Zilo VPN Lite is a free, ad-supported VPN app. Each ad you choose to watch grants 1 GB and 1 hour — whichever runs out first. On first use we may give one free hour without an ad. This policy covers the Lite app only; the paid Zilo VPN has its own policy.
No account
Lite has no sign-up. We never ask for an email address, phone number, name or Telegram account. We do not know who you are.
What the app sends us
- A device ID — a random number generated on your phone the first time you open the app. It is not the Advertising ID and not your IMEI or serial number; it contains nothing about your device. It disappears when you uninstall the app.
- Platform — the single word
androidorios.
That is all the app sends to our servers. Our app does not read your contacts, photos or GPS location, and does not ask for the location permission. What the ad SDK collects is described under “Advertising” below.
What we store on our servers
- The device ID and platform above
- Which server you are assigned to, and an internal key for you on that server
- How much data allowance is left, and when your access expires
- Your most recent IP address — we would rather state this plainly than bury it. It is kept solely as an abuse signal, to count how many new devices register from one address per day. It has nothing to do with browsing activity.
- When the record was created, and when it was last seen
What we never do
- We keep no browsing logs — we do not record the sites you visit
- We keep no DNS query logs
- We do not inspect or store the contents of your traffic
- We never sell any data
Advertising (Start.io)
Lite shows ads through Start.io (Start.io Inc.). To serve ads, the Start.io SDK collects the following from your device and may share it with its advertising partners, for advertising purposes:
- Advertising ID (you can reset or delete it in Android settings)
- IP address (used to estimate your general location — country/city)
- Device information such as model, OS version and language
- The list of apps installed on your device (used to choose relevant ads)
- Ad impression/click events and SDK crash/diagnostic logs
Lite does not request the location permission, so Start.io cannot read your precise GPS location. See the Start.io privacy policy for details.
We configure Start.io to serve non-personalized ads. We do not pass our device ID to Start.io.
🔒 No ad is ever requested while the VPN is connected. Once the tunnel is up, your traffic leaves from our server, so an ad request would carry the server’s IP rather than yours. On the connected screen we therefore show only our own house card for Zilo VPN — no third-party request is made at all.
Verifying that an ad was watched
When the Start.io SDK reports that you watched an ad to the end, the app asks our server for the reward using your device ID. To prevent abuse, the server caps how many rewards one device can receive per day.
Children
Zilo VPN Lite is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data.
Retention and deletion
A daily job deletes anything older than the windows below automatically. You do not have to ask.
- IP address — 24 hours. It is used for exactly one thing: limiting how many new devices may register from one network per day. After 24 hours it serves no purpose, so it is erased from the record.
- A device that never watched a single ad — 7 days.
- A device not seen for 90 days — deleted, together with its account on the server.
- Ad reward records — 12 months.
Uninstalling the app removes the device ID from your phone, after which nothing links you to our record. To have the record deleted straight away, contact us below with your Support ID. You can find it in the app under Menu → About by tapping the “Version” line seven times — it is the same value as the device ID described above.
Changes
If this policy changes we will update this page and the “last updated” date above.
Contact
Email: admin@zilovpn.com
Telegram: t.me/ziloadmin