IPBurger is committed to protecting your privacy. We want you to understand what information we collect, what we don’t collect, and how we collect, use, and store information. We do not collect logs of your activity, including no logging of browsing history, traffic destination, data content, or DNS queries. We also never store connection logs, meaning no logs of your IP address, your outgoing VPN IP address, connection timestamp, or session duration.
Our guiding principle toward data collection is to collect only the minimal data required to operate a world-class VPN service at scale. We designed our systems to not have sensitive data about our customers; even when compelled, we cannot provide data that we do not possess.
This privacy policy will help you understand how IPBurger LLC. (“IPBurger”,” “we”,” “our”,” or “us””) collects, uses, and stores information.
IPBurger collects three types of information:
This information is collected for the purpose of administering your IPBurger subscription and includes your name, email address, and payment information, which you submit on our order page when you subscribe for the Services.
IPBurger collects minimal information about usage in order to maintain excellent customer support and quality of service. The section below specifies in detail what information we collect. These statistics never include anything about what the user did with the VPN: no data about the contents or destinations of VPN traffic, no DNS queries, and no IP addresses.
VPN connection diagnostics are anonymized and cannot be tied back to individual IPBurger users. This feature is similar to a “send bug report” option. Users can specify in the settings menu of any IPBurger App whether to send these data to us.
IPBurger collects personal information that you provide to us directly through the Site. We require that you provide personal information, such as an email address and payment information, in order to establish an IPBurger account, and so that we can email you, collect payments from you, and respond to support queries that you initiate. The specific information collected varies depending on the payment method you choose. To minimize the amount of personal information you submit to us, we recommend that you use Bitcoin payments when subscribing to our Service.
With some forms of payment, the Site may redirect you to the website of a third-party payment processor (namely PayPal and Stripe) to complete the transaction. We authorize reseller Paddle.com as the Merchant of Record for some forms of payments. Paddle provides customer service inquiries and handles returns for those transactions. To understand what personal information these processors collect and store, please refer to the respective processor's terms and privacy policy.
IPBurger uses your email address for the following reasons:
To send emails related to payment transactions.
To provide links to our Site, including password reset emails.
To send you updates and announcements.
To communicate with you about your VPN services or respond to your communications.
To send marketing information, such as IPBurger offers, surveys, invitations, and content about other matters in connection with IPBurger (“Marketing emails”). You may choose to not receive Marketing emails by following the opt-out procedure described in these emails.
IPBurger uses your personal information only for the purposes listed in this Privacy Policy, and we do not sell your personal information to third parties.
We ensure that we never log browsing history, traffic destination, data content, IP addresses, or DNS queries. Therefore:
We do not know which user ever accessed a particular website or service.
We do not know which user was connected to the VPN at a specific time or which VPN server IP addresses they used.
We do not know the set of original IP addresses of a user’s computer.
Should anyone try to compel IPBurger to release user information based on any of the above, we cannot supply this information because the data does not exist.
In order to maintain excellent customer support and quality of service, IPBurger collects the following information related to your VPN usage:
We collect information related to which Apps and Apps version(s) you have activated. Knowing your current version of the Apps allows our Support Team to troubleshoot technical issues with you.
We collect information about whether you have successfully established a VPN connection on a particular day (but not a specific time of the day), to which VPN location (but not your assigned outgoing IP address), and from which country/ISP (but not your source IP address). This minimal information assists us in providing technical support, such as identifying connection problems, providing country-specific advice about how to best use our Service, and to enable IPBurger engineers to identify and fix network issues.
We collect information regarding the total sum of data transferred by a given user. Although we provide unlimited data transfer, if we notice that a single user pushes more traffic than thousands of others combined, thereby affecting the quality of service for other IPBurger users, we may contact that user for an explanation.
We collect minimal usage statistics to maintain our quality of service. We may know, for example, that our customer John had connected to our New York VPN location on Tuesday and had transferred an aggregate of 823 MB of data across a 24-hour period. John can’t be uniquely identified as responsible for any specific behavior because his usage pattern overlaps with thousands of other IPBurger customers who also connected to the same location on the same day.
We’ve engineered our systems to categorically eliminate storage of sensitive data. We may know THAT a customer has used IPBurger, but we never know HOW they have utilized our Service. We stand by our firm commitment to our customers’ privacy by not possessing any data related to a user’s online activities.
With your permission, we collect anonymized analytics data used for network diagnostics. We use these data in our network operations tools to help optimize network speeds and to let us identify problems related to specific apps, VPN servers, or ISPs. The information we receive is fully anonymized and cannot be tied back to individual IPBurger users (i.e., we do not store which user sent which data, and we do not store IP addresses).
If you opt in to share this information with IPBurger, we will collect the following information:
Upon activation of any IPBurger App, you will be asked if you would like to share these data. You can start or stop sharing these diagnostic data at any time in the App’s settings menu. On iOS, Apple’s crash reporting can be turned off in iOS settings.
IPBurger’s core mission is to keep your information private. In service of this mission, IPBurger’s headquarters and registered place of business is in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), which has stricter laws concerning information disclosure than most countries.
The BVI has no data retention laws, and any legal order requiring a BVI company to disclose customer records must come from the BVI Supreme Court. Under BVI law, information requests from foreign courts or law enforcement are subject to a “dual criminality” provision, meaning that the request is upheld by the BVI Supreme Court only if the same crime is punishable by at least a one-year prison sentence under BVI law, had it taken place in the BVI. Should we receive a valid legal order from the BVI Supreme Court, it is important to note that IPBurger does not collect any IP addresses, browsing history, traffic data, or DNS queries that could be used to identify any specific user.
IPBurger keeps records of any correspondence, questions, complaints, or compliments you submit to us through our Site or Services, along with our response. Depending on how you contact IPBurger, we may collect your email address and any additional information you provide to us. Having full correspondence records enables our staff to provide the best possible customer support experience.
IPBurger uses best-in-class physical, procedural, and technical security with respect to our offices and information storage facilities so as to prevent any loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, or modification of information. Access to user information is restricted to staff who require such access to perform their job functions.
While we believe these systems are robust, it is important to understand that no data security measures in the world can offer 100% protection.
Servers are housed in data centers with strong security practices. None of these data centers require us to collect or store any traffic data or personal information related to your use of VPN Services. If any data center were to ask us to log such data, we would immediately cease operations with said data center and find alternative options.
Even if a government were to physically seize one of our VPN servers and manage to break its disk encryption, there would be no logs or information that would tie any individual user to a particular event, website, or behavior.
The Site may contain links to external websites that do not fall under IPBurger’s domain. IPBurger is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such external websites.
By using the Site, Content, Apps, Software, or Services, you agree to have your information handled as described in our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
The Services are intended for adults aged 18 and above. If you believe your child has provided information to us, please let us know immediately.
IPBurger is committed to user privacy globally, and our existing practices reflect that through minimal collection of data and ensuring users have control over their personal information. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union (EU) requires us to outline those practices in a specific manner for users in the EU.
In line with the GDPR, we collect and process the data outlined in this Privacy Policy on one of the following bases, depending on the circumstances:
You can exercise your rights under the GDPR to access, transfer, correct, delete, or object to the processing of your personal information by contacting us at [email protected]
We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time, without prior notice to you, consistent with applicable privacy laws and principles. Your continued use of the Site or Services constitutes your acceptance of our Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy and how we handle your information, please feel free to contact IPBurger at the following email address:
[email protected]