PRIVACY POLICY

At BuildMyAuthor, operated by Bittu Kumar, we are deeply committed to safeguarding the privacy, identity, intellectual property, and creative assets of the authors we consult. This Privacy Policy explains exactly how we collect, store, share, use, and delete personal and manuscript data in strict accordance with India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act and prevailing global digital hygiene frameworks.

1. Data We Collect and Process

We collect only the minimum necessary data to manage your consulting engagement, design your assets, and process legal financial accounting:

• Personal Identity Info: Full legal name, pen-name identities, email coordinates, active mobile phone connections, and billing addresses.
• Creative and Strategic Data: Unreleased manuscripts, outlines, promotional briefs, character sketches, launch dates, and metadata records.
• Financial Details: Invoicing logs, GSTIN data, and processing transaction references captured via our integrated checkout gateways.

2. Specific Safeguards for Unreleased Manuscripts & Author IP

Recognizing that a pre-publication leak represents a severe threat to an author’s career, we deploy a layered security environment:

• Strict Need-to-Know Access: Independent freelancers within our network are granted isolated access only to the specific files required for their sub-task. A cover designer receives layout sizes and visual summaries, never your full unreleased manuscript.
• No Unauthorised AI Ingestion: We enforce strict contractual rules prohibiting our contractors from uploading, processing, or inputting any portion of your unreleased text, plot ideas, or creative outlines into public generative-AI models or external machine-learning architectures without your explicit, prior written consent.
• Cloud Security Isolation: All asset handling operates through highly secure cloud environments equipped with mandatory multi-factor authentication, prohibiting file movement onto unverified personal cloud systems.

3. Data Retention and Erasure Protocols

We retain your personal details and final campaign file assets only for as long as necessary to fulfill active consulting contracts and satisfy statutory tax record maintenance guidelines under Indian law.

Upon client request, or automatically upon the formal conclusion of long-term storage agreements, we implement a permanent deletion protocol to completely wipe your unreleased draft files from our active cloud work areas.

4. Your Rights Under Data Regulation

As a data principal under Indian data regulations, you hold absolute control over your information:

• Right to Access & Correction: You can request a full manifest of the data elements we hold on your profile and instruct us to correct any analytical errors or processing mistakes.
• Right to Absolute Erasure: You can command our systems to completely erase your data footprint across our records, provided the retention is not required by prevailing tax or financial audit laws.

To invoke any privacy rights, or to raise a security concern regarding your manuscript files, contact our designated data compliance channel directly at info@buildmyauthor.com.