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Privacy policy

Last updated: 2026-09-10

This document explains what data we collect, why, who we pass it to, and what you can ask us to do. We only collect what is needed to complete your purchase and support it afterwards.

1.What we collect

This is everything we actually store. There is nothing else.

  • Account details: the email address you register with. Passwords are stored as hashes by our authentication service — we cannot see the plaintext and cannot recover it for you, only reset it.
  • Orders and cart: the plans you chose, quantities, amounts, order status and timestamps.
  • eSIM activation credentials: the profile details issued to you (such as ICCID and QR contents). These are the product itself; we have to keep them so you can view them on the order page whenever you need.
  • Payment references: the transaction ID and status returned by the payment provider. No card numbers.
  • Contact form content: the name, email and message you choose to send us from the contact page.
  • Language preference: which interface language you selected.
  • Visit data: which pages you viewed, which site or search brought you here, your IP address, an approximate location (country and city level), and your browser and device type. We only start recording this after you accept analytics cookies.

2.What we do not collect

Listing what we don't do matters just as much for your decision.

  • We do not collect your card number, CVV or payment credentials — the payment provider handles those on its own pages.
  • We do not collect phone numbers; a data-only plan does not need one.
  • We do not use third-party ad networks, we do not track you across other sites, and we do not sell or trade your data to anyone.
  • We do not request contacts, location or photo permissions — this is a website and does not need them.

3.Why we process it

There are only four purposes: fulfilling your order and delivering the eSIM; supporting you when you check an order or request a refund; sending email tied directly to a transaction (provisioning notices, password resets); and detecting and blocking abuse and fraud.

We do not use your email address for marketing.

4.Who we share it with

The following providers touch the relevant data so the service can run. Each one receives only the part it needs for its own step.

  • Database and authentication host: stores the account, order and credential data above.
  • Payment provider: processes your payment and receives the order amount and reference.
  • Upstream eSIM supplier: receives the plan code and an order identifier so it can provision your line.
  • Email delivery provider: delivers transactional email, receiving your address and the message content.
  • Application hosting platform: runs this site and keeps server logs (including IP and request path) for troubleshooting and abuse prevention.

5.Cookies

This site uses three kinds of cookie. Strictly necessary cookies keep you signed in and remember your cookie choice; the site cannot work without them, so we do not ask consent for those. A preference cookie records your interface language. Analytics cookies measure how the site is used, and are only written after you explicitly agree.

The analytics cookie holds a randomly generated visitor ID used to recognise repeat visits from the same browser. It contains no name or email address, is never used for cross-site tracking, and is never shared with advertisers. You can withdraw consent at any time through "Cookie settings" in the footer — we delete these cookies and stop recording immediately.

If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, we treat it as a refusal and do not ask again.

6.Site analytics

Once you agree, we record how the site is used: page paths, referrers, IP address, approximate location and device type. This data sits in our own database and serves three purposes — understanding where visitors come from, finding where the checkout flow loses people, and investigating whether a suspicious order is part of repeated attempts from one source.

The plaintext IP address is kept for 30 days and then cleared automatically, leaving only an irreversible hash used to tell whether two visits came from the same source. Visit records are deleted in full after 180 days. These periods are implemented in a scheduled cleanup job, not just stated here.

We also still use Google Analytics for overall trends. It is governed by the same choice above — if you decline, it is not loaded at all.

7.How long we keep it

We keep your account and order data for as long as your account exists. You can ask us to delete your account, but completed transaction records may need to be retained for a period for accounting reconciliation and fraud prevention, and that part cannot be deleted along with the account.

The exact retention period has not been settled. We are not going to state a number of days here that is not yet implemented in the system.

Visit data is the exception: its retention is settled and implemented (30 days for plaintext IPs, 180 days for visit records), as described under "Site analytics" above.

8.Cross-border processing

The providers above may process this data on servers outside your own country or region. Using this site means you understand that.

9.What you can ask us to do

You can ask to see the data we hold about you, correct anything that is wrong, or delete your account. Please send the request through our contact page from the email address you registered with — we need that to confirm the request is really from you.

If we cannot honour part of a request (for example the transaction records mentioned in the previous section), we will tell you why rather than simply not reply.

10.Changes to this policy

When this policy changes, the "last updated" date at the top of this page changes with it. If the change materially affects how data is used, we will notify registered users by email.

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