Privacy Policy
vska.live and VSKA Vanguard
Last updated: 20 October 2026
Who is responsible: Vincentius Surya Kurnia Adi, trading as VSKA, 9F-7, No. 1643, Jiancheng Road, South District, Taichung 402, Taiwan. Contact: vska@live.com.
The website (vska.live)
- Vercel Web Analytics (always on): counts page views, country, browser, device type and the page you came from. It sets no cookies and does not identify you.
- Google Analytics (only if you accept): measures use of the site with Google cookies, loaded only after you click Accept. Accepting also enables Google's advertising features. You can change your choice at any time on this page.
- Donations: the Donate link on the home page opens PayPal, which handles and records the donation; your card or bank details never reach us. If you accepted Google Analytics, the site counts that the link was clicked, without the amount or who you are.
- Email: messages you send us are used only to reply to you.
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Buying (Lemon Squeezy)
- What Lemon Squeezy receives: when you buy, you give your name, email, billing country and payment details to Lemon Squeezy, our online reseller and merchant of record. Card and bank details never reach us.
- What we receive from Lemon Squeezy: your name, email, country, order and licence details. We need them to provide the licence, answer support requests and meet tax and accounting rules.
- How long we keep it: as long as the law requires for accounting records.
The program (VSKA Vanguard)
VSKA Vanguard runs on your PC. It records connections to your own PC's Remote Desktop (address, country, time, sign-in result). It keeps these records on your PC only; we never receive them.
The program connects to the internet only for the following:
- Licence check
- Sent to
- Lemon Squeezy (api.lemonsqueezy.com)
- What is sent
- Your licence key and your PC's name
- When
- When you activate or remove a key, then about once a week
- Country address lists
- Sent to
- ipdeny.com
- What is sent
- Only the download request (your internet address is visible to them, as with any download)
- When
- When setup runs and when the lists are refreshed
- Location database
- Sent to
- db-ip.com
- What is sent
- Only the download request
- When
- About once a month
- Your public address
- Sent to
- api.ipify.org, icanhazip.com or checkip.amazonaws.com
- What is sent
- Only the request
- When
- During setup and when you press Test Connection; also during routine maintenance if you allowed your own public address range, to notice when your address changes
- Online location lookups (off by default)
- Sent to
- The provider you choose: ip-api.com or ipinfo.io
- What is sent
- The internet addresses of connections to your PC, and your key for that provider
- When
- Only if you choose such a provider in Settings
- Alerts (off by default)
- Sent to
- The webhook or Pushover account you enter
- What is sent
- The alert text, for example a blocked address and its country
- When
- Only if you set up alerts
- Block lists (off by default)
- Sent to
- The list addresses you enter
- What is sent
- Only the download request
- When
- Only if you turn block lists on
| What | Sent to | What is sent | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| Licence check | Lemon Squeezy (api.lemonsqueezy.com) | Your licence key and your PC's name | When you activate or remove a key, then about once a week |
| Country address lists | ipdeny.com | Only the download request (your internet address is visible to them, as with any download) | When setup runs and when the lists are refreshed |
| Location database | db-ip.com | Only the download request | About once a month |
| Your public address | api.ipify.org, icanhazip.com or checkip.amazonaws.com | Only the request | During setup and when you press Test Connection; also during routine maintenance if you allowed your own public address range, to notice when your address changes |
| Online location lookups (off by default) | The provider you choose: ip-api.com or ipinfo.io | The internet addresses of connections to your PC, and your key for that provider | Only if you choose such a provider in Settings |
| Alerts (off by default) | The webhook or Pushover account you enter | The alert text, for example a blocked address and its country | Only if you set up alerts |
| Block lists (off by default) | The list addresses you enter | Only the download request | Only if you turn block lists on |
- No other data: there is no usage tracking and no crash reporting, and nothing else is sent to us or anyone else.
- Uninstalling releases the licence from the PC at Lemon Squeezy, and removes the program's firewall rules.
Your rights
You can ask us what personal data we hold about you, and ask us to correct or delete it, by writing to vska@live.com. We answer within 30 days. Data that Lemon Squeezy holds as merchant of record falls under Lemon Squeezy's privacy policy.
Changes
We will post any changes on this page, with a new date.