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IP address processing is explicitly limited to temporary processing and only where required for specific Offerings, conditioning the scope of IP data handling on both necessity and user settings.
Interpretive note: The excerpt states an additional purpose — 'to provide the best possible experience for MetaMask users' — which was omitted from the canonical claim as secondary to the primary restriction on IP processing.
Your IP address may be temporarily processed by MetaMask, but only where required for certain Offerings and subject to your MetaMask settings.
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IP address processing is explicitly limited to temporary processing and only where required for specific Offerings, conditioning the scope of IP data handling on both necessity and user settings.
Your IP address may be temporarily processed by MetaMask, but only where required for certain Offerings and subject to your MetaMask settings.
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