When you connect to the internet while using a VPN, all of your activity is routed through a secure and encrypted tunnel created between you and your VPN provider. IPVanish offers the industry standard on this front and then some - though there are some concerns regarding the company’s logging policy and legal obligations operating in the U.S. When either of them knocks, IPVanish's privacy policy presumably does a disappearing act.While a stacked feature list and compatibility are great benefits for any VPN, the real reason that people go looking for the protection of a VPN is privacy. IPVanish could go some way to removing doubt through an independent, third-party audit as TunnelBear or NordVPN have done.Ĭertainly not lessening our concerns is that IPVanish is headquartered in the US, making them subject to the whims, wishes, and dictates of both US law and authorities. This guarantee sounds authentic enough, and it is certainly possible that under StackPath's custodianship, IPVanish has truly not committed any data security trespasses, however, broken promises are still broken promises. The provider's privacy policy has not changed since then, and StackPath's director assured users on Reddit that: "Without exception, while part of StackPath, IPVanish has never created or saved any logs, and will continue not to do so into the foreseeable future." The accusation stretched back to 2016, well before IPVanish was taken over by StackPath. In 2018, a Reddit post, supported by court documents, claimed that IPVanish had, in the past, been able to and did save logs.
On paper this doesn't raise any eyebrows, however, the reality looks a bit different. IPVanish offers a strict "No-Logs" guarantee, which is repeated several times in its privacy policy. It's unfortunate that IPVanish has removed several well-liked features which were included in the past, such as the ability to automatically change your IP address at certain intervals. During testing, we were slightly confused when the kill switch engaged after we had disconnected from the VPN. The latter severs your connection whenever the VPN encounters a disruption. This allows you to ensure that your Internet connection is (nearly always) secure.Īpart from these features, the settings aren't particularly extensive, and the client doesn't offer any extravagant features, however, the most important VPN functions, like switching protocols, and a kill switch, are present. Alongside the usual auto-start settings, you can also configure IPVanish to automatically connect to the last-used connection, the best available server, or the best available server in a particular country. Under the "Settings" tab, you'll find plenty of practical options for configuring how the program should behave when you run it or start your system.
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