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PureVPN is operated by GZ Systems Private Ltd (as named in the privacy policy; Intershore Chambers, P.O. Box 4342, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands) and based in British Virgin Islands. The register records 3 independent audits (0 with a linked report), 1 incident and a lowest verified price of $2.15 per month on a 27 months term.

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Verified facts

Checked 28 Sept 2026ActiveFrom the vendor's own pages, auditors' reports and named news outlets. Not our measurements.
Owner
GZ Systems Private Ltd (as named in the privacy policy; Intershore Chambers, P.O. Box 4342, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands) sourceUltimate owner: not established from a primary source
Jurisdiction
British Virgin Islands (vendor states it moved HQ there, citing no mandatory data retention laws) source
Logging policy
Vendor says it does not keep any logs that can identify or help monitor a user's activity, and stores no activity/usage logs, so it would have nothing to share even if compelled. sourceThis is the vendor's claim, paraphrased. An audit below is what tests it.
Independent audits
  • Altius IT2019No-logs verification: browsing activity, connection logs/assigned VPN IPs, originating IPs, timestamps, DNS queries; review of infrastructure documents, configs and log files vendor page (report not linked)
  • KPMG (named in vendor's privacy policy as 'KPMG-Audited No-Logs Network'; vendor's audit pages render the name as 'Well known audit firm')date not statedSecond no-logs audit, 'always-on' arrangement permitting surprise audits. Date conflict: vendor blog carries an 'Update - October 24, 2020' note about a second audit; XDA article about the KPMG audit dated 2021-08-16. Not resolved. vendor page (report not linked)
  • Not named on the assessment page (vendor's privacy policy refers to a 'KPMG-Audited No-Logs Network'; vendor blog URL suggests KPMG validated the claims, not read)2023-02-16/2023-02-22 (fieldwork); post-assessment validation March-April 2023Assessment of VPN infrastructure compliance with the privacy policy, per vendor's no-log assessment page vendor page (report not linked)
Incidents
  • 6 Oct 2017FBI criminal complaint against Ryan Lin (arrest announced Oct 2017) said PureVPN records let investigators determine one customer accessed the service from two originating IPs; reported by The Register as at odds with PureVPN's no-logs claim. Sources report PureVPN later changed its policy (per ProPrivacy, moved to zero-logs in 2018). source
Transparency report
Not verified from a primary source
Open-source apps
Not verified from a primary sourceNot verified; no open-source claim found on pages read.
RAM-only servers
Not verified from a primary source
Refund window
31 days from initial purchase; does not apply to renewal payments source
Price per month
PureVPN price per month by billed term, in the vendor's own currency
Billed termPer monthCharged up frontNote
1 month$12.95$12.95Standard tier, 'No Discount' tab. Plus is $15.95/mo and Max $19.95/mo. Renewal prices not stated on the page. source
12 months$2.55$47.95Standard tier promo shown as $2.55/mo (80% off list $12.95); '$47.95 on purchase' vs $143.40 struck through; term length billed for $47.95 not confirmed. Plus $4.55/mo ($69.95), Max $5.55/mo ($84.95). Renewal price not stated. Billing period: the vendor's cart plan definition for 'Standard plan yearly' has a 12-month interval; note $47.95/12 = 4.00/mo, which does not equal the displayed $2.55/mo, so the displayed monthly figure is not reproducible from the billed amount (unresolved; see GAPS). source
27 months$2.15$57.95Standard tier promo '83% off + 3 extra months': $2.15/mo, $57.95 on purchase vs $322.65 struck through (so upfront likely covers 27 months; not stated explicitly). Plus $2.73/mo ($89.95), Max $3.55/mo ($109.95). Renewal price not stated. source
Per-month figures are the vendor's displayed monthly equivalent for the whole billed term, so terms of different length are not like for like. No currency conversion.
Not verified
  • ultimateOwner: null (secondary sources point to Gaditek / Uzair Gadit, unverified)
  • audits: KPMG 2021 date conflicts (vendor note Oct 2020 vs XDA Aug 2021); reports are behind an email gate, so reportUrl null; 2024 audit claimed by secondary sources, not verified; vendor pages anonymize the auditor name
  • transparencyReport: purevpn.com/transparency-report returned 404; published=null
  • openSourceClients, ramOnlyServers: not verified
  • plans: upfront term lengths for promo prices not stated explicitly; renewal prices not stated
  • incidents: 2017 FBI/Ryan Lin case verified via The Register; PureVPN's own response not read

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Who it suits

  • Deal hunters testing a secondary VPN
  • Users who need odd platform support

Who should look elsewhere

  • Primary privacy purchases
  • Readers who want simplest shortlists

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Update log

  1. Page rebuilt on the VPN audit register; facts re-checked against the vendor's own pages and auditors' reports on this date.