Privacy Policy | Team Shaw Caribbean Press

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Last updated: May 20, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Team Shaw Caribbean Press collects, uses, stores, and shares your personal data when you use tscpress.net, subscribe to our newsletter, submit a manuscript, or engage our publishing services.

We take your privacy seriously. We collect only the information we need to provide services and run our business. We do not sell your personal data to anyone.

1. Who we are

Team Shaw Caribbean Press (TSCP) is a registered Guyana publishing house, based in Georgetown. TSCP is an imprint within the EICCIO Advisors group and a sister publication to La Caribeña News. For the purposes of data protection law, TSCP is the data controller for personal data collected through tscpress.net.

You can contact us about this policy at hello@tscpress.net.

2. What information we collect

We collect personal data in the following ways.

When you fill out a form on the site (newsletter signup, contact form, manuscript intake form, partnership inquiry), we collect the information you provide. That typically includes your name, email address, and any details you choose to share in the form.

When you subscribe to the newsletter, we record your email address, your subscription date, and basic engagement signals (whether you open emails, whether you click links).

When you submit a manuscript through the intake process, we collect your manuscript file, your author biography, any related documents you upload, and the contact information you provide.

When you become a paying customer (Phase 2, planned for June 2026), payment information is processed by our payment providers (Stripe and MMG+). We do not store full card numbers on our servers. We retain transaction records as required by accounting and tax law.

Like most websites, we collect basic technical data automatically when you visit the site, including your IP address, browser type, device type, pages viewed, and approximate location based on IP. This is described in our Cookie Policy.

3. How we use your information

We use the personal data we collect to:

Provide the services you have asked for. This includes reviewing your manuscript, delivering editorial and production work, communicating about your project, and distributing your book through the platforms we use.

Send the newsletter you signed up for. We send launch updates, Learning Center articles, and occasional offers.

Respond to your inquiries. When you write to us at any of our contact addresses, we use your message and contact details to respond.

Keep records required by law. We maintain accounting and tax records, including invoices and payment confirmations.

Improve the site and our services. We use aggregated, anonymized usage data to understand which pages are useful and which need work. We do not use your personal data for advertising profiles, and we do not run third-party advertising on the site.

4. Legal basis for processing

We rely on the following legal bases for processing your personal data, in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and equivalent Caribbean data protection regulations.

Consent. When you sign up for the newsletter or opt in to a list, we process your data on the basis of your consent. You can withdraw consent at any time by unsubscribing or by writing to hello@tscpress.net.

Contract. When you engage us as a publishing client, we process your data because it is necessary to perform the publishing contract.

Legitimate interest. When you contact us with a question, we process your data on the basis of our legitimate interest in responding. When we use anonymized analytics to improve the site, we rely on legitimate interest.

Legal obligation. We retain certain records to meet tax, accounting, and other legal obligations.

5. Third-party services we use

We use a small set of third-party services to run the site and the business. Each of them processes some of your data on our behalf and under our written instructions.

Ghost(Pro) hosts the website and processes form submissions, newsletter subscriptions, and member accounts. Ghost is operated by The Ghost Foundation. Ghost's own privacy policy applies to the infrastructure layer.

Google Workspace handles our email (the @tscpress.net addresses) and shared documents. Google's privacy policy applies to that layer.

Stripe and MMG+ will process payments from Phase 2 onwards (planned for June 2026). They are PCI-compliant payment processors. Their privacy policies apply to the payment data they handle.

Google Analytics 4 provides anonymized site analytics. We do not use Google Ads on the site.

IngramSpark, Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, Apple Books, Kobo Writing Life, and Books2Read are book distribution platforms. We share book metadata and (in some cases) author bio data with them as required to publish your book on those channels. We do not share information beyond what each platform requires.

We do not sell your personal data to any third party, and we do not share it with advertisers.

6. Data retention

We keep your personal data only for as long as we need it.

Active customer data is retained for the duration of our relationship and for a reasonable period afterwards to support warranty, dispute, and tax obligations.

Newsletter subscription data is retained until you unsubscribe. After you unsubscribe, we retain a minimal suppression record (your email address only) so that we do not accidentally send to you again.

Manuscript files are retained for seven years after the publishing project ends. This protects against late discovery of rights or quality issues. You may request earlier deletion in writing.

Form submissions from people who do not become customers are retained for two years and then deleted.

Accounting and tax records are retained for the period required by Guyana law.

7. International data transfers

TSCP is based in Guyana. Some of the third-party services we use process data in other countries, primarily the United States and the European Union. This includes Ghost(Pro), Google Workspace, Google Analytics 4, Stripe, and our book distribution platforms.

Where data is transferred to a country whose data protection regime is not equivalent to that of your home jurisdiction, we rely on the data transfer mechanisms used by each provider, which typically include Standard Contractual Clauses and (where applicable) certifications such as the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

8. Your rights

You have rights over the personal data we hold about you. Depending on where you live, those rights include:

The right to access the personal data we hold about you.

The right to correct inaccurate personal data.

The right to ask us to delete your personal data, subject to our legal retention obligations.

The right to data portability (receiving your data in a portable format).

The right to object to processing based on legitimate interest.

The right to withdraw consent at any time.

The right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority in your jurisdiction.

To exercise any of these rights, write to hello@tscpress.net. We respond within thirty days. For complex requests, we may extend that period and we will tell you if we do.

9. Cookies

The site uses a small number of cookies. The full description is in our Cookie Policy.

10. Children's privacy

This site is not directed at children under the age of sixteen. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under sixteen. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal data, please contact us at hello@tscpress.net and we will delete the data.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. Material changes will be posted on the site and (where appropriate) notified to active customers by email.

12. Contact for privacy concerns

For any privacy-related question, please write to hello@tscpress.net.

A formal data protection officer will be designated when our team grows to a size that requires one. Until then, privacy correspondence is handled by the founder, Theon Alleyne, with attorney support.

Team Shaw Caribbean Press
Georgetown, Guyana

Related pages:

→ Cookie Policy
→ Terms of Service
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