how's it going everybody welcome back today we're going to be getting into the logging
policies into the privacy policy right here of nordvpn and surf shark uh and of course
how much data they store so before we get if you guys are interested in either of these vpns you'll
find links to special deals and discounts in the description down below as well as full reviews if
you'd like to learn more about these vpns now nordvpn is very transparent about their data
collection they never track the ip addresses that you use the websites you visit and files
you download or the time or duration of your online sessions they have a strict no logs policy
and there's really honestly no evidence to suggest otherwise however it is important to note that
nord stated that one of their data centers in finland which they were renting their servers from
was accessed with no authorization the attacker gained access to the server which had been active
for about a month by exploiting an insecure remote management system left by the data
center provider nordvpn said that the breach was an attack on the server and not nordvpn's service
nord did terminate their contract with the server provider that same day nord also did state that
they treat vpn servers as untrusted in the rest of their infrastructure and it is not possible
to get access to other vpn servers user database or any other server from a compromised vpn server
also everything they need to run is provided by nordvpn's secure central infrastructure
so if you see is one of these servers you're seizing an empty piece of hardware with no data or
configuration files on it now nord did get a lot of flack for that incident but to be fair nothing
of the sort happened again and considering there was nothing logged on the breach server it meant
that they truly did not log any identifiable user information on these servers and while they may
be based in panama which is outside the 14 hours jurisdiction the country itself has some retention
data laws and are not hesitant to provide information to foreign governments but luckily for
nord they don't have any servers based in panama nord had its no logs privacy policy audited by a
third-party company called pricewaterhousecoopers once in 2018 after the breach and another time
in 2020 both audits successfully verified nord's no log policy and confirmed their privacy claims
so needless to say nordvpn is doing quite well in the privacy policy department now with surf
shark surfshark explained in their privacy policy page how some information may include which pages
visitors visit and how long visitors may stay on a particular page now i wouldn't really call this
a strict no logs policy and while none of this information may be traceable back to the user or
identifiable the lack of transparency doesn't really help their case compared to nord
surfshark's privacy policy may be lacking behind in terms of the amount of information they collect
but having said that they've never been breached and no user information has ever been leaked
and they're located in the british virgin islands so being outside the jurisdiction of the 5 9 and
14 eyes alliance they're not obliged to answer to any government asking for information and unlike
panama the british virgin islands do uphold their data protection laws but of course there
will be exceptions when it comes to high-profile cases where information needs to be disclosed
especially when it comes to criminals most vpns will cooperate with government authorities in
order to bring a criminal to justice no matter what their privacy policy entails but at the
end of the day it's all up to the vpn providers and how much information they logged surf shark
had the audit firm q53 investigate the chrome and firefox extensions of surf shark in november 2018
and another audit uh this time it's a server infrastructure audit in may of 2021. both audits
essentially concluded that surf shark is not exposed to any major issue neither in the privacy
nor in the more general security realms so that's very good to hear though i would definitely
appreciate a more general application audit rather than the chrome extension audit so yeah that would
definitely provide a little bit more information overall both vpns have a very good track record
with regards to their privacy policy uh no major breaches or anything that nord vpn thing of course
i had to talk about it but it's nothing major uh absolutely nothing was exposed from that incident
so uh yeah we're good to go here with the privacy policy with both vpns obviously nordvpn being a
little bit more transparent gives me a little bit more confidence but at the same time surf sharks
has never been breached they have a very clean slate with regards to their privacy policy and
security and just general uh server security and networking so yeah if you guys are interested in
either of these vpns you'll find links to special deals and discounts in the description down below
as well as full reviews if you'd like to learn more about these vpns and keep in mind that both
of these vpns are covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee no matter which plan you decide to get
all their plans are covered by a 30-year back guarantee and you'll be able to ask for your
refund if you're interested through the live chat support which is available 24 7. just hover over
the bottom right of any of these websites you'll actually have to go to the website itself rather
than so right here nordvpn let's go and you'll find it at the bottom right actually right here
the support button it's the same with surf shark and you'll be able to access the live chat support
and ask them whatever question you might be having including asking for the refund like and subscribe
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