Privacy Policy

Depending on how you interact with Lythavere, we may receive information such as:

• Your name
• Email address
• Contact details you choose to provide
• Information contained in correspondence you send to us
• Information contained in manuscript queries, proposals, manuscripts or other submission material
• Professional or biographical information you choose to include in a query
• Information relating to publishing or representation enquiries
• Technical information about your visit to our website, where applicable, such as browser type, device information, IP address and general website usage information

We do not ask website visitors to provide personal information simply to browse the website.

If you contact Lythavere by email, including through info@lythavereliterary.com or query@lythavereliterary.com, we may retain the information contained in your message.

If you submit a literary project to Lythavere, this may include your name, contact details, biography, query letter, synopsis, manuscript or sample material and other information you voluntarily provide.

We use this information to review and respond to your enquiry or submission and, where appropriate, to communicate with you about the project.

Please do not send confidential personal information that is unrelated to your literary project or enquiry.

We may use information we receive to:

• Respond to enquiries and correspondence
• Review and assess literary submissions
• Communicate with writers, authors, publishers, editors and other professional contacts
• Consider potential representation or publishing opportunities
• Maintain records of correspondence and submissions
• Operate, maintain and improve our website
• Protect the security and integrity of our website and communications
• Comply with applicable legal or regulatory obligations

We do not sell personal information to third parties.

When you submit work to Lythavere, the information you provide may be reviewed by the relevant agent or other members of our agency where reasonably necessary to evaluate the submission.

Submission material is treated as confidential within the normal course of our agency's operations, subject to circumstances in which disclosure may be required by law or may be necessary to protect our rights, security or legitimate interests.

Submitting a manuscript or query does not create a representation agreement or any other contractual relationship between you and Lythavere.

We do not charge reading fees for submissions.

Our official agency correspondence is conducted through email addresses using the @lythavereliterary.com domain.

If you receive a message claiming to come from Lythavere Literary Management from another domain, please treat it with caution and contact us through the official contact information published on this website.

Our website may use cookies or similar technologies that are necessary for the website to function properly.

We may also use analytics or similar services to understand how visitors use the website, improve its performance and identify technical issues.

Where non-essential cookies or similar technologies require consent under applicable law, we will provide an appropriate notice or consent mechanism.

The exact cookies and analytics technologies used on the website may change over time. This Privacy Policy will be updated where necessary to reflect material changes.

Our website and communications may rely on third-party providers for services such as website hosting, email delivery, security, analytics or other technical functions.

Where such providers process personal information on our behalf, we expect them to handle that information appropriately and only for the purposes for which they have been engaged.

We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties.

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including to maintain appropriate records, communicate with you, evaluate submissions, resolve disputes or meet legal and regulatory obligations.

The appropriate retention period may differ depending on the type of information and the nature of our relationship with you.

If a submission or enquiry is no longer under consideration and there is no continuing reason to retain the information, it may be deleted or securely disposed of in accordance with our internal practices.

We take reasonable measures to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure.

However, no method of transmitting or storing information electronically can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You should therefore take appropriate care when sending information by email or through the internet.

Depending on where you live and the laws that apply to your information, you may have rights concerning the personal information we hold about you.

These may include the right to:

• Ask what personal information we hold about you
• Request correction of inaccurate information
• Request deletion of information in certain circumstances
• Object to or request restriction of certain processing
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
• Request access to your personal information
• Raise a concern about how your information has been handled

Some of these rights are subject to legal exceptions or limitations.

To make a privacy-related request, contact us at info@lythavereliterary.com.

We may need to verify your identity before responding to certain requests.

Because Lythavere may communicate with authors, publishers and professional contacts internationally and may use service providers located in different countries, personal information may in some circumstances be processed or stored outside the country in which you are located.

Where applicable, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that such processing is carried out with appropriate safeguards.

Our website is not directed specifically at children, and we do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children through the website.

If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us without appropriate consent, please contact us so that we can consider the appropriate action.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, services, technology, legal requirements or data-handling practices.

When we make material changes, we will update the 'Last updated' date at the top of this page.

We encourage visitors to review this page periodically.