Steganos Software is a Berlin-based developer which has been producing quality software since 1996. Current products include a password manager and encryption package, and recently the company extended its range with Steganos Online Shield, a VPN.
The service has clients for Windows, Android and iOS, but not Mac, unfortunately. There's support for up to 5 simultaneous connections, though, so you'll probably be able to use all your other devices as you like.
Steganos Online Shield is aimed more at the ordinary user than VPN experts. Apart from a brief mention of IPv6 compatibility, the website mentions nothing about protocols, encryption, DNS or anything low-level. Instead, the talk is of bonus privacy-related add-ons: ad-blocking, protection from social media tracking, automatic cookie deletion when a session closes.
Steganos Online Shield's privacy policy is longer than some, but does include some important details, and it's reasonably easy to find the information you need.
A thorough no-logging statement explains that there's no recording of the addresses you access, the content you download or the IP address associated with an action. Or, as the document puts it: "It is not possible for Steganos to determine what contents Steganos Online Shield calls up. Neither the IP addresses of the users nor the IP addresses of the called server is saved."
The service doesn't require personal details such as an email address. Instead it generates a ‘pseudonymous User ID’ based on the public key of your computer MAC address.
If you do provide an email address, the company has an opt-in system for sending mails, but you can unsubscribe at any time and the address is never sold or traded with anyone else.
There are some familiar clauses about the company website, and how it uses Google Analytics and cookies – not ideal, but very similar to other providers, and not something which impacts on the core service.
Elsewhere, the only oddities we noticed were in the ‘stuff you're not allowed to do’ list. Steganos explicitly bans "sending data not desired by the recipient" (be careful what you email), using programs "that automatically read data", like "crawlers", or engaging in the "promotion of illegal activities", including – bizarrely – gambling.
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