Protecting ProtonVPN’s infrastructure

ProtonVPN protects your data at every level. To begin with, we require no personally identifying information when you sign up for an account — just an email address. We only use the strongest encryption and VPN protocols for your internet traffic, including KEv2, OpenVPN, and WireGuard, and we protect our servers with full-disk encryption. Additionally, our infrastructure is housed on ex-military bases and in secure data centers to prevent unauthorized physical access.

ProtonVPN is based in Switzerland. This means that in addition to our strong physical security, we are also protected by some of the world’s strictest privacy laws. Switzerland’s strong laws mean that we cannot be coerced into spying on anyone, and we are not obligated to save any user connection logs.

ProtonVPN was created by the same team of scientists that met at CERN who developed ProtonMail, the respected end-to-end encrypted email service. ProtonVPN employees hold the vast majority of shares in the company, and we are almost entirely financed by our paying subscribers, so we have no incentive to betray our community’s privacy or trust.

Routing traffic through our Secure Core architecture is only available with a ProtonVPN Plus plan. To activate the Secure Core feature, you should:

• Download and install ProtonVPN
• If you haven’t already, sign up for a Plus plan
• Follow these instructions for your operating system
  

No. If you have a ProtonVPN Plus plan, you will receive additional features, but using a Free plan does not compromise your privacy or security in any way. If you sign up for a ProtonVPN Free plan, you will receive the same level of encryption and privacy.