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it was a year ago today that some friends and i decided to go to six flags, it was a great day, we had a lot of fun and bonded and stuff and at the last ride of the day (which was the bumper cars for anyone wondering) we decided to become a friend group and we thought it would last a while since we were all going to the same high school, boy were we wrong, a bunch of drama broke out and it was unspoken but we decided to not be a group anymore, some members found new groups that they’re much happier with, others (one being me) never found another one
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anyway
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ExpressVPN doesn’t collect any personally-identifiable activity logs. Some connection data is kept including the date of the connection and your choice of server, but there is no record of your full IP address or online activity. Here’s all the information collected by ExpressVPN’s servers:

Dates when connected to the VPN service
Choice of VPN server location
Total amount of data transferred per day
That’s it. ExpressVPN maintains that this is the minimum amount of information required in order to keep the performance of its servers as strong as possible.

We spoke to Harold Li VP of ExpressVPN about the VPN’s data retention policy and this is what he told us:

“. . . we do not have a publicly stated data retention period for these types of data . . . duration of retention varies based on the type of data . . . we never collect nor retain any data that could link an individual customer with specific activity on the VPN network. Customers can also request for their data to be deleted at any time, in line with their rights under the GDPR.”

While it’s disappointing not to know exactly how long this data is retained, the most important thing is that it cannot be used to identify you or what you do online.

All that’s possible to reveal is that you have used ExpressVPN’s service at some point. This is totally anonymous, and about as close to zero-logs as you will find.

A 2018 report by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) questioned ExpressVPN in greater detail, and concluded that its servers were both “extremely difficult to compromise” and “limited in the amount of data that could be revealed” in the event that they were.

ExpressVPN’s logging policy was also put to the test in December 2017 when one of the service’s VPN servers was seized and inspected by Turkish authorities investigating the assassination of the Russian ambassador, Andrei Karlov. The investigators couldn’t find any customer connection logs.

It’s clear that ExpressVPN is a company with respect for user privacy, which means we can fully recommend it to anyone looking to use a VPN to protect their anonymity online. In short, your privacy is safe with ExpressVPN.

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