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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 29 March 2026

Future Times ("we", "us", "our") is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect when you use futuretimes.cloud, how we use it, and your rights under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

By using our website or subscribing to our services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this policy.

1. Who We Are

Future Times is a digital publication providing prediction-market-informed journalism. Our registered office is in England and Wales. For data-related enquiries, contact us at: info@futuretimes.cloud.

2. Data We Collect

We collect information in the following ways:

• Account data — name, email address, and password (managed by Clerk, our authentication provider)
• Payment data — billing information and subscription status (processed by Stripe; we do not store card details)
• Usage data — pages visited, articles read, subscription tier, and account preferences stored in your user profile
• Wallet addresses — if you use the Wallet Intelligence feature, any Polygon wallet address you submit is sent to Polymarket's public data API for analysis; we do not store wallet addresses beyond the duration of the analysis request
• Communications — if you contact us by email, we retain correspondence for support purposes

3. How We Use Your Data

We use your personal data to:

• Provide and maintain your account and subscription
• Process payments and manage billing
• Send you our newsletter and editorial updates (only if you have subscribed or signed up)
• Deliver personalised features such as saved articles and account preferences
• Improve and develop our service
• Comply with legal obligations

Our legal basis for processing is: contract performance (delivering your subscription), legitimate interests (improving the service, security), and consent (newsletter communications).

4. Third-Party Services

We share limited data with the following trusted third parties to operate our service:

• Clerk — authentication and user account management (clerk.com/privacy)
• Stripe — payment processing and subscription billing (stripe.com/privacy)
• Beehiiv — newsletter delivery and subscriber management (beehiiv.com/privacy)
• Anthropic — AI-generated editorial commentary in the Wallet Intelligence feature. Wallet analysis data is sent to Anthropic's API to generate summaries. We do not send identifiable personal information to Anthropic (anthropic.com/privacy)
• Sanity — content management system for storing and serving editorial content
• Vercel — hosting and infrastructure (vercel.com/legal/privacy-policy)
• Polymarket — public prediction market data API (no personal data is shared)

We do not sell your personal data to third parties.

5. Cookies

We use strictly necessary cookies to maintain your session and authentication state (managed by Clerk). We do not use advertising or tracking cookies. Analytics, if enabled in future, will be handled through privacy-preserving tools and disclosed in an update to this policy.

6. Data Retention

We retain your account data for as long as your account is active or as required to provide our service. If you delete your account, we will delete or anonymise your personal data within 30 days, except where retention is required by law (e.g. financial records, which Stripe may retain for up to 7 years).

7. Your Rights

Under UK GDPR, you have the right to:

• Access — request a copy of the personal data we hold about you
• Rectification — ask us to correct inaccurate data
• Erasure — request deletion of your data ("right to be forgotten")
• Restriction — ask us to limit how we use your data
• Portability — receive your data in a machine-readable format
• Objection — object to processing based on legitimate interests
• Withdraw consent — unsubscribe from marketing at any time via the unsubscribe link in any email

To exercise any of these rights, email us at info@futuretimes.cloud. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.

8. International Transfers

Some of our service providers are based outside the UK and EEA (including the United States). Where data is transferred internationally, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place, such as Standard Contractual Clauses or adequacy decisions, as required under UK GDPR.

9. Security

We implement industry-standard security measures including encrypted connections (HTTPS/HSTS), authentication controls, and access restrictions to protect your data. No method of transmission over the internet is completely secure; while we strive to protect your data, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify subscribers of material changes by email or via a notice on the website. Continued use of the service after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

11. Contact

For any privacy-related questions or to exercise your rights, please contact us at: info@futuretimes.cloud.