There's no logging of origin IP, destination IP, the specific time you connected or your activities afterwards, so this limited data is most unlikely to compromise your privacy. Namely the day you connected to a specific location, your ISP, the connection length, how many connections you make, and the overall total of bandwidth you use (not per connection, apparently). The company says at the top of the page that it doesn't maintain connection logs, for instance, but scroll down and there's a section titled 'Information Included in VPN Connection Logs' where it lists the details it does collect. Sounds great! But it's a little oversimplified. PureVPN's Privacy Policy gets off to a good start, with a lengthy list of all the data the service doesn't log: 'We DO NOT keep any record of your browsing activities, connection logs, records of the VPN IPs assigned to you, your original IPs, your connection time, the history of your browsing, the sites you visited, your outgoing traffic, the content or data you accessed, or the DNS queries generated by you.' PureVPN looks good on the privacy front on the whole, but there are caveats (Image credit: PureVPN) Privacy and logging
If you need DDoS, that's an extra $3.99 a month. Private Internet Access, NordVPN, Astrill and others charge $5 or more. If PureVPN's website is actually working when you visit, dedicated IPs are actually very cheap at $2.99 a month for IPs in the US, UK, Singapore, Canada, Germany, Malta and Australia. Nope no sign they'd understood anything we said. This must mean the agent was checking what we said, right?įive minutes later we got this response: 'Please subscribe to your desired plan by accessing the link below and enjoy complete internet freedom. We opened a chat window, an agent appeared in under a minute, and we explained that we weren't able to buy or even view any options.
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We tried Chrome and Edge, regular and incognito windows to rule out browser issues, but the site didn't work anywhere.Īnnoying, but also a good chance to test support. These didn't display any country list, though, so we couldn't purchase anything.
We clicked the Buy option for each, and boxes opened asking us to choose a country. The shopping cart offered us plenty of extras, including dedicated IPs, port forwarding and DDOS protection. Looks good to us, but it also renews on the regular $5.83 a month annual plan. But that's partly due to a one-off discount, and it renews at $5.83.Ī special two-year plan is priced at $2.91 a month. The annual plan looks good value at $3.74 a month, especially as that's covering up to 10 family members. Pricing starts fractionally higher than average at $10.95 billed monthly. PureVPN accepts payments from PayPal, credit cards and Bitcoin (via CoinGate) (Image credit: PureVPN) PureVPN pricing