0 Concern2 Mixed2 Positive
B+82 / 100
In Plain English
AdGuard filters ads and trackers locally on your device so it never sees your browsing history, stores only an email address and password hash for account creation, keeps all personal data in its own data center in Frankfurt, names only payment processors as third-party recipients, and commits to emailing users before material policy changes — the main caveats are Cyprus jurisdiction, vague data retention periods, and a main policy that defers heavily to separate per-product privacy notices for the specifics of each platform.
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Category Breakdown
Known data breaches
No known public data breaches
AdGuard does not appear in the Have I Been Pwned database of publicly disclosed data breaches.
How AdGuard could earn a higher grade
Recommended changes
- Publish specific data retention periods for each category — account data, payment data, support records, and anonymized analytics — rather than 'as long as necessary'. A table by data type would be ideal.
- Pursue and publish an independent security audit of the AdGuard DNS and filtering infrastructure, given that the product intercepts network traffic. Named certification (SOC 2 or ISO 27001) would provide independent verification of the security architecture.
- Consolidate the key data practices from per-product notices into a summary table in the main policy, so users can assess the full picture without reading nine separate documents.
- Add a transparency report or warrant canary showing the number and outcome of government data requests received annually.
- Commit to a specific maximum retention period for account data after subscription cancellation or account deletion request.
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