Privacy Policy (Absurd Time Comics)

Effective date: 30 December 2025

Absurd Time Comics (“Absurd Time Comics”, “we”, “us”, “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect your personal information when you visit our website, place an order, contact us, or otherwise interact with us online.

1) Who we are (Data Controller)

Business name: Absurd Time Comics
Contact email: josh@absurdtimecomics.co.uk
For UK data protection law purposes, Absurd Time Comics is the data controller for the personal information we process.

2) The personal information we collect

We may collect and process the following categories of personal information:

Information you provide to us

• Identity and contact details: name, email address, telephone number

• Order and account information: items purchased, order history, account details (if you create an account)

• Delivery and billing details: addresses and other information needed to fulfil your order

• Communications: messages you send us by email, contact forms, social media, or other channels

Payment information

We use third-party payment providers to process payments. We do not store full card details on our systems. Your payment provider will process payment information in accordance with their own privacy policy.

Information collected automatically

When you use our website, we may collect:

• Technical data: IP address, browser type/version, device information, time zone setting

• Usage data: how you use our website (pages visited, links clicked, referral source)

• Cookies and similar technologies (see section 9)

3) How we use your personal information

We use your personal information to:

• Process and fulfil orders, including delivery, returns, refunds, and customer support

• Communicate with you about your orders or enquiries

• Operate, maintain, and improve our website and services

• Prevent fraud and keep our website and customers safe

• Send marketing (only where permitted and in line with your preferences)

4) Our lawful bases for processing (UK GDPR)

Under the UK GDPR, we rely on the following lawful bases:

• Contract: to take payment, process orders, and deliver items you purchase

• Legitimate interests: to run and improve our business, provide customer service, prevent fraud, and secure our website (we balance this against your rights)

• Legal obligation: to keep records for tax, accounting, and other legal requirements

• Consent: for certain marketing and cookie-related activities where required (you can withdraw consent at any time)

5) Marketing preferences

If you opt in to receive marketing, we may send you updates, offers, and news. You can unsubscribe at any time by using the link in our emails (where available) or by contacting us at josh@absurdtimecomics.co.uk.

We do not sell your personal information to third parties for their marketing.

6) Who we share your personal information with

We may share personal information with trusted third parties when necessary to operate our business, such as:

• Website/e-commerce providers (the platform that hosts our store)

• Payment processors (to take payments securely)

• Delivery and courier services (to ship your order)

• IT, security, and fraud-prevention providers

• Analytics and performance providers (to understand how our website is used)

We may also share information where required by law, to enforce our terms, or to protect our rights, customers, and business.

7) International transfers

Some of our service providers may process personal information outside the UK. Where this happens, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place (for example, UK-approved international data transfer mechanisms) to protect your information.