PrivyNet

A dedicated VPN server for teams, not a consumer app

PrivyNet is not a consumer VPN in the usual sense. Its homepage headline is "Control who can access your systems - and revoke it instantly," and it describes the service as "private access infrastructure for teams and businesses that need full control over internal access." Each customer gets a VPN server of its own, which the site sums up as "No sharing. No pre-used IPs. Yours alone." It even puts the priority in one line: "VPN is how access is delivered - control is the product."

The site names the company in its footer: "PrivyNet Ltd. Company Number: (16940882)," with a copyright line for PrivyNet Ltd. It describes itself as "a UK-registered company providing dedicated, private VPN servers deployed globally," and the homepage carries badges for a "UK Registered Provider" and a "UK-based provider." It also links a page on an "enterprise VPN service for UK organisations."

On who can buy it, sign-up is direct through the site's Register and Login links, with a separate Apps and Download section for the client software. The site lists who it is built for: "Businesses with internal systems," "Teams and remote workers," "Contractors and temporary users" and "MSPs and IT consultants." It is just as direct about who it is not for: "People looking for a free VPN," "Torrent farms or mass abuse" and "Shared-IP bargain hunting." The homepage does not show a currency, list payment methods, or say that customers outside the UK are excluded; it simply says the servers are "deployed globally" and leaves the rest to the pricing and regions pages it links.

Trust: what PrivyNet says, and what it leaves out

The site does not name an independent audit of its logging policy, and it does not mention any third-party security review of its servers or apps.

What the provider does say is about how the service is built rather than about logs. Under the heading "A privacy service you can trust," it states: "We built PrivyNet to solve the problem of uncontrolled access - not to sell data, inject ads, or run shared VPN servers." It adds that "your traffic is never mixed with anyone else's," which follows from each customer having a dedicated server. The homepage does not make a no-logs claim and does not say what connection data PrivyNet keeps. Its footer links a Privacy Policy ("How we handle your data"), Terms & Conditions, an Acceptable Use Policy, a Service Level Agreement and a Data Processing Addendum, which is where the logging and retention terms would be set out. The footer also links a use-case page titled "VPN Access Logs"; the homepage does not say what such logs contain or who can see them.

On jurisdiction and ownership, the provider's own pages state that PrivyNet Ltd. is UK-registered and give its company number. The site names no parent company, investors or sister brands.

How the service works

The homepage lays out the setup in 3 steps. First, "Choose your location": the customer picks where the dedicated server will be hosted. Second, "We provision your private server," with no shared or previously used IP addresses. Third, "Connect securely," using "standard VPN clients" with "full setup guides included." The site says there is "no complex setup" and "no ongoing maintenance."

The management side is the core of the pitch. The site lists "Admin-managed user access," "Instant access revocation," "Dedicated private infrastructure," "No shared credentials" and "Usage-based billing." It says "admins control who has access at all times" and that users "can be added or removed instantly without client cleanup." The worked example it gives is a UK consultancy that uses PrivyNet "to give contractors temporary access to internal systems," where "access is granted per project and revoked automatically when work ends." The site presents the benefit as removing "shared credentials, permanent accounts, and forgotten access."

The footer points to further product pages, including Dedicated VPN, Enterprise VPN, Managed VPN, Dedicated IP VPN, Server Regions and something called GhostMode, and to use-case pages on static IPs for remote teams, dedicated versus shared IPs, VPN per team, RADIUS authentication, Zero Trust VPN access and instant session revocation. For this directory's travel and dedicated-IP readers, the relevant point is that the IP address belongs to one customer's server and is not shared, which the page title frames as "Not Shared, Not Throttled."

The homepage does not name the VPN protocols, encryption settings, server locations or speeds. It does not discuss streaming, and it lists torrent farms among the users it does not want.

Pricing and billing

PrivyNet does not sell a subscription. The pricing section says: "No subscription. Usage-based. Invoiced only when real usage occurs." It also states that "no infrastructure is deployed and no charges occur until you explicitly start a VPN instance," and among its selling points lists "Costs stop when access stops" and "Predictable cost when idle." There are "no long-term contracts," and customers can "cancel anytime."

The homepage does not print a price, a unit of billing (hours, users or data), a currency or a payment method. Instead it links a pricing page and invites visitors to "try the cost calculator before creating an account." It also offers pre-sales help: "Questions before deploying? We're happy to sanity-check your use case." The homepage does not mention a free trial, a free tier or a refund window, which fits a pay-for-use model but leaves the terms to the legal pages. Contact runs through a contact page and published hello and support email addresses, and the footer links a Help Center.

What the site leaves open, and who it suits

The homepage leaves several things to the linked pages. There is no named audit and no stated logging policy, only the provider's statement that it does not sell data, inject ads or share servers. The price, the billing unit and the currency are not given on the homepage. The server regions are not listed there, nor are the protocols or the client apps' platforms. The content of the "VPN Access Logs" feature, and what the Service Level Agreement promises, are not described.

What it does make clear is the model: one customer, one private server, users added and removed by an admin, billing only while an instance runs, and a named UK company behind it. PrivyNet suits a business, consultancy or MSP that needs a dedicated server with its own IP for staff or contractors, wants to cut access off the moment work ends, and would rather pay for use than for a year up front. It does not suit someone after a consumer VPN for streaming, torrenting or a free plan, and the provider says so itself.