Privacy Policy
At Home Wall Street (accessible at homewallstreet.com), accessible alongside our web application, Gallery Wall Planner (located at homewallstreet.com/p/gallery-wall-planner.html), one of our fundamental priorities is the privacy and security of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document outlines the types of personal data and information that are collected, recorded, and processed by our website, as well as the strict privacy protections engineered into our interactive web tools.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, please do not hesitate to reach out through our official Contact Page or connect directly with the platform owner and developer, MOHAMED AHKOUT, via LinkedIn.
1. Privacy-First Architecture & Client-Side Data Handling
Unlike traditional web utilities that upload user input to remote databases, Gallery Wall Planner was specifically engineered using a client-side execution model. Your design sessions, measurements, picture uploads, and layout decisions remain confined strictly to your local web browser sandbox.
A. Personal Photo & Image Uploads
When you upload personal artwork, family photographs, or custom room background images into the Gallery Wall Planner, these image files are processed locally on your hardware using HTML5 FileReader and Canvas API technology. At no point are your personal photos uploaded to, transmitted across, backed up on, or analyzed by our external web servers. Closing your browser session or clearing local data immediately releases these image elements from memory.
B. Local Storage (HTML5 localStorage)
To allow you to resume work across sessions without requiring account logins, Gallery Wall Planner stores project preferences, wall dimensions, color palettes, and active layout configurations locally inside your device browser using HTML5 localStorage (under keys such as gallery_wall_planner_project). This data is completely private to your specific web browser and is never synced to external servers.
C. Shareable Link Generation
Our application allows users to generate shareable URL links containing encoded layout state parameters (`#state=`). To safeguard your privacy, personal photographs assigned to frames are intentionally excluded when generating share links—only numeric dimensions, positions, and styling codes are encoded.
2. Information We Collect
Home Wall Street operates with full transparency regarding data collection. We categorize information into voluntary user communications and automatically recorded web server logs.
A. Voluntarily Provided Information
We do not require account registration, user logins, names, or passwords to access our website or use Gallery Wall Planner. You may browse and use our application anonymously. However, if you voluntarily contact us via our Contact Page, we may collect:
- Your name and email address.
- The content of your message, feedback, or inquiry.
- Any optional technical details you choose to attach regarding browser bugs or feature requests.
B. Automatically Collected Information (Log Files)
Like almost all standard website hosting platforms, Home Wall Street follows standard procedures for utilizing log files. These files log visitors when they access websites. The information collected by log files includes:
- Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.
- Browser type, language, and operating system.
- Internet Service Provider (ISP).
- Date and time stamps of site visits.
- Referring and exit pages, along with click paths across the site.
This automatically collected diagnostic data is not linked to any personally identifiable information. The purpose of this information is to analyze web traffic trends, administer the site, track user engagement across technical features, and prevent security exploits.
3. Cookies and Web Beacons
Home Wall Street uses "Cookies" to store information about visitors' preferences and the specific pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. This information is used to optimize user experience by customizing web page content based on browser type, screen resolution, and visitor settings.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. Detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers' respective websites.
4. Google AdSense & Third-Party Advertising Disclosures
To support the ongoing hosting, development, and maintenance of Home Wall Street and Gallery Wall Planner as free services, we partner with third-party advertising vendor Google AdSense to display non-intrusive advertisements across our platform.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to Home Wall Street or other websites on the internet.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to our site and/or other sites across the World Wide Web.
- Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ad Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting aboutads.info.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks utilize technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons within their respective advertisements and links that appear on Home Wall Street. These technologies automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. They are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Please note that Home Wall Street has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers. You should consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt out of certain practices. Review Google's Advertising Privacy & Terms for further guidance.
5. Third-Party Integrations & Service Providers
We work with select, trusted third-party service providers to deliver site functionality and facilitate communication:
- Web3Forms: Contact form submissions submitted through our Contact Page are securely processed and relayed using Web3Forms. Web3Forms processes contact inquiries solely to deliver your message to our inbox without storing or selling your data.
- LinkedIn Professional Network: External profile links referring to platform founder and developer MOHAMED AHKOUT point to LinkedIn, governed by LinkedIn's independent privacy policy.
6. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Rights
For visitors accessing Home Wall Street from the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we ensure full compliance with rights granted under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Every European user is entitled to the following rights:
- The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data held by us.
- The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or incomplete.
- The right to erasure ("Right to be Forgotten"): You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer data collected to another organization, or directly to you.
Since Home Wall Street does not maintain user accounts or centralized database profiles, most user data exists exclusively on your local device and can be erased directly by clearing your browser cache. If you submit a formal request regarding personal data, we have one month to respond to you. Please contact us via our Contact Page to exercise any of these rights.
7. California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA) Protections
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), California residents are granted specific privacy rights concerning their personal information:
- The right to request that a business disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data collected about consumers.
- The right to request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer collected by the business.
- The right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of personal consumer data.
If you make a CCPA/CPRA request, we have 45 days to respond to you. If you wish to exercise any of these California privacy rights, please reach out via our Contact Page.
8. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
Adding protection for children while using the internet is another priority for us. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
Home Wall Street and Gallery Wall Planner do not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13 (or under 16 in certain jurisdictions). If you believe that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately, and we will make our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
9. Data Security Practices
Home Wall Street enforces strict data protection practices to prevent unauthorized access, alteration, or disclosure of user communications. Our entire platform is served securely over HTTPS encryption (TLS/SSL). Furthermore, because Gallery Wall Planner processes images and canvas design states locally within your device browser environment, your private media files remain completely insulated from network interception.
10. External Links to Other Websites
Our website and application may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us (such as developer social media profiles or third-party web resource references). If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site.