Scope & Commitment
Artifex Editions Private Limited (together with its affiliates, “Artifex Editions”, “the Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) respects your privacy and values its relationships with clients, authors, publishers, and website visitors. We are committed to safeguarding the personal information you share with us.
This Privacy Policy applies to our website at https://www.artifexeditions.com and the inquiries submitted to our team. It describes the information used to respond to inquiries and protect the website.
Information We Collect
When you use our contact form or email us, we receive the information you provide, such as:
- Name: Your full name or preferred contact name.
- Contact Number: Your direct telephone or mobile contact number.
- Email Address: Your email address for project communications and responses.
- Message: The text message and project details you provide regarding your inquiry or publishing goals.
Technical connection information, including an IP address when available from our hosting provider, may be used for rate limiting, bot mitigation, and infrastructure security. Contact form submissions are sent to our private Google Sheets spreadsheet and include this IP information. The form requires your confirmation of consent before submission. We do not request payment card information or account credentials through the website.
Commercial Confidentiality & Non-Disclosure
All inquiries, project messages, and communications submitted to Artifex Editions Private Limited are treated with strict confidentiality:
- Purpose Limitation: The details and message you provide are used solely to review your inquiry, communicate with you, and evaluate your project requirements.
- Restricted Access: Your contact details and message are accessible only to authorized personnel responsible for responding to client communications under confidentiality obligations.
Lawful Grounds for Processing & Use
Artifex Editions Private Limited processes your submitted information on the following legal grounds:
- Communication & Contractual Inquiries: To reply to your message, answer questions about our services, and discuss prospective project requirements.
- Consent: Provided when you check the consent box before submitting the contact form.
- Security & Integrity: To prevent automated abuse and protect the website and our communications.
Protection of Minors
Our website and services are strictly directed to adults (individuals aged 18 and older). In accordance with Section 9 of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023:
- We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from individuals under 18 years of age.
- We do not track minors or serve targeted commercial promotions to children.
- If we become aware that information from an individual under 18 has been submitted to us, we will delete that information immediately. You may report any minor’s data submission to [email protected].
Information Sharing & Third-Party Disclosures
Artifex Editions Private Limited does not sell, rent, monetize, or trade your personal data to third parties or marketing networks under any circumstance.
Enquiry information is shared only with:
- Essential Infrastructure Providers: Our email providers process enquiries sent by email. Our website host processes contact form submissions, which our server sends to a private Google Sheets spreadsheet through an authenticated Google Apps Script connection. If enabled by the website operator on a persistent server, a local backup also stores the enquiry. Existing and new records remain subject to the retention and deletion provisions below.
- Legal Requirements: When required by enforceable statutory law, court order, or official request from government authorities.
- Corporate Restructuring: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or corporate reorganization, communication archives may transfer to the successor entity under the continued terms of this Privacy Policy.
Data Retention & On-Demand Deletion
We retain your inquiry details and correspondence only for as long as necessary to address your message, fulfill communication requests, or maintain business correspondence records.
Under the DPDPA, you retain full rights to access, update, or permanently delete the personal data you submitted.
If you would like us to permanently delete your name, phone number, email address, and message from our records, simply send an email directly to [email protected]. Upon receiving your email, our team will promptly and permanently purge all your personal records from our active systems without delay or fee.