AnchorPage Publishing & Media House

Privacy Policy

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Last updated: 25 July 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how AnchorPage Publishing & Media House Ltd, trading as AnchorPage Publishing & Media House (“AnchorPage”, “we”, “us” or “our”), collects, uses, stores and protects personal information.

AnchorPage is a UK-based publishing and media house serving authors, founders, families, organisations and other clients in the United Kingdom, the Middle East and international markets.

This policy applies when you visit anchorpage.co.uk, contact us, submit a manuscript, request information, enter into a business relationship with us or otherwise provide personal information.

Who We Are

The organisation responsible for your personal information is:

AnchorPage Publishing & Media House Ltd
Trading name: AnchorPage Publishing & Media House
Website: anchorpage.co.uk
Email: info@anchorpage.co.uk

For data-protection enquiries, requests or concerns, contact us using the email address above.

Personal Information We May Collect

Depending on how you interact with AnchorPage, we may collect:

  • Your name
  • Email address
  • Telephone number, where voluntarily provided
  • Country of residence
  • Organisation or business name
  • Job title or professional background
  • Communication preferences
  • Information contained in emails, forms and enquiries
  • Manuscripts, book proposals, sample chapters and project summaries
  • Notes, interviews, recordings, photographs and source materials
  • Billing and transaction information
  • Contract and project-management information
  • Website usage and technical information
  • Internet Protocol address
  • Browser and device information
  • Cookie preferences
  • Information you choose to provide during consultations or project delivery

Please avoid sending sensitive personal information unless it is genuinely necessary for your project and has been agreed with us.

Information About Other People

A manuscript, memoir, biography or other submitted material may contain information about family members, colleagues, public figures or other individuals.

You are responsible for ensuring that you have a lawful basis or appropriate permission to provide such information to AnchorPage.

Do not submit confidential, private, copyrighted or personal material that you do not have the right to share.

How We Collect Information

We may collect personal information when you:

  • Complete a website contact form
  • Submit a manuscript or book proposal
  • Email or communicate with us
  • Request a consultation or quotation
  • Enter into a contract with AnchorPage
  • Pay for a service
  • Participate in interviews or project discussions
  • Provide source material for writing or publishing
  • Subscribe to communications, where available
  • Browse or interact with our website
  • Communicate through approved third-party platforms

We may also receive information from professional advisers, service providers, referral partners or publicly available sources where lawful and relevant.

How We Use Personal Information

We may use personal information to:

  • Respond to enquiries
  • Review manuscripts and proposals
  • Assess whether a project is suitable
  • Provide consultations
  • Prepare quotations and scopes of work
  • Deliver writing, editing, design, publishing and media services
  • Manage contracts and client relationships
  • Process payments and maintain financial records
  • Communicate about an active project
  • Protect confidential materials and intellectual property
  • Improve our website, services and client experience
  • Prevent misuse, fraud or security incidents
  • Meet legal, regulatory, accounting and tax obligations
  • Establish, exercise or defend legal claims
  • Send marketing communications where permitted
  • Maintain records of consent and communication preferences

We will not use submitted manuscripts or ideas for unrelated commercial purposes without appropriate permission.

Our Lawful Bases for Processing

Under UK data-protection law, we must have a lawful basis for using personal information.

Depending on the circumstances, we may rely on the following lawful bases.

Contract

We may process information where it is necessary to take steps at your request before entering into a contract or to perform a contract with you.

This may include preparing a proposal, reviewing project information, delivering agreed services and managing payments.

Legitimate Interests

We may process information where necessary for our legitimate business interests, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights.

These interests may include:

  • Responding to business enquiries
  • Reviewing potential projects
  • Managing client relationships
  • Protecting our systems and business
  • Improving our services
  • Maintaining appropriate business records
  • Communicating with existing business contacts

Consent

We may rely on consent for certain activities, such as optional marketing communications or non-essential cookies.

You may withdraw consent at any time by contacting info@anchorpage.co.uk or using any unsubscribe or preference-control method provided.

Legal Obligation

We may process information where required to comply with legal, tax, accounting, regulatory or law-enforcement obligations.

Legal Claims and Other Lawful Grounds

Where appropriate, information may also be processed to establish, exercise or defend legal claims or under another lawful basis permitted by applicable law.

Manuscripts and Submitted Materials

Manuscripts, proposals, recordings, photographs, notes and other project materials may contain personal or confidential information.

AnchorPage may use submitted materials to:

  • Conduct an initial suitability review
  • Understand the proposed project
  • Prepare a quotation or scope
  • Deliver agreed services
  • Communicate with the submitting author or authorised representative
  • Maintain appropriate project and contractual records

Submitting material does not transfer ownership of your intellectual property to AnchorPage.

Ownership, confidentiality, permissions and usage rights for an accepted project will be governed by the relevant written agreement.

Special Category Information

Some memoirs, biographies and personal projects may include information concerning health, religion, political opinions, ethnicity or other sensitive matters.

We ask clients not to provide this type of information unless it is necessary for the project.

Where such information is processed, we will require an appropriate legal basis and, where necessary, an additional condition under applicable data-protection law.

Children’s Information

Our services are primarily intended for adults, organisations and authorised representatives.

We do not knowingly invite children to submit personal information independently.

Where a publishing project relates to a child, communication and contractual arrangements should normally be managed by a parent, guardian or other appropriately authorised adult.

Sharing Personal Information

We may share personal information only where reasonably necessary with:

  • Employees and authorised contractors
  • Editors, writers, designers and production specialists
  • Website, hosting and technology providers
  • Cloud-storage and communication providers
  • Payment processors and financial institutions
  • Accountants, auditors, insurers and professional advisers
  • Printing, distribution and publishing-platform providers
  • Marketing or media-service providers where relevant
  • Government bodies, regulators or law-enforcement authorities where required
  • A purchaser or successor in connection with a legitimate business restructuring or transfer

Recipients should receive only the information reasonably required to perform their role.

We do not sell personal information.

Contractors and Creative Professionals

AnchorPage may engage qualified independent writers, editors, designers, researchers and other specialists to deliver projects.

Where they require access to client material, they should be subject to appropriate contractual, confidentiality and data-protection obligations.

International Transfers

AnchorPage serves international clients and may use service providers or specialists located outside the United Kingdom.

As a result, personal information may be accessed or processed in other countries.

Where UK data-protection law requires safeguards for an international transfer, we will seek to use an appropriate lawful transfer mechanism, such as:

  • A UK adequacy regulation
  • The UK International Data Transfer Agreement
  • The UK Addendum to approved standard contractual clauses
  • Another legally recognised safeguard or exception

You may contact us for further information about safeguards relevant to your information.

How Long We Keep Information

We keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including legal, contractual, accounting and dispute-resolution requirements.

Retention may depend on:

  • Whether an enquiry becomes an active project
  • The duration of the business relationship
  • Contractual commitments
  • Tax and accounting requirements
  • Intellectual-property or confidentiality considerations
  • The need to establish or defend legal claims
  • The nature of submitted materials
  • A valid deletion request

Unsuccessful or inactive enquiries and submissions may be deleted or securely archived when they are no longer reasonably required.

Project and financial records may be retained for longer where required by law or legitimate business needs.

Security

We use reasonable administrative, organisational and technical measures intended to protect information against:

  • Unauthorised access
  • Loss
  • Misuse
  • Disclosure
  • Alteration
  • Accidental destruction

However, no website, email system, cloud service or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Please use suitable safeguards when sending confidential or sensitive materials.

Cookies and Website Technologies

Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to:

  • Enable essential website functions
  • Maintain security
  • Remember user preferences
  • Measure website performance
  • Understand how visitors use the website
  • Support embedded or third-party services

Strictly necessary cookies may operate without optional consent where permitted by law.

Non-essential cookies, including certain analytics or advertising technologies, should not be activated until the visitor has made an appropriate choice through the cookie-consent tool.

You can manage cookie preferences through the website banner or browser settings.

A separate Cookie Policy may be added where required to provide a detailed list of cookies, providers, purposes and durations.

Analytics and Third-Party Services

We may use website analytics, hosting, security, forms, embedded content or other third-party technologies.

These providers may collect technical information in accordance with their own terms and privacy notices.

The exact services used may change as the website develops. Our cookie banner and cookie settings should reflect the technologies operating on the website.

Marketing Communications

We may send marketing communications where:

  • You have provided consent
  • The communication is otherwise permitted by applicable law
  • You are an existing client and the communication relates to similar services, subject to your rights

You may unsubscribe at any time by:

Service-related messages concerning an active enquiry, contract, payment or project are not generally marketing messages.

Your Data-Protection Rights

Depending on the circumstances and applicable law, you may have the right to:

  • Request access to your personal information
  • Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
  • Request deletion of information
  • Request restriction of processing
  • Object to certain processing
  • Request transfer of information in a portable format
  • Withdraw consent at any time
  • Object to direct marketing
  • Request information about international-transfer safeguards
  • Complain to a data-protection authority

These rights are not absolute and may depend on the lawful basis and circumstances of the processing.

Your Right to Object

You have the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests in certain circumstances.

You also have the right to object at any time to the use of your personal information for direct marketing.

To exercise this right, email info@anchorpage.co.uk.

Exercising Your Rights

To make a privacy request, contact:

info@anchorpage.co.uk

Include enough information to help us identify you and understand your request.

We may request reasonable proof of identity before disclosing or changing personal information.

We will respond in accordance with applicable legal time limits.

Complaints

Please contact AnchorPage first so that we have an opportunity to address your concern.

You may also complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.

Information Commissioner’s Office
Website: ico.org.uk
Telephone: 0303 123 1113

People located outside the United Kingdom may also have the right to contact the data-protection authority in their country or region.

Links to Other Websites

Our website may link to third-party websites or platforms.

AnchorPage is not responsible for the privacy practices, security or content of independent third parties.

Review their privacy information before providing personal information.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect:

  • Changes to our services
  • Changes to website technologies
  • Changes to service providers
  • Legal or regulatory developments
  • Changes to our data-handling practices

The latest version will be posted on this page with an updated date.

Contact Us About Privacy

For privacy questions, requests or complaints, contact:

AnchorPage Publishing & Media House Ltd
Trading name: AnchorPage Publishing & Media House
Email: info@anchorpage.co.uk
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