Privacy policy
Can you really believe the “no logging” promises?
Using a VPN may prevent outsiders from intercepting your web traffic, but it also means trusting your VPN provider with a lot of personal information. It’s worth digging into the small print to find out who deserves it, and who really doesn’t. SlickVPN clearly states that it doesn’t “track the browsing activities of user who are logged to the SlickVPN service.” Sounds good, but everyone says more or less the same thing.
Perfect Privacy does better: its straightforward policy explains that the company doesn’t record your logins or any details on your VPN traffic. The only data it stores is the user name, password, email address and expiration date. You can pay with Bitcoin, too. Mullvad also promises to “keep no activity logs,” but that’s not all. You can sign up without an email address and optionally pay with Bitcoin, ensuring the company will never know who you are.
IVPN asks for your email address, but doesn’t require any other personal information. Its privacy policy is easy to read, too. Buffered VPN’s privacy policy is also very readable, but the message is a little more vague. The company never logs information about what you’re doing online, but may store data about bandwidth usage and other session-related information, which could potentially out you.