Last updated: September 28, 2025
The Irony Isn’t Lost on Us
Here we are, running a site about VPN privacy, and we still need to tell you about the various ways this website collects data about your visit. Welcome to the modern internet, where even privacy advocates have to make compromises to keep the lights on.
What Information We Collect
Analytics and Traffic Monitoring
We use several third-party tools to understand how people use our site, what content is most helpful, and where our traffic comes from:
- Google Analytics tracks your visit to our site, including which pages you view, how long you stay, what device and browser you’re using, and your general geographic location (city/region level, not your exact address). This helps us understand what content is actually useful and what needs improvement.
- Google Search Console shows us which search terms bring people to our site and how our pages perform in Google search results. This data helps us create content that answers the questions people are actually asking about VPNs.
- Bing Webmaster Tools provides similar insights for Microsoft’s search engine, helping us understand our visibility across different search platforms.
These tools use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect this information. The data is aggregated and anonymized, but it’s still data about your browsing behavior that gets shared with these third-party companies.
Information You Voluntarily Provide
If you email us at dimaronmedia@gmail.com, we obviously have access to whatever information you choose to include in your message. We might use your questions or experiences in our content (without identifying you personally unless you give us explicit permission).
We don’t have comment sections, newsletter signups, or user accounts, so there’s no other way you’d be providing us with personal information through the site itself.
How We Use This Information
Making the Site Better
Analytics data helps us understand which articles are most helpful, which pages people leave quickly (suggesting they’re not finding what they need), and what topics we should cover next. If we see a lot of people searching for “VPN setup on Android” and leaving our Android guide quickly, that tells us the guide probably needs improvement.
Content Planning
Search console data shows us what questions people are asking about VPNs that we haven’t answered yet. This drives our editorial calendar and helps us focus on content that actually serves our readers rather than just whatever we feel like writing about.
Technical Improvements
Traffic data helps us identify technical problems like slow-loading pages, broken links, or mobile compatibility issues that might be affecting your experience on the site.
Third-Party Data Sharing
Analytics Providers
Google and Microsoft receive the data collected by their respective analytics tools. They have their own privacy policies that govern how they use this information, and frankly, those policies are long, complex documents that change regularly.
Google’s privacy policy is at https://policies.google.com/privacy and Microsoft’s is at https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement. We recommend reading them if you want to understand how these companies handle data, though we warn you they’re about as exciting as reading the phone book.
We Don’t Sell Your Data
We don’t sell, rent, or otherwise monetize your personal information. Any money we make comes from advertising and affiliate commissions, not from trafficking in user data.
Monetization and Advertising
Contextual Advertising
We may display contextual advertisements on our site. These ads are selected based on the content of the page you’re viewing, not based on detailed profiles of your browsing history across the internet. If you’re reading an article about VPN protocols, you might see ads for VPN services or cybersecurity tools.
Affiliate Links
Some links on our site may be affiliate links, meaning we earn a small commission if you purchase something after clicking through. This doesn’t affect our editorial content or reviews – we only recommend products and services we actually think are worth your money, regardless of whether we have an affiliate relationship.
When we do have affiliate relationships, we disclose them clearly. We don’t hide affiliate links or pretend they’re neutral recommendations when we have a financial interest.
Independence Promise
Our editorial content remains independent of our monetization methods. We’ve written negative reviews of VPN services that have affiliate programs, and we’ve recommended free alternatives when paid services don’t offer good value. Money doesn’t buy positive coverage on VPNalysis.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
What Cookies We Use
Analytics cookies from Google and Microsoft track your visit across our site. These are persistent cookies that remain on your device until they expire or you delete them.
We don’t use cookies for advertising targeting or cross-site tracking beyond what’s necessary for basic analytics and site functionality.
Managing Cookies
You can disable cookies in your browser settings, though this might affect how analytics tools track site usage. Most modern browsers also support “Do Not Track” signals, though there’s no universal standard for how websites should respond to these signals.
For more granular control, you can use browser extensions that block specific tracking scripts or opt out of Google Analytics specifically through Google’s opt-out tools.
Data Security
Our Measures
We use standard security practices for a website of our size and complexity. The site is served over HTTPS, we keep software updated, and we don’t store sensitive user data that could be compromised in a breach.
Third-Party Security
The analytics data we collect is stored on Google’s and Microsoft’s servers, which are presumably more secure than anything we could implement ourselves. However, we can’t guarantee the security of their systems or predict how they might be compromised.
Breach Notification
If we become aware of any security incident that affects user data, we’ll update this privacy policy and post a notice on the site explaining what happened and what we’re doing about it.
Your Rights and Choices
Opting Out
You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing Google’s opt-out browser extension or by disabling JavaScript in your browser (though this will break most modern websites).
Many browsers now include built-in tracking protection that blocks or limits analytics scripts. We don’t attempt to circumvent these protections.
Data Deletion
Since we don’t maintain user accounts or collect personal information directly (beyond what you might include in emails), there’s no personal data for us to delete from our own systems. Analytics data is controlled by the third-party providers and subject to their retention policies.
Contact Rights
If you have questions about what data we collect or how we use it, email us at dimaronmedia@gmail.com. We’ll do our best to provide clear answers, though we can’t control or provide detailed information about third-party data practices.
International Users
Global Access
Our site is accessible worldwide, and we welcome international readers. However, the site is operated from the United States and subject to U.S. laws and regulations.
GDPR Compliance
For users in the European Union, this privacy policy serves as our Article 13/14 GDPR disclosure. The legal basis for processing your data is legitimate interest in operating and improving our website.
You have rights under GDPR including access, rectification, erasure, and portability of your personal data. Since we don’t directly collect or store personal data beyond analytics, these rights primarily apply to the third-party analytics providers.
Changes to This Policy
Updates
We’ll update this privacy policy when our data practices change or when legal requirements demand it. The “last updated” date at the top will reflect when changes were made.
Notification
For significant changes that materially affect user privacy, we’ll post a notice on the site explaining what changed and why. For minor updates or clarifications, we’ll just update the policy without additional notice.
The Bottom Line
We try to collect as little data as necessary while still being able to improve the site and understand what content serves our readers best. We’re transparent about our monetization methods and don’t let money influence our editorial independence.
The modern web makes it difficult to operate a site without some level of data collection, but we try to minimize it and be honest about what we’re doing. If you have concerns or questions about our privacy practices, email us and we’ll address them directly.
This isn’t legal advice, and this policy doesn’t create any contractual obligations beyond what’s required by applicable law. It’s our good-faith effort to explain our data practices in plain English rather than incomprehensible legal jargon.
Contact us: dimaronmedia@gmail.com