Privacy notice
Great Sea Books Ltd keeps its handling of personal information deliberately small, holding only what a conversation with the press genuinely requires and building the rest of our correspondence around that single principle.
Controller and contact details
Great Sea Books Ltd acts as the data controller for everything described in this notice. We are a book publisher registered in Northern Ireland under Company No. NI688011, and our registered office sits at 11 Larkhill Road, Portstewart, BT55 7JA, United Kingdom. Questions about this notice, or about the information we hold, can be sent to price@greatseabooks.shop.
Correspondence we receive
The site at greatseabooks.shop sets no tracking cookies and asks nobody to open an account, so it learns nothing on its own about the people who read it. Personal information reaches us only in the moment you decide to write, and what arrives stays confined to:
- the name you sign your message with;
- the email address your message comes from;
- whatever you choose to put in the message itself, such as notes about a manuscript or a publishing enquiry.
Purpose and lawful basis
A message you send is read, answered, and carried forward through whatever exchange follows from it — that is the whole of what we do with your information. Our lawful basis is the legitimate interest we hold in responding to the people who approach the press and in taking the early steps toward any working relationship you may wish to build with us.
Retention of correspondence
Email threads stay with us for as long as they bear on your enquiry or on a relationship still under way, after which they are cleared within a reasonable span of time. Where you ask us to erase your correspondence, we honour that request in every case that no legal duty obliges us to keep it.
Recipients and email processing
Your correspondence is treated as private. Sending and receiving messages relies on an established email provider, which processes that email for us and on our instructions. Apart from this, your information passes to another party only in the situations where the law calls for it.
Your rights and notice updates
UK data protection law lets you ask for a copy of the personal information we hold about you, request that it be corrected or erased, and object to or restrict the way we use it. Any of these requests can be made by writing to price@greatseabooks.shop. Should the way we have handled your information leave you dissatisfied, you are also entitled to raise the matter with the Information Commissioner's Office. This notice is refreshed as needed so that it stays accurate, and the version in force is always the one published on this page.