For this reason alone, we suggest you think twice about Ivacy. Offering lifetime subscriptions in return for favorable reviews is unforgivable.ĭo you want to put your most sensitive data in the hands of a company that refuses to tell you who it is? And whose marketing strategy is to deceive customers into thinking its product is better than it is? Separately, the PR Manager of Digital and Partnerships at Ivacy was caught offering a VPN reviewer a lifetime Ivacy subscription in exchange for more favorable reviews on his review site. Gaditek owns and runs four VPN review sites, which it uses to artificially rank its VPN products in the top positions without ever disclosing its true ownership.Īlso, the company routinely engages in ‘astroturfing,’, creating fake social media accounts to promote its VPN product under the guise of a real person. On top of the secrecy, and more worringly, Gaditek engages in some unpleasant business practices. Gaditek’s disappointing business practices He can also be found replying to VPN-related tweets with recommendations for PureVPN, without ever disclosing that he holds a key stake in its parent business and sister company.ĭespite Ivacy’s attempts to distance itself from PureVPN, there is a definite link between the two companies. However, his Quora account has him listed as ‘Growth Marketing Strategist at PureVPN’. Ivacy CEO Saad Khan’s affiliation with other Gaditek-owned companies. He officially states his position as being ‘Senior Product Marketing Manager at Cloudways’, which is a cloud hosting platform owned by Gaditek. But you’d never know this either, as he does not mention his affiliation to Ivacy anywhere.
A spokesperson also let slip in 2018 that the CEO’s name is ‘Saad Khan’.Ĭurrently, we believe Ivacy’s CEO is Muhammad Saad Khan. Ivacy also refused to disclose it to us.Īt one point, the Ivacy website did ambiguously name its CEO as ‘Mr. Several VPN service providers are owned and run by the same parent company.īut Gaditek’s business practices, alongside its reluctance to openly discuss the ownership structure, means we’re suspicious about using Ivacy VPN.įirstly, Ivacy doesn’t name its management team anywhere. There’s nothing immediately suspicious about this. Gaditek was founded by the Gadit family, with Umair Gadit being Gaditek’s current CEO and fellow co-founder Uzair Gadit being the CEO of PureVPN.Īfter years of rumors online, Ivacy finally admitted to this, although claiming its association with PureVPN is “only minor.” In fact, Ivacy is actually operated by a Pakistani organization called Gaditek, which is the same parent company as another VPN we’ve reviewed, PureVPN. “ There is no ethical obligation to reveal who the people behind Ivacy are.”īased in Singapore under its parent company PMG Private Limited, Ivacy is particularly evasive about its ownership and operational structure.Īfter undergoing deeper research into the company’s history, we discovered some secrets around who really owns the VPN service.
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