Privacy Policy

Last updated August 10, 2026

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VPS Advisor ("VPS Advisor", "we", "us", or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you provide when you use our website, applications, services, and related features (collectively, the "Services").

This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use and protect it, when we share it, and the choices available to you.

By accessing or using VPS Advisor, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Services.

1. About VPS Advisor

VPS Advisor is a platform for discovering, researching, comparing, reviewing, and evaluating VPS, cloud hosting, virtual server, and related infrastructure providers.

The platform may allow users to:

  • Discover VPS and cloud service providers.
  • View provider profiles, products, plans, pricing, features, locations, and related information.
  • Search and filter providers and services.
  • Submit ratings and reviews.
  • Interact with provider listings.
  • Create and manage registered user accounts.
  • Participate in community or contributor activities.
  • Access reviewer or community-worker features where authorized.
  • Submit information through forms and other platform features.
  • Receive notifications and service communications.
  • Access other features that VPS Advisor may introduce from time to time.

VPS Advisor may also provide infrastructure and network-health information relating to providers. Where network monitoring is available, such information is intended to describe the public network health or reachability of a provider and does not necessarily represent the uptime or performance of an individual customer's server.

2. Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on how you interact with VPS Advisor.

2.1 Information You Provide Directly

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide to us, including:

  • Name.
  • Email address.
  • Username.
  • Password or authentication credentials.
  • Profile information.
  • Company or organization information.
  • Provider information.
  • Contact information.
  • Review and rating content.
  • Comments and other user-generated content.
  • Information submitted through contact forms.
  • Information submitted through provider or business-related forms.
  • Information submitted when participating in community or reviewer activities.
  • Information contained in documents or files you choose to upload where a particular feature supports file uploads.
  • Preferences relating to notifications and communications.
  • Other information you voluntarily provide to VPS Advisor.

You should not submit sensitive personal information through public areas of the platform unless the relevant feature specifically requests it and provides an appropriate reason for doing so.

2.2 Account Information

When you create a registered account, we may collect information necessary to establish and manage your account, such as your name, email address, username, account status, authentication information, profile information, and account preferences.

We may also maintain information relating to actions performed through your account for security, auditing, moderation, and operational purposes.

2.3 Provider Information

VPS Advisor may collect and publish information about VPS, cloud, hosting, and infrastructure providers.

Provider information may include:

  • Provider or company name.
  • Website and public contact information.
  • Service descriptions.
  • VPS and cloud plans.
  • Pricing and billing information.
  • Server locations.
  • Datacenter information.
  • Supported technologies.
  • Product specifications.
  • Public network information.
  • Provider identifiers.
  • Autonomous System Number (ASN) information.
  • Publicly available business information.
  • Ratings and reviews.
  • Other information supplied by the provider or obtained from publicly available sources.

Some provider information may be publicly visible on VPS Advisor.

2.4 Reviews and User-Generated Content

If you submit a review, rating, comment, response, or other content, we collect and process that content in order to provide the relevant platform feature.

Depending on the feature and your account settings, information associated with your contribution may be displayed publicly.

You should therefore carefully consider whether you want to include personal information in a review or other publicly visible content.

For example, you should avoid including:

  • Passwords.
  • Authentication credentials.
  • Financial account information.
  • Private contact information belonging to another person.
  • Government identification numbers.
  • Other sensitive information that is not necessary for your contribution.

VPS Advisor may moderate, review, remove, restrict, or otherwise process user-generated content to enforce our policies, protect users, maintain platform integrity, or comply with applicable law.

2.5 Community Workers and Contributors

VPS Advisor may operate community-based features, including distributed contributors or community workers that assist with network observation, probing, verification, or other platform functionality.

Where you voluntarily participate in such a program, we may collect information necessary to:

  • Register and manage your participation.
  • Authenticate your contribution.
  • Monitor worker status and availability.
  • Maintain operational and security records.
  • Associate contributed results with the appropriate provider or monitoring task.
  • Calculate reputation, trust, reliability, or contribution metrics.
  • Detect abuse, manipulation, or anomalous activity.
  • Communicate with you regarding the program.

Participation in voluntary contributor programs may be paused, resumed, or discontinued in accordance with the applicable program terms.

2.6 Network and Monitoring Information

Where VPS Advisor provides provider network-health or monitoring functionality, the platform may process technical information obtained from network measurements and public infrastructure data.

This may include information such as:

  • IP addresses.
  • Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs).
  • Network prefixes.
  • BGP routing information.
  • Network reachability information.
  • Probe results.
  • Network latency or availability measurements.
  • Geographic or regional information associated with network observations.
  • Timestamps.
  • Technical metadata required to validate or aggregate observations.

Monitoring results are intended to provide information about the public network health or reachability of a provider.

They should not automatically be interpreted as the uptime, availability, or performance of an individual customer's VPS, server, website, or application.

2.7 Information Collected Automatically

When you use VPS Advisor, we may automatically collect technical and usage information, including:

  • IP address.
  • Browser type and version.
  • Device type.
  • Operating system.
  • Screen and display information.
  • Language and regional settings.
  • Referring and exit pages.
  • Pages and features accessed.
  • Search queries and interactions.
  • Approximate geographic information derived from technical data.
  • Date and time of access.
  • Session information.
  • Error and diagnostic information.
  • Security-related events.
  • Other technical information generated when interacting with our Services.

This information helps us operate, secure, maintain, troubleshoot, and improve VPS Advisor.

3. Cookies and Similar Technologies

VPS Advisor may use cookies, local storage, session technologies, and similar technologies to operate and improve the Services.

These technologies may be used for purposes including:

  • Authentication.
  • Maintaining user sessions.
  • Remembering preferences.
  • Security.
  • Preventing abuse.
  • Measuring website usage.
  • Understanding how users interact with the platform.
  • Improving performance.
  • Providing relevant functionality.

Some cookies may be essential for the operation of the Services and cannot be disabled through normal website controls without affecting functionality.

Where required by applicable law, we will request consent before placing or using non-essential cookies or similar technologies.

You can also manage cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect the availability or functionality of some VPS Advisor features.

4. How We Use Your Information

We may use information we collect for the following purposes:

Providing the Services

We use information to:

  • Create and manage accounts.
  • Authenticate users.
  • Provide provider profiles and listings.
  • Display reviews and ratings.
  • Process searches and filters.
  • Provide platform functionality.
  • Manage contributor and reviewer programs.
  • Provide notifications.
  • Respond to requests and enquiries.
  • Operate administrative features.

Improving VPS Advisor

We may analyze usage and technical information to:

  • Improve website functionality.
  • Improve search and discovery.
  • Improve provider information.
  • Understand platform usage.
  • Identify technical problems.
  • Improve performance.
  • Develop new features.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of existing features.

Security and Fraud Prevention

We may process information to:

  • Protect accounts.
  • Detect suspicious activity.
  • Prevent fraud and abuse.
  • Prevent manipulation of ratings or reviews.
  • Detect automated or malicious activity.
  • Investigate security incidents.
  • Protect the integrity of monitoring and contributor systems.
  • Enforce our policies and terms.

Communications

We may use your information to send:

  • Account-related messages.
  • Security alerts.
  • Verification messages.
  • Service notifications.
  • Important changes to our Services.
  • Responses to enquiries.
  • Communications relating to reviews, providers, or contributor programs.
  • Marketing or promotional communications where permitted by law and, where required, with your consent.

You may opt out of non-essential marketing communications at any time.

We may process information where necessary to:

  • Comply with applicable laws.
  • Respond to lawful requests from authorities.
  • Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
  • Protect our rights, property, users, or services.
  • Investigate suspected violations.
  • Enforce contractual or platform terms.

Where applicable privacy laws require a legal basis for processing personal information, we may rely on one or more of the following:

We may process information where you have provided consent.

You may withdraw consent where permitted by law. Withdrawal of consent does not affect processing that occurred before withdrawal.

Contract

We may process information where it is necessary to provide Services you requested or to perform our contractual obligations to you.

Legitimate Interests

We may process information where necessary for legitimate interests, provided those interests are not overridden by your applicable privacy rights.

These interests may include:

  • Operating and improving VPS Advisor.
  • Securing our systems.
  • Preventing fraud and abuse.
  • Maintaining platform integrity.
  • Improving search and discovery.
  • Protecting users and providers.
  • Understanding and improving service performance.

We may process information where necessary to comply with applicable legal obligations.

6. Publicly Available Information

Some information on VPS Advisor is intentionally designed to be public.

This may include:

  • Provider profiles.
  • Provider names.
  • Provider services.
  • Product and plan information.
  • Ratings.
  • Reviews.
  • Public responses to reviews.
  • Public contributor or reviewer information where applicable.
  • Other information intentionally submitted for public display.

Information that you publish publicly may be accessible to other users and may potentially be indexed by search engines or accessed through third-party services.

Please consider this before publishing personal information.

7. How We Share Information

We do not sell your personal information simply because you use VPS Advisor.

We may share information in limited circumstances necessary to operate the Services.

Service Providers

We may use trusted third-party service providers to help us operate VPS Advisor.

These providers may support functions such as:

  • Hosting and infrastructure.
  • Email delivery.
  • Authentication.
  • Database and storage services.
  • Analytics.
  • Security.
  • Monitoring.
  • Error reporting.
  • Search.
  • Communications.
  • Customer support.
  • Other technical or operational services.

Such providers may process information on our behalf and are expected to handle it in accordance with applicable contractual and legal requirements.

Providers

Where appropriate, information you intentionally submit as part of a review, enquiry, provider interaction, or other provider-facing feature may be made available to the relevant provider.

We will not disclose private account information to a provider merely because you viewed its profile unless disclosure is necessary for a feature you use or otherwise permitted by law.

We may disclose information where we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:

  • Comply with a legal obligation.
  • Respond to a valid legal process.
  • Protect the rights or safety of VPS Advisor, our users, providers, or others.
  • Investigate fraud, abuse, or security incidents.

Business Transfers

If VPS Advisor or substantially all of its assets are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale, or similar transaction, personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.

With Your Direction

We may share information when you specifically request or authorize us to do so.

8. Data Retention

We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to:

  • Provide our Services.
  • Maintain account and operational records.
  • Meet legal and regulatory obligations.
  • Resolve disputes.
  • Enforce agreements.
  • Prevent fraud and abuse.
  • Maintain security.
  • Protect the integrity of the platform.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected.

When information is no longer required, we may delete, anonymize, aggregate, or securely dispose of it, subject to applicable legal and operational requirements.

9. Data Security

We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, loss, misuse, or destruction.

Security measures may include:

  • Access controls.
  • Authentication mechanisms.
  • Encryption where appropriate.
  • Secure communications.
  • Monitoring and logging.
  • Infrastructure security controls.
  • Backup and recovery procedures.
  • Administrative controls.
  • Security reviews and maintenance.

However, no internet transmission or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and should notify us promptly if you believe your account has been compromised.

10. Account Security

You should use a strong, unique password for your VPS Advisor account and avoid sharing your credentials with others.

We will never ask you to disclose your password through an unsolicited email or message.

If you believe that someone has accessed your account without authorization, contact us as soon as possible.

11. Third-Party Services and Websites

VPS Advisor may contain links to websites, applications, services, or resources operated by third parties.

Those third parties have their own privacy policies and practices.

We are not responsible for the privacy, security, content, or practices of third-party websites or services that are outside our control.

You should review the privacy policy of any third-party service before providing personal information to it.

12. Analytics

We may use analytics and similar technologies to understand how users interact with VPS Advisor.

Analytics may help us understand:

  • Which pages are visited.
  • How features are used.
  • Website performance.
  • General usage patterns.
  • Technical problems.
  • User journeys and interactions.

Where third-party analytics services are used, information may be processed according to the relevant provider's privacy policy and our contractual arrangements with that provider.

13. Search and Platform Activity

VPS Advisor may collect technical and interaction information associated with searches and platform usage in order to provide and improve search and discovery features.

Search activity may be used to:

  • Return relevant provider results.
  • Improve search quality.
  • Detect abuse.
  • Diagnose problems.
  • Understand aggregate platform usage.

We do not intend to publicly display private search activity associated with your account unless a particular feature expressly provides for such functionality.

14. Reviews, Ratings, and Reputation

Reviews and ratings are important parts of VPS Advisor.

To maintain the reliability of the platform, we may process information relating to reviews and ratings to:

  • Detect duplicate submissions.
  • Identify suspicious activity.
  • Prevent manipulation.
  • Investigate abuse.
  • Moderate content.
  • Maintain reviewer or contributor reputation systems.
  • Protect the integrity of provider ratings.

We may retain relevant records where necessary to investigate disputes, abuse, manipulation, or other platform-integrity issues.

15. Community Monitoring and Contributor Privacy

Participation in VPS Advisor community monitoring or contributor programs is voluntary unless otherwise stated in the applicable program terms.

Contributors should understand that technical information generated through their participation may be processed to operate and validate the monitoring system.

We may maintain contributor-related information such as:

  • Contributor account information.
  • Worker status.
  • Contribution timestamps.
  • Technical identifiers.
  • Monitoring results.
  • Reliability or reputation metrics.
  • Security and operational logs.

We may use this information to protect the monitoring network against manipulation and to evaluate the reliability of observations.

Where possible, public monitoring results are presented as aggregated or provider-level information rather than exposing unnecessary personal information about individual contributors.

16. Geographic Information

VPS Advisor may process geographic information where necessary for features such as:

  • Provider location discovery.
  • Datacenter or network location information.
  • Search and filtering.
  • Network monitoring.
  • Security.
  • Analytics.

Geographic information derived from IP addresses or network measurements may be approximate and should not necessarily be interpreted as a precise physical location.

17. Children's Privacy

VPS Advisor is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children where such collection is prohibited by applicable law.

If you are under the age at which you can legally consent to the processing of your personal information in your jurisdiction, you should use VPS Advisor only with the involvement and permission of a parent or legal guardian where required.

If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child in circumstances where the collection was not permitted, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

18. International Data Transfers

VPS Advisor and its service providers may operate or process information in countries other than the country where you live.

As a result, your information may be transferred to or processed in jurisdictions with different data protection laws.

Where applicable, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that international transfers are subject to appropriate safeguards required by applicable law.

19. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights relating to your personal information.

These may include the right to:

  • Request access to personal information we hold about you.
  • Request correction of inaccurate information.
  • Request deletion of certain information.
  • Request restriction of certain processing.
  • Object to certain processing.
  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
  • Request portability of certain information.
  • Opt out of certain marketing communications.
  • Lodge a complaint with an applicable data protection authority.

These rights are not absolute and may be subject to legal exceptions or limitations.

To exercise a privacy right, contact us using the details provided in the "Contact Us" section.

We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.

20. Managing Your Account Information

Where account functionality allows it, you may review and update certain information through your VPS Advisor account.

If you are unable to modify information yourself, you may contact us for assistance.

Deleting your account does not necessarily mean that all information will immediately disappear from our systems. Some information may need to be retained for security, fraud prevention, legal, dispute-resolution, auditing, or other legitimate purposes.

Public content such as reviews may also require separate handling where deletion or anonymization is requested.

21. Marketing Communications

We may occasionally send promotional communications about VPS Advisor, new features, services, or relevant platform updates where permitted by applicable law.

You can unsubscribe from marketing emails using the unsubscribe mechanism provided in the message.

Even if you opt out of marketing communications, we may continue to send essential service-related communications, including:

  • Security notifications.
  • Account notifications.
  • Verification messages.
  • Transactional messages.
  • Important service announcements.
  • Messages necessary to administer your account.

22. Data Breaches and Security Incidents

If VPS Advisor becomes aware of a personal data breach, we will assess the incident and take reasonable steps to contain, investigate, and remediate it.

Where applicable law requires notification to affected individuals or regulatory authorities, we will make the required notifications within the applicable timeframe.

23. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect:

  • Changes to our Services.
  • Changes to our data practices.
  • New technologies.
  • Changes in applicable laws.
  • Changes to our business operations.

When we make changes, we will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page.

Where required by law, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent before material changes take effect.

We encourage you to review this page periodically.

24. Contact Us

If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or the way VPS Advisor handles personal information, please contact us:

VPS Advisor
Operated by: Humming Byte
Email: [email protected]
Website: vpsadvisor.com

For privacy requests, please include enough information for us to identify your account or understand the nature of your request.

25. Complaints

If you believe that VPS Advisor has handled your personal information in a manner that violates applicable privacy law, please contact us first so that we can investigate and attempt to resolve your concern.

You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection or privacy authority in your jurisdiction.

26. Governing Privacy Requirements

VPS Advisor seeks to comply with applicable privacy and data protection laws in the jurisdictions in which it operates.

Depending on where you live, additional rights, disclosures, or protections may apply to you.

Nothing in this Privacy Policy limits any privacy rights that cannot lawfully be waived under applicable law.

27. Important Notice About Public Information

VPS Advisor is a public-facing platform. Information intentionally published on provider profiles, reviews, ratings, comments, or other public areas may become publicly accessible.

Before submitting content, consider whether it contains information that you would not want to be publicly available.

You are responsible for ensuring that information you submit does not unnecessarily disclose another person's private or sensitive information.

28. Effective Date

This Privacy Policy is effective as of August 10, 2026.

By using VPS Advisor after this date, you acknowledge the terms described in this Privacy Policy, subject to any rights or consent requirements applicable to you under law.