CURRENT WORDS PUBLISHING LLC (CWP), an LLC registered in the state of California also includes six DBA imprints: Devil’s Party Press, Old Svratch Press, Instant Noodles, Hawkshaw Press, Out-of-This-World Press, and Gravelight Press. We are an author-partner publisher for fiction, poetry, memoir, and creative non-fiction.

Dianne Pearce, Publisher, David Yurkovich CMO
publish@currentwords.com

We occasionally use freelance professionals, and they are provided with manuscripts only, no personal information on any of the authors or customers of CWP is given to freelance employees.

Mailing address:

205 W. Colorado Blvd.; Monrovia, CA 91016

WE COLLECT INFORMATION:

Publication:

If your work is chosen for publication by CWP or its imprints we will collect your email address and your mailing address. That email address will be added to our email list for our company newsletter, and/or the newsletters of our imprints. That information is shared with no one. If we publish a full-length work written by you, where you would collect royalties from us, we will also collect your social security/tax ID number (for taxes), your citizenship (taxes) and your date of birth (copyright registration). We share that information as required by the US government for taxes or copyright, and with no one else. Files are held in the cloud in our company Dropbox. We may, if we publish your work, ask for a phone number. This is not a usual occurrence, and your phone number will not be shared or used for text messages or to subscribe you to any lists unless you request that we use it in that way through sending us an email. Your work and contact information is put into a file in our company Dropbox. It is housed in the cloud. Your work includes your submission to us, as well as any forms of your submission we have as part of book production, which may include WORD docs., PAGES docs., PDFS, or other not specified, as may be needed in order to publish the work.

If your work is not chosen, your work and contact information is put into a file in our secure company Dropbox. It is housed in the cloud.

Please note that: By sending us work for publication, you affirm that you understand that we will house your work (whether accepted for publication or not) in the cloud in our Dropbox and that, solely at our discretion, and ta=hat when in use by CWP employees or freelancers it may be on our personal/employee laptops as well, and that, solely at our discretion, you will be added to our email database for our company newsletter, and/or the newsletters of our imprints, and that you may remove yourself from this database by using the UNSUBSCRIBE button at the bottom of the emailed newsletter at any time. We will manually collect and add your email, but we will not manually remove your email. Please use the UNSUBSCRIBE method. IF you unsubscribe, we will not manually resubscribe you unless you submit for publication again, attend an event through an Eventbrite “ticket” (see below), or shop from our online site. By sending us work for publication, or visiting any of our websites, you affirm that you understand that all of our websites are created through WordPress, and you may access the WordPress privacy policy here.

Commerce/Membership:

AMAZON: If you purchase books from DPP, Hawkshaw Press, Old Scratch Press, Out of This World Press, or Gravelight Press through Amazon, we do not receive any information on you. We will have no way of knowing you purchased a book, which book, or where the book was sent. This is true for hard copies and Kindle versions. Amazon does collect information, and you should visit their website to discern their privacy/collection policy.

BOOKSTORES: If you purchase books from DPP, Hawkshaw Press, Old Scratvch Press, Out of This World Press, or Gravelight Press through a physical bookstore, we do not receive any information on you. We will have no way of knowing you purchased a book, which book, or where the book was sent. The bookstore itself may collect information, and you would need to ask each bookstore for their privacy/collection policy.

OUR ONLINE STORE (WOO COMMERCE): If you purchase books from DPP, Hawkshaw Press, Out of This World Press, Old Scratch Press, Current Words, or Gravelight Press through our store, we do collect a mailing address for the purchase to be sent to, and an email address. When you provide your email address, solely at our discretion, yyou will be added to our email database for our company newsletter, and/or the newsletters of our imprints, and that you may remove yourself from this database by using the UNSUBSCRIBE button at the bottom of the emailed newsletter at any time. We will manually collect and add your email, but we will not manually remove your email. Please use the UNSUBSCRIBE method. IF you unsubscribe, we will not manually resubscribe you unless you request we do, resubmit for publication, attend an event through an Eventbrite or Zoom “ticket” (see below under VIRTUAL events), or shop from our online (Woo Commerce) store again at a later date. Woo Commerce provides us the store, through a WordPress plugin, and you may access the privacy policy of Woo Commerce here. All of our websites are created through WordPress, and you may access the WordPress privacy policy here.

LIVE VIRTUAL EVENTS: If you join a live, but virtual, event for CWP, DPP, Hawkshaw Press, Out of This World Press, OSP, or Gravelight Press through registering for a free “ticket”  through Eventbrite, we do collect an email address, which is used to send you a link to the ZOOM meeting. When you provide your email address, solely at our discretion, you will be added to our email database for our company newsletter, and/or the newsletters of our imprints, and that you may remove yourself from this database by using the UNSUBSCRIBE button at the bottom of the emailed newsletter at any time. We will manually collect and add your email, but we will not manually remove your email. Please use the UNSUBSCRIBE method. IF you unsubscribe, we will not manually resubscribe you unless you unless you submit work for publication, attend an event through an Eventbrite “ticket” again, or shop from our online (Woo Commerce) store (see above). You may access the Eventbrite privacy policy here. If you join a live virtual event on ZOOM by clicking a link on a social media page or in an email sent to you by someone other than DPP (imprints & employees) we collect NO information. And you can access ZOOM’s privacy policy here.

SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS: CWP and its imprints have social media platforms on Facebook, Instagram, Goodreads, and Twitter. We may be able to access email information or “in-app” contact information as is allowed by these platforms. If you are interested in the privacy policies for those platforms, please click on their names in the first sentence of this section. If you choose to provide your email address to us through those platforms, yyou will be added to our email database for our company newsletter, and/or the newsletters of our imprints, and that you may remove yourself from this database by using the UNSUBSCRIBE button at the bottom of the emailed newsletter at any time. We will manually collect and add your email, but we will not manually remove your email. Please use the UNSUBSCRIBE method. IF you unsubscribe, we will not manually resubscribe you unless you unless you submit work for publication, attend an event through an Eventbrite “ticket” (see above under VIRTUAL events), or shop from our online (Woo Commerce) store (see above), or in some other way, based in a social media platform or not, provide it to us again.

WE COLLECT DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: 

If you are published by us we will verify your age, and we will require a biography (the content of which you are solely responsible for) and a photograph of you (which may reveal other demographic information about you, such as gender, race, or age), both of which may be used, at our sole discretion, to publicize CWP, the impints of CWP, you, and/or your work. The biography and photo may ONLY be used to publicize CWP, the imprint of DPP, you, and/or your work. We are not responsible for the veracity of the photograph or biography of any person, author, friend, employee, advisor, etc. shown on our websites or in our publications. If you publish with us, or buy from our online store, we will collect your mailing address, which includes your zip code, which is also sometimes considered demographic information.

WE DO NOT COLLECT USAGE INFORMATION:

This means we do not collect information such as your browser or IP address unless you choose to give it to us. We do not ask for this information either.

WHY WE COLLECT INFORMATION:

We are a private company. We collect information, as stated above, because in order to register copyright for an author (a service we pay for) or to legally pay authors royalties, the government offices of copyright and revenue require that we do so. When a person voluntarily makes contact with us, through a purchase, attempting to publish with us, or attending an event, among other possible methods of contact, we add them to our newsletter subscriber list because we have a legitimate interest in building a long term relationship with them so that we may keep them in the loop about our publications, events, and authors. ALL are welcome to select to UNSUBSCRIBE from the list at any time, at which point we will no longer have their information, unless they, again, make voluntary contact with us, as mentioned above.

WE DO NOT SELL INFORMATION:

We sell books, and items relating to books (t-shirts, etc.). We do not sell our mailing list or any information about our authors or subscribers.

HOW TO OPT-OUT:

To opt-out of information from CWP and its imprints, please choose to UNSUBSCRIBE from any of our newsletters when you receive one in your email (there will be a clickable link in the newsletter).