Privacy

Short version: the wallpaper you make never leaves your device, and there is no account to make.

What happens to your design

Everything is drawn in your browser, on an HTML canvas. The emoji you pick, the colours, the spacing and the finished image are all produced on your own device. None of it is sent anywhere, because there is no server to send it to: this site is a set of static files.

When you share a design, the design itself is packed into the link, after the #. Browsers do not send that part of a URL to a server, so even a link you share is only read by whoever opens it.

What is stored on your device

Your most recent design is kept in your browser's local storage so the editor opens where you left it. It stays on your device, it is readable only by this site, and clearing your browser data removes it. Separately, Google Analytics sets a couple of cookies to tell repeat visits from new ones; see below.

What is loaded from elsewhere

Emoji artwork is served from this domain rather than someone else's CDN, so opening the picker does not become a request to a third party. The typeface is self-hosted for the same reason. The one thing that is loaded from elsewhere is Google Analytics, covered below. There is no ad and no embed.

Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages get read. It knows which page you looked at, roughly where in the world from and what device, and it sets a couple of cookies to tell a repeat visit from a new one. It never sees the emoji you picked, the colours, or anything else about the wallpaper you made, because that never leaves your browser in the first place. Google's own use of this data is covered by Google's privacy policy. You can opt out of it with a browser extension such as Google's own Analytics opt-out add-on, or by blocking cookies and scripts from google-analytics.com andgoogletagmanager.com.

Downloads and rights

The images you make are yours, including for commercial use. There is no watermark and nothing to attribute to us. The emoji artwork inside them belongs to its designers and carries its own licence; see emoji licences for who drew what and under which terms.

Contact

Questions about any of this can go to hello@emojiwallpaper.com.