The company has a public PO address, but has kept the exact location of its Toronto office private. Windscribe is located in Canada, which is part of the Five Eyes data-sharing alliance. Windscribe is based in privacy-unfriendly Canada With an independent external audit, we would find this explanation wholly satisfactory. Yegor Sak, the company’s co-founder, has published a detailed explanation of what data Windscribe collects. The good thing is that none of the above data can be used to personally identify you once you have disconnected from the VPN server.Īccording to Windscribe, your username and connection time are also stored in the server’s RAM, which means they will be deleted by design as soon as you end your session.
The service collects the above information to ensure its VPN service runs smoothly. The time you connected (until the end of your session).Your OpenVPN or IKEv2 username (until the end of your session).
The number of simultaneous connections on your account.A timestamp of your last activity on the Windscribe VPN network.
The amount of data transferred in the past 30 days.Windscribe logs the following information: That said, the data Windscribe keeps can’t be used to identify you, or retroactively match your activity back to you. This isn’t ideal, and other VPN services work just fine with fewer logs, so Windscribe should be able to do the same. Windscribe keeps a minimal amount of logs for maintenance purposes.
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