“Logs” sounds scary, but behind the word is a simple question: what records does a service keep about you, and for how long. A VPN can’t work with no data at all, it at least needs to know when your subscription ends. What matters is keeping exactly as much as needed and saying so plainly.
what a VPN could know
Technically, a VPN server sees a lot: your IP address, where your traffic goes, when you connect and how much you send. The question is what of that gets written down and kept.
what we keep
- Account: your Telegram name and ID, and your email if you linked one.
- Devices: the name, type, app, model and identifier reported by the app, plus the time of last connection. The time is a single value that gets overwritten, not accumulated.
- Subscription and payments: term, plan, orders and amounts.
- Traffic volume per device: just a byte count for the stats in your account, no addresses and no sites.
- A device fingerprint for the trial, so the trial is given once per device. It’s irreversible, the identifier can’t be recovered from it, and it stays even after the account is deleted.
what we don’t keep
- which sites and apps you open;
- a history of “when and from where” you connected;
- your IP address: the server sees it while you’re connected, otherwise replies couldn’t reach you, but never writes it down;
- the contents of your traffic.
how link-sharing protection works
One link works on one device. To notice a link being used in two places at once, the server compares only the networks of devices connected right now, meaning the first two parts of the address, like 95.24.x.x. Those live in the server’s memory for no more than a day and never touch the disk.
server logs
VPN software logs only its own errors, without addresses or sites. The system log is kept for 7 days on the main server and 2 days on country servers. We don’t pass connection data to anyone, including services that figure out your city or carrier from an address. The full version is on our privacy page.
how to check any VPN
Ask a service five questions. A good privacy policy answers all of them:
- What exactly is kept? You want a list, not just the words “no logs”.
- Are IP addresses and connection history stored?
- How many days are server logs kept?
- Who is data shared with? And is there third-party analytics inside the app?
- What happens to the data when you delete your account?
If there are no answers, or they’re vague, that’s an answer too.
what a VPN doesn’t hide
A VPN hides your traffic from the network you’re connected through: café Wi‑Fi, your provider. But a site where you’re signed in still knows it’s you. Cookies, social logins and payment details work with a VPN too. More on public networks in public Wi‑Fi: what the network owner can see.
It’s worth reading a policy once and then testing the service in practice. For the second part, we have 3 free days.
