Politica sulla Privacy

Aggiornato: November 1st 2018

Dato che la privacy è il motivo per cui usi il nostro servizio, comprendiamo di camminare su una linea sottile in termini di ciò che possiamo raccogliere.

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Quando Visiti il Nostro Sito Web

Non usiamo alcun servizio di tracking o analitica di parte terza, quindi la tua attività su questo sito web rimane con noi (e con il tuo ISP). Usiamo la piattaforma di analitica web open source Piwik per misurare l’utilizzo sul nostro sito, che è ospitata sui nostri server. Piwik viene usata per analizzare le informazioni aggregate sui visitatori del nostro sito web. Quando il tuo browser web carica una pagina sul nostro sito, viene eseguito un piccolo snippet di codice JavaScript all’interno del tuo browser che invia informazioni come l’agente utente nel tuo browser, la lingua, la risoluzione schermo, il sito web referente, e un subset nel tuo indirizzo IP (i primi 3 otteti). Possiamo impostare dei cookies se sei stato riferito a noi attraverso il nostro programma di affiliazione per poter ricompensare la persona che ti ha riferito, se scegli di scriverti. L’affiliato non vede alcuna di queste informazioni.

Quando Ti Scrivi

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.

Quando Usi il Nostro Servizio

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.

Quando Sei Connesso Attivamente ad un 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.

Quando Te Ne Vai

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.

Richieste Dati Utente

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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Modifiche alla Politica

Facciamo del nostro meglio per evitare qualsiasi modifica, il che include spostare l’azienda in una giurisdizione differente. Se si renderanno necessari drastici cambiamenti alla politica a causa di una razza di ragni giganti che riduce in schiavitù tutta l’umanità e ci costringe a registrare i nostri utenti sotto la minaccia di venire mangiati vivi, e non potemo continuare a fornire il servizio nel rispetto dei termini menzionati sopra, gli utenti (dotati di account e-mail validi) riceveranno una notifica. Ciò sarà comunque l’ultimo dei tuoi problemi, sì insomma, a causa dei ragni giganti.