Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

Fortyx VPN (the “App”) is published by LEADPIXEL LABS LLC, 30 N Gould St, Sheridan, Wyoming 82801-6317, United States (“we”, “us”, “our”). We are the controller for the personal data described here.

Contact: privacy@fortyx-vpn.com

2. The short version

3. What we do not log

We do not create, store or retain records of:

• the websites, domains, applications or services your traffic reaches;
• a history of the domain lookups made from your device;
• the contents of any traffic passing through the tunnel;
• bandwidth or session records associated with an individual user;
• your originating IP address paired with any record of activity.

This is a statement about what we record, not a claim about what is technically possible on a network. Because activity logs are not produced, there is nothing of that kind for us to disclose, sell, lose in a breach, or hand over when asked.

4. DNS and ad filtering

The App blocks advertising and tracking domains. That deserves an explanation, because it is the one place where a no-logs policy is easy to state carelessly.

To block a domain, the request for it has to be seen. When your device asks to resolve a domain, that request is compared against a blocklist and then either resolved normally or refused. This happens in the moment the request is made, and the request is discarded immediately afterwards.

Seeing a request and remembering it are different operations. We do the first and not the second: no history of your lookups is written to disk, kept in memory beyond the moment of the request, aggregated, or associated with you. If you ask us tomorrow which domains your device requested today, we will not be able to tell you, because that record does not exist.

The blocklist itself consists of domain names known to serve advertising or tracking. It is applied identically to every connection and contains nothing specific to you. Ad filtering can be switched off in the App at any time, and the encrypted connection continues to work either way.

5. No account

The App has no registration, no login and no user profile. Access to paid features is verified against the App Store purchase on your device, through Apple. We never receive an email address, a password or a name, because the App never asks for one.

6. What the app reports

Claiming to collect nothing at all would be inaccurate. The App includes a crash-reporting and analytics component, and a component that manages subscriptions. Between them, the following is processed:

Technical and diagnostic data

• Device model, iOS version, App version
• Language, region and coarse country derived from the connection
• Crash logs, error reports and performance diagnostics
• A pseudonymous installation identifier that distinguishes one install from another, and is reset if the App is deleted and reinstalled
• Basic events about the App itself — for example that a connection was started, or that ad filtering was switched on or off

None of this describes where your traffic went. It describes the App: which version, on which device, whether it worked.

Subscription data

• App Store receipts and purchase validation
• Subscription status, renewal, cancellation and trial state
• The country of your App Store account, for pricing and tax

Payments are handled entirely by Apple. We never see your card number or full payment details.

Support correspondence

If you write to us, we process your address and whatever you choose to tell us, for as long as it takes to resolve the matter and to keep a record of it.

7. IP addresses

Every network connection involves an IP address — that is how packets find their way back. Two consequences follow:

• On the VPN connection. Your IP address is used to carry the connection itself. It is not written to a log next to a record of your activity.
• On the App's own requests. When the App contacts our analytics or subscription providers, those providers observe the IP address of that request. Our analytics provider derives an approximate country from it for statistics and does not retain it in raw form in the reporting we receive.

8. No advertising or tracking

The App shows no advertising — it removes it. It does not request Apple's advertising identifier (IDFA), does not present the App Tracking Transparency prompt, and does not track you across other companies' apps or websites. We do not sell personal data and we do not share it with advertising networks or data brokers.

9. Legal bases (GDPR)

For users in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom:

• Performance of a contract (Art. 6(1)(b)) — operating the VPN service, ad filtering, and managing your subscription.
• Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f)) — keeping the App stable and secure, diagnosing crashes, preventing abuse of the service.
• Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) — where consent is required for optional analytics. It may be withdrawn at any time.
• Legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c)) — tax and accounting records relating to purchases.

10. Service providers

We use a small number of providers, under written data processing agreements and only for the purposes above:

None of these providers receives records of your browsing or your domain lookups, because no such records exist.

11. Where servers are

VPN servers are located in Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. Your traffic passes through the location you select, or through the one Optimal Location picks for you. As set out in sections 3 and 4, no record of that traffic is kept at any of them.

We are established in the United States. Where personal data described in section 6 is transferred out of the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we rely on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, or the UK International Data Transfer Addendum, as applicable. A copy of the safeguards in place is available on request.

12. Retention

• Activity and DNS logs — none exist, so nothing is retained.
• Crash and diagnostic data — up to 14 months, then deleted or aggregated.
• Subscription and billing records — for as long as tax and accounting law requires.
• Support correspondence — 24 months after the matter is closed.

13. Legal requests

If we receive a lawful request from an authority, we respond as the law requires. What we can produce is limited by what exists: there are no activity logs, no browsing history, no DNS history and no account details, so those cannot be produced regardless of who asks. We will not introduce new logging in order to satisfy a request without a valid legal obligation to do so.

14. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access your personal data, correct it, have it erased, restrict or object to processing, receive it in a portable format, and withdraw consent.

Write to privacy@fortyx-vpn.com. Please note a practical consequence of having no accounts: with no identifier linking you to a record on our side, we frequently cannot locate data “about you” at all. For subscription records, your App Store order ID is usually the only workable reference.

European Economic Area and United Kingdom

You may lodge a complaint with your national supervisory authority, or with the Information Commissioner's Office in the UK.

United States

If you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia or another state with comparable legislation, you have the right to know what personal information is collected, to request its deletion, to correct it, and to opt out of its sale or sharing. We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined by the CCPA/CPRA, and you will not be treated differently for exercising any of these rights.

15. Children

The App is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 16, or under 13 in the United States. If you believe a child has provided us with data, write to us and we will delete it.

16. Security

VPN traffic is encrypted between your device and the server you connect to. Data exchanged between the App and our providers travels over TLS. Access to our systems is limited to the people who need it.

No system is perfectly secure. Keeping your device passcode-protected and your iOS version current does more for your safety than any single feature of this App.

17. Changes

Any updated version is posted on this page. Where a change is material, we will signal it in the App. If we ever begin collecting something not listed in section 6, this page will say so before that change takes effect.

18. Contact

LEADPIXEL LABS LLC
30 N Gould St
Sheridan, Wyoming 82801-6317
United States
Privacy: privacy@fortyx-vpn.com
Support: support@fortyx-vpn.com