Data Verzameling

Wanneer u onze site bezoekt

Wij gebruiken geen tracking of analytische services van derden. Hierdoor blijft uw activiteit op deze pagina bij ons (en uw internet provider). Wij gebruiken open-source Piwik web analytische gegevens om het gebruik van onze website bij te houden. Piwik wordt gebruikt om samengestelde informative over onze bezoekers te analyseren. Wanneer uw browser een pagina op onze site laadt, wordt er een klein deel JavaScript code in gang gezet in uw browser die informative als type browser, taal, schermresolutie, doorverwezen websites en de eerste 3 octets van uw IP adres naar ons stuurt. We kunnen gebruik maken van cookies indien u was doorverwezen via onze affiliates om zo de persoon die u doorverwees te kunnen betalen, indien u kiest zich aan te melden. De affiliate ziet niets van deze informative.

Wanneer u zich aanmeld

We only require a username and password when you signup to our service. Email can be provided if you wish to be able to recover your password in case you forget it, as well as receive periodic service updates. We use 3rd party payment processors. When you pay for a premium account, we store the transaction ID of your payment for a period of 30 days for fraud prevention purposes.

Wanneer u onze service gebruikt

When you use Windscribe, we keep the following data associated with your account:

• Total amount of bytes transferred in a 30 day period. Bandwidth reset date is in your "My Account" section.
• Timestamp of your last activity on the Windscribe network.

This data is used to enforce free tier limitations, prevent abuse and weed out inactive accounts.

The following data is NOT stored:

• Historical record of VPN sessions
• Source IP
• Sites you visited

We are firm believer that one's browsing history should be taken to one's grave.

Wanneer u actief verbonden bent met een server

For the duration of your connection the following is stored in server's memory. This data is immediately discarded when you disconnect:

• OpenVPN/IKEv2 username
• Time of connection
• Amount of data transferred

The following data is stored in a central location:

• Number of parallel connections at any given time to prevent rampant abuse and account sharing.
• A counter is incremented that stores total number of bytes downloaded/uploaded in a 30 day period.

Anything that is not mentioned above is not stored.

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The following is no longer applicable to Windscribe, as we replaced a bulk of the VPN authentication/bandwidth accounting system with a bespoke one in Q2 2018, which no longer requires us to delete anything after you disconnect, as there is nothing to delete.
Vast majority if not all of VPN providers use FreeRadius for authentication and parallel connection enforcement which MOST providers have. In default mode, the "raw data" looks like this. As you see, it shows the openvpn username, server IP connected to, when the session was started, terminated, and how much data was transferred. The column titled "callingstationid", by default, has the connected user's IP address. When we still used this system, we modified our instance to not supply this information. So to check how many parallel connections a user has, you simply look in this table and check how many records exist for a single username, with no session termination timestamp. After the user's session is terminated, the record stays in the database. Unless the provider physically removes the record via a cleanup script, it will stay there forever. Providers that keep logs, store this data for 30 or more days, and then remove it... allegedly.
Our bespoke system eliminates the need for this session table entirely. This data resides only in server's memory while you're connected, and is immediately discarded by the VPN server when you disconnect. Since it doesn't get logged into a permanent database, there is nothing to delete.

Wanneer u weggaat

If for some strange reason you decide not to use our service anymore, the only piece of information that will remain is your username, password and email address (if you provided it). We periodically prune inactive accounts. You can delete your account at any time in the "My Account" section.

Gebruikers data opgevraagd

Since we store the bare minimum for a customer to actually use our service, any request for user data would yield nothing of value. As we do not store any historical logs on who used which IP address, and since IPs are shared by dozens/hundreds of people at any given moment, so we cannot tie any activity to a specific account.

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Veranderingen in beleid

We doen ons best om veranderingen, zoals ons bedrijf naar een andere jurisdictie te verplaatsen, te vermijden. Indien er drastische beleidsveranderingen nodig zijn wegens een enorme spinnen-overheersing die mensen tot slaaf maken en ons dwingen om onze gebruikers te gaan volgen en we onze service hierdoor niet meer kunnen voortzetten, zullen gebruikers met een geldige email op de hoogte worden gebracht. Dit is niet uw grootste zorg, vanwege de kleine kans op spinnen.