Privacy & Data
What VPN.free collects when you use it, and why.
Cookies and local storage
These are set when you open the site. They are stored by your browser, and you can clear them at any time in your browser settings.
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vpnfree_vid
Recognises your browser when you come back, so we can count how many people use the service and how many return. A copy is also kept in your browser's local storage so the two can restore each other.
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vpnfree_sid
Groups one visit together, so a single session makes sense in our logs when we investigate a fault.
What our servers see
Like any proxy, our servers handle the addresses you open, and keep a record of them along with your network address and basic details about your device and browser. We use that to keep the service running, to fix it when it breaks, to stop abuse and attack, and to count how many people use it.
Advertising
Advertisements on this site are served by our advertising provider, who loads its own scripts and sets its own identifiers. When someone arrives from one of those advertisements and then uses the proxy, we tell them that the click led to a use of the service. We never tell them, or any advertiser, which sites you opened.
Who else sees it
Nobody buys this data from us. It is held on our own servers. Beyond our advertising provider's own scripts described above, it is shared only where we are legally required to share it.
How long we keep it
We keep this only for our own analytics and for fixing faults. We do not sell it, and we do not share it for advertising. Detailed records are deleted automatically on a rolling basis, once they are no longer needed for those purposes. Counts and totals that no longer identify anyone are kept for longer, so we can compare how usage changes.
Your choices
You can clear the cookies and local storage this site has set at any time from your browser settings, which resets the identifiers described above. You can also ask us for a copy of what we hold about your browser, or ask us to delete it.
Terms of use
The rules for using the service, and the limits of what it does, are set out separately.
Changes to this notice
This notice may be updated. The date below is when it last changed.
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