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Privacy Policy

At Lakewood Publishers, we take privacy as seriously as we take storytelling. Through every consultation, every draft, and every published title, you trust us with your ideas, your words, and your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains exactly how we handle that trust what we collect, why we collect it, and what we do with it.

We are a professional services company based in Ontario, Canada. We do not sell physical books or tangible goods. We provide writing, editing, publishing, marketing, and related creative services entirely in digital form. That shapes what information we need, and this policy reflects that.


1. Who We Are

Lakewood Publishers is a professional self-publishing and ghostwriting company. All of our services are creative and digital in nature. We help authors bring their books to life from concept to publication, including:


  • Ghostwriting across all genres and formats
  • Book editing, proofreading, and formatting
  • Book cover design and illustration
  • Self-publishing and digital platform submission services
  • Audiobook production
  • Book marketing, branding, and publicity
  • Book translation services
  • Children’s book publishing services
  • Video book trailers, author website design, and search engine optimization

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2. Information We Collect

Because we provide professional creative services rather than selling products, the information we collect is focused on what we need to deliver great work and communicate with you clearly.

Information you give us directly

When you contact us, submit a form, engage our services, or communicate with our team, you may share:


  • Your name, email address, phone number, and mailing address
  • Project details including your book concept, genre, target audience, and creative goals
  • Payment information, processed securely by our third-party payment processor. We do not store your full card details on our systems
  • Creative content you share with us manuscripts, outlines, personal anecdotes, biographical information, and creative briefs
  • Communications sent via phone, email, or live chat

Information collected automatically

When you visit our website, certain data is collected automatically:


  • Your IP address, browser type, and device information
  • Pages you visit, time spent on the site, and how you navigate between pages
  • How you arrived at our site for example, via a search engine, a referral link, or a digital advertisement
  • Cookie identifiers and similar tracking data see Section 4 for full details

Information from third parties

If you contact us through a third-party platform such as a social media channel, or if you were referred by a partner, we may receive basic contact or referral information through that channel. We do not purchase personal data lists or obtain information from data brokers.


3. How We Use Your Information

Every piece of information we collect serves a specific, legitimate purpose. We use it to:


  • Respond to your enquiry and arrange an initial consultation
  • Understand your project requirements and match you with the right professional on our team
  • Draft, deliver, and refine the creative work you have commissioned
  • Manage contracts, payment schedules, and project timelines
  • Send you project updates, revision drafts, and final deliverables
  • Communicate about new services or publishing opportunities only if you have opted in
  • Improve our website and service quality using anonymized analytics data
  • Comply with our legal obligations and protect against fraudulent activity

Because we handle sensitive creative content on your behalf including personal memoirs, biographies, and confidential ideas we treat everything you share with us with the highest level of professional discretion.


4. Online Advertising and Third-Party Cookies

We use third-party advertising and analytics services on our website to promote our services and understand how visitors engage with our content. These services may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to recognize your browser when you visit other websites, and to serve advertisements related to Lakewood Publishers based on your previous visits to our site.

In plain terms: if you visit our site and browse our services but do not reach out, you may later see Lakewood Publishers advertisements on other websites you visit. These ads are served by our advertising partners using cookies placed during your earlier visit here.


What third-party advertising partners collect

When you visit our website, our third-party advertising and analytics partners may use cookies or device identifiers to:


  • Record that you have visited lakewoodpublishers.com
  • Add your browser to advertising audience lists so we can reach you with relevant promotional content on other websites
  • Measure whether our advertisements lead to enquiries or service engagements on our site
  • Provide us with aggregated, anonymized data on how visitors use our website

We do not pass personal details to advertising partners

We do not send your name, email address, phone number, or any creative content you share with us to our advertising partners through our advertising tools. The data involved is behavioral and cookie-based it relates to your interaction with our website, not your personal identity.


How to opt out of interest-based advertising

You have several options to control or stop interest-based advertising cookies:


  • Adjust your browser settings to block or delete third-party cookies at any time
  • Use the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out tool at optout.networkadvertising.org
  • Visit aboutads.info/choices to manage advertising preferences across multiple networks
  • Use your mobile device’s built-in privacy or advertising settings to limit ad tracking

Opting out means you will no longer see targeted Lakewood Publishers advertisements based on your site visit. You may still encounter our advertisements through other channels. Each of our third-party partners maintains its own privacy policy governing how they handle the data collected through their tools.


5. Cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by websites you visit. We and our third-party partners use cookies for the following purposes:

Essential cookies

These are necessary for our website to function. They enable things like form progress and session continuity. They cannot be disabled without affecting core site functionality.

Analytics cookies

These are placed by our third-party analytics provider to help us understand how visitors find and use our site. The data collected is aggregated and anonymised. It helps us improve the experience for prospective clients but is not used to identify individuals.

Advertising cookies

These are placed by our third-party advertising partners to serve relevant advertisements on other websites and to measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. You can opt out of these using the options outlined in Section 4.

Functional cookies

These cookies remember your preferences such as language settings to improve your experience on return visits.

You can manage or delete cookies through your browser settings at any time. Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect how parts of our website function.


6. Confidentiality of Your Creative Work

When you engage Lakewood Publishers, you often share deeply personal material your life story, unpublished ideas, business concepts, or creative work that may represent years of thought and effort. We treat everything you share in the course of a project as strictly confidential.

Team members working on your project are bound by professional confidentiality obligations. We do not share your creative content, project details, or personal narrative with any third party that is not directly and necessarily involved in delivering your project.

You retain full ownership and authorship rights over all content created for you. We will never publish, reproduce, or use your work for any purpose other than delivering the service you have commissioned.


7. Who We Share Your Information With

We do not sell your personal information. We share it only when necessary, and only with:


  • Specialist contractors or freelancers contributing to your project such as illustrators, translators, or cover designers who are bound by confidentiality agreements
  • Third-party payment processors who handle transaction security on our behalf
  • Digital publishing platforms and distributors, when we submit your completed work for publication on your behalf
  • Third-party advertising and analytics partners, in the form of anonymized, cookie-based behavioral data as described in Section 4
  • Legal and professional advisors when required
  • Regulatory or law enforcement authorities when legally compelled to disclose

We do not share your manuscript, personal story, or creative brief with any party not directly involved in delivering your project.


8. Data Retention

We retain your personal and project information for as long as necessary to deliver and support your services, and as required by law:


  • Project files and correspondence are retained for the duration of your engagement and for a reasonable period afterward in case you return for follow-on services
  • Financial records including invoices and payment records are retained for seven years in accordance with applicable accounting and tax requirements
  • Marketing communication preferences are retained until you unsubscribe or request deletion

You can request deletion of your personal data at any time by emailing info@lakewoodpublishers.com. We will honour your request unless we are legally required to retain specific records.


9. Data Security

We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information and your creative work from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or loss. These include encrypted data transmission, restricted internal access controls, and secure project file management.

No digital system is entirely without risk. We cannot guarantee absolute security, but we can assure you that we treat your information with the care and seriousness it deserves.


10. Do Not Track

Some browsers transmit a “Do Not Track” signal to websites, requesting that browsing not be tracked. Our website does not currently alter its data collection practices in response to these signals, as there is no universally agreed standard for how websites should respond. You may use the opt-out options described in Section 4 to limit advertising-related tracking independently.


11. Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights over your personal information:


  • Access: request a copy of the personal data we hold about you
  • Correction: ask us to update inaccurate or incomplete information
  • Deletion: request that we erase your personal data
  • Restriction: ask us to limit how we process your information
  • Portability: receive your personal data in a structured, portable format
  • Objection: object to our processing of your data for marketing or other purposes
  • Opt out of interest-based advertising — see Section 4 for how to do this

Residents of Ontario and certain other states may have additional rights under applicable consumer privacy laws, including the right to know what personal information we have collected and the right to opt out of the sale of personal information. We do not sell personal information.

To exercise any of these rights, please email us at info@lakewoodpublishers.com. We will respond within 30 days.


12. Children’s Privacy

Our services are designed for adults commissioning professional publishing and writing services. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13. If you believe a minor has submitted information to us, please contact us immediately and we will delete it promptly.

Our children’s book publishing services are commissioned by adult authors and guardians, not directly by children.


13. Third-Party Links

Our website may include links to external publishing platforms and marketplaces where our clients’ books are available. Once you follow a link away from our site, this Privacy Policy no longer applies. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any external website you visit.


14. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as our services grow, as new tools are introduced, or as applicable laws change. When we do, we will post the revised version on our website with an updated date at the top. Continued use of our services following a change constitutes acceptance of the updated policy. We encourage you to check back periodically.


15. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, how we handle your data, or how to exercise your rights, please get in touch.

Lakewood Publishers
Address: 113 S Perry St Ste 206, Lawrenceville, GA 30046, USA
Email: info@lakewoodpublishers.com
Website: www.lakewoodpublishers.com

Thank you for trusting Lakewood Publishers with your story.