Luman Trust & Compliance

Trust built for publishing IP.

Luman is designed for publishers, authors and rights holders working with valuable long-form content. Your manuscripts remain your property, your outputs are yours to use, and your unpublished work is treated as confidential publishing material — not as training data.

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Our Commitments

Our commitments to publishers.

Our platform uses AI-assisted workflows to support translation, proofreading and manuscript analysis, while keeping final editorial, rights and publication decisions where they belong: with you.

We do not train on your manuscripts

Luman does not use customer manuscripts, unpublished works, translation outputs, proofreading outputs or manuscript intelligence reports to train, fine-tune or improve Luman’s own AI systems unless the customer expressly agrees otherwise in writing.

  • Uploaded manuscripts are processed only for the service you request
  • They remain customer content throughout — never treated as Luman content
  • Where third-party infrastructure or model providers are used, we use reasonable efforts to choose business, enterprise or API terms that do not permit your content to train or fine-tune their models
  • Any other use requires your express written agreement

Publishing rights stay with you

Luman does not claim ownership of your original manuscript or uploaded materials. You retain ownership of your original content, and for translation projects Luman assigns or licenses the rights in the output to you.

  • You retain ownership of your original customer content
  • You confirm you hold the rights to upload, process and analyse the content
  • Translation output rights are assigned to you, subject to full payment
  • Where assignment cannot apply, a broad, perpetual, royalty-free licence is granted instead

Built for unpublished manuscripts

Publishing teams often work with manuscripts before announcement, acquisition, publication or rights sale. Luman treats unpublished manuscripts, uploaded files, outputs, reports, pricing, project details and confidential communications as confidential information.

  • Unpublished work treated as confidential publishing material
  • Confidential information used only to provide or receive the services
  • Or to fulfil obligations, exercise rights, comply with law or enforce the terms
  • Outputs, reports and project details kept confidential

AI-assisted, publisher-controlled

Luman’s tools are designed to support publishing workflows, not replace professional judgement. Final editorial, rights and publication decisions stay with you.

  • Outputs should be reviewed before publication or commercial use
  • Standard automated services do not include human review unless stated in writing
  • Services do not replace legal advice, rights assessment or sensitivity review
  • Final editorial and publication decisions remain with you

When You Upload

What happens when you upload a manuscript?

When you upload a manuscript to Luman, it is processed only for the service you have requested — translation, proofreading, manuscript intelligence or a related publishing workflow.

  • Processed for your chosen service

    Your manuscript is processed only for the service you have requested: translation, proofreading, manuscript intelligence or a related publishing workflow.

  • Handled only as necessary

    Your content is hosted, processed, analysed, translated, formatted or stored only to the extent necessary to provide the service, deliver outputs, provide support, maintain security, comply with legal obligations and operate the platform.

  • Always your content

    We do not treat uploaded manuscripts as Luman content. They remain customer content throughout the workflow.

Your manuscripts remain your property — your outputs are yours to use.

Intellectual Property

Publishing rights remain with the rights holder.

Luman does not claim ownership of your original manuscript or uploaded materials. Customers are responsible for confirming that they have the rights needed to upload, process, translate, proofread or analyse the content.

“For translation projects, subject to full payment, Luman assigns to the customer any copyright or intellectual property rights it owns or can assign in the translation output. Where assignment is not possible or not recognised, Luman grants a broad, perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable, transferable, sublicensable and royalty-free licence to use and exploit the translation output for lawful purposes.”

Translation rights

  • You keep ownership

    You retain ownership of your original manuscript and uploaded materials.

  • You confirm your rights

    You confirm you hold the rights needed to upload and process the content.

  • Translation output assigned to you

    Subject to full payment, the rights in your translation output are assigned to you.

  • A licence where assignment cannot apply

    Where assignment is not possible, you receive a broad, perpetual, royalty-free licence instead.

Human Oversight

AI-assisted, publisher-controlled.

Luman’s tools are designed to support publishing workflows, not replace professional judgement.

Our Position

Translation, proofreading and manuscript intelligence outputs should be reviewed before publication, distribution, submission to third parties or commercial decision-making. Standard automated services do not include human review unless expressly stated in writing. Luman’s services do not replace legal advice, rights assessment, sensitivity review, human proofreading, human translation or final publication review.

Data Protection

Data protection.

Luman is operated by GlobeScribe.AI Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales. We comply with applicable data protection laws, including UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.

  • GlobeScribe.AI Ltd

    Luman is operated by GlobeScribe.AI Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales.

  • UK GDPR & DPA 2018

    We comply with applicable data protection law, including UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.

  • Controller & processor

    Where your content contains personal data and Luman processes it to provide the requested service, you are generally the controller and Luman acts as processor. For account administration, billing, support, security, analytics and business communications, Luman acts as controller.

  • Enterprise DPA

    Enterprise customers may request a separate Data Processing Agreement.

Retention & Infrastructure

Retention, deletion and infrastructure.

How long content is kept, how it is deleted, and how we select the providers used to deliver the service.

Retention & deletion

  • Retention varies by service

    Retention periods may vary by service, account type, project status, subscription plan, your settings, legal obligations and support requirements.

  • Deletion on request

    Where a specific deletion period is stated or agreed in writing, we use reasonable efforts to delete relevant content accordingly — subject to backups, legal obligations, security and operational limitations. You can also request deletion or use in-platform deletion tools.

Infrastructure & providers

  • Carefully selected infrastructure

    To provide the services we may use third-party infrastructure, hosting providers, storage providers, AI infrastructure providers, model providers, file conversion tools, monitoring tools, security tools and other service providers.

  • Vetted providers

    Where these providers process your content, we take reasonable steps to select providers offering appropriate confidentiality, security and data protection commitments.

Trust FAQ

Questions publishers ask most.

Straight answers on training, ownership, third-party providers, human review and deletion.

  • No. Luman does not use customer manuscripts, unpublished works or outputs to train, fine-tune or improve its own AI systems unless expressly agreed in writing.

Documentation

Documentation for publisher teams.

For publishers, agencies, platforms and enterprise customers, we can provide additional documentation where appropriate, including:

Documentation & Contact

Need a DPA, security overview or procurement pack?

For publishers, agencies, platforms and enterprise customers, we can provide additional documentation where appropriate. Contact us and we'll point you to the right document.

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