Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 7, 2026

This policy explains what happens to information when you use freeinstagramgridmaker.com (“the site”, “we”, “us”). It is written to be read rather than skimmed past, and it is short because there genuinely isn't much to describe.

Who this applies to

This policy covers the website at freeinstagramgridmaker.com and the grid-splitting tool hosted on it. It does not cover Instagram, Meta, or any other site you may reach from a link here — those services have their own policies and we have no control over them.

By using the site you accept the practices described below. If you do not agree with them, please stop using the site.

Your photos

Your images are never uploaded. When you choose a photo, your browser reads the file directly from your device and cuts it into tiles using the HTML Canvas API. All of that computation happens inside the page, on your own hardware.

Concretely, this means:

• No copy of your photo is transmitted to us, and we operate no server that could receive one.
• Nothing is written to a database, an object store, or a temporary upload directory.
• The tiles exist only in your browser's memory until you download them or close the tab.
• We cannot see your images, recover them, or share them, because we never have them.
• Because no network is involved in the processing, the tool keeps working with your device offline once the page has loaded.

This is a structural property of how the tool is built, not a promise about how we behave. There is no code path that could send your photo anywhere.

How to verify this yourself

You do not have to take our word for it. Open your browser's developer tools (F12, or Cmd + Option + I on a Mac), switch to the Network tab, then split an image. You will see no request carrying your photo — no upload, no background POST, no analytics beacon. You can also disconnect from the internet entirely after the page loads and split images normally.

What we do not collect

To be explicit, the site does not ask for, receive or store any of the following:

• Names, email addresses, phone numbers or postal addresses
• Passwords or account credentials — there are no accounts
• Payment details — the tool is free and there is nothing to buy
• Your photos, or any metadata extracted from them
• Contact lists, location data, or device identifiers
• Behavioural profiles, advertising identifiers or cross-site tracking data

Server logs

The site is delivered as static files by a third-party hosting provider. Like essentially every web server, that provider may automatically record technical details of each request: IP address, user-agent string, requested URL, referring page, timestamp and response status.

These logs exist for security, abuse prevention and diagnosing outages. We do not use them to build profiles of individuals, we do not combine them with any other data, and we do not sell or share them. Log retention is governed by the hosting provider's own policy and is typically measured in days or weeks.

Cookies and local storage

The site sets no cookies. There is no consent banner here because there is nothing to consent to — no advertising cookies, no analytics cookies, no session cookies.

We also do not write to localStorage, sessionStorage or IndexedDB to identify or track you. Your browser may cache the page's static files (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, icons) as it would for any website; that cache lives on your device, is not readable by us, and can be cleared at any time from your browser settings.

Analytics

At the time of writing the site runs no analytics of any kind — no Google Analytics, no Meta Pixel, no third-party tag manager.

If privacy-preserving analytics are introduced later, they will be cookie-free and will record only aggregate figures such as page views and referrer domains. They will never receive your images and never anything that identifies you personally. This page will be updated, and the date at the top changed, before any such change goes live.

Third parties and subprocessors

No advertising networks, social media widgets, embedded videos, third-party fonts, comment systems or chat widgets are loaded on this site. Every asset the page requests comes from our own domain.

The one third party necessarily involved is our static hosting and content-delivery provider, which serves the files to your browser and therefore processes your IP address as described under Server logs. No other company receives data about your visit.

Advertising

The site currently shows no advertising and participates in no ad network. Should that ever change, this policy will be updated first and will name the network involved.

Children's privacy

The site is a general-audience utility and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, children included — there is no mechanism on the site through which a user of any age could submit personal information to us.

International transfers

Because your photos never leave your device, no image data crosses any border. The static files that make up the site are served from a content-delivery network with servers in multiple countries, so the request you make to load the page may be answered by a server outside your own country. That request contains no personal content beyond the technical details listed under Server logs.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, data-protection law such as the EU/UK GDPR, the California Consumer Privacy Act, or similar legislation may give you rights over personal data an organisation holds about you. These typically include the right to access it, correct it, delete it, restrict or object to its processing, receive a portable copy, and complain to a supervisory authority.

In practice we hold no personal data about you, so most such requests have nothing to act on. We have no account records, no email list, and no image files. If you believe we hold data about you nonetheless, write to us at the address below and we will investigate and respond.

We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined under California law, and we never have.

Legal basis for processing

Where the GDPR applies, the only processing we carry out is the technical logging described above, and the legal basis for it is our legitimate interest in keeping the site available and secure. We do not rely on consent, because we ask for none and collect nothing that would require it.

Data retention

We retain no user data, because we collect none. Hosting-provider request logs are retained by that provider under its own schedule, generally a short period for operational and security purposes. Your photos and the tiles cut from them exist only in your browser's memory and are gone the moment you close the tab.

Security

The site is served exclusively over HTTPS, so the connection between your browser and the server is encrypted. Since your images are processed locally, the most common risk to user-uploaded files — a breach of the server holding them — does not apply here, because no such server exists.

No system can be guaranteed perfectly secure, but the smallest attack surface is the one with no user data on it.

Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

Some browsers send a “Do Not Track” header or a Global Privacy Control signal. We honour both trivially: we do not track visitors whether or not the signal is present, so there is no behaviour for it to change.

Links to other sites

This site links to external sites — Instagram, for example — where that is useful. Once you follow such a link you are subject to that site's privacy policy, not ours. We are not responsible for the content or data practices of any external site.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy to reflect changes in how the site works or in applicable law. The “last updated” date at the top of this page always reflects the current version. For material changes — introducing analytics or advertising, for instance — we will update this page before the change takes effect, not afterwards.

Contact

Questions, concerns or data-protection requests can be sent to hello@freeinstagramgridmaker.com. We aim to respond within 30 days.

This policy describes our actual practices in plain language. It is not legal advice, and if you need a formal assessment of your own obligations you should consult a qualified adviser.