. If you believe a child’s information has been submitted without the required authorization, contact us so we can review the situation and take appropriate action.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as our services, providers, practices, or legal requirements change. The effective date identifies the current version. Where a change requires additional notice or consent, we will provide it. Merely posting revised wording does not override legal restrictions on using information collected under an earlier policy.

Contact us about privacy

Blue Harvest Publishing, Inc. Use the General Questions form on our contact page at https://blueharvestpublishing.com/find-your-publishing-path#general and begin your message with “Privacy Request.” Identify the information or request involved and provide a way for us to respond. Do not include a complete manuscript, payment credentials, or unnecessary sensitive information in a privacy request.