PROVIDER PROFILE
Paid and free options from an Icelandic contracting entity, with Swiss and US payment affiliates.
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Source-based profile. We have not performed hands-on speed, leak, or streaming tests.
| Plan & term | Monthly equivalent | Upfront bill | Renewal bill | Observed / source | Keep an offer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Premium1 months | $10.99USD / month equivalent | $10.99First 1 months | Renews at $10.99/month | 2026-11-06 Dated observation | Save this offer locally |
| Premium15 months · 3 bonus included | $1.33USD / month equivalent | $20.00First 15 months | Renews at $59.88/year | 2026-11-06 Dated observation | Save this offer locally |
| Premium27 months · 3 bonus included | $1.11USD / month equivalent | $30.00First 27 months | Renews at $95.76/24 months | 2026-11-06 Dated observation | Save this offer locally |
Tax treatment not captured; confirm the final checkout total. Introductory promotions and availability may vary. A successful build does not refresh prices.
MATCH THE TIER AND THE DEVICE
Provider documentation describes these setup paths and conditions. We have not installed or tested them. An available app does not establish feature parity, streaming access or identical support on every operating-system version.
Simultaneous VPN connections: 10. PrivadoVPN Premium simultaneous connections (opens in a new tab)
Setup documentation describes available connection paths. It does not establish identical features on every app, server or subscription variant.
Scroll horizontally for platform conditions and official documentation.
| Platform / feature | What is established | Provider documentation |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | App listed App listed; confirm the supported OS version. | PrivadoVPN software and configuration directory (opens in a new tab) |
| macOS | App listed App listed; confirm the supported OS version. | PrivadoVPN software and configuration directory (opens in a new tab) |
| Linux | Not established Linux support and Premium eligibility not established in the captured software directory. | No tier-specific evidence captured |
| Android | App listed App listed; confirm the supported OS version. | PrivadoVPN software and configuration directory (opens in a new tab) |
| iPhone / iPad | App listed App listed; confirm the supported OS version. | PrivadoVPN software and configuration directory (opens in a new tab) |
| Android TV | App listed App listed; confirm the supported OS version. | PrivadoVPN software and configuration directory (opens in a new tab) |
| Apple TV | App listed App listed; confirm the supported OS version. | PrivadoVPN software and configuration directory (opens in a new tab) |
| Router | Not established Not established for this tier in this research. | No tier-specific evidence captured |
| Port forwarding | Not established Tier, server and platform requirements not established in this research. | Not established |
| Bundle scope | Not established Additional bundle inclusions not established for this named tier. | Not established |
Simultaneous connections: Not established. Free-plan limits differ from paid; do not inherit the paid connection count.
Port forwarding: Not established. Not established for Free.
Separate Free scope. Unchecked platform and feature fields remain unknown; free pricing is not inferred into the paid offer catalog.
PrivadoVPN named plan and billing source (opens in a new tab)
Download the scoped plan and feature evidence. Unknown is not the same as unsupported; add-ons are not included in the captured base-plan price.
WHAT IS KEPT, AND FOR HOW LONG?
Denies VPN traffic, DNS and session-IP logs while retaining account/plan bandwidth counters and other account data.
Provider policy statements · Free and paid VPN; Control Tower outside the VPN can register an IP. These are attributed claims, not StealthVPN observations of the service.
Denies browsing, destinations and traffic-content logs.
Policy section: Data retention; privacy rights
Denies VPN DNS-query logs.
Policy section: Data retention; privacy rights
Denies VPN-session IP logs.
Policy section: Data retention; privacy rights
Precise timestamp/session-duration retention not separately itemized.
Policy section: Data retention
Account/plan-level transfer totals for operation and plan limits.
Policy section: Data retention: bandwidth data
App statistics; self-hosted Sentry crash reports retained up to one year.
Policy section: Automatic collection; data retention
Email, username and hashed password; deletion within 30 days of request, except legal holds.
Policy section: Account creation; data retention
Payment affiliates/processors; records kept for the account duration and 7 years after the relevant fiscal year ends.
Policy section: Payment information; data retention
Support up to 2 years after deletion/ticket closure, whichever is later; aggregate app stats indefinite.
Policy section: Data retention
A no-storage claim applies to the category described. It does not rule out account records, website tracking, payment-processor data or an optional feature. “Not established” means the reviewed source did not settle this field. Read the separate assessments and event record
OPEN-SOURCE PRIVACY INTELLIGENCE
The terms transferred service contracts from the Swiss company to the Icelandic company effective May 1, 2026. Older Swiss labels in reviews are historical. Iceland is outside the listed Fourteen Eyes set.
PrivadoVPN: Icelandic terms and May 2026 entity transfer (opens in a new tab) · PrivadoVPN: privacy policy and payment entities (opens in a new tab) · ODNI: Five Eyes oversight council (opens in a new tab) · Daniel Byman / CSIS: Improving U.S. Intelligence Sharing with Allies and Partners, January 2025, p. 11 (PDF p. 15) (opens in a new tab)
Current documents distinguish the Icelandic contracting entity from US and Swiss payment affiliates. Those payment roles do not establish the complete ownership chain.
PrivadoVPN: Icelandic terms and May 2026 entity transfer (opens in a new tab) · PrivadoVPN: privacy policy and payment entities (opens in a new tab)
Read the logging categories and retention periods
Denies VPN traffic, DNS and session-IP logs while retaining account/plan bandwidth counters and other account data.
PrivadoVPN: privacy policy and payment entities (opens in a new tab)
Country grouping is our classification of the declared service jurisdiction. It is not evidence that a VPN shares customer data, or a finding that an unlisted jurisdiction is safe. Provider policy statements are not independently verified here. Read the practical implications
READ THE RECORD AND THE SCOPE
Labels identify the evidence source. A commissioned assessment, a company statement and a missing document establish different things. StealthVPN has not independently tested these systems.
Research checked November 6, 2026
No independently authored technical audit report has been obtained for this dossier. The privacy policy remains a provider statement; published reviews are not substitutes for an infrastructure assessment.
Limits: This is a gap in the evidence collected here, not a claim that an audit has never happened or a security verdict.
PrivadoVPN: privacy policy and payment entities (opens in a new tab)
Transfer effective May 1, 2026
Current terms transfer service contracts from Privado Networks AG in Switzerland to Privado Networks ehf in Iceland. Payment affiliates in Switzerland and the US have separate described roles.
Limits: Older reviews’ Swiss labels are historical. The ultimate ownership chain and a court-record-backed disclosure history remain unestablished here.
PrivadoVPN: Icelandic terms and May 2026 entity transfer (opens in a new tab) · PrivadoVPN: privacy policy and payment entities (opens in a new tab)
THE SOURCE, THE SCOPE, THE LIMIT
An on-site evidence view, not a privacy score. Policy claims, commissioned assessments and historical events answer different questions. Event dates below retain their documented precision; a year or month is not an exact day.
Labels identify the source, not a security rating or independent StealthVPN testing. Read the document scope and limits.
Denies VPN traffic, DNS and session-IP logs while retaining account/plan bandwidth counters and other account data.
PrivadoVPN privacy policy (opens in a new tab) Field-by-field breakdown
Privado Networks ehf · Iceland
Privado Networks entities; controlling owner not established
Current documents distinguish the Icelandic contracting entity from US and Swiss payment affiliates. Those payment roles do not establish the complete ownership chain.
PrivadoVPN: Icelandic terms and May 2026 entity transfer (opens in a new tab) · PrivadoVPN: privacy policy and payment entities (opens in a new tab)
No scoped assessor document is curated here for this provider. That means not reviewed in this selection, not that the service has never been assessed.
Newest event first. Responses are attributed; an announced remediation is not independently verified by StealthVPN. A related product or former owner is identified in the event scope.
Scope: Contracting entity and payment-processing roles; not a data-handover case
The terms say Privado Networks ehf assumed service agreements from the Swiss company effective May 1, 2026.
The policy identifies US and Swiss payment affiliates processing billing data on the Icelandic operator’s behalf. This is not evidence of VPN activity-log disclosure.
The transition clause says existing subscription periods, pricing and accrued rights are unaffected.
These are attributed legal documents, not corporate-registry verification. The complete controlling-ownership chain and operational system locations have not been independently established.
No country label or corporate association is a finding of guilt, safety or customer-data access. Jurisdiction context · Investigation method.
BEFORE YOU CHOOSE
Service contracts transferred from the Swiss entity to Privado Networks ehf in Iceland effective May 1, 2026.
Premium allows ten simultaneous connections; unlimited installations do not mean unlimited concurrent connections.
The observed promotional first bills and later 12/24-month renewals have different durations. Monthly plans have no 30-day refund guarantee.
Refund window: 30-day guarantee on eligible longer paid plans. Monthly plans are explicitly excluded at checkout.
Provider documentationMORE PERSPECTIVES
These reviews belong to their publishers. Their methods, commercial relationships and testing dates differ. Our provisional editorial metascore groups eligible overall ratings by publisher family; all original summaries and source caveats remain below.
3 review publications represent 3 source families for this service. The editorial metascore shows eligible opinions and family weighting; it does not rate this exact subscription or certify security. Inspect this provider’s speed evidence
Top10VPN · Top10VPN family
REVIEW IN BRIEF
For the paid plan, Top10VPN highlights low prices, fast downloads and access to several major streaming platforms.
Main caveat: It finds limited server coverage, no independent audit and few advanced privacy features. The article’s stronger enthusiasm for the free version should not be read as a paid-plan verdict.
Our paraphrase · source checked 2026-11-07
Coverage: Paid service; exact subscription not captured.
Article updated: 2026-08-27
Test period: not captured. Article updates may cover only part of a review.
Manually checked 2026-11-06. Affiliate-supported. The publisher’s methods describe self-funding/no paid reviews; its terms also allow commercial influence on ordering and scores. This verdict is not treated as an independent extra vote or a StealthVPN test.
TechRadar · Future family
REVIEW IN BRIEF
TechRadar highlights inexpensive multi-year plans, per-app kill-switch controls and the included SOCKS5 proxy.
Main caveat: It finds the network small, the mobile apps less polished and streaming access inconsistent. Its separate free-plan comments do not establish what the paid subscription includes.
Our paraphrase · source checked 2026-11-06
Coverage: See publisher for tested plan.
Article updated: 2024-12-18; originally published 2022-04-13
Test period: not captured. Article updates may cover only part of a review.
Metadata collected 2026-11-06. Affiliate-funded publisher. Manually checked metadata; publisher update dates do not date all tests. Free and paid scores remain distinct.
PCWorld · PCWorld family
The article discusses both free and premium tiers; this is its overall verdict, not a separately scored paid-only result. Its older Swiss location description predates the 2026 operator transfer.
REVIEW IN BRIEF
PCWorld considers PrivadoVPN a useful general-purpose option, highlighting streaming compatibility, solid speeds and its separate free version.
Main caveat: It identifies the small network, limited advanced features and lack of an independent audit as drawbacks.
Our paraphrase · source checked 2026-11-06
Coverage: Mixed free/premium article.
Article updated: 2025-06-18; originally published 2024-09-27
Test period: not captured. Article updates may cover only part of a review.
Metadata collected 2026-11-06. Publisher may earn affiliate commissions. Original methods and dates apply; StealthVPN has not rerun these tests.
