IVPN vs PrivateVPN

They are kept for troubleshooting reasons.

Bitcoin, cash and PayPal are accepted.

You can switch between a single VPN connection (singlehop), or routing your internet traffic through multiple VPN servers (multihop) at any time. The latter increases anonymity, but comes at the cost of a slightly worse performance. Furthermore their multihop system has a built in restriction that dictates that it must be a hop from one country to the next, so no Dallas to LA hop, but because of this there should be nothing too shocking about the overall latency. NY - Toronto - London can still edge under 100ms, LA - SLC - HK hitting 350 - 380ms is pretty normal for everyone. A single hop from Brooklyn to Jersey can be as low as 7ms, with 20ms to Atlanta.

To further the point, really this means that if you route through a US node they may throttle you, but it may help to be on a private tracker. It certainly wouldn't affect you if you're connecting from a peer through Canada or Bucharest.

Except for BitTorrent in US, you can use any and all protocols at your disposal, no traffic is restricted.

You can use any and all protocols at your disposal, no traffic is restricted.

While some user information is kept, it is only for account purposes. Browsing habits and other information is not retained at all.

This variance in location can be used to take advantage of local laws or circumnavigate location restrictions.

PayPal, Payson and Plimus are accepted.

Even when customer service is not available through live chat, emails are reported to have a fast response time (under 30 minutes).

Fortunately, PrivateVPN lets users access their service on four personal devices, including phones and tablets.