SecurityKISS offers a free VPN service with limited bandwidth. For a fee that’s rather competitive with other providers, you can upgrade to an unlimited plan. The service is surprisingly flexible for a free VPN. SecurityKISS is based in Ireland.
Pricing & Plans
SecurityKISS has two main plans: Basic and Premium. The two plans basically vary on the number of devices you can use the VPN service with. Pricing are as follows:
Further discounts are given for signing up for longer terms of service. This provider accepts credit cards, PayPal, CashU and wire transfers.
Free Trial/ Money-back Guarantee
SecurityKISS offers free VPN service available at full speed, unlimited switching between servers and with no ads. The only limitation of the free plan is limited traffic of 300MB per day.
Also, if you subscribed to a paid plan and you are not satisfied with the service, SecurityKISS offers a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Privacy & Anonymity
SecurityKISS stores your real IP address, as well as other identifying information, for ten days following each session. Following that period, the company only retains the amount of data transferred.
Provider Logging Policy
According to their privacy policy, they do not monitor, record or store logs for any connection activity, except for the following:
- Time, Date and Duration of your VPN Connection
- Bandwidth used during the connection
They use this data to generate statistics and thus optimize the quality and reliability of the service, and it also helps them enforce their terms.
Torrent Policy
There are no stated restrictions on torrenting over the SecurityKISS network.
Customer Support
There’s a chat window on the SecurityKISS site you can use to contact the company. SecurityKISS also has extensive support information on their site, including an FAQ and knowledge base. Email support is, of course, available, as well.
Product Testing
SecurityKISS has a very well-designed Windows client that makes connecting to their network via OpenVPN easy enough. They also offer L2TP, but that has to be configured manually.
The client includes a fast on and off switching feature called “Pause,” offering a third option to connect/disconnect. This option keeps the tunnel open, but the user’s traffic transfers normally until the client is unpaused.
This service is supported by Windows, Mac, Android and IPhone devices. You can manually configure L2TP very easily on most any device if OpenVPN proves too difficult.
VPN Server Locations
SecurityKISS has multiple servers in several locations. According to their site, they are also setting up new servers in other locations.
Countries Supported:
Speed Test
We tested the free service of SecurityKISS and it didn’t have stellar speed, dropping us from over 44Mbps to just over 12Mbps. That being said, 12Mbps is not bad at all for a completely free service.
IPCheck and DNSLeak Test
Without manually configuring our DNS server addresses, they did leak. However, this is easily remedied with a few configuration tweaks. The IP address was changed successfully.
Feature Summary
- Free option
- Paid option
- Easy to use client
- L2TP/OpenVPN
- No logs policy
- Ireland-based: adds legal protection for your privacy
- 30-day money-back
- Use on multiple devices
We Liked
For a free service, their basic plan is really a very good one.
Areas for Improvement
The speed was a bit lacking, but that’s to be expected if one doesn’t upgrade to the premium service.
Conclusion
SecurityKISS is a decent service. It offers quite a lot in the way of value and, for users who don’t mind the necessary logging that comes with a metered plan, it’s a good option. However, if you wish to have an unlimited service, you can choose one of their paid plans.
Great service so far(Nov 2012). Good value for money. I tried the free 300MB version which was good – you can’t complain about the slightly slower connection when its free. It’s perfect for private browsing only and it worked from my Android mobile.
Now I’m on Jadeite and now I can send all my communications via the tunnel – email for example. I found that I had to experiment to find the best server. I’m in the UK but the fastest connection was in Canada! Also clear your browser caches every now and again. Can’t fault the service so far. Oh, and there is a switch to prevent access to the internet if the connection should drop so protecting your privacy.
I’ll be brief. I’m in Africa tried it; tested it using porn. Either their staff or the authorities are monitoring traffic they started stalking my accounts on different sites. Confirmed that like all other commercial vpns I tested are monitored. Search started years back when trying to get patents.