

That’s why police or government agencies who need information about websites you visited have to contact your internet service provider (ISP for short), and only then your VPN provider. There is no way to track live, encrypted VPN traffic. Can police track online purchases made with a VPN? We advocate for privacy and the open internet thus, it’s important for us that our users don’t feel watched by their VPN provider. That goes for usage and connection logs alike. Because of this, we’re under no obligation to store users’ data. Surfshark VPN is legally registered in the Netherlands. Let me be clear about this, most premium VPNs don’t monitor your browsing activity day-in-day-out, but they can keep connection logs, IP addresses, session information, or used bandwidth. If a country has strict data retention laws, a VPN that’s registered in that country has to keep logs regardless of what they claim on their website.įor example, if your VPN provider is under the US or the EU jurisdiction, they can’t claim to be no-logs.

Why do some VPNs collect users’ data? More on that in the next section. You might see things you don’t want to see there, such as intrusive data collection. That’s why it’s crucial not to overlook privacy policies. Some VPNs claim they don’t collect any logs, but it may be a facade.
