Privacy Policy

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you use VPNsthatWork (“our Site”), you will be regarded as having read and accepted this Privacy Policy. If you don’t wish to be bound by what you read below, you shouldn’t use our Site.

Our Privacy Policy explains

What information we collect and how we collect it
How we use that information
How to find out more about our policies

This is a very important policy page and we hope you will read it carefully.

Information We Collect

We do not ask you or anyone else to give us any personal information in order to use VPNsthatWork.

We do collect anonymized information to provide a better service to all our users – from improving our less popular pages to tracking the commissions that allow the site to operate as a free resource.

The only instance when we do collect personal information – specifically, your name and email address – is if, and only if, you submit a review of one of the VPN providers listed on our Site via the review submission forms we host.

We collect information in the following ways:

User Reviews

We give our visitors the option to submit reviews about the VPN providers listed on our Site.

By submitting your user review, you are agreeing to our Terms and Conditions and this Privacy Policy.

Personal data collection

Once you submit your review, the following personal information will be collected (exactly as submitted):

– Name

– Email address

When you submit a User Review, we will ask for your email address to avoid bogus submissions. We will never share your data with any third-party, unless it is with the VPN provider you are subscribed to but only if you have entered into a prize draw they are running with us (see ‘Data use and transfer’ for more details). We may occasionally contact you via the email address submitted to ask questions relating to the VPN service you have purchased. We will only email you for this sole purpose.

Data use and transfer

Submitted user reviews may be published on relevant pages of our Site. The published user review will also include your Name, as submitted to us.

As aforementioned, we occasionally collect user reviews as part of prize draws. We will only email the winner(s) of the prize draw in order to award the prize.

If we are jointly running a prize draw with a VPN provider, we will share the winners’ names and email addresses with that same provider for the purpose of awarding the prize. Upon specific request from the provider, we may also share with them the email addresses of all participants that entered their prize draw.

We will only transfer your submitted personal data outside of the EEA if:

you have won a prize, and
the VPN provider awarding the prize is located outside the EEA

Under no other circumstance will your name and email address be used or shared by VPNsthatWork.

Data retention

Your Name and email address, exactly as submitted to us, will be stored in our secure database for as long as your user review is published on our Site.

Data deletion

If you wish to have your review removed from our Site, and your name and email address removed from our database, please email your request to [email protected].

Please note, the request must originate from the email address submitted as part of the review, as proof of authenticity.

User Testing

We occasionally ask our visitors to apply to take part in testing new features of our website. As part of the application, visitors will be asked to provide their email address via a submission form.

Not all applications are successful and the email addresses submitted by all unsuccessful applicants will be purged once the recruitment phase is complete.

If you have been selected to participate in one of our tests, we will only email you instructions on how to carry out the test(s), and the agreed reward once the test(s) has been adequately completed.

Your email address will be stored securely until the testing period is over, at which point they will be purged.

We may also ask if you would like to be contacted to participate in future tests. If you give us consent to do so, your email address will be added to our ‘User Testing’ email list.

Site Analytics

Every time anyone visits our Site, we collect anonymized information about that visit. Like most big websites, we do this through Google Analytics software to better understand how people use our site. While we do not use Google Analytics to collect any personally identifying information (such as name or address), we do collect the following kinds of information:

The pages you visit on VPNsthatWork.com
How long you spend on each page of our Site
How you got to our Site
What kind of device you were using
Your home country and browser settings such as language

We also sometimes use other third-party analytics tools, such as Hotjar, that collect information about how you interact with our Site, such as what you click on and the parts of the page you spend most time on.

We use this information to better understand our customers and their needs in order to improve our service.

This information is anonymized and cannot be tied back to any individual. Nevertheless, we never share it with anyone unless specifically required to by law.

Browser Data

When you visit our Site, we may collect attributes about the configuration of your web browser and operating system. We store this data anonymously. We only collect information that is reported by your web browser. No personally-identifying information is collected from your device.

The specific information we collect includes:

Information about your browser, e.g. vendor and product
Screen resolution, color depth, and details of the video card in use
Permissions supported by your Browser, and their status
True / False information stating whether the browser supports various features
Browser extensions and plugins, like Flash and Java, that are installed in your browser
The output of a series of mathematical operations
A hash of the image generated by canvas fingerprinting
A hash of the image generated by WebGL fingerprinting
A hash of an audio sample generated by Web Audio Fingerprinting
Your system platform (e.g. Win32, Linux x86)
Your configured preferred languages (e.g. en-US)
The timezone your device is configured to use

Cookies and similar technologies

Like most websites, VPNsthatWork puts small files (known as ‘cookies’) onto your computer to collect information about how you browse our Site.

You can read our cookie policy for a detailed breakdown of the types of cookie we use and why we use them.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not, and by allowing us to earn commissions.

A cookie does not give us access to your computer or any information about you. You can choose to accept or decline cookies through your browser settings. Look at aboutcookies.org for detailed guidance about how to do this.

We may implement third party advertising or other content on the Site that may use clear gifs or other forms of web beacons, which allow the third party content provider to read and write Cookies to your web browser in connection with your viewing of the third party content on the Site.

Additionally, we may implement third party buttons (such as Facebook “like” or “share” buttons) that may allow a third party to collect information about you through their browser Cookies, even when you do not interact with the button.

Information collected through web beacons and buttons is collected directly by third parties, and VPNsthatWork does not participate in that data transmission. Information collected by a third party in this manner is subject to that third party’s own data collection, use, and disclosure policies.

Links to Other Websites

VPNsthatWork contains links to other websites.

This privacy policy only applies to this website, and doesn’t cover other sites that we link to. If you go to another website, read the privacy policy on that website to find out what it does with your information.

Changes

We may, from time to time, update this Privacy Policy to reflect any changes to our privacy practices in accordance with changes to legislation, best practice or enhancements to VPNsthatWork. We will let you know what these changes are by posting them to this page, but it is your responsibility as a user to make sure that you are aware of them, by checking for any changes on a regular basis.

Changes will become effective as soon as they are posted.