Last Cross Publishing

Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 6 October 2026

Last Cross Publishing Ltd respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect personal information provided through this website and in connection with manuscript submissions.

1. Who is responsible for your data?

The data controller responsible for your personal information is:

Last Cross Publishing Ltd

Registered office: 7 Severn Bank, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, SY1 2JD

Email: admin@lastcrosspublishing.co.uk

For questions about this Privacy Policy or the way we process personal information, please contact us using the details above.

2. What personal information do we collect?

Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect:

  • Your name
  • Email address
  • Country of residence
  • Information contained in your author biography
  • Manuscript titles and manuscript content
  • Information contained in cover letters, synopses and other submission materials
  • Communications between you and Last Cross Publishing
  • Any other personal information that you voluntarily provide to us

We aim to collect only information that is relevant and necessary for the purposes described below, reflecting the principle of data minimisation.

3. How do we collect your information?

We may receive personal information when you:

  • Contact us by email
  • Submit a manuscript or other material for consideration
  • Correspond with us about a submission
  • Use any contact or other forms available on the website
  • Otherwise communicate with Last Cross Publishing

4. Why do we use your information?

We may use your personal information to:

  • Respond to enquiries and correspondence
  • Receive, assess and manage manuscript submissions
  • Communicate with authors and literary agents about submissions
  • Consider manuscripts for possible publication
  • Manage an ongoing publishing relationship where a manuscript is accepted
  • Maintain appropriate business and administrative records
  • Meet our legal and regulatory obligations
  • Establish, exercise or defend legal claims where necessary

We will not use personal information for purposes incompatible with those for which it was originally collected.

Depending on the circumstances, we may process personal information on one or more of the following legal bases:

  • Pre-contractual steps — where processing is necessary in order to consider a manuscript submission or take steps at the request of an author or agent before entering into a publishing agreement.
  • Contractual necessity — where processing is necessary to perform a publishing agreement or other contract.
  • Legal obligation — where we are required to process information to comply with a legal obligation.
  • Legitimate interests — where processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of Last Cross Publishing or a third party, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights and interests.
  • Consent — where we specifically ask for and obtain your consent for a particular processing activity.

Where we rely on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.

6. Manuscript submissions

Manuscripts and accompanying submission materials may contain personal information relating to the author and potentially to other individuals mentioned in the work.

We use this information to assess submissions, communicate with authors or agents, and administer the submission process.

Please do not include unnecessary sensitive personal information about yourself or other people in submission materials.

We do not use submitted manuscripts to train artificial intelligence systems.

7. AI-generated submissions

Last Cross Publishing does not accept AI-generated fiction or manuscripts. Information provided in connection with submissions may therefore be reviewed for the purpose of assessing compliance with our submission requirements.

Any such assessment will be carried out by people rather than solely by automated decision-making.

8. Who may receive your information?

We may share personal information with trusted service providers where this is necessary to operate the website, receive and manage communications, store information, administer submissions or otherwise provide our services.

These providers may process personal information on our behalf and will only be permitted to use it in accordance with applicable contractual and legal requirements.

We may also disclose information where required by law, to competent authorities, courts or other authorised bodies, or where necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

9. International transfers

Some of the service providers we use may process personal information outside the United Kingdom or European Economic Area.

Where personal information is transferred internationally, we will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place where required by applicable data-protection law.

10. How long do we keep your information?

We keep personal information only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, subject to any legal or regulatory obligations requiring longer retention.

For manuscript submissions that we do not pursue, we intend to retain submission information for 12 months following the closure of the submission, unless there is a legitimate reason to retain it for longer.

Information relating to an ongoing or completed publishing relationship may be retained for longer where necessary to administer the relationship, comply with legal obligations or establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

11. Your data protection rights

Depending on the circumstances and applicable law, you may have the right to:

  • Request access to the personal information we hold about you
  • Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information
  • Request deletion of your personal information
  • Request restriction of processing
  • Object to certain processing
  • Request portability of information where applicable
  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
  • Request information about international transfers and the safeguards used

You can exercise your rights by contacting:

admin@lastcrosspublishing.co.uk

We will normally respond to a valid data-protection request within one month, although this period may be extended in certain circumstances permitted by law.

12. Complaints

If you believe that your personal information has been handled inappropriately, we encourage you to contact us first so that we can try to resolve the issue.

You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data-protection supervisory authority applicable to you.

If you are based in Spain, this may be the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD). If you are based in the United Kingdom, the relevant authority is generally the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

13. Security

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure.

No method of transmitting or storing information is completely secure, however, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

14. Cookies and analytics

This website may use cookies and similar technologies.

Where non-essential cookies or analytics technologies are used, we will provide appropriate information about their purpose and, where required by law, request consent before using them.

Essential technologies necessary for the operation and security of the website may be used where permitted by applicable law.

15. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our business, website, services or legal obligations.

The latest version will always be published on this page, with the date of the most recent update shown at the beginning of the policy.