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Privacy Policy

This page describes our data practices in general terms. It is not legal advice.

Last updated: July 10, 2026

Wallpapero respects your privacy. This policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information.

Data Controller

Wallpapero ("we", "us") is the data controller responsible for personal data processed through this website. You can reach us at privacy@wallpapero.com.

Personal Data We Collect

Depending on how you use Wallpapero, we may collect:

  • Account data: username, email address, hashed password, and any profile details you add (name, bio, location, website, social handles).
  • Content you upload: images and their metadata (title, description, tags) if you submit wallpapers.
  • IP address: temporarily associated with likes and content reports, to prevent abuse (e.g. duplicate likes, spam reports).
  • Cookies and local storage: session identifier, selected language, and your cookie-consent choice (see our Cookie Policy).
  • Email address, if you subscribe to our newsletter.
  • Name, email, and message content, if you use our contact or report forms.

How We Use Your Information

We use your email to send you wallpaper updates and occasional promotions. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Legal Basis for Processing (EU/EEA Users)

Where the GDPR applies, we process personal data on the following legal bases (Art. 6 GDPR): performance of a contract (running your account), legitimate interests (site security, abuse prevention, analytics), consent (newsletter, non-essential cookies), and legal obligation (e.g. responding to valid legal requests).

Who We Share Data With

We do not sell personal data. We share limited data with service providers who help us run Wallpapero, such as our hosting/CDN provider, and third-party services used to render fonts, icons, and default avatars (which may receive your IP address or username as part of normal web requests). These providers are only permitted to use the data to provide their service to us.

International Data Transfers

Some of our service providers may process data outside your country, including outside the European Economic Area. Where this occurs, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses or an applicable adequacy decision.

Data Retention

We retain account data for as long as your account is active, and delete or anonymize it after account deletion, except where we must retain limited records to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce our agreements. IP addresses linked to likes/reports are retained only as long as needed for abuse prevention.

Cookies

We use cookies to improve your experience and understand how you use our site. You can disable cookies in your browser settings.

Data Security

We take reasonable measures to protect your data. However, no internet transmission is 100% secure.

Your Privacy Rights (EU/EEA and UK)

Under the GDPR, you have the right to:

  • Access the personal data we hold about you.
  • Correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
  • Request erasure ("right to be forgotten") of your data.
  • Restrict or object to certain processing.
  • Receive your data in a portable format.
  • Withdraw consent at any time, without affecting prior lawful processing.
  • Lodge a complaint with your local data protection supervisory authority.

You can exercise most of these rights directly from your Profile Settings, or by contacting us at privacy@wallpapero.com.

California / U.S. Privacy Rights (CCPA/CPRA)

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the CPRA, gives you the right to know what personal information we collect, to request deletion or correction of it, and to opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information. We do not sell personal information for money, and we do not currently share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

Global Privacy Control

We honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) browser signal as a valid opt-out preference request where applicable. If your browser sends a GPC signal, we treat it as an opt-out of any sale or sharing of your personal information.

To exercise your California privacy rights, contact us at privacy@wallpapero.com.

🇯🇵 Japan — Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI)

For users in Japan, we handle personal information in accordance with the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (個人情報保護法, APPI). We disclose the purposes for which personal information is used, and you may request disclosure, correction, suspension of use, or deletion of your retained personal information by contacting us. Where we transfer personal information to a third party located outside Japan, we will inform you of that country and the relevant data protection framework, where required.

Additional Country-Specific Information

Wallpapero is available in English, German, French, Spanish, and Japanese. The GDPR rights above apply to all EU/EEA users regardless of interface language. Local supervisory authorities and additional national rules are noted below.

🇩🇪 Germany

The GDPR applies directly, supplemented by the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, BDSG). Cookie and device-storage consent is additionally governed by Section 25 of the Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG). You may lodge a complaint with your regional Landesdatenschutzbehörde.

🇫🇷 France

The GDPR applies directly, supplemented by the French Data Protection Act (Loi Informatique et Libertés). Cookie consent follows the guidelines of the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL). You may lodge a complaint with the CNIL.

🇪🇸 Spain

The GDPR applies directly, supplemented by Spain's Organic Law on Data Protection and Digital Rights Guarantee (LOPDGDD). Cookie consent follows the guidelines of the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD). You may lodge a complaint with the AEPD.

Children's Privacy

Wallpapero is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age required by local law to consent to data processing (16 in the EU unless a member state sets a lower age of at least 13; 13 in the U.S. under COPPA). If you believe a child has provided us personal data, please contact us so we can remove it.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by updating the "Last updated" date above.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this policy, please Contact Us.