Privacy Policy

Effective date: September 9, 2026
Last updated: September 9, 2026

PublishAble (“PublishAble,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information when you visit www.publish-able.com, subscribe to our communications, request a consultation, use our services, or otherwise interact with us.

By using our website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

Information you provide directly

We may collect personal information that you choose to provide, including:

  • Your name, email address, telephone number, and other contact information

  • Your professional role, institution, organization, or field of work

  • Information you submit when requesting or scheduling a consultation

  • Questions, messages, and other information you submit through contact forms

  • Newsletter subscriptions and communication preferences

  • Information related to services you request or purchase

  • Manuscripts, outlines, research summaries, presentations, or other materials you voluntarily provide while working with PublishAble

  • Feedback, testimonials, survey responses, or other communications you send to us

If payment is required, payment information may be collected and processed by a third-party payment provider. PublishAble generally does not receive or store complete payment-card numbers.

Information collected automatically

This website is hosted by Squarespace. When you visit the website, Squarespace and other authorized service providers may automatically collect information such as:

  • Your IP address

  • Browser, network, and device information

  • General location information derived from your IP address

  • The website or page you visited before arriving at this website

  • Pages you view on this website

  • Dates and times of visits

  • Clicks, scrolling, searches, and interactions with website features

  • Referral sources and other information about website traffic

We use this information to operate the website, understand how visitors use it, improve its content and performance, and protect the website from fraud or misuse.

2. Cookies and Similar Technologies

PublishAble and its service providers may use cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, analyze website traffic, and understand how visitors interact with the site.

Some cookies are necessary for the website to function. Other cookies, including analytics and performance cookies, may be optional depending on your location and the settings available through our cookie banner.

You can manage cookies through the cookie-consent options displayed on the website and through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect how some parts of the website function.

For more information about cookies used by our website platform, please review Squarespace’s information about cookies at support.squarespace.com.

3. How We Use Personal Information

We may use personal information to:

  • Operate, maintain, secure, and improve the website

  • Respond to questions, requests, and inquiries

  • Schedule and provide consultations, coaching, workshops, editing support, and related services

  • Communicate with prospective and current clients

  • Evaluate whether PublishAble’s services are appropriate for a prospective client

  • Administer our contractual and business relationships

  • Process transactions and maintain business records

  • Send newsletters, resources, announcements, and promotional communications when you have requested or consented to receive them

  • Personalize and improve our services and educational resources

  • Analyze website use and measure the effectiveness of our content

  • Prevent fraud, abuse, security incidents, or unlawful activity

  • Enforce our agreements and protect our legal rights

  • Comply with legal, tax, accounting, and regulatory obligations

Where applicable law requires a legal basis for processing, we process personal information based on your consent, the performance of a contract or steps taken at your request before entering a contract, our legitimate business interests, or compliance with a legal obligation.

4. Newsletter and Marketing Communications

If you subscribe to the PublishAble newsletter or request promotional communications, we may use your name and email address to send you research-writing guidance, publishing resources, business updates, service announcements, and related information.

You may unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link included in an email or by contacting us. Unsubscribing from marketing messages will not prevent us from sending necessary administrative or service-related communications.

We may use Squarespace Email Campaigns or another email-service provider to manage subscribers and distribute communications. These providers process subscriber information on our behalf and under their own privacy and security terms.

5. Consultations and Client Materials

Information and materials submitted in connection with a consultation or paid service may be used to evaluate, arrange, and provide the requested service.

PublishAble recognizes that manuscripts and research materials may be confidential or unpublished. We limit access to these materials to individuals and service providers who reasonably need access to provide or support the requested services.

Unless PublishAble has expressly agreed otherwise in writing, please do not submit:

  • Personally identifiable research-participant information

  • Protected health information

  • Student education records

  • Financial account information

  • Social Security numbers or government identification numbers

  • Information subject to institutional, legal, contractual, or ethical restrictions

Before submitting research materials, you are responsible for removing or appropriately de-identifying sensitive participant, student, patient, or institutional information. Any additional confidentiality obligations agreed upon for a client engagement will be governed by the applicable services agreement.

PublishAble will not claim ownership of a client’s manuscript or research materials merely because those materials are provided for consultation, coaching, or editorial assistance.

6. How We Disclose Information

We may disclose personal information to:

  • Squarespace, which hosts and helps operate this website

  • Email marketing and newsletter providers

  • Scheduling and calendar providers

  • Payment processors

  • Cloud-storage, communication, and document-collaboration providers

  • Analytics, security, and website-support providers

  • Professional advisers such as attorneys, accountants, or insurers

  • Contractors or consultants assisting with authorized business operations

  • Government authorities or other parties when required by law or reasonably necessary to protect rights, safety, property, or security

These parties may access information only as necessary to perform services for PublishAble or satisfy applicable legal obligations.

We may also transfer information as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar business transaction.

PublishAble does not sell personal information for monetary consideration. We do not knowingly share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

7. Third-Party Websites and Services

The website may contain links to journals, conferences, professional organizations, scheduling systems, social-media platforms, or other third-party websites and services.

PublishAble does not control these third parties and is not responsible for their privacy, security, or content practices. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any third-party website or service you use.

8. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to:

  • Provide requested services

  • Maintain client and business records

  • Fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy

  • Comply with legal, accounting, tax, and contractual obligations

  • Resolve disputes and enforce agreements

  • Protect the security and integrity of our business

Retention periods vary depending on the type of information, the purpose for which it was collected, and applicable legal requirements. When information is no longer reasonably necessary, we may delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it.

9. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information. Squarespace websites use SSL encryption to protect information transmitted between visitors and the website.

However, no internet transmission, email communication, or data-storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You provide information electronically at your own risk and should avoid sending highly sensitive information through ordinary website forms or email.

10. International Data Transfers

PublishAble and its service providers may process or store information in the United States and other countries. These countries may have privacy laws that differ from the laws where you live.

Where required, service providers may use recognized safeguards for international data transfers, such as standard contractual clauses or comparable legal mechanisms.

11. Your Privacy Rights and Choices

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

  • Request access to personal information we maintain about you

  • Request correction of inaccurate information

  • Request deletion of certain personal information

  • Request a copy of information you provided

  • Object to or restrict certain processing

  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent

  • Opt out of marketing communications

  • Appeal the denial of a privacy-rights request where applicable

  • Submit a complaint to an appropriate data-protection authority

To exercise a privacy right, contact us using the information below. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. We will not discriminate against you for exercising a legally protected privacy right.

Some information may be exempt from a request or may need to be retained to comply with law, complete a transaction, protect legal rights, or maintain appropriate business records.

12. Children’s Privacy

The website and PublishAble’s services are intended for adults and professionals. They are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13.

If you believe that a child has provided personal information through the website, please contact us so we can review and, where appropriate, delete it.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our services, technology, legal obligations, or privacy practices.

When we make changes, we will post the revised policy on this page and update the “Last updated” date. Material changes may also be communicated through the website or another appropriate method.

14. Contact Us

For questions about this Privacy Policy or to submit a privacy request, contact:

PublishAble
Legal business name: VisionForward Evidence & Strategy, LLC
Email: privacy@publish-able.com
Website: www.publish-able.com