Privacy Policy

The administration of the site «VPN Obratno» is committed to preserving your privacy on the Internet. We take the protection of the data provided by you very seriously. Our privacy policy is based on the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union (GDPR). The purposes for which we collect personal data: to improve the operation of our service, to contact visitors to this site, to provide information requested by the user, to display advertising on the site through specialized services, as well as for the following activities.

Collection and use of personal data

We only collect and use your personal data if you voluntarily consent. With your consent, you authorize us to collect and use the following data: IP address, device identifier (user-agent). We collect and process your data in accordance with the laws in force in the European Union and the United States.

Data storage, modification and deletion

The user who provided his personal data to the site «VPN Obratno» has the right to change and delete them, as well as to withdraw his consent to their use. The period during which your personal data will be stored: the time necessary to use the data for the main activity of the site. At the end of the use of your data, the administration of the site deletes them. To access your personal data, you can contact the site administration at the following address: mail@vpnobratno.info. We can transfer your personal data to third parties only with your voluntary consent, if they have been transferred, we cannot change the data in other organizations not affiliated with us.

Use of technical data when visiting the website

When you visit the «VPN Obratno» website, the database stores records of your IP address, time of visit, browser settings, operating system, and other technical information necessary for the correct display of the website content. It is not possible for us to identify the identity of the visitor from this data.

When using the «IP Address & Browser Connection Test» tool, the test results are not saved in the website’s databases. The processing of all technical parameters (including browser type and version, operating system, device type, language, time zone, User-Agent string, WebRTC data, IPv6 address, as well as the status of Cookies and anti-tracking) is performed in real time and displayed locally in your browser (client-side).

Security and Optimization (Cloudflare)

To protect the website from DDoS attacks, malicious activity, and to speed up its performance, the Cloudflare service (Cloudflare, Inc., USA) may be used.

If this service is used, incoming traffic is proxied through Cloudflare’s infrastructure, which may process technical data (including your IP address) solely for security and optimization purposes based on our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). Technical logs are processed and stored by Cloudflare for the minimum period necessary to ensure security and analyze threats (typically not exceeding 30 days), in accordance with their privacy policy. For more details, please refer to the Cloudflare Privacy Policy.

Protection Against Automated Requests and Spam (Google reCAPTCHA)

To ensure website security and protect against spam and malicious activity (bots), the Google reCAPTCHA v3 service (Google Ireland Limited, Ireland / Google LLC, USA) may be used on the website.

This service runs in the background and analyzes visitor behavior (including IP address, browser technical parameters, mouse movements, and time spent on the page) to assess the likelihood of whether the user is a human. The processing of this data is carried out for security purposes based on our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). The data is transmitted to Google and processed in accordance with their rules. For more details, see the Google Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) and Google Terms of Service (https://policies.google.com/terms).

Provision of information by children

If you are a parent or guardian and you know that your children have provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us: mail@vpnobratno.info. Our service does not allow the submission of personal data of minors without the consent of a parent or guardian.

Use of cookies

For the correct display of content, the convenience of using the VPN Obratno website, and the proper functioning of technical features, we use cookie files. This is small data stored on your device. In particular, strictly necessary technical cookies of the Cloudflare service may be used on the website (for example, to identify trusted web traffic and protect against bots).

They help the site work correctly — for example, by remembering your chosen interface language (Russian or English), maintaining the stable performance of design elements, and displaying whether privacy functions are enabled in your browser on the IP check page.

You can configure the acceptance, blocking, or clearing of cookies in your browser settings independently. Disabling the ability to accept this data may limit the functionality of certain website features.

Use of Personal Data by Other Services (Cookies and Advertising)

This site uses third-party Internet services that collect, store, and process information independent of us to analyze traffic and display advertisements: Google Analytics, Google AdSense, Yandex Metrika, Yandex Direct/YAN, and the Adfinity advertising platform.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.

The cookies of other third-party vendors or ad networks, including Yandex and the Adfinity advertising platform, may also be used to serve ads on our site to optimize ad revenue through programmatic auctions (Header Bidding) and analyze user behavior. You may visit the websites of these vendors to opt out of the use of cookies for personalized advertising (if offered), or you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info. Visitors from the European Economic Area (EEA) and the UK can also manage, customize, or withdraw their consent at any time using the Cookie Consent Banner (CMP) provided on this website. You can read the user agreements of these organizations on their websites. There you can also refuse the collection of your personal data; for example, the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on is located here, and the Yandex Metrika opt-out page is here.

Exclusively on the IP check page, to detect hidden leaks, your browser automatically queries public servers managed by Google, Cloudflare, Nextcloud, and MiWiFi. This occurs locally within your browser and is necessary only while the test is running. We do not transmit your personal data to these services; however, at the moment of the request, these servers see your current IP address in accordance with their own privacy policies.

Displaying the city and country within the check tool itself is performed using an on-site MaxMind database without transferring your IP address to third-party services (this location data is an estimate).

Please note that on other pages of the website, technical data (including your IP address) may be automatically used by third-party advertising networks for ad geotargeting.

Protection of Advertisements Against Fraud (Click Fraud)

To prevent intentional click fraud, view inflation, and to protect our advertising accounts from fraudulent actions, technical tools of the Ad Inserter Pro plugin are used on the website.

These tools allow for automatic limitation of the number of ad block impressions and clicks on them for the same visitor. To achieve this, the system may temporarily record your IP address, analyze activity data (number of clicks and ad views), as well as use technical cookies or your browser’s local storage (Local Storage).

The processing of this data is performed exclusively for security and fraud protection purposes based on our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). The data is processed locally on our website’s side, stored for the minimum time necessary to calculate the limits, and is not transferred to third parties for tracking or marketing purposes.

Links to other sites

Our website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. We are not responsible for their content. We recommend that you read the privacy policy of each site you visit, if it is there.

Changes to the privacy policy

Our website may update its privacy policy from time to time. We notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page. We monitor changes to legislation relating to personal data in the European Union and the United States. If you have left personal data with us, we will notify you of any changes to the privacy policy. If your personal data has not been entered correctly, we will not be able to contact you.

Feedback, final provisions

You can contact the administration of the site for any questions related to the privacy policy at: mail@vpnobratno.info. If you do not agree with this privacy policy, you may not use the services of the site «VPN Obratno»; in this case, you should refrain from visiting our site.