Bending Line is a practice-night tool for Pony Club and mounted games team trainers. This page explains, in plain terms, what the app does and does not do with information, because that is the whole policy: there is very little to tell.
Bending Line has no account, no server, and no network connection of any kind. Every rider, pony, race, practice time and line-up you enter is stored only on your iPhone or iPad, inside the app's own private storage.
We, the developer, never receive any of your data. There is no analytics software, no advertising network, and no crash-reporting service built into the app.
Bending Line does not track you or your device across apps or websites, and it does not share information with data brokers or advertisers, because it has no mechanism to share anything with anyone.
All of the information below is written to on-device storage (SwiftData and the standard iOS settings store) and stays there unless you personally export or share it.
| Information | Why it's stored |
|---|---|
| Rider names, ages and notes | So you can build a roster and run practice for your team |
| Pony names, heights and habits | So each rider–pony pair can be told apart and remembered correctly |
| Optional rider or pony photos | Shown on that pair's card inside the app only |
| Practice times, changeover splits and faults | The stopwatch records you create each time you time a relay |
| Session notes and the session log | Your own written notes about each practice run |
| Competitions, line-ups and heat results | So you can plan and record competition day |
| Kit-checklist state and app settings | So your preferences and packing progress persist between launches |
If you tap "Take photo" on a rider's card, the app asks iOS for permission to use the camera, and the photo you take is saved only inside the app's own data, attached to that rider. If you instead choose a photo from your library, the app uses Apple's standard photo picker, which never gives the app access to your full photo library — only the single photo you pick. If you later tap "Save to Photos" on a shareable line-up card, the app asks for permission to add that one image to your photo library; it does not read your existing photos to do this.
Bending Line can send local reminders — for example, a nudge the evening before practice or the eve of a competition. These are scheduled entirely on your device and only after you turn a reminder on in Settings. We never see whether a reminder fired, and no notification is sent from a server, because there is no server.
When you use the Share button on a line-up card, the app hands that image or text to the standard iOS share sheet, which is controlled by you and by whichever app or person you choose to send it to. The app itself does not upload anything as part of that action.
Bending Line is a tool used by adult coaches and parents to organise a team; any mention of young riders inside the data you enter (such as a rider's age) is information you choose to type in yourself, is never transmitted anywhere, and is treated exactly like every other piece of on-device data described above. The app itself is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect information from children, because it does not collect information from anyone.
If this policy ever needs to change — for example, if a future version of the app adds an optional online feature — this page will be updated and the "Last updated" date above will change accordingly.
If you have a question about this policy or about how Bending Line handles information, please use the contact form on our support page.