Creating a Privacy Policy that satisfies everyone can be quite challenging. Most Walldy users prefer a short, straightforward document. However, regulatory authorities require us to comply with legal obligations by providing detailed explanations.
With this in mind, we've kept this Privacy Policy as simple as possible to help you make informed choices when using Walldy. Our goal is to ensure that you fully understand and have control over the information we collect, how we use it, and when we share it.
Walldy, operated by THEWALLDY LIMITED (© All rights reserved) ("we", "us", "our"), respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy describes:
- The types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you use our platform.
- Our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
- On this Platform.
- In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Platform.
- Through our mobile and desktop applications that you downloaded.
It does not apply to information collected by:
- Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated any third party.
In order to use some of our products and services, you must have an account; to create one, you need to provide us with certain information. Likewise, if you use our paid products and services, we cannot provide them to you without obtaining payment information. Simply put, certain information is required if you want to use many of our products and services.
Personal accounts. If you create an account, you will need to provide us with certain information so we can offer our services. This includes a display name (such as 'Wallers'), a username (for example, @Username), a password, an email address or phone number, a date of birth, your display language, and details related to a unique third-party identifier (if you choose this authentication method). You can also choose to share your location in your profile and posts (walldies) and upload your address book to Walldy to help you find people you may know. Your profile information, including your display name and username, is always public, but you can use either your real name or a pseudonym. Additionally, remember that you can create multiple Walldy accounts, for example, to express different aspects of your professional or personal identity.
Business accounts. If you create a business account, you will also need to provide us with a business category, and you may share additional information such as your business address, email address, and phone number where you can be contacted, all of which will always be public.
Payment information. In order to purchase advertisements or other items from our range of paid products and services, you must provide us with payment information, including your credit or debit card number, the card's expiration date, your CVV code, and your billing address.
Preferences. When you set your preferences through your settings, we collect this information to honor your choices.
Biometric information. Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for security, safety, and identification purposes.
Job applications and recommendations. We may collect and use your personal information (such as your work history, education, job preferences, skills and abilities, job search activity, etc.) to recommend potential jobs to you, to share it with potential employers when you apply for a job, to help employers find potential candidates, and to deliver more relevant advertisements to you.
When you use our services, we collect information about how you use our products and services. We use this information to provide you with our products and services, and to make Walldy safer, more respectful for everyone, and more relevant to you.
Usage Information. We collect information about your activity on Walldy, including:
The walldies (posts) and other content you publish (including the date, app, and version of Walldy) as well as information related to your booking activity, including bookings that you have created and the date you created them, bookmarks.
Your interactions with other users' content, such as reposts, stars, bookmarks, shares, or comments, if other users mention or tag you in their content or if you mention or tag them, as well as the space you have participated in (including your viewing, listening, commenting, speaking history, and your reactions).
How you interact with others on the platform, including the people you follow and those who follow you, including the people that you are friend with, the metadata related to encrypted messages, as well as your use of QuickWall, including the content of the messages (crypted content), their recipients, and the date and time of the messages.
If you communicate with us, including via email, we will collect information related to the communication and its content.
We collect information about the links you interact with across all our services (including in our emails sent to you).
Purchases and Payments. To enable you to make a payment or send money using Walldy's features or services, including through a third party, we may receive information about your transaction, such as the date it was made, the expiration or renewal date of a subscription, and the amounts paid or received.
Information on device. We collect information from the devices you use to access Walldy and about those devices, including:
Information about your connection, such as your IP address, browser type, and related information.
Information about your device and its settings, such as its device ID and advertising ID, operating system, carrier, language, memory, installed apps, and battery level.
The list of phone numbers on your device, if you have chosen to share it with us.
Location information. When you use Walldy, we collect certain information about your approximate location to provide the service you expect, including showing you relevant advertisements. You can also choose to inform us of your exact current location or the places from which you have used Walldy in the past by enabling the corresponding settings on your account.
Inferred identity. We may collect or receive information that we use to infer your identity as detailed below:
When you log into Walldy with a browser or device, we link it to your account. Depending on your settings, we may also associate your account with browsers or devices other than the ones you use to log into Walldy (or link your offline device or browser to other browsers, devices, or identifiers generated by Walldy).
When you provide additional information to Walldy, such as an email address or phone number, we associate this information with your Walldy account. Depending on your settings, we may also use this information to infer more about your identity by linking your account to hashed email addresses that share common elements with the email address you provided to Walldy, for example.
When you access Walldy without being logged in, we may infer your identity from the information we collect.
Log information. We may receive information when you view content or interact with our products and services, even if you haven't created an account or are logged out, such as:
The IP address and associated information, the browser type and language, the operating system, the referring web page, access durations, the pages visited, location, your phone carrier, device-related information (including device and application identifiers), search terms and identifiers (including those that were not submitted as queries), the ads shown to you on Walldy, identifiers generated by Walldy, and identifiers associated with cookies. We also receive log information when you click on, view, or interact with links within our services, including when you install another application through Walldy.
Ads. When you view or interact with ads that we display on Walldy or elsewhere, we may collect information about those views or interactions (for example, watching a video ad or pre-roll, clicking on an ad, interacting with reposts of an ad, or responses to an ad).
Cookies and similar technologies. Like many websites, we use cookies and similar technologies to collect additional data about website usage and to operate our services. Cookies are not necessary for many parts of our products and services, such as searching and viewing public profiles. You can learn more about how we use cookies and similar technologies here.
Interactions with our content on third-party sites. When you view our content on third-party sites that incorporate content from Walldy, such as embedded feeds or Post (Walldies) buttons, we may receive log information indicating the webpage you visited.
When you use other online products and services, they may share information with us about that usage.
Advertising partners, developers, publishers. Our advertising and business partners provide us with information, including browser cookie identifiers, Walldy-generated identifiers, mobile device identifiers, hashed user information (such as email addresses, demographic data, or interest indicators), content viewed, or actions taken on a website or within an app. Some of our advertising partners, particularly our advertisers, also allow us to collect similar information directly on their website or app through the integration of our advertising technology. The information shared by advertising partners and affiliates, or data collected by THEWALLDY LIMITED from the websites and apps of our advertising partners and affiliates, may be combined with other information you share with Walldy and that Walldy receives, generates, or infers about you, as described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy.
Other third parties, account connections, and integrations. We may receive information about you from third parties other than our advertising partners, including other Walldy users, developers, and partners who help us assess the security and quality of content on our platform, our affiliates, as well as other services you connect to your Walldy account. You can choose to link your Walldy account to your account on another service, and that service may send us information related to your account on that service.
Due to the way the systems that enable us to provide our services operate, it is not easy to categorize the different ways we use the information we collect. As a result, the same information may be used in various ways for different purposes to ultimately deliver a single service. We believe it is more helpful to describe the five main ways in which we use this information. If you have any unanswered questions, feel free to contact us. Let's get started:
We use the information we collect to provide and operate THEWALLDY LIMITED's products and services. We also use this information to improve and personalize our products and services to give you a better experience on Walldy, including showing you more relevant content and ads, suggesting people and topics to follow/be friend with, and helping you discover affiliates as well as third-party apps and services. We may use the information we collect and publicly available information to train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models for the purposes described in this policy (QuickWall's will never be used in order to train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models).
We may use information collected from accounts linked to other services you choose to connect with your Walldy account to provide features like cross-posting or authentication and to operate our services.
We may use your contact details to help third parties find your account if your settings allow it, including through third-party services and client applications.
We use your information to provide our advertising and sponsored content services, subject to your settings, which allows us to show you more relevant ads on Walldy. We also use this information to measure the effectiveness of ads and to recognize your devices to display ads both on Walldy and elsewhere. Some of our advertising partners also allow us to collect similar information directly on their website or in their app through the integration of our advertising technology. Information shared by advertising partners and affiliates, or data collected by Walldy from the websites and apps of our advertising partners and affiliates, may be combined with other information you share with Walldy and that Walldy receives, generates, or deduces about you, as described in our Privacy Policy.
We use the information we collect to ensure the safety and security of our users, our products, and our services, as well as your account. This effort includes verifying your identity, authenticating your account, and protecting against fraud, unauthorized use, and illegal activity. We also use this data to assess and improve the security and quality of content on Walldy. This encompasses conducting investigations and enforcing our policies, terms, and applicable laws.
We use the information we collect to measure and analyze the effectiveness of our products and services and to better understand how you use them, with the goal of improving them.
We use the information we collect to communicate with you about our products and services, including updates to our products and changes to our policies and terms. If you are open to it, we may also send you marketing messages from time to time.
We use the information you provide or that we collect to conduct studies, surveys, product testing, and troubleshooting, which helps us operate and improve our products and services.
You should be aware of how your information is shared, the reasons for sharing it, and the ways you can control that sharing. There are five general methods of sharing your information.
With the general public. We share this information as widely as possible. Content on Walldy, including information related to your profile (name/username, display name, and profile images, among others), is available and can be accessed by the general public. The public does not need to log in to access certain content on Walldy. They may also find content from Walldy elsewhere, such as in search engine results, for example.
With other users of Walldy. Depending on your settings and the products and services of Walldy that you use, we share:
Your interactions with other users' content on Walldy, such as likes and the people you follow.
The content you send to a specific Walldy user, including through Private Messages (QuickWall). Keep in mind that if you share information like Private Messages or protected posts with someone accessing Walldy through a third-party service, that information may be shared with them.
With partners. We may also provide certain third parties with information that helps us offer or operate our products and services.
With service providers. We may share your information with our service providers who perform functions and provide services on our behalf, including payment processors, providers hosting our various blogs and wikis, vendors that help us understand how our services are used, applicant tracking system providers for sending and receiving candidate and job data to potential employers, as well as fraud detection service providers.
With advertisers. Advertising revenue allows us to provide our products and services. Advertisers may obtain information about your reactions to their ads on Walldy and elsewhere. For example, if you click on an external link or an ad placed on our services, the advertiser or the operator of the relevant website may conclude that you came from Walldy and deduce other information associated with the ad you clicked on, such as the characteristics of the audience it was intended to reach and other identifiers generated by Walldy for that ad. They may also collect additional personal information about you, such as cookie identifiers or your IP address.
Third-party content and integrations. We share or disclose your information with your consent or at your direction, such as when you allow a third-party web client or application to access your account, or when you instruct us to share your feedback with a company. Additionally, to enhance your experience, we work with third-party partners to display their video content on Walldy or enable cross-platform sharing. When you view content from our video and cross-platform partners, or interact with them in other ways, these partners may receive and process your personal information as described in their own privacy policies.
Through our APIs. We use technologies such as APIs and embedded elements to make public information from Walldy available to websites, applications, and others for their own use, such as displaying posts on news sites or analyzing conversations on Walldy (Only Walldy can decide who can access to this ours APIs and Services). We typically provide this content for free in limited quantities, and we charge licensing fees for large-scale access. We have standard terms governing the use of this information, as well as a compliance program to ensure proper implementation. However, these individuals and companies are not affiliated with Walldy, and their offerings may not account for updates you make on Walldy.
We may preserve, use, share, or disclose your information if we believe it is reasonably necessary to:
comply with a law or regulation, a legal process, or a request from a public authority;
protect the safety of individuals, the security or integrity of our platform, including to prevent spam, inappropriate behavior, or malicious acts on our services;
explain why we have removed content or accounts from our services (for violating our Rules, for example);
respond to issues of fraud or security or address technical questions; or
protect our rights or property, or the rights and property of our users.
We may share information with our affiliates in order to provide our products and services.
We may share, sell, or transfer information about you in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, asset sale, or bankruptcy (Only if the Founder of THEWALLDY LIMITED and its services & prodcuts agree). This Privacy Policy will apply to your personal information shared with the new entity (before and after any transaction is completed) or transferred to it.
We retain various types of data for different durations:
We retain information related to your profile as well as your content as long as your account exists.
In general, we retain other personally identifiable data we collect when you use our products and services for a maximum period of 18 months.
Remember that public content may remain elsewhere even after you have deleted it from Walldy. For example, search engines and other third parties may retain copies of your posts for longer periods based on their own privacy policies, even if you have deleted them or they have expired on Walldy.
When you violate our Rules and your account is suspended, we may retain indefinitely the identifiers you used to create the account (such as your email address or phone number) to prevent the creation of new accounts by repeat offenders.
We may retain certain information longer than our policies allow in order to comply with legal requirements and for safety and security reasons.
You can access the information you provided to us, correct it, or modify it by editing your profile and adjusting your account settings.
You can learn more about the information we have obtained or inferred about you by checking Your Walldy Data and request additional information here.
You can download a copy of your information, such as your posts, by following the instructions provided here. [Available soon]. Right now, you can only do this by sending an email to data-support@walldy.com
To protect your privacy and maintain security, we take measures to verify your identity before allowing you to access your personal information or respond to a request for deletion, portability, or any other related request. In some cases, we may deny your request for access, correction, or portability. For example, we may refuse an access request if you are unable to prove your identity.
If you follow the instructions provided here, your account will be deactivated and your data will be queued for deletion. Once this process is complete, your Walldy account, including your display name, username, and public profile, will no longer be visible on Walldy.com, Walldy for iOS, and Walldy for Android. [For a period of 30 days from the time of deactivation, it will still be possible to restore your Walldy account if it was deactivated accidentally or by mistake.]
You can manage your privacy settings and other account features in our Applications on IOS, Android or on our Web platform (Not available yet). If you change your settings, there may be a delay before your choices are fully reflected in our systems. You may also notice changes in your experience on Walldy or limitations in your ability to access certain features based on the settings you have adjusted. You can also manage additional settings when interacting with certain content and features across different parts of the platform, such as whether allowing others to download the videos you upload.
To submit a request regarding the access, modification, or deletion of your information or that of another person for whom you are the authorized agent, you can also contact us in the manner indicated in the "How to Contact Walldy [THEWALLDY LIMITED]" section below in our Privacy Policy. We may ask you to provide additional information for verification purposes.
We make Walldy available to the world and provide a wide range of privacy tools and controls to all our users, regardless of where they live. However, your experience may be slightly different from that of users in other countries to allow walldy (THEWALLDY LIMITED) to comply with local requirements.
Walldy (THEWALLDY LIMITED) has conducted a thorough examination of the legal foundations that allow it to collect, use, share, and process your information. If you want to explore these issues further and better understand the nuances, we invite you to consult this additional information regarding data processing. Please be assured that we do not sell your personal information.
To allow you to use Walldy to participate effortlessly in conversations with people around the world, Walldy [THEWALLDY LIMITED] must transfer information across borders to various countries to ensure the safe and reliable service you rely on. For example, if you live in Europe and have a conversation with someone in the United States, the corresponding information must travel between these countries to provide you with that experience. This is what you expect from us.
We also utilize data centers and cloud providers, and we engage our affiliates, third-party partners, and service providers [Google//Microsoft] located in many parts of the world to help us deliver our services. Before moving data between countries, we assess the risks that the data may face and rely on Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), where applicable, to ensure the protection of your data rights. To request a copy of the Standard Contractual Clauses, please contact us here or by sending an email to data-support@walldy.com. When sharing data with third parties, we require them to maintain the same protections we do regarding your data.
Walldy [THEWALLDY LIMITED] participates in the framework for data privacy exchanged between the United States and the European Union, known as the "EU-US Data Privacy Framework" (DPF), as well as its extension for the United Kingdom and its equivalent between Switzerland and the United States. Walldy [THEWALLDY LIMITED] adheres to the DPF Principles in all processing of personal data from the European Union, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, relying on the corresponding specific DPFs. If you have a question or complaint regarding our participation in the DPF, please contact us here or send an email to support@walldy.com .
As part of our participation in the DPF, in the event of a dispute with us regarding our compliance with the DPF Principles, we will seek to resolve it through our internal complaint resolution process, or through the independent American conflict resolution body JAMS, and in some cases, through the DPF arbitration process, following the procedures and conditions outlined in Appendix 1 of the DPF Principles. Participants in the DPF are subject to the investigative and enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and other authorized statutory bodies. In certain circumstances, participants may be responsible for the transfer of personal data from the EU, Switzerland, and the UK to third parties outside the EU, Switzerland, and the UK. You can find more information here about the EU-US Data Protection Framework, its extension for the UK, and its equivalent between Switzerland and the United States.
Our services are not intended for children, and you are prohibited from using them if you are under 18 years old. You must also be of legal age to consent to the processing of your personal data in your country (in some countries, we may allow one of your parents or guardians to do so on your behalf).
The most recent version of this Privacy Policy governs the processing of your personal data by us. We may modify this Privacy Policy as needed.
In the event of a revision of this Privacy Policy, and if we make changes that we consider significant, we will notify you and provide you with the opportunity to review the revised Privacy Policy before you continue to use Walldy.
The Privacy Policy of Walldy [THEWALLDY LIMITED] is written in English but has been translated into many languages. Walldy strives to ensure that the translations are as accurate as possible to the original English version. However, in the event of discrepancies or inconsistencies, the English version of Walldy's [WALLDY LIMITED] Privacy Policy shall prevail. You acknowledge that English is the reference language for the drafting and interpretation of the terms set forth in Walldy's [WALLDY LIMITED] Privacy Policy.
Feel free to contact us if you have any thoughts or questions regarding this Privacy Policy. You can reach us through our Contact Us page or by writing to the appropriate address indicated below. You can find information about our handling of requests under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) here. Information about our handling of consumer health data and related requests as defined by Washington State's My Health My Data Act and other similar state laws can be found here.
If you live in the United States or any other country outside the European Union, EFTA States, or the United Kingdom, the data controller responsible for your personal data is THEWALLDY LIMITED, whose address is as follows:
THEWALLDY LIMITED
Attn: Privacy Policy Inquiry
51 Bracken Road,
Sandyford Business Park,
Dublin, Dublin 18
D18 CV48
If you live in the European Union, in an EFTA state, or in the United Kingdom, the data controller is THEWALLDY LIMITED, whose address is as follows:
THEWALLDY LIMITED
Attn: Privacy Policy Inquiry
51 Bracken Road,
Sandyford Business Park,
Dublin, Dublin 18
D18 CV48
You can confidentially contact THEWALLDY LIMITED's Data Protection Officer by sending an email to data-support@walldy.com . If you wish to raise a concern about our data processing practices, you can do so with your local supervisory authority or the supervisory authority of THEWALLDY LIMITED, which is the Irish Data Protection Commission, whose contact information can be found on its website.
For individuals within the EU, the GDPR grants specific rights, including:
- The right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data.
- The right to access your personal data.
- The right to rectification if your personal data is inaccurate or incomplete.
- The right to erasure of your personal data in certain circumstances.
- The right to restrict or object to processing your personal data.
- The right to data portability.
For California residents, the CCPA grants specific rights, including:
- The right to know what personal data is being collected about you.
- The right to know whether your personal data is sold or disclosed and to whom.
- The right to say no to the sale of personal data.
- The right to access your personal data.
- The right to equal service and price, even if you exercise your privacy rights.
