Privacy by Design vs. Privacy by Promise
There are two ways a VPN company can approach your privacy. The first is the way almost everyone does it: collect your data, then promise not to misuse it. They ask for your email, your name, your payment details, and your browsing habits. Then they publish a privacy policy that says, essentially, "trust us."
The second approach is fundamentally different. Instead of collecting your details and promising to protect them, we built AkcaVPN to collect as little as it can. We don't ask for your name or email, and we don't keep a record of what you do online. The few records we do keep are listed, with how long, on our What we keep page.
Every VPN on the market will tell you they care about privacy. Very few say exactly what they collect. In this post we show you how AkcaVPN is built, and what it still keeps.
A privacy policy can change. A legal jurisdiction can shift. A company can be sold. But architecture is permanent. If the data was never collected, it cannot be subpoenaed, breached, sold, or leaked. That is why we collect as little as we can.
No Email. No Name. No Payment Linking.
When you sign up for most VPN services, the first thing they ask for is an email address. Some want your full name. Many require a credit card. Before you have even connected to a single server, the VPN provider already has a profile on you, who you are, how to contact you, and how you pay.
AkcaVPN asks for none of this. There is no sign-up form. There is no email field. There is no username. When you create an AkcaVPN account, you receive a randomly generated 16-digit account number. That number is the only thing that identifies your account, and it is not tied to any personal information whatsoever.
This is not a feature we added on top of a traditional system. It is the foundation of the entire product. Every decision we made during development was filtered through one question: does this require us to know who the user is? If the answer was yes, we found a different way to build it.
Account Numbers: A Key Without a Name
Think of your AkcaVPN account number like a physical key to a door. The key opens the door. That is its only function. The door does not need to know your name, your address, or what you plan to do inside. It just needs a valid key.
Your 16-digit account number works the same way. It grants access to the VPN service. It has an expiration date tied to your subscription. And that is all. There is no profile behind it. No email address attached. No browsing history associated. We don't ask who holds a key, so the account itself carries no name.
This design has a deliberate trade-off: if you lose your account number, we cannot help you recover it. There is no "forgot password" button because there is no password. There is no recovery email because there is no email. We chose this trade-off intentionally. The minor inconvenience of keeping your account number safe is a small price for an account that carries no name and no email.
If a law enforcement agency asks about a specific account, we can only give what we hold. That is no name, no email and no browsing data. What we do hold, such as recent session records and payment IPs, is listed with how long we keep it on our What we keep page.
WireGuard & AmneziaWG: Minimal Code, Maximum Security
Privacy is not just about what data is collected, it is also about how secure the tunnel itself is. AkcaVPN uses WireGuard as its core protocol, and we have integrated AmneziaWG for users in countries that actively block VPN traffic through deep packet inspection (DPI).
WireGuard was our natural choice for several reasons. Its codebase is roughly 4,000 lines of code, compared to the hundreds of thousands found in OpenVPN or IPSec. Less code means fewer places for bugs to hide, fewer potential vulnerabilities, and a smaller attack surface. It has been formally verified and audited. It uses modern cryptographic primitives, ChaCha20 for encryption, Poly1305 for authentication, Curve25519 for key exchange, and BLAKE2s for hashing. There is nothing legacy, nothing deprecated, nothing kept around for backward compatibility.
AmneziaWG takes this further. It is a drop-in replacement for WireGuard that adds DPI obfuscation. In countries like China, Iran, and Turkmenistan, governments use sophisticated traffic analysis to detect and block WireGuard connections. AmneziaWG introduces junk packets, randomized packet sizes, and timing obfuscation that make VPN traffic indistinguishable from regular HTTPS traffic. Our servers support both protocols simultaneously, standard WireGuard where it works, AmneziaWG where it is needed.
What We Don't Keep, and What We Do
A privacy promise is only as good as what the system actually stores. So here is ours, plainly.
We don't keep a record of what you do online: no sites, no DNS lookups, no traffic. The address you connect from is not stored with your sessions.
We do keep a few records to run the free quota, stop abuse and take payments: daily and monthly data totals per account, closed sessions (which account, which server, when) for 30 days, a configuration event for 2 years, payment IPs for 180 days, and on free accounts a one-way hash of the device. The full list is on our What we keep page.
Crypto Payments: The Complete Anonymity Chain
Anonymous accounts mean little if your payment method reveals your identity. A credit card transaction contains your name, billing address, and card number. Even services that accept PayPal still create a traceable financial link between you and your VPN subscription.
AkcaVPN accepts cryptocurrency payments natively. You can pay with SOL or other supported tokens directly from your wallet. The transaction exists on the blockchain, but it connects a wallet address to an account number, neither of which is tied to a real-world identity. There is no billing name. There is no mailing address. There is no credit card on file.
An account with no name, paid for with cryptocurrency, connecting over an audited protocol. We don't ask for a name or an email at sign-up or at payment. We do keep the IP address used for a payment for 180 days, for fraud and disputes.
For users who prefer traditional payment methods, we do accept credit cards through Stripe. But if you want to keep your name out of it, crypto is the way. We designed the system so that the highest level of privacy does not require any special effort, it is the default experience.
Anonymous account number (no email, no name) + cryptocurrency payment (no billing name) + WireGuard/AmneziaWG (audited, minimal attack surface).
Try It Yourself
We built AkcaVPN for people who believe privacy should be a default, not an upgrade. If you are tired of VPNs that ask for your email before they will even tell you about their features, or services that bury their data collection practices in pages of legal text, AkcaVPN is different by design.
Download the app, generate an account number, and connect. No email. No name.
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