Privacy Policy
Last updated: 14 October 2026
In short
We ask only for what we need to deliver what you asked for. To buy a photo portal we need your name, contact details and delivery address. To receive your Heart Painting materials we need only your email, and we delete it 7 days after sending, unless you also subscribe to our news.
Your pulse is measured by your phone camera, inside your browser. No video or camera images leave your device. We do not use advertising pixels or third-party analytics. We do not sell personal data.
Who is responsible
Stanislav Bartnikas, operating under a Freelancer Permit issued by Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone Authority (RAKEZ), United Arab Emirates. Address: Business Center, RAKEZ, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE.
Privacy questions and requests, orders and returns: support@bartnikas.com.
This policy covers the English-language part of bartnikas.com and Heart Painting at heart.bartnikas.com. The Russian rouble store is run by a Russian sole proprietor and has its own policy: bartnikas.com/privacy_ru.
What the camera does in Heart Painting
The camera is on only while your pulse is being measured. Your face is found and the pulse is calculated in your browser, by an open-source algorithm. The video stream and the frames never leave your device and are not recorded anywhere.
This is not a medical measurement. Movement, light and the camera itself affect accuracy, and we do not use the result to say anything about your health.
To draw the painting, the browser loads a face-detection library from cdn.jsdelivr.net and a face model from storage.googleapis.com. It also requests the current weather at the place of the photo portal from api.open-meteo.com, using the coordinates of the photo portal, not yours. Like any site you load something from, these services see your IP address and browser type. Nothing else is sent to them.
What we store
The painting recipe. For every painting, our server keeps its recipe: the photo portal, the style, the brush path, the rhythm of your heartbeats, the weather at the place and the software version. The recipe lets us print the painting and rebuild its video. It contains no name, no email and no IP address. We keep recipes without a time limit, as the archive of the project.
Your email, if you ask for your materials. We use your email, your painting number and the answers you choose to the question "What did you feel?" to send you the wallpaper, the postcard and the video. We delete your email 7 days after the letter is sent, unless you also subscribe to our news. The files can be downloaded for 30 days. If you press "Save my materials for 90 days" in the letter, we keep your email and files for 90 days from that moment. After your email is deleted, the recipe and your answers can no longer be linked to you.
News about new photo portals, if you subscribe. This is a separate, optional checkbox. Ticking it is your consent, and your address is added to the news list. A subscription lasts 24 months unless you unsubscribe earlier. Every letter has an unsubscribe link.
Orders. Through the shop cart we collect your name, email, phone number, delivery address and order details. We use them to take payment, print and deliver your order, and handle questions and returns.
Messages. When you write to us through a form or by email, we keep your name, email and message to answer you.
Why we are allowed to use your data
We refer to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The same bases apply under UK GDPR where it applies.
- Orders and order questions: to perform the sales contract and take steps you asked for (Article 6(1)(b)).
- Heart Painting materials, the 90-day option and news emails: your consent (Article 6(1)(a)). You can withdraw it at any time.
- Answering other messages, keeping the site and server working and secure: our legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f)).
- Keeping order and payment records: legal obligations where they apply (Article 6(1)(c)), otherwise our legitimate interest in keeping proper records and handling claims.
Who else receives data
We use these services, each only for the purpose described:
- Tilda Publishing: the website, shop cart and forms. Tilda states that it stores data in the EU, with backups that may be kept in the United States.
- Stripe: payments. You enter card details directly with Stripe; we never see your full card number. Stripe may use cookies on the payment page for payment security and fraud prevention.
- Prodigi: printing and shipping. Receives your name, delivery address, order details and the image file. Prodigi works with production partners in the UK, Europe and other regions, and an order may be produced at the partner closest to you.
- Carriers chosen for your delivery: your name and delivery address.
- Namecheap Private Email: our mailboxes, including the letters with your Heart Painting materials.
- Fornex: the Heart Painting server, located in Switzerland.
Some of these services also process data for their own purposes, such as fraud prevention or legal duties. Their own privacy notices explain this.
International transfers
The controller is based in the UAE. Data may be processed in the countries listed above. The EU recognises Switzerland and the UK as providing adequate protection; the UAE and the United States are covered only where specific safeguards apply. Where a transfer needs safeguards, we rely on the standard contractual clauses and data processing terms offered by the service concerned. You can ask us for details at support@bartnikas.com.
How long we keep data
- Email for Heart Painting materials: 7 days after the letter is sent, or 90 days if you choose to save your materials. If a letter cannot be sent, 30 days from your request. If you subscribed to news, your email is kept for the subscription instead.
- Heart Painting files (wallpaper, postcard, video): 30 days, or 90 days if you choose to save them.
- News subscription: 24 months from subscribing, or until you unsubscribe. After you unsubscribe, we keep only a record that the address unsubscribed, so we do not write to it again.
- Painting recipes and anonymous answers: without a time limit, with no link to you.
- Orders and payment records: as long as accounting, tax and consumer rules require.
- Messages: up to 2 years after our last exchange, unless they relate to an order.
- Server logs: up to 14 days.
Cookies and browser storage
Tilda's own statistics run with cookies switched off. We use no third-party analytics and no advertising pixels.
The shop cart keeps its contents in your browser. Heart Painting keeps your sound setting and, for up to 24 hours, the state of your last screen, so that nothing is lost if your phone reloads the page. This data stays in your browser. Stripe may set cookies on the payment page, as described above. You can clear browser storage at any time in your browser settings.
Your rights
You can ask us to show, correct or delete your data, to restrict its use or to send it to you in a portable form. You can object to processing based on legitimate interest, and withdraw consent at any time without affecting what was done before.
Write to support@bartnikas.com. We reply within one month. Once data has been made anonymous, we can no longer find it as yours.
We do not make decisions about you based solely on automated processing.
If you think we have handled your data wrongly, you can complain to the data protection authority in the EU country where you live or work, or to the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk). You are welcome to write to us first.
Children
Heart Painting email delivery and news emails are not intended for children under 16. We do not knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has given us their email, write to support@bartnikas.com and we will delete it.
Security
All connections to the site and the server are encrypted. Access to stored data is limited and password-protected. Heart Painting data is kept to the minimum described above, and emails are deleted on schedule.
Changes
When our services or data practices change, we update this page and its date. If a change needs your new consent, we will ask for it.
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What people say
“Within a few seconds I was deeply immersed in my body. Calm and joy came. And a message from this portal: you can lean on the world.”
Stanislav, something incredible has just happened to me (and is still happening). My first look at the photograph: a smile from ear to ear and such joyful jubilation inside: "Oh, I know this! This energy is familiar to me."
And then it hit me: as if an osteopath took me gently and firmly by the shoulders, put a knee against my thoracic spine and began to straighten my back, strongly and gently. My shoulders turned and dropped back, my neck began to lengthen, the crown of my head up, my chest opened, and I still can't slouch the way I usually do.
And yet there is no tension, inside there is absolute calm and jubilation. I don't yet understand what these energies are doing with my body, but I really like it! Thank you from my heart for sharing this miracle!
This is another long-held dream of ours: a photograph of the planet by Stanislav. It is our wedding gift to ourselves. It carries a very powerful meaning.
myfamilyschoolA wedding gift to themselves
Pure joy. I can really feel the energy of the work in the space. When I buy a house, I'll order a few more works in a large size.
Natali ApraksinaWith her photo portal at homeAll portals are fantastic, they are so alive. The portal I chose took me deep into sensations, as if I were flying and seeing the place with my own eyes. While watching, I felt my whole body. It raised feelings and emotions.
Thank you, Stanislav, for your gift to the world.
Every one of your works definitely changes the chemistry of the body. It is like a beacon, a tuning fork: you have forgotten a little, then suddenly, look, remember, and move on.
My eldest son says: turn this song on for me, it will help me remember who I am and why I was created.
Incredibly beautiful artwork. Seeing the rivers like veins of life.
It felt as if my spine began to warm up and the warmth spread inside. Grounded and filled.
For me it's not really a piece of art, it's much more important. I feel the energy of Gaia that you convey through this photograph.
Rivers like thoughts, energy spilling into something bigger: desires, actions, events.
My biggest insight from this journey is that fear is inside me, and I can just let it out.
I can breathe, an inner warmth has appeared, I want to live.
A feeling of freshness and lightness. You feel it with your body, with your eyes.
Expansion. The body has no boundaries.
It was wonderful, five minutes of silence and calm. How beautiful our planet is. Words can't convey it, you have to feel it, and that is what just happened.