69 VPN Privacy Policy

Who we are

aantstudio builds and publishes the apps listed on this site. Contact us at contact@aantstudio.com.

General principles

These hold across every app we publish:

• We do not sell your data. Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to anyone.
• We do not share your data for advertising. Where an app shows ads, this is stated plainly in that app's section.
• We collect the minimum an app needs to work, and each app's section says exactly what that is.
• You can refuse a permission and keep using whatever does not depend on it.

What 69 VPN collects

69 VPN is a VPN client. It has no account, no sign-in, no analytics and no servers of ours. We do not operate any infrastructure your traffic passes through and we receive nothing from the app. What follows is therefore mostly about the third parties the app talks to on your behalf, because those are the only places your data can go.

What we collect

• Nothing is collected, transmitted or stored by us. There is no backend, no analytics SDK, no advertising SDK and no crash reporting.
• Your browsing is not readable by the app. 69 VPN hands the tunnel to Android and to the OpenVPN engine; it does not inspect, record or store the traffic passing through it.
• Everything the app saves stays on the phone — your settings, your starred servers, the cached server list, the connection log and the profile of the last relay you used. All of it lives in the app’s private storage and is removed when you uninstall.

Third parties the app contacts

These are the only outbound connections 69 VPN makes on its own behalf. Each of them sees your IP address, in the ordinary way any website you visit does.

• VPN Gate (vpngate.net) — the public relay list is downloaded from this academic project at the University of Tsukuba. The request carries no identifier beyond what any HTTP request carries.
• Public relays, when a server cannot be reached directly — some servers are blocked or badly routed on some networks. In that case the app retries the same server through a public relay taken from a freely published list. This is transport only: the VPN tunnel is established end to end with the server and stays encrypted, so the relay carries ciphertext and cannot read or modify your traffic, and cannot see any destination beyond the VPN server’s own address. Your exit country is always the server’s, never the relay’s. Relay lists are fetched from ProxyScrape and a public GitHub list, and each candidate is tested before use.
• VPNBook (vpnbook.com) — the second server list. Two requests per refresh: one for the page carrying the shared account credentials VPNBook publishes openly, and one for a single OpenVPN profile which the app then retargets locally at each of their servers. No account of yours is involved, and nothing about you is sent.
• An archive of past relay lists — older snapshots of the public VPN Gate list are read from a mirror published on GitHub, which is how the app can offer countries that are not in today’s live list. Plain file downloads; nothing about you is sent.
• ipwho.is, with ipinfo.io as a fallback — used only to answer “which country does the internet think I am in?”, before and after you connect. That comparison is what lets you confirm the tunnel is actually carrying your traffic. Whichever one answers sees the address it is answering about, in the ordinary way any website you visit does.
• speed.cloudflare.com, with proof.ovh.net as a fallback — when the app suspects your connection has gone slow it downloads a small fixed-size test file and times it, so the warning it shows is a measurement rather than a guess. A plain download of a public test file, at most once every 45 seconds, and only while traffic is already flowing.

The relay operators — read this part

This is the honest centre of the policy. None of the servers are ours. The VPN Gate ones are donated by volunteers and most declare that they keep connection logs for around two weeks. The VPNBook ones belong to VPNBook, a free donation-supported service operating under its own policy, which we have not audited and do not restate here. Either way the operator can see the same things any VPN operator can: the IP you connected from, when, for how long, and the destinations your traffic was carried to.

69 VPN does not claim a no-logs policy, because it does not own the servers and could not honour one. The app presents the relays simply as countries and does not name their operators in its interface — this policy is where they are named, so that what you are told is in one place and stays accurate. If you need a relay you actually control, import your own .ovpn profile in Settings; the app will use it in place of the public list.

Device permissions

• VPN service — granted through Android’s own consent dialog, which the system shows the first time you connect. It is what allows the app to create the tunnel. Android displays a persistent key icon the whole time a VPN is active.
• Internet and network state — to fetch the server list, measure latency and carry the tunnel.
• Foreground service — Android requires a visible ongoing notification while a VPN is running. That notification shows the live speed, the session length and a disconnect button.
• Notifications — only to display that ongoing status notification. Declining it does not stop the VPN working.
• Installed app list — the split tunnelling screen lists the apps that have a launcher icon, so you can choose which ones use the tunnel. That list is read on the device, shown to you, and never sent anywhere.

The kill switch and always-on VPN are Android settings, not permissions the app holds. Settings has a shortcut that opens the system VPN screen where you turn them on.

Children

69 VPN is not directed at children and collects no personal information from anyone.

Data retention and deletion

There is nothing on our side to delete, because nothing reaches us. Everything the app has stored is on your phone, and uninstalling it removes all of it. You can clear the connection log from inside the app at any time. Anything a relay operator logged is held by that operator under their own policy, which we have no access to and cannot act on for you.

This page covers 69 VPN only. The policy covering every aantstudio app is at aantstudio.com/privacy.