The honest answers to the questions that matter, stated plainly
enough to be held against us.
- where data lives
- On servers we run in UK data centres — Coventry and Maidenhead. Encrypted backups stay within this footprint — both copies sit on servers we run, with no third-party backup provider in the chain.
- advertising & profiling
- None, ever. No advertising pixels, no fingerprinting, no social embeds, no data brokers, and nothing that follows you to other websites.
- network filtering
- Devices connected over the network VPN resolve DNS through our own AdGuard Home. Both of the servers we run in UK data centres have an instance, and your device uses the one at the end of the tunnel it is on. Advertising, tracking and malware domains are refused before your device ever connects to them — across every app on the device, not just the browser. It applies while you are on the VPN; off it, your own resolver is in charge.
- analytics
- Self-hosted only. Umami — an open-source, privacy-focused analytics tool — runs on our UK servers. It counts page views anonymously, sets no cookies, and sends nothing to any third party: Google, Meta and friends never hear about your visit.
- cookies
- This website sets none — and self-hosted Umami analytics won’t change that; it is cookieless by design. Authentication uses session cookies strictly necessary for login, issued by our own identity service on our own domain.
- who can read your files
- Services encrypt data at rest, and backups travel over an encrypted link into an encrypted store the primary cannot reach.
- what we can see
- Standard operational logs — request metadata, service health, authentication events — kept for defence and debugging, not profiling. Analytics shows us page counts, not people.