Privacy notice

This page covers absorb.run, the public site, where the only thing collected is a waitlist signup. If you have an Absorb account, the full policy for the product lives at app.absorb.run/privacy.

Last updated 14 August 2026.

Who is responsible

Absorb is built and run from the United Kingdom. For anything on this page, including a request to remove your address, write to support@absorb.run and a person will answer.

What this site collects

If you join the waitlist, Absorb stores:

• the email address you typed;
• a lowercased copy of it, used only to stop the same address being added twice;
• the date and time you ticked the consent box;
• which version of the consent wording you were shown;
• which page you signed up from.

That is the complete list. Absorb does not store your IP address or your browser's user-agent against a signup, and this site runs no analytics, no tracking pixels and no advertising tags of any kind. There is nothing here that needs a cookie banner, because there are no cookies.

Why, and on what basis

The basis is your consent, given by ticking a box that starts unticked. Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, regulation 22, marketing email may not be sent to an individual without prior consent, so consent is recorded rather than assumed. That is also why the exact wording you agreed to is stored alongside the date: proving consent means proving what you were actually shown.

The purpose is narrow and it does not expand. You get one message when Absorb opens, and one about the founding member places. Your address is not used for anything else, and adding a new purpose later would require asking you again rather than editing this page.

Who else sees it

Nobody buys it, rents it, or receives it as a list. Absorb does not sell or share waitlist addresses, and does not use them to train anything.

Two providers process it because they run the service: the hosting and database platform where the record is stored, and the email provider that delivers the eventual message. Both act on Absorb's instructions under a data processing agreement, and neither may use your address for their own purposes.

How long it is kept

• If you never confirm your address by clicking the link in the confirmation email, the record is deleted after 30 days. Somebody typed an address and the owner of the mailbox never acted, so there is nothing to keep.
• Otherwise it is kept until Absorb opens and the message is sent, and in any case no longer than a year from the day you consented. If launch has not happened within a year, you are asked again or the record is deleted.
• If you unsubscribe, the signup is deleted and a one-way fingerprint of your address is kept instead. That fingerprint cannot be turned back into your address. It exists so that the same address cannot be re-added later from another signup or a backup restore and emailed again, which would be a fresh breach rather than a duplicate.

Your rights

You can withdraw consent at any time, and it must be as easy to withdraw as it was to give. Every message carries an unsubscribe link, and you can also write to support@absorb.run and ask to be removed. Withdrawing does not affect anything done before you withdrew.

You also have the right to ask what is held about you, to have it corrected, to have it erased, to restrict or object to its use, and to receive it in a portable form. For a waitlist address that is a short list, and the answer to all of it is the same email address above.

Because a waitlist subscriber has no account, Absorb will confirm you control the mailbox before acting on a request about it, by sending a single-use link to that address. That is to stop somebody else asking about your address, and nothing new is collected to do it.

If you are not satisfied with how a request was handled you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk, or to the supervisory authority where you live.

Age

This waitlist is for people aged 16 or over. If you are under 16, please do not sign up. If you believe a younger person's address has been added, write to the address above and it will be removed.

Changes

If this notice changes, the date at the top changes with it. Changes to what you consented to are not made by editing this page. A new purpose means asking you again.