What Metal Stress reports about data

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Edges of this sheet

The sheet covers the Metal Stress app from the App Store, plus the English introduction beside it and this page. It does not describe a personal site, a mailing list, or any product other than the bending game.

An Apple ID, a charge, Family Sharing, Screen Time, and a device backup belong to Apple. Those stay under Apple’s terms and Apple’s privacy policy.

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Bends that stay with the install

A round is taps on a mounted strip. The strip flexes, springs back, and holds part of the angle. Lives, a tap counter, and how far a phase has gone are there so the workshop can continue on that device. The App Store label does not file that play progress as one of its collected categories.

The categories the label does file are Usage Data and Advertising Data, described below. Removing Metal Stress clears the app’s local storage. If an Apple backup is on, Apple may include app data under the backup choices already set. The listing does not describe a publisher sign-in or a cloud copy of finished bends.

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Usage data that can travel

Apple’s privacy section for Metal Stress says Usage Data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies. In that label, tracking means the data is linked with third-party data for advertising, or shared with a data broker.

That line sits next to third-party ads. It is not a claim that your tap sequences are posted on a public board. The tracking category named on the label is Usage Data. This sheet does not add health, contacts, precise location, photos, or financial details to that list.

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Data tied to an identity for ads

The same label says the following may be collected and linked to your identity, for third-party advertising:

• Usage Data — product interaction, in the grouping Apple uses for that heading.
• Advertising Data — ads served or advertising interactions, as Apple defines that category.

Linked, here, means the publisher told Apple the data can be connected to an identity. That identity can be an advertising identifier on the device. Advertising partners use the two categories to choose, deliver, cap, and measure ads. The store listing does not offer a Metal Stress account, so this sheet does not describe a password, a saved card, or a profile page you edit.

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Ads around a free workshop

The download costs nothing. The rating block says Metal Stress contains advertising. Ads may show around a phase. They are separate from the amber guide and from the tap that sets a bend.

Sellers authorized for that advertising are listed in the app-ads.txt file published with these pages. The file names sellers. It does not catalog every ad you might see, and the names change when those selling relationships change.

The privacy label filed with Apple is the disclosure that controls. This page restates it. When the two differ, trust the label on the store and expect this sheet to be rewritten.

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These pages collect no typed identity

The introduction and this sheet have no comment box, no mailing list, and no checkout. The store listing does not ask for an email address, phone number, legal name, contacts, camera, microphone, photo library, or precise location before a strip can be bent.

Installing from the App Store does not grant a permission the game never requests. If a later build shows a system prompt, the prompt itself names the access. Read it before allowing it.

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Facts printed on the listing

Language on the listing is English. The game is a casual puzzle, free, about 118.2 MB, rated 4+, and designed for iPad. It needs iOS 15 or later, and iPadOS 15 or later on iPad. iPod touch is on that same iOS requirement. Mac needs Apple silicon and macOS 12 or later, and that build is marked not verified for macOS. Apple Vision needs visionOS 1 or later.

Category

Casual puzzle

Price

Free

Size

118.2 MB

Age

4+

Download, update, and refund paths run through Apple. Information Apple already holds about an Apple ID is not copied into a separate publisher file merely because the game is installed.

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Switches that live in Settings

When iOS asks about App Tracking Transparency, the answer controls whether the app may track you across other companies’ apps and websites. The choice can be changed later in Settings, under Privacy & Security, then Tracking. Other system controls for ad personalization can further limit what an ad network is allowed to do on that device.

Those switches are Apple’s. They do not remove ads from a game whose listing says it contains advertising. They change the tracking and personalization the system still permits.

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Players at the 4+ rating

A parent or guardian decides whether the app is installed. Ask to Buy, Screen Time, and Family Sharing can hold that download or let it through.

The listing still discloses advertising, usage data that may be used to track, and usage data plus advertising data linked for third-party advertising. Apple says privacy practices may vary, including with age. This sheet does not describe a separate child account inside the workshop. If you believe a child sent personal information to the publisher outside ordinary play, use support on the App Store listing and include only what is needed to locate the request.

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Copies, deletion, and how long data stays

Depending on where you live, you may have a right to access, correct, delete, or receive a copy of personal information, or to object to or limit certain advertising uses, including a sale or share for cross-context advertising. Send that request through the support options on the Metal Stress App Store page. Name the game, say the message is about privacy, and leave out details that are not needed.

Some advertising data sits with the companies that serve the ads, not in a file the publisher can empty alone. The tracking switch in the section above is the practical control for cross-app tracking permission. This site has no personal email address and no street address for privacy mail.

Usage data and advertising data are kept for the advertising purposes on the label, for measurement, and for legal duties that apply to the publisher or to an advertising partner. On-device progress remains until the app is deleted or its storage is cleared, aside from Apple backups you control.

Advertising partners may process data in a country other than yours. Where a transfer rule requires a safeguard, that safeguard is the one the partner and the platform already use for delivering ads. This page does not name a private office abroad.

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When this readout is replaced

The date on the opening readout is the date of this wording. If a later build collects a new category, or changes whether data is used to track, the App Store privacy label should move with that build, and this page will be rewritten so the two match.

Playing after a replacement sheet is posted means the new text was available here and, when Apple shows the link, on the privacy policy entry of the store listing.