Cookie Policy

Effective: September 24, 2024
Last Updated: September 24, 2024

Cookies and similar technologies, such as pixels and local storage, enhance your experience on Walldy by making it better, faster, and more secure. These cookies are essential for the functioning of our services, which encompass our websites, applications, APIs, pixels, embeds, and email communications. In particular, Walldy utilizes these technologies to:

  • Provide the features and functionalities of Walldy services

  • Keep you logged in to Walldy.

  • Store and respect your preferences.

  • Personalize the content you see.

  • Protect you against spam and abuse.

  • Show you more relevant ads.

  • Provide subscription features and distribute certain content.

  • Understand how you interact with our services and where we can improve.

  • Measure the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing.

  • Rate how our services perform and identify bugs and other quality issues.

  • Gather data used to operate our business — from measuring our audience size to enforcing the Walldy's Rules

What are cookies, pixels, and local storage ?

Cookies are small files stored on your device as you browse the web or use an app with internet access. We use cookies to run our services, analyze how people interact with them, identify ways to improve functionality, and more. See above for additional examples of how we use cookies.

Pixels are small pieces of code embedded in a web page, app, or email. Like many services, we use pixels — some of which are provided to advertisers for use on their own websites — to track whether you’ve interacted with specific content. This allows us to measure performance, enhance our services, and tailor your experience, including the ads and content displayed to you.

We use local storage to store data on your computer or mobile device. We use local storage data to enable smooth web navigation, remember video player settings, personalize content based on your previous interactions with our services, retain your preferences, and measure ad performance. In some cases, we may also utilize local storage on other websites to offer specific features or gather insights about your visits to those sites.

Why do our services use these technologies ?

Cookies, pixels, and local storage are essential for running and supporting our business, while enhancing your overall experience. They are utilized in the following areas:

  • Authentication and security

  • Functionality

  • Analytics

  • User preferences

  • Research and development

  • Personalized content

  • Advertising

  • Marketing

  • Personalization across devices

Within each of these categories, cookies, pixels, and local storage help us:

Authentication and security

Authenticate your access to Walldy in order to display relevant content. They also help protect your account from unauthorized access. We use these technologies to:

  • Log you in to Walldy and our services.

  • Help protect your security and the security of our services.

  • Let you view content with limited distribution.

  • Help us detect and fight spam, abuse, and other activities that break the Walldy's Rules.


Functionality

Display error messages, enable account switching, synchronize our service across browser tabs, and offer specific features on partner websites.


User preferences

Retain information about your browser and your preferences.


Analytics

  • Enhance and analyze how users interact with our services, including features like buttons and widgets.

  • Track how many people have viewed a specific post, embedded content, buttons, or timelines.

  • Enhance your experience by analyzing how you engage with our services, such as the frequency and timing of your usage, the links you click on, and where you're accessing them from. (We may use Google Analytics to assist with this.)


Research and development

  • Collect information on your usage of our services, including their performance. This enables us to identify problems, pinpoint areas for improvement, and create new products or services.

  • Evaluate updates to Walldy services and develop new features, functionalities, and offerings.


Personalized content

Tailor our services to provide more relevant content in areas such as trends, stories, ads, and recommendations for people to follow. We also utilize:

  • Local storage helps us track which sections of your Walldy timeline you’ve already viewed, allowing us to display new content for you. [Walldy maintains its goal of not doing this.]

  • Cookies are used to recommend individuals you may want to follow, based on your visits to websites that incorporate Walldy's services. [Walldy maintains its goal of not doing this.]


Advertising

Customize advertisements and assess their performance by displaying ads and measuring their effectiveness based on your visits to our advertising partners' websites. This enables advertisers to present you with high-quality ads and content that are more likely to capture your interest. Additionally, we will:

  • Display advertisements, evaluate their performance, and enhance their relevance to you based on factors such as your activity on Walldy and your visits to our advertising partners' websites.

  • Collaborate with external advertising partners, such as Google, to promote our services.


Marketing

Execute our email and web marketing campaigns while assessing their effectiveness.


Personalization across devices

Identify the devices you use so we can tailor your experience across all of them.

Please note that if you log in to Walldy using a device, we link and will continue to link that device to your account. This means that even if you’re not logged in, we will receive information about your device(s) whenever data is shared by a partner, you visit walldy.com or third-party sites that integrate Walldy's services, or you access a website or mobile app of an Walldy's advertiser. Typically, we use IP addresses and the timestamps of data collection to associate that device with you.

For more details on the devices and web browsers linked to your Walldy account, contact us directly at data-support@walldy.com.

Where are these technologies used ?

We (along with third parties) utilize these technologies across Walldy's services, which encompass our websites, applications, and services, as well as on other sites, applications, and services that integrate Walldy features, including third-party platforms that incorporate our advertising technology. This applies to our advertising partners' websites and any sites that utilize our embeds, such as embedded timelines. Additionally, third parties may employ these technologies when you click on links from Walldy services, interact with third-party content within Walldy services, or visit third-party websites that use our advertising technology.

What are my privacy options ?

Walldy currently does not collect information about other websites where you may encounter Walldy content or access our services. However, if this practice changes in the future, you will be informed and given the opportunity to modify your preferences by navigating to: Settings > Privacy & safety > Close-Walldy activity > Allow use of where you see Walldy content across the web.

For specific paid subscription features, even if we begin to collect such information, we will retain only what is necessary for those features to function properly. We will notify you about any data storage when you sign up for these features.

If you disable this option, or if you are located in the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, or Switzerland, we will not store or use your web page visits to enhance your future experience. However, if we have previously collected your web browsing history, we may still personalize your experience based on the information we've gathered.

You will always see ads on Walldy influenced by your activity on the platform. There are several ways you can adjust how Walldy uses your data for advertising purposes. You can utilize the following tools:

  • Interest-based advertising for web

    Opt-out in your current browser through the Digital Advertising Alliance's consumer choice tool at optout.aboutads.info.


  • Limit ad tracking for iOS version 13 and earlier

    Turn on this setting through your iOS device settings (precise instructions vary by version).


  • Ads personalization for Android

    Opt out through your device settings (precise instructions vary by version).


  • Allow apps to request to track for iOS version 14 and later

    Turn off the setting through your device settings (precise instructions vary by version).


  • Cookie settings through web browsers

    Most browsers will request your permission to use cookies. Note that if you turn off cookies entirely, Walldy services may not work correctly or you might have trouble logging into walldy.com.

More privacy options

In addition to optout.aboutads.info, you can find more information on opting out of interest-based ads at networkadvertising.org/choices. Additionally, you can opt-out of interest-based Google ads by using Google’s Ads Settings.

Important: To view or modify web settings for your Walldy account, you must log in through a web browser. Adjusting your Walldy settings in the browser while you are logged out will only impact behavior on that browser when you are not signed in to Walldy.


The cookies you come across will vary based on the features and functionality you utilize. The most frequently used cookies on Walldy services will be publish on a chart once we begin using them. Additionally, cookie lifespans will be limited to a maximum of 13 months in specific regions.

Contact Us

For any questions about these Cookie Policy, please contact us at support@walldy.com

Date of Entry into Force: 24 september 2024