Privacy Policy

Hengist Press respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information.

We may collect personal information that you provide when you contact us, submit work for consideration, or otherwise communicate with Hengist Press. This may include your name, email address and information contained in correspondence or manuscript submissions.

Our website is hosted by Squarespace, which may collect certain technical information, including information about how visitors use the website, to support its operation, security and functionality.

We use this information only for the the purpose for which it was supplied, including processing orders, responding to enquiries and considering submissions. We do not sell or share personal information for marketing purposes.

How we use your information

We use personal information to respond to enquiries, consider submissions, manage correspondence and administer our publishing activities.

We process this information where necessary for our legitimate business interests, to take steps requested before entering into a contract, to fulfil contractual obligations or where we have your consent, as applicable.

We do not sell personal information or share it with third parties for their own marketing purposes.

Book Purchases

Books featured on the Hengist Press website may be purchased through external links to Ingram Spark’s Share & Sell service or other booksellers.

When you follow these links, you leave the Hengist Press website. Orders, payments and delivery information are handled by the relevant retailer or fulfilment provider under its own privacy policy.

Hengist Press does not directly collect or store customer's’ payment details through these purchases.

Storage and retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including meeting any applicable legal, contractual or accounting obligations.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law, you may have the right to request access to your personal information, ask for accurate information to be corrected, request deletion or restriction of processing, or object to certain uses of your information.

You may also raise concerns with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at www.ico.org.uk.

Contact

For questions about this policy or how Hengist Press handles personal information, please use our Contact page.

Last Updated 21 October 2026