Privacy

A project brief asks for your name, work email, organisation, intended publication, working topic, expertise and source material, intended audience, timing and budget range. To protect the form from abuse, we also record the submitted email, IP address where available, user-agent, referrer and basic form-timing or honeypot indicators. Do not include confidential source files or sensitive source material in the first brief.

We use brief information to review the project, respond to you and, where appropriate, discuss scope. Inquiry details are not added to a marketing list. Hosting, database and email providers process information needed to deliver this service.

Declined, unconverted and abandoned inquiries are retained for 12 months after last meaningful activity. Form-attempt records, including the email and security metadata described above, are retained for 30 days unless there is a genuine security incident. Converted inquiries move to a separate client/project record lifecycle.

These are Cognitive Publishing operating periods, not a statement that the periods are legally mandated.

Email info@cogpub.com, or return to the project brief.