Privacy policy.

Effective Date: September 20, 2026
Last Updated: September 20, 2026

Blissful Living Publishing ("Blissful Living Publishing," "we," "us," or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly and transparently.

This Privacy Policy explains how we may collect, use, disclose, store, and otherwise process information when you visit our website, communicate with us, join our mailing list, purchase or inquire about our books or services, submit a manuscript or book proposal, or otherwise interact with Blissful Living Publishing.

By using our website or voluntarily providing information to us, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.


Information We May Collect

The information we collect depends upon how you interact with Blissful Living Publishing.

Information You Provide Directly

You may voluntarily provide personal information when you:

  • Contact us 

  • Join our email list or community 

  • Submit a manuscript, proposal, or book concept 

  • Apply or inquire about publishing with us 

  • Request information about books, services, bulk orders, events, or partnerships 

  • Participate in surveys, promotions, events, or other activities 

  • Make a purchase, if direct purchasing is offered through our website 

  • Otherwise communicate with us 

This information may include:

Contact Information
Such as your name, email address, telephone number, mailing address, city, state or province, and country.

Professional Information
Such as your occupation, organization, professional biography, credentials, business information, website, speaking experience, professional affiliations, and areas of expertise.

Online & Audience Information
Such as your website, social media profiles, audience or community information, email-list size, podcast or media presence, and other information you voluntarily provide about your platform.

Communications
Information contained in emails, inquiries, messages, forms, and other communications you send to us.


Author & Manuscript Submission Information

If you submit work for consideration by Blissful Living Publishing, we may collect information specifically related to your submission.

This may include:

  • Your name and contact information 

  • Author biography 

  • Professional experience and credentials 

  • Book title and subtitle 

  • Book description or proposal 

  • Manuscript files 

  • Sample chapters 

  • Book outlines 

  • Intended audience 

  • Book category or genre 

  • Word count 

  • Publication history 

  • Previous publisher or imprint 

  • ISBN information 

  • Copyright and rights-status information 

  • Information about collaborators, co-authors, or other contributors 

  • Publishing goals 

  • Marketing and platform information 

  • Information about your existing audience or community 

  • Generative artificial intelligence disclosures 

  • Other information you choose to provide as part of your submission 

We may use this information to evaluate your work, communicate with you, assess potential alignment with our publishing program, conduct editorial or business review, maintain submission records, and determine whether to discuss a potential publishing relationship.

Submitting a manuscript does not transfer ownership of your copyright to Blissful Living Publishing.

Rights associated with any work selected for publication will be addressed separately through an applicable written publishing agreement.


Please Do Not Submit Unnecessary Sensitive Information

Please do not include highly sensitive personal information in your manuscript submission or website forms unless it is specifically requested and necessary for the purpose for which you are communicating with us.

Examples include Social Security numbers, banking credentials, account passwords, complete medical records, government identification numbers, or similarly sensitive information.

Authors writing memoirs or works involving personal experiences should also carefully consider whether sensitive personal information concerning themselves or others is necessary before submitting it.


Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically by our website, hosting provider, analytics technologies, or other service providers.

Depending upon the technologies used on our website, this may include:

  • Internet Protocol (IP) address 

  • Browser type 

  • Device type 

  • Operating system 

  • Approximate geographic location derived from IP address 

  • Referring website 

  • Pages viewed 

  • Date and time of visits 

  • Time spent on pages 

  • Links or features used 

  • Website performance information 

  • Other technical or usage information 

This information may help us operate, secure, understand, maintain, and improve our website and visitor experience.


Cookies & Similar Technologies

Our website may use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, or similar technologies to support website functionality, remember preferences, understand website usage, measure performance, improve visitor experiences, and support marketing activities where applicable.

Some technologies may be provided by third parties whose services are incorporated into our website.

Where required by applicable law, visitors may be provided with choices regarding certain non-essential cookies or similar technologies.

You may also be able to control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect how some portions of the website function.

As our website technology evolves, we may provide additional information or a separate cookie notice regarding the specific technologies we use.


How We May Use Your Information

We may use information we collect for purposes including:

  • Operating and maintaining our website 

  • Responding to inquiries 

  • Processing and evaluating author submissions 

  • Communicating with prospective and current authors 

  • Managing publishing relationships 

  • Providing requested information 

  • Processing transactions where applicable 

  • Providing customer support 

  • Managing mailing lists and communications 

  • Sending newsletters or promotional communications where permitted 

  • Communicating about books, authors, releases, events, programs, or opportunities 

  • Managing bulk-order, media, partnership, or speaking inquiries 

  • Improving our website, content, services, and publishing processes 

  • Maintaining administrative and business records 

  • Protecting the security and integrity of our systems 

  • Detecting or preventing fraud, misuse, or unlawful activity 

  • Protecting our rights or the rights of others 

  • Complying with legal obligations 

  • Establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims 

  • Carrying out other purposes disclosed when information is collected 

We do not use manuscript submission as permission to publish an author's work.


Email & Marketing Communications

If you subscribe to our mailing list, request updates, or otherwise consent to receive marketing communications, we may send you information about:

  • New books and releases 

  • Authors 

  • Publishing opportunities 

  • Events 

  • Educational content 

  • Promotions 

  • Blissful Living Publishing news 

  • Other information we believe may be relevant to our community 

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link provided in the communication or by contacting us.

Please note that even if you opt out of promotional communications, we may still send non-promotional communications when appropriate, such as messages concerning an author submission, transaction, publishing relationship, or request you initiated.


How We May Share Information

We do not disclose personal information indiscriminately.

We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to operate Blissful Living Publishing, provide requested services, evaluate submissions, fulfill contractual responsibilities, or comply with legal obligations.

Recipients may include:

Service Providers

We may work with third-party companies or professionals that provide services such as website hosting, information technology, cloud storage, email delivery, analytics, payment processing, customer management, editing, design, production, printing, distribution, marketing, publicity, or other business functions.

These providers may receive information reasonably necessary to perform services on our behalf.

Publishing Professionals & Partners

When appropriate, manuscripts or project information may be shared with editors, designers, proofreaders, production professionals, consultants, distributors, or other publishing professionals involved in evaluating or carrying out a publishing project.

Professional Advisors

We may disclose information to attorneys, accountants, insurance professionals, consultants, or other professional advisors when reasonably necessary.

Legal & Safety Reasons

We may disclose information if reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, regulation, court order, legal process, or governmental request, or to protect the rights, property, safety, or security of Blissful Living Publishing, our authors, readers, visitors, or others.

Business Transactions

If Blissful Living Publishing becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, sale of assets, succession, or similar business transaction, information may be disclosed or transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.


We Do Not Sell Manuscripts

Manuscripts, book proposals, unpublished book concepts, and other submitted creative materials are not collected for the purpose of selling those materials to data brokers or unrelated third parties.

Submission materials may be accessed by people or service providers reasonably involved in evaluating or supporting the potential publishing relationship, as described in this Privacy Policy and our Editorial & Publishing Policies.


Payment Information

If Blissful Living Publishing offers purchases or paid services through the website, payments may be processed by third-party payment providers.

Depending upon how the website is configured, Blissful Living Publishing may not directly receive or store complete payment-card information.

Payment processors may collect and process payment information according to their own privacy policies and security practices.

Specific payment-provider information should be added to this Privacy Policy once the website's payment system is selected and implemented.



Third-Party Websites & Services

Our website may contain links to third-party websites, retailers, social media platforms, distributors, payment services, or other external services.

When you leave our website or interact directly with a third-party service, that third party's privacy practices may apply.

Blissful Living Publishing is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, availability, or content of third-party websites and services.

We encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing personal information.



Data Security

We seek to use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards appropriate to the nature of the information we handle.

However, no website, electronic transmission, storage system, or method of transmitting information over the Internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Accordingly, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Authors should retain their own copies and backups of manuscripts and other materials submitted to Blissful Living Publishing.



How Long We Keep Information

We may retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including evaluating submissions, maintaining publishing and business records, fulfilling contractual responsibilities, resolving disputes, enforcing agreements, protecting legal rights, and satisfying applicable legal, accounting, tax, or regulatory requirements.

Different categories of information may be retained for different periods.

Where information is no longer reasonably necessary, we may delete, anonymize, or otherwise dispose of it in accordance with applicable requirements and our business practices.


Manuscript Withdrawal & Deletion Requests

An author may request withdrawal of a submission that has not entered into a publishing agreement by contacting us.

A request to withdraw a manuscript from editorial consideration does not necessarily require immediate deletion of every record relating to the submission.

We may retain limited information where reasonably necessary for administrative records, security, legal compliance, dispute prevention, or other legitimate purposes, subject to applicable law.

Where applicable law provides a right to request deletion of personal information, we will process eligible requests in accordance with those requirements.


Your Privacy Rights & Choices

Depending upon where you live and applicable privacy law, you may have certain rights concerning your personal information.

These may include rights to:

  • Request information about personal information we process 

  • Request access to certain personal information 

  • Request correction of inaccurate information 

  • Request deletion of certain information 

  • Request or obtain a copy of certain information 

  • Object to or restrict certain processing 

  • Withdraw consent where processing is based upon consent 

  • Opt out of certain marketing communications 

  • Exercise other privacy rights provided by applicable law 

These rights are not absolute and may be subject to exceptions.

To submit a privacy request, contact us using the information provided below.

We may take reasonable steps to verify your identity before processing certain requests.


California Privacy Notice

If you are a California resident, applicable California privacy law may provide additional rights regarding your personal information.

Depending upon the applicability of those laws and the nature of our data practices, these rights may include the right to know or access certain information, request correction, request deletion, and receive information about certain disclosures or uses of personal information.

California law may also provide rights concerning the sale or sharing of personal information for certain advertising purposes.

Blissful Living Publishing does not sell manuscripts or unpublished creative submissions to data brokers or unrelated third parties.

Once the website's advertising, analytics, cookie, and marketing technologies are finalized, this section should be updated to accurately describe whether any activity constitutes a "sale" or "sharing" under applicable California privacy law and to provide any legally required opt-out mechanism.

We will not unlawfully discriminate against an individual for exercising applicable privacy rights.

Visitors Outside the United States

Blissful Living Publishing is based in the United States.

If you access our website or submit information from another country, your information may be processed or stored in the United States or other jurisdictions where our service providers operate.

Privacy and data-protection laws in those jurisdictions may differ from the laws where you live.

Where required, we will process personal information in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

Children's Privacy

Our website and publishing submission process are not directed toward children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information online directly from children under 13 without appropriate authorization.

If you believe a child has provided personal information to us inappropriately, please contact us so that we can review the matter.

If Blissful Living Publishing later develops programs specifically intended for children or minors, appropriate privacy practices and parental or guardian consent procedures should be established for those activities.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our website, publishing operations, technology, service providers, legal requirements, or privacy practices.

When changes are made, we will update the Last Updated date shown at the top of this page.

Material changes may be communicated in additional ways when required by applicable law.

We encourage visitors to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

Contact Us About Privacy

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or would like to submit a privacy-related request, please contact:

Blissful Living Publishing
Attn: Privacy
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