69 VPN for Windows 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 for Windows collects

69 VPN for Windows is a VPN client. Like the phone app 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 program. What follows is mostly about the third parties it 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, no advertising and no crash reporting.
• Your browsing is not readable by the program. The tunnel is carried by the OpenVPN engine; 69 VPN does not inspect, record or store the traffic passing through it. It reads only the running byte counters, to draw the live speed graph.
• Everything it saves stays on your PC — your settings, starred servers, the cached server list, what it has measured about each server, imported profiles (including any login you typed for one), and the connection log. These live in %APPDATA%\69 VPN under your own Windows account. The service keeps a short technical log in %ProgramData%\69 VPN; the login and profile it hands to the engine for the current connection sit in a folder only Windows itself and administrators can read, and are deleted when you disconnect.

Third parties the program 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, published by an academic project at the University of Tsukuba.
• VPNBook (vpnbook.com) — the second server list, and the shared account credentials VPNBook publishes openly on that page. No account of yours is involved.
• An archive of past relay lists on GitHub — older snapshots of the public VPN Gate list, which is how the program can offer countries missing from today’s live list. Plain file downloads.
• The servers themselves — to measure which ones answer and how fast, the program sends each one the opening packet of an OpenVPN session and times the reply. Nothing about you is in it.
• Public relays, when a server cannot be reached directly — the program can retry the same server through a public HTTP relay taken from a freely published list (ProxyScrape and a public GitHub list), each tested before use. This is transport only: the tunnel is established end to end with the VPN server and stays encrypted, so the relay carries ciphertext and sees no destination beyond the VPN server’s own address.
• 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.
• This website and GitHub, for updates — the program reads aantstudio.com/updates.json to learn the current version. When a new one is out, the 69 VPN service asks GitHub for the installer’s published SHA-256 checksum, downloads the installer from our GitHub releases page and installs it only if the checksum matches.

The relay operators — read this part

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 program shows each server’s declared policy on its row. The VPNBook ones belong to VPNBook, operating under its own policy, which we have not audited. Either way the operator can see what 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 it could not honour. If you need a relay you control, import your own .ovpn profile in Settings.

What the installer puts on your PC

• The OpenVPN engine and its TAP network driver, from OpenVPN Inc.’s own signed installer, unless a recent OpenVPN is already installed. A network adapter named “69 VPN” is created for the tunnel.
• The 69 VPN Service, a Windows service that starts the engine with the rights a tunnel needs, so the program itself never runs as administrator. It accepts requests only from programs on this PC and refuses profiles that try to run scripts, load plugins or read other files.
• Firewall rules, only while you use them — the kill switch and IPv6 leak blocking are Windows Filtering Platform rules that exist only while the service is holding them and vanish the moment it stops. Nothing in your saved firewall settings is changed.

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. You can clear the connection log from inside the program at any time. Uninstalling from Windows Settings → Apps removes the program, the service, the network adapter, the service’s data and — if 69 VPN installed it — the OpenVPN engine. Your own settings folder in %APPDATA%\69 VPN can be deleted by hand. Anything a relay operator logged is held by that operator under their own policy.

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