Wallden — Privacy Policy

Effective date: November 12, 2026

Developer: RaK Team

Privacy and support contact: wallden@rakxd.cc

This policy explains how Wallden, the Android wallpaper app with package name com.rak.wall, handles information. “We” and “our” refer to the developer identified above. Wallden is an independent client of Wallhaven and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wallhaven.

1. Overview

Wallden lets you discover, favorite, download, and apply wallpapers, and optionally change your wallpaper automatically from your downloads or from daily picks. You do not need to create a Wallden account or sign in to Wallhaven. Wallden does not operate a developer-run server for wallpaper browsing, favorites, or purchase verification.

Favorites and preferences are stored on your device. Online searches and image requests go to Wallhaven and its image-hosting infrastructure. In versions with advertising enabled, Google AdMob handles advertising. In versions with usage statistics enabled, and only where your privacy choices allow it, Google Firebase receives usage statistics and crash reports. If purchases are enabled, Google Play handles checkout and purchase restoration. These services receive information as described below.

2. Information used for wallpapers

When you browse or search, Wallden sends Wallhaven your search terms and selected filters, such as categories, content-safety filters, colors, sorting, resolution, aspect ratio, and page number. Opening a wallpaper sends its identifier; displaying, downloading, or applying an online image requests that image from its host.

Wallhaven and its hosting providers receive your IP address and ordinary network-request information, including the requested resource and request time. They may log this information to deliver content, maintain their service, enforce rate limits, and protect against abuse. Your IP address may indicate your approximate location. Wallden does not request GPS or precise-location permission.

Do not include private or sensitive information in search terms. Wallden does not send your favorites list or locally saved images to a developer-run server, although opening or fetching an image can generate a request to its host.

See Wallhaven’s privacy policy for its data practices.

3. Information stored on your device

• Favorites: wallpaper identifiers, image URLs, wallpaper metadata, and the time you added a favorite.
• Preferences: appearance, content-safety, image-quality, and viewing settings, and the search filters you last chose (categories, minimum quality, and shape).
• App activity counters: how many wallpapers you have applied and when Wallden last asked for a rating or offered automatic wallpapers, used only to avoid asking again too soon.
• Downloads: images saved to the Pictures/Wallden album and local file information used to display and open them. Downloads saved by earlier versions in their original albums remain accessible; Wallden does not automatically move them.
• Automatic wallpapers: your selected interval, screens, and source, the local image URI last used, and the identifiers of recent daily picks so they are not repeated. Rotating your downloads uses files already on your device and does not upload them. If you choose daily picks, or tap the “New wallpaper” home-screen widget without ever having set up automatic wallpapers, Wallden requests wallpapers from Wallhaven in the background using your saved filters, as described in section 2, and always from the safe catalog.
• Purchase status: whether ad-free access is active and its plan name, used to enable the purchased benefit.
• Advertising controls: consent-related storage managed by Google’s consent SDK and local wallpaper-view identifiers, counters, and timestamps used to limit interstitial ad frequency.
• Caches: downloaded image copies and network responses, used to improve loading and reduce repeated requests.

Wallden uses Android’s backup and device-transfer functionality. Depending on your Android version, device, and backup settings, the favorites database and other eligible app data may be backed up or transferred by Android. Wallden’s backup rules exclude its DataStore preferences and shared preferences, including locally stored entitlement and consent preferences. Backups are handled by your device’s backup provider, not a Wallden server. Gallery images may also be backed up independently by a gallery or cloud-photo service you use.

4. Advertising and privacy choices

In versions with ads enabled, Wallden uses Google AdMob’s Google Mobile Ads SDK for banner ads and, when configured, interstitial ads. The app uses Google’s User Messaging Platform to obtain and manage advertising privacy choices where required. Wallden requests ads only when its consent mechanism reports that requests are permitted and ad-free access is not active.

Google’s advertising services collect and share information such as:

• IP address, which may be used to estimate general location;
• device and account identifiers, including Android advertising ID, app set ID, and other identifiers where applicable;
• app and advertising interactions, such as launches, taps, and video views;
• diagnostic and performance information about the app and advertising SDK.

This information is used for advertising, analytics, and fraud prevention. Advertising identifiers may be used for ad personalization or measurement where permitted. App set ID is used for permitted non-advertising purposes, such as analytics and fraud prevention, rather than ad personalization. Data handling varies with your privacy choices, device settings, and Google’s advertising configuration; non-personalized ads do not necessarily mean that no information is collected.

Where available, use Manage ad privacy in Wallden’s settings to review or change your choices. You can also use Android’s advertising privacy controls to reset or delete your advertising ID, depending on your Android version. An active ad-free purchase suppresses ad requests, but does not erase information already held by Google or stop requests needed for wallpapers or Google Play purchases.

For details, see Google’s privacy policy, Google’s advertising information, and Google Mobile Ads SDK data disclosures.

4a. Usage statistics and crash reports

In versions with usage statistics enabled, Wallden uses Google Analytics for Firebase and Firebase Crashlytics to understand how the app is used and to find and fix crashes. Collection is off when the app is first installed and is turned on only after Wallden has checked your privacy choices. It stays off if you turn off Help improve Wallden in Settings, and where the GDPR applies it stays off unless you allowed storing information on your device in the consent message. Wallden checks these choices again each time it starts and whenever you change them, and stops collection as soon as they no longer allow it.

When collection is on, Google receives:

• the screens you open and actions such as applying, saving, favoriting, or sharing a wallpaper, changing filters, and turning automatic wallpapers on or off. Wallden does not send your search text, wallpaper identifiers, or file names with these events;
• an app-instance identifier, device model, operating-system version, app version, language, and country derived from your IP address;
• crash reports, including a stack trace, device state at the time of the crash, and an installation identifier.

This information is used for analytics and app diagnostics, not to show you personalized ads; Wallden disables Google Analytics’ ad-personalization signals. Google retains analytics event data for the period configured for the Firebase project and crash reports for 90 days. See Privacy and Security in Firebase.

If Wallden asks you to rate the app, the rating card is shown by Google Play; Wallden does not learn whether you rated it or what you wrote.

5. Purchases

If enabled, optional ad-free purchases are processed by Google Play. Wallden receives purchase information from Google Play, including product identifiers, purchase status, purchase tokens, and signed purchase records. Wallden checks signed records on your device, acknowledges purchases through Google Play, and stores your ad-free status and plan name locally. Existing supported purchases can be restored through Google Play.

Wallden does not receive your full payment-card details or operate its own payment processor. Google handles payment and its purchase records under its own policies. Clearing Wallden’s data or uninstalling it does not delete your Google Play purchase history, refund a purchase, or cancel an existing subscription.

6. Permissions and user-directed sharing

Wallden uses internet and network-state access to load content and check connectivity, and wallpaper-setting access to apply images. On Android 8 and 9, legacy storage permissions support saving and accessing downloaded wallpapers. On newer Android versions, Wallden uses Android’s media-storage APIs for its downloads. Wallden does not upload your gallery images.

The advertising SDK declares advertising-ID and Android advertising-services permissions. Background scheduling libraries also declare permissions needed for scheduled work, such as wake locks. Wallden does not request contacts, microphone, camera, or precise-location permissions.

If you choose to share a wallpaper or the app, Wallden passes a Google Play link to Wallden and, for a wallpaper, the wallpaper’s Wallhaven link and, when it has already been loaded, a copy of the image, to the app you select through Android’s share menu. The Google Play link carries a campaign label that says the install came from a share; it does not identify you. If you open a downloaded wallpaper in a gallery, Wallden gives the selected app access to that image. Those apps handle the information under their own policies.

7. Support inquiries

If you contact us at wallden@rakxd.cc, we receive the email address and information you choose to send. The app’s “Report a bug” button opens an editable draft in your email app with the app version and prompts to describe the problem. It does not automatically send email or attach logs, images, or device identifiers. Your email app handles delivery under its own privacy policy. We use the information you send to respond, investigate problems, and handle privacy requests. Please do not send payment-card details or other unnecessary sensitive information.

8. Retention and deletion

Local favorites and preferences remain until you remove them, clear the app’s storage, or uninstall the app. Advertising frequency records are updated or reset as the app manages ad frequency. Caches may be automatically evicted; you can clear cached files through Android’s app settings.

Clearing app storage or uninstalling removes app-private data from that installation, but previously backed-up favorites may be restored by Android. Manage or delete device backups through your backup provider’s controls. Downloaded gallery images can remain after uninstalling and must be deleted separately using a gallery or file manager; cloud-photo copies must be managed with that provider.

We retain support correspondence only for as long as needed to resolve your inquiry and meet applicable legal or security obligations. You can request its deletion using the privacy contact above.

Wallhaven, Google, your backup provider, and other services determine retention of information they receive under their own policies. Removing Wallden does not automatically delete their records. Use their privacy controls or contact them for applicable deletion requests. Wallden has no developer-hosted account to delete.

9. Security

Wallden’s wallpaper API and image requests use HTTPS, and the app disables cleartext network traffic. Google states that data collected by its Mobile Ads SDK is encrypted in transit using TLS. App-private data is stored within Android’s app storage; gallery downloads are in shared media storage and may be accessible to other apps that have appropriate access. No transmission or storage method can be guaranteed completely secure.

10. Your privacy rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or obtain a copy of your personal information, restrict or object to certain processing, and withdraw consent. Use the controls described above or contact us about information we hold. You may also have the right to complain to your local data-protection authority. Requests concerning information held independently by Google, Wallhaven, or another provider should also be directed to that provider.

Third-party services may process information in countries other than your own. Their policies describe applicable processing locations and transfer safeguards.

11. Children’s privacy

If you are a parent or guardian and believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so we can investigate and address any information we hold. Wallhaven and Google have their own age-related terms and privacy requirements.

12. Changes and contact

We may update this policy when Wallden’s features, service providers, or data practices change. The effective date above identifies the current version. Where required, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent for material changes.

For support, bug reports, or privacy requests, contact wallden@rakxd.cc.