Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how Horizonte Literário Editora collects, uses, and protects the personal information you provide or that is collected when you use our online platform, which provides book publishing, editing services, distribution networks, author support programs, literary rights management, content licensing, and e-book production services. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data in a transparent and responsible manner, in compliance with applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Brazilian data protection laws.

Information We Collect

We collect information to provide our services and improve your experience. The types of information we collect include:

• **Information you provide to us:** This includes information you give us when you register for an account, submit a manuscript, request services, make a purchase, subscribe to newsletters, participate in surveys, or contact us. This information may include your name, contact details (such as postal address), payment information (processed securely by third-party payment providers), biographical information, and content you submit (like manuscripts).
• **Information collected automatically:** When you visit our site, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and usage. This includes your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and dates/times of visits. This information helps us understand how our service is used and improve its performance and security.
• **Information from other sources:** We may receive information about you from third parties, such as partners involved in our distribution networks or marketing efforts, or public sources, where permitted by law.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

• Providing, operating, and maintaining our services, including publishing and distributing books, performing editing, managing rights, and providing author support.
• Processing transactions and fulfilling orders for services or publications.
• Communicating with you about your account, services, or inquiries.
• Sending you updates, newsletters, marketing, and promotional materials (where you have consented or where otherwise permitted by law).
• Personalizing your experience on our site.
• Improving our services and developing new features.
• Detecting and preventing fraud and other illegal activities.
• Complying with legal obligations.
• Analyzing usage trends and statistics to improve our platform.

Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal information based on the following legal grounds:

• **Performance of a contract:** When processing is necessary to fulfill our obligations under a contract with you (e.g., providing publishing services).
• **Consent:** When you have given us explicit consent to process your data for a specific purpose (e.g., subscribing to a newsletter). You can withdraw your consent at any time.
• **Legitimate interests:** When processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, provided these interests are not overridden by your data protection rights (e.g., improving our services, preventing fraud, marketing our services).
• **Legal obligation:** When processing is necessary to comply with applicable laws or regulations.

Sharing and Disclosure of Information

We do not sell your personal information. We may share your information with third parties only in the following circumstances:

• **Service Providers:** We may share information with third-party vendors, consultants, and other service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, and marketing assistance. These service providers are obligated to protect your information and use it only for the purposes for which it was disclosed.
• **Business Transfers:** In connection with or during negotiations of any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company.
• **Compliance with Laws:** We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
• **Protection of Rights:** We may disclose your information when we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, violations of our terms of service, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
• **With Your Consent:** We may share your information with your explicit consent.

Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures designed to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information.

Data Retention

We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the purposes for which we process your personal information, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:

• **Right to access:** You have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
• **Right to rectification:** You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or incomplete.
• **Right to erasure:** You have the right to request that we erase your personal information, under certain conditions.
• **Right to restrict processing:** You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information, under certain conditions.
• **Right to object to processing:** You have the right to object to our processing of your personal information, under certain conditions.
• **Right to data portability:** You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
• **Right to withdraw consent:** If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us in writing at the address provided below. We may need to verify your identity before responding to your request.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe that our processing of your personal data violates applicable law.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our site may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data that may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. We may also use other tracking technologies such as beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our service. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.

Children's Privacy

Our services are not directed to individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at the address below. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under age 16 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us in writing at: