Privacy Policy

Information We Collect

We collect information to provide better services to all our users. The types of data we collect include:

• •Identity Data: Includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier for authors and readers.
• •Contact Data: Includes billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.
• •Technical Data: Includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, and platform used for reading.
• •Literary Preferences: Genres of interest, reading history, and saved author profiles to personalize your experience.
• •Author Metadata: For our creators, we collect manuscript information, royalty payment details, and professional biographies.

How We Use Your Data

Your data allows us to provide a seamless literary journey. Specifically, we use it for:

• •Managing your account and providing access to our digital library.
• •Processing transactions and delivering physical editions of books.
• •Protecting the intellectual property of our authors through secure distribution.
• •Internal analytics to understand reading trends and improve our publishing roster.
• •Communications regarding new releases, author events, or changes to our service.

Data Sharing & Partnerships

We believe in maximizing the reach of every story. To achieve this, user listings and book metadata will be shared with partnering companies for marketing and sales purposes. As published books are not limited to platform sales, we partner with other reputable listing companies and distribution networks to ensure their books get the reach they deserve.

Your Privacy Rights

Under applicable data protection laws, you have rights we fully respect and facilitate:

You may request access to the personal data we hold about you. You also have the right to request that we correct any inaccuracies or, in certain circumstances, erase your personal data entirely from our servers.

If you are a resident of the EEA or UK, you have additional rights regarding data portability and the right to object to automated processing. We do not use automated decision-making that significantly affects our users.

Cookies and Tracking

Indieinkpress uses essential cookies to keep you logged in and functional cookies to remember your reading progress across devices. We use minimal analytical cookies to understand site performance. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, but note that some parts of the service may become inaccessible.

Data Protection

We implement industry-standard encryption (SSL/TLS) for all data in transit. Access to personal data is strictly limited to employees, contractors, and agents who have a professional "need to know" and are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations.