I would also like their privacy policy (
http://www.time4vps.eu/privacy-policy.php )
Time4VPS has created this privacy statement to demonstrate commitment to privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices.
1. General information
When a customer sign-up for our service, we will ask them to provide contact information such as full name, address (city, state/region, zip code), phone number, e-mail address, legal business data. If there is necessity to verify the customer's identity, we may ask for passport or other identity approval document.
According to the recommendations from
www.privacytools.io/:
Our VPN Provider Criteria
- Operating outside the USA or other Five Eyes countries. Avoid all US and UK based services.
- OpenVPN software support.
- File-Sharing (P2P) is tolerated on selected servers.
- Accepts Bitcoin, cash, debit cards or cash cards as a payment method.
- No personal information is required to create an account. Only username, password and Email.
So, asking for passport is red flag #1.
2. Automatically logged information
When a visitor visits our website, we will capture the visitor's IP Address, time and duration of visit, and time and the particular pages on our website that have been reviewed.
This is essentially what NSA is doing (harvesting meta data)... Red flag #2.
3. Use of personally identifiable information
Our site uses a secure order form for customers to request services. We will use personally identifiable information only as follows:
- Contact information from the order forms is used to get in touch with the customer when necessary;
- Billing information that is collected and used to bill the user for services;
- Unique identifiers are collected from website visitors to verify the user's identity;
- All collected information used for billing and service provisioning purposes, no other reason;
- Third parties who perform services on our behalf (such as payment processing), subject to the third party agreeing with us that it will keep your personally identifiable information confidential.
Red flag #3.
Just to summarize it for the case of hosting masternodes.
If one day having anonymous crypto becomes illegal or suspicious (financing terrorism), then the company will be eager to communicate the following to an intelligence agency (such as NSA) and tax department:
- Person X is running N masternodes on our service
- Person X lives in country Y, logs in from this IP, spends Z hours per day on the service
- Person X has so much DASH which could be used for financing ISIS
- Please check that person X paid all the taxes
Edit: some typos
