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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 6 November 202615 min read

FrameGrid is a social-media management tool for professional photographers. This document explains exactly what data the service collects, why, where it goes, and what you can do about it. It was written against an actual audit of the system, not from a template.

The service is operated by FrameGrid, Israeli Licensed Dealer no. 308978956.

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In short: three things worth knowing

  • There is no analytics, tracking, or advertising pixel anywhere in the service. We do not track you and we do not sell data to anyone. Ever.
  • The photographs remain yours alone. FrameGrid acquires no rights in them and uses them for nothing other than publishing on your behalf, at your instruction.
  • No data is ever sent to an AI service automatically. Data is sent only when an AI feature is enabled and you are actively using it, and it is not used to train models. If you do not use these features, no data is sent. Full details are in the "Artificial intelligence" section.
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Who we are and how to reach us

The service is owned and operated by FrameGrid, Israeli Licensed Dealer no. 308978956, based in Netanya, Israel.

For any privacy matter, including access, correction, or deletion, contact info@framegrid.art. We respond within 14 days.

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What we collect about you, the photographer

We collect the following because the service cannot function without it:

  • Account details: your email address and an encrypted password. These are managed on our behalf by Supabase, and we never see your password.
  • Profile details: your full name, business name, and time zone.
  • Phone number: only if you chose to provide it at sign-up or when activating a subscription. It is used solely to contact you about your account and subscription.
  • Invoicing details: business or full name, business or ID number, and an invoice email. You provide them when activating a subscription, or earlier at sign-up if you choose, and they are used to issue a tax invoice/receipt as required by law.
  • A referral code: if you signed up with a photographer’s or a partner’s code, we keep the code, its owner and when you signed up. They are used to give you what the code offers and to work out what its owner gets, from your plan and your payments.
  • Subscription status: whether the account is on a trial or a paid subscription, and the date until which access is active.
  • Publishing preferences: posts per week, preferred days and hours, a standing signature caption, and carousel size limits.
  • The photographs you upload: the files themselves, plus the original filename, image dimensions, the capture date, camera model and camera serial number from the camera data, and a mathematical fingerprint of the file used to detect duplicates.
  • The posts you create: caption, tags, scheduled time, and the resulting Instagram post identifier.
  • Your Instagram connection: username, business account id, Facebook Page id, profile picture, and an access token issued by Meta.
  • Instagram performance data: follower count, reach, profile views, likes and comments, retrieved from Meta and used for your reports and recommendations.
  • Notifications: if you enable browser notifications, the notification identifier for that device is stored.
  • Google Calendar: only if you connected it. Access is read-only, and we store the events from your primary calendar: title, description, location, time and colour. They are used to mark your shoot days in the service’s calendar.
  • Financial planning data: only if you choose to use that section. See the dedicated section below.

We do not collect your home address, and your card details never reach us: you type them in on HYP’s payment page. We keep only an identifier (a token) that lets us charge the monthly subscription, the card’s expiry date, the ID number typed in with the card (it is required on the invoice), and a record of each payment: amount, date, plan and transaction number.

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Information about your clients

FrameGrid is a tool for you. As a rule, your clients have no account in the service. The exception is client galleries: the couple and their guests open a gallery through a link you send, and the couple can also hide photographs from guests and select photographs for the printed album. We never contact them directly.

In order to publish on your behalf and to display client galleries, the service holds certain information you entered that relates to other people:

  • The name of the couple or client, as you entered it or as contained in your Lightroom collection name.
  • The date of the shoot or event.
  • The photographs themselves, in which your clients appear.
  • Instagram usernames you asked us to tag, such as the couple, the venue, the makeup artist or the dress designer. These are transmitted to Meta on every publication, because that is the only way tagging works.
  • The public profile picture of accounts you tagged, as returned by Meta, shown in the interface.
  • In client galleries: the contact name and phone number, if you entered them to send the couple the link on WhatsApp, which photographs the couple hid from guests, and their selections for the printed album.
  • In Google Calendar, if you connected it: the event details as you wrote them, for example couple names and the venue.

With respect to this information you are the responsible party, not us. We hold and process it solely on your instruction and make no independent use of it. It is your responsibility to ensure you hold the necessary consents from the people photographed, in line with your own client agreements and applicable law.

Location data: every uploaded photograph is converted to a social-ready version, and that conversion removes the EXIF metadata, including the GPS coordinates of where the photo was taken. We never read, decode, or store GPS coordinates in our database at any stage. The only EXIF values we retain are the capture date and time, and the camera model and serial number, so photographs taken on different cameras at the same event can be told apart.

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Where data is stored and who can reach it

All data and photographs are stored with Supabase, a database and storage infrastructure provider. The site itself is hosted on Vercel. These providers, and the other providers listed under "Who we share data with", operate servers outside Israel, so data is transferred to and stored outside the country.

Your photographs have a stable web address. That address contains a long random identifier that cannot be guessed, but it is not password-protected. This is a technical requirement of Meta, which must be able to download the image in order to publish it. Anyone holding the exact address can open it. We do not publish these addresses anywhere.

Your access to data is restricted to your own account through database-level authorization rules.

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Administrator access

The operator of FrameGrid has an administration panel. It exists for three purposes: running the business (how many photographers are registered, how much storage is in use, and what it costs), managing subscriptions, and providing customer support when something breaks.

In that capacity the operator has the technical ability to see the list of photographers, their email addresses, galleries, photographs, and storage usage. To manage subscriptions the operator also sees your subscription status, your payment history and card expiry date, your phone number and the invoicing details you provided. This is used strictly for operations and support, and never to browse your work without cause.

Your financial data is not reachable from the administration panel. No administrative code path reads the financial tables.

For support purposes, the operator can log into your account and act within it on your behalf, including uploading, editing, styling and publishing, strictly for operations and support and never for independent use of your content. Even during such access, the financial section remains fully blocked and inaccessible. In the future we will add an explicit approval step on your part before such access.

Such access may include your connected Instagram and Facebook account and the data obtained from Meta, including publishing content on your behalf. This data is used solely to provide the service and support, and is never sold or shared with any third party for any other purpose.

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The financial section

The service includes a personal financial planning area for income, expenses and targets. Using it is entirely your choice, and if you do not use it, it stays empty.

The area is protected by an additional passcode that you set, separate from your login password. The passcode is stored as a one-way hash and cannot be recovered, not even by us. If you forget it, we cannot restore it for you.

To be precise: the passcode is an access gate, not encryption of the underlying data. We do not access your financial data, but we do not represent it as encrypted at rest.

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Who we share data with

We do not sell data and we do not share it with advertisers. The only transfers are the following, all of which are necessary to operate the service:

  • Meta (Instagram / Facebook): when you publish, we send the photographs you selected, the caption, and the usernames you asked to tag. We also retrieve your account performance data from them.
  • HookMyApp: our Instagram publishing partner. Some accounts are connected through them, and for those, publishing to Meta passes through their service. In that case they receive, at the moment of publishing, the image URL, the caption and the usernames to tag, and performance data is retrieved through them as well. They get no access to our database, to your galleries, or to your account details. Under their privacy policy, content passing through them is deleted from their database after seven days. Settings states explicitly whether your account is connected this way.
  • HYP (Hyp Pay) and the card company MAX: our payment processors. HYP makes the charges and issues the invoices, and receives the invoicing details you provided (business name, business or ID number, email and phone) and the amount charged. You give your card details to HYP directly, on its payment page. The transaction itself goes through MAX.
  • Supabase: database storage, image files, and authentication.
  • Resend: sends the service’s emails, such as sign-up verification, password resets and subscription notices. It receives your email address and the message content.
  • Vercel: website hosting. Every request to the site passes through them.
  • Railway: our video processing server. When a reel file is created, the photographs, video and music you chose are sent to it to assemble the file, and are deleted from it as soon as it finishes.
  • Anthropic: our AI provider. It receives data only when you use one of the AI features, as described in the next section.
  • Your browser vendor’s push service (Google, Apple, or Mozilla, depending on your browser): only if you enabled notifications. They receive an encrypted message containing a short headline.
  • Google (Drive): only if you created a client gallery. The file list is read from the Drive folder you shared. The photographs load directly from Google’s servers into the viewer’s browser, so Google receives the viewer’s IP address.
  • Google (Calendar): only if you connected Google Calendar. We read the events from it and never write to it.
  • YouTube: the tutorial videos behind the help button are hosted on YouTube. The player loads only when you press a video, in YouTube’s reduced-cookie version. Until then nothing is sent to YouTube.
  • WhatsApp: when you choose to send a message from within the service, for example when sending a gallery link to a couple, a chat opens on your side with the message ready, and you send it yourself. The service itself sends nothing to WhatsApp.

And for complete clarity, the service contains none of the following: analytics tooling, advertising pixels, or third-party error monitoring.

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Artificial intelligence

Some recommendations in the service, such as layout template selection, post suggestions and ranking images by performance, are arithmetic scoring that runs on our own servers. They do not use artificial intelligence and send data to no provider.

In addition, the service has three optional features that use Anthropic’s AI service. Nothing is sent to it automatically or in the background: data is sent only when a feature is enabled and you are actively using it. If you do not use it, nothing is sent. This is the data each one sends, and only while it is in use:

  • Gallery photo analysis: a reduced copy of each photograph (up to 512 pixels) is sent to identify what it shows, so posts can be ordered by content. The feature is off by default and runs only after you approve it.
  • The Premiere plugin: the transcript or caption text of the project you chose, to check spelling or to suggest a structure for the video.
  • Translation in the editor chat: the messages and notes you and your editor write during an editing job, so each side reads them in their own language.

Anthropic processes the data only to return a response and, under its commercial terms, does not use it to train models. We keep only the result on our side, for example the photo description or the translated message.

No detail about your clients beyond what appears in the photograph or text you chose to process is sent to an AI provider. Should we add a new AI feature that receives a different kind of data, we will update this document in advance.

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Cookies

The service uses only strictly necessary cookies. There are no advertising or tracking cookies, and therefore no consent banner:

  • A session cookie that keeps you signed in across pages.
  • Security cookies used while connecting Instagram or Google Calendar. They live for ten minutes and prevent request forgery.
  • A password-reset cookie that lives for up to one hour, only while you set a new password.
  • A financial-section cookie that keeps that area unlocked for 12 hours after you enter your passcode.
  • A gallery cookie, set for 30 days for someone who entered a gallery password so they need not enter it again. It holds an encoded token, never the password itself.
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Statistics on our landing pages

On FrameGrid's landing pages (for example framegrid.art/gallery) we count visits and clicks anonymously: which site you came from, whether you use a phone or a computer, and whether you pressed the sign-up button. No cookies are set, nothing is stored on your device, and your IP address is not kept: together with your browser type it becomes a one-way code that changes every day, so you cannot be identified or followed from one day to the next.

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How long we keep data

Data is retained for as long as your account is active. When access ends and is not renewed, your content is kept for another 30 days and is then permanently deleted: the galleries in Content, the photographs, posts, stories, reels, the Instagram connection and the plugin key. If you have a client gallery, the account and the first gallery are kept; if not, the whole account is deleted. We notify you in advance by email and in the service.

Marketing email is sent only to those who ticked the consent box when signing up. Consent can be withdrawn at any time.

In-app notifications are deleted automatically after 24 hours. The Instagram access token expires on its own after roughly sixty days, after which reconnection is required.

When your account is deleted, all data and files are permanently erased. Payment records and the invoices issued for them are kept in the business’s accounting records for the period required by law. See the Data Deletion page for details.

So that the free trial is given once per Instagram account, a one-way encrypted fingerprint of the connected Instagram account ID is kept, also after the account is deleted. Neither the account name nor its ID can be recovered from it, and it is used for this purpose only.

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Your rights

Under the Israeli Protection of Privacy Law, 5741-1981, as amended, you have the following rights:

  • To review the information held about you.
  • To request correction of inaccurate or outdated information.
  • To request deletion of your data and your account.
  • To request a copy of your data.
  • To disconnect your Instagram connection at any time from the settings page.

To exercise any of these rights, contact info@framegrid.art. We will handle your request within 14 days. If our response does not satisfy you, you are entitled to contact the Israeli Privacy Protection Authority at the Ministry of Justice.

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Security

Traffic to the site is encrypted. Passwords are stored hashed and cannot be recovered. Database-level rules restrict each photographer to their own data. The Lightroom plugin key is stored only as a one-way hash and is shown to you exactly once, at the moment it is created.

The access token issued by Meta is stored in our database and protected by authorization rules, but is not separately encrypted. We are working to improve this.

No system is perfectly secure. If a security incident occurs that may affect your data, we will notify you and the competent authorities as required by law.

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Minors

The service is intended for business owners and is not intended for use by anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect information about minors as users of the service.

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Changes to this policy

If we make a material change to this document, for example adding a new provider that receives data, we will notify you in the app or by email before it takes effect. The date of the most recent revision appears at the top of this page.

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