Fold Fail is made by HadalCore LLC (“we”). This policy covers the Fold Fail iOS app and foldfail.app. We don’t run player accounts. Most of what the game remembers stays on your phone.
The short version
- The front camera records your reaction on the phone. We do not upload camera frames or clips.
- A clip leaves the phone only if you share it or save it to Photos.
- The game shows no ads and does not read the advertising identifier (IDFA). There is no tracking prompt.
- We do send install, session, and purchase events to AppsFlyer so we can measure ads we buy elsewhere. That is separate from the camera.
Camera and clips
If you allow the camera, Fold Fail keeps a short rolling recording from the front camera while you play, so a crash can include your face. That buffer stays on the device. It is discarded when the run restarts unless you shared it, saved it, or turned on auto-save.
Sharing uses the system share sheet. You pick where it goes. Saving writes a video to Photos, and only after you tap Save Clip (or after a crash, if you turned auto-save on). We never receive those videos.
Face cam is on for a new player until you change it. On the fail screen, FACE CAM OFF stops it. If you already refused the system prompt, that switch opens Settings, because iOS only lets you change the decision there. We don’t ask again on our own.
Photos
Photo Library access is add-only, and only so a fail clip can be saved when you ask. We don’t read the rest of your library.
What stays on the phone
The app stores a local archive: high score, wreck count, lives, settings (including face cam and auto-save), the paper and world you picked, and any continue credits you haven’t spent. Deleting Fold Fail deletes that archive. Unspent continue credits go with it. Papers, worlds, the Founders Pack, and Unlimited Lives Forever can be restored from your Apple receipt. Continue credits cannot — they are consumable.
Purchases
Payments are handled by Apple through the App Store. We don’t receive your card number. When a purchase is made on this install, we record the product, price, currency, and transaction id so it can be counted as a purchase for ad measurement, once. A purchase restored from another device, Family Sharing, or a transaction Apple redelivers is not counted again.
Refunds go through Apple. A refunded paper, world, Founders Pack, or Unlimited Lives is revoked from the receipt. A refunded continue pack removes the credits it added, down to zero. Continues you already spent stay spent.
Game Center
If you sign in to Game Center, we submit your wreck count and your weekly score to Apple’s leaderboards. Apple’s privacy policy covers that account. You can play without signing in. Rank doesn’t award anything in the game.
How we measure ads we buy
Fold Fail does not show ads. We buy installs on advertising networks, including AppLovin. To tell which of those installs and purchases came from an ad, the app uses:
- AppsFlyer (their Strict SDK). It does not read the IDFA. It receives app opens (a session) and, for a purchase made on this install, revenue, currency, product id, and transaction id. Camera frames and clips are not included. AppsFlyer’s policy is at appsflyer.com/legal/privacy-policy.
- Apple’s SKAdNetwork and AdAttributionKit. Apple sends a privacy-preserving install postback. A copy of that postback is delivered to AppsFlyer at appsflyer-skadnetwork.com. We don’t get a record that identifies you from it.
We don’t sell personal information. We don’t use this data to build an ad profile inside the game.
Children
Fold Fail is not directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from them. The game has optional camera recording and optional purchases.
How long it lasts
- The camera buffer is discarded on the device unless you save or share that clip.
- The local archive lasts until you delete the app.
- Photos you saved stay in your library until you delete them.
- Game Center scores and App Store purchases stay with your Apple ID, under Apple’s rules.
- Install, session, and purchase events sent to AppsFlyer are kept under AppsFlyer’s retention. We don’t keep a separate copy on a server of our own.
Your choices
- Refuse or turn off the camera. The game still plays.
- Leave auto-save off. Clips are saved only when you tap Save Clip.
- Skip Game Center. Local scores still work.
- Manage or refund purchases through Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com.
- Delete the app to erase the local archive.
To ask about the install and purchase events held by AppsFlyer, email info@hadalcore.com. There is no Fold Fail account to delete, because we don’t have one.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date. The link in the app and in App Store Connect points here.
Contact
HadalCore LLC
info@hadalcore.com
foldfail.app/support