Illuminare House™ Privacy

Effective Date: August 13, 2026

GMC Capital Enterprises, LLC, operating under the Illuminare House™ brand (“Illuminare House,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect personal information when you visit our website, contact us, purchase books or services, submit materials, apply for publishing or co-author opportunities, participate in author programs, or otherwise interact with Illuminare House.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect information you provide voluntarily, including:

 Name, email address, telephone or mobile number, mailing address, and other contact information.

 Author or professional information, including biography, credentials, organization, website, social-

media handles, and areas of expertise.

 Publishing inquiry or application information, including project descriptions, questionnaires, proposed

book topics, contribution information, and communications with our team.

 Manuscripts, excerpts, proposals, synopses, author photographs, headshots, cover materials,

testimonials, permissions, releases, and other content you choose to submit.

 Purchase, billing, order, shipping, and transaction-related information. Payment-card information may

be processed directly by third-party payment processors and may not be stored by Illuminare House.

 Information you provide through forms, surveys, website chat, email, SMS, author communities,

customer-service requests, events, or consultations.

 Any other information you voluntarily provide.

We may also collect certain technical information automatically, such as IP address, browser type, device

information, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, approximate location derived from IP

address, website interactions, and cookie or analytics data.

2. How We Use Information

We may use personal information to:

 Respond to inquiries, applications, submissions, and customer-service requests.

 Evaluate potential publishing, anthology, co-author, contributor, or author-service opportunities.

 Administer author relationships, editorial workflows, production, distribution, book orders, events, and

publishing programs.

 Process transactions, fulfill orders, provide receipts, and communicate about purchases or account

activity.

 Send transactional, service, scheduling, fulfillment, deadline, and other non-marketing

communications.

 Send marketing or promotional communications when permitted by law and consistent with the

consent you provide.

 Operate, personalize, secure, analyze, and improve our website, services, author experience, and

business operations.

 Maintain appropriate business, publishing, financial, and compliance records.

 Protect against fraud, misuse, infringement, security threats, or unlawful activity.

 Comply with legal obligations and enforce our agreements and policies.

ILLUMINARE HOUSE™

GMC Capital Enterprises, LLC | IlluminareHouse.com | [email protected] | (407) 634-2174

3. Manuscripts, Author Materials, and Submissions

Submitting a manuscript, proposal, application, biography, headshot, or other material does not by itself

transfer copyright ownership to Illuminare House and does not create a publishing relationship. Rights,

permissions, licenses, editing authority, marketing permissions, and other publishing terms are governed

by any separate written agreement that applies to the project.

Please do not submit confidential, proprietary, or third-party material unless you are authorized to provide

it. If a submission process includes additional confidentiality, release, or intellectual-property terms, those

terms will also apply.

4. SMS and Text Messaging

Illuminare House may offer transactional and promotional text messaging. Depending on the consent you

provide, messages may include requested information, author-program updates, deadlines, event

reminders, order or fulfillment updates, customer-service communications, and marketing messages.

Consent to receive promotional or marketing text messages is not a condition of purchasing goods or

services. Message frequency may vary. Message and data rates may apply. You may opt out at any time

by replying STOP. You may reply HELP for assistance.

No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for their own marketing or promotional

purposes. Text-messaging originator opt-in data and consent may be shared only with service providers,

aggregators, carriers, and technology providers as reasonably necessary to deliver and support the

messaging program or as otherwise required by law.

5. Email Communications

We may send transactional or relationship emails connected with inquiries, orders, applications, publishing

relationships, or services. Marketing emails will include an appropriate method to unsubscribe.

Unsubscribing from marketing email does not prevent us from sending transactional or legally required

communications.

6. How We Share Information

We do not sell personal information. We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to operate

our business, provide requested products or services, evaluate publishing opportunities, produce or

distribute books, process payments, fulfill orders, communicate with you, maintain technology, or comply

with law.

Service providers may include website and hosting providers, customer-relationship-management

platforms, payment processors, printers, distributors, fulfillment vendors, email and SMS providers,

analytics providers, cloud-storage providers, scheduling and event platforms, professional advisers, and

contractors supporting publishing or business operations. They may access information only as reasonably

necessary for the services they provide and subject to applicable contractual and legal requirements.

7. Legal and Protective Disclosures

We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to comply with law or

legal process; enforce our agreements or policies; protect the rights, property, safety, security, or integrity

of Illuminare House, authors, customers, website visitors, or others; or detect, prevent, investigate, or

respond to fraud, infringement, security issues, or unlawful activity.

ILLUMINARE HOUSE™

GMC Capital Enterprises, LLC | IlluminareHouse.com | [email protected] | (407) 634-2174

8. Cookies, Analytics, and Website Technologies

Our website may use cookies, pixels, analytics, and similar technologies to support functionality, remember

preferences, understand website usage, measure performance, and improve visitor experience. You may

be able to control cookies through your browser or device settings. Disabling certain technologies may

affect website functionality.

9. Third-Party Websites and Platforms

Our website and communications may link to independently operated websites, retailers, distributors,

payment processors, social platforms, or other services. Their privacy practices apply when you interact

directly with them. Illuminare House is not responsible for the privacy, content, or security practices of

independently operated third parties.

10. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal

information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure. No electronic transmission or

storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

11. Data Retention

We may retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this

policy, including to evaluate submissions, administer publishing relationships, provide services, fulfill

orders, maintain business records, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, protect intellectual property, and

satisfy legal, accounting, or regulatory obligations. Retention periods may vary depending on the nature of

the information and the relationship involved.

12. Your Privacy Choices and Requests

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights relating to access, correction,

deletion, or other treatment of personal information. You may contact us to request assistance. We may

need to verify your identity before completing certain requests, and some information may be retained

where permitted or required by law.

 Unsubscribe from marketing emails using the unsubscribe mechanism provided in the message.

 Opt out of SMS communications by replying STOP.

 Request SMS assistance by replying HELP.

 Contact us regarding privacy, communications preferences, or applicable privacy rights.

13. Children's Privacy

Our website and services are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal

information from children under 13 without appropriate authorization. If we learn that such information has

been collected, we will take reasonable steps to delete it where required.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our business, technology,

services, legal requirements, or privacy practices. The revised policy will be posted with an updated

effective date.

ILLUMINARE HOUSE™

GMC Capital Enterprises, LLC | IlluminareHouse.com | [email protected] | (407) 634-2174

Contact Us

Questions about this policy may be sent to:

GMC Capital Enterprises, LLC

Operating under the Illuminare House™ brand

30 N Gould Street, Suite R, Sheridan, WY 82801

Email: [email protected]

Phone: (407) 634-2174

Website: IlluminareHouse.com