According to NordVPN’s website, the popular personal virtual private network (VPN) service provider is based in Panama. If you know a thing or two about VPN services, you probably also know that NordVPN isn’t the only VPN service that selected Panama as its home country.

NordVPN explains why Panama is such a great home country for the providers of VPN services on its website: "We are based and operate under the jurisdiction of Panama. There is no mandatory data retention law in Panama, so we do not need to store logs, which is perfect for a VPN provider."

What’s more, Panama also doesn’t participate in the Five Eyes or Fourteen Eyes alliances, the first of which comprises of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States., while the second also includes Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Sweden.

The members of these and other intelligence alliances have been found to intentionally spy on one another’s citizens and share the collected information to circumvent restrictive domestic regulations on spying. Because NordVPN is located in Panama, you can be sure that the information about your online activities won’t end up in a database of some intelligence agency.

One of the best things about NordVPN is that you can use the virtual private network (VPN) service for up to 30 days without having to make a commitment. If you decide that you either don’t like NordVPN or have no need for it, you can simply cancel your subscription and request a refund.

Step 1 - Log in to your NordVPN account – Open your web browser and visit the official website of NordVPN. Log in with the same credentials (login ID and password) you registered with.

Step 2 - Cancel auto payments - Once you have logged in, scroll down to the bottom and click on the ‘Cancel Automatic Payments’ option. Once you click the option, a dialogue box will appear, confirming your cancellation. Click Confirm.

Step 3: Finally, contact the customer support for the refund - Remember that you’ve only canceled your subscription. To get a refund for your purchase, you have to contact their customer support through email or phone and request a refund. After confirming your request, NordVPN will promptly issue the refund.

You can request a refund even after the initial 30 days, but NordVPN may choose not to honor your refund request. Read NordVPN’s terms of service to learn more about its refund policy.

NordVPN is known as one of the world’s most reliable VPN providers. When you use NordVPN, all your data is automatically encrypted using a military-grade encryption algorithm called AES-256 CBC, which is used by many government agencies around the world to protect some of the most sensitive information there is.

Experts estimate that it would take the entirety of the existence of the universe to exhaust half of the keyspace of an AES-256 key using 1038 Tianhe-2 supercomputers, each of which having around 33 petaflops of processing power.

To make its encryption even more hacker-proof, NordVPN SHA256 for its authentication with RSA-2048 keys and DHE-4096 keys for direct forward secrecy. These configurations are known to be one of the best in the industry, and you can be sure that nobody will ever decrypt any online communication protected by NordVPN.

NordVPN is one of only a few VPN services that has voluntarily undergone a security audit. The audit was conducted by one of the big four auditing firms, and it revealed that NordVPN doesn’t keep any logs of the activity of its users and is 100% trustworthy. If you value your privacy and security and would like to be safer on the internet, NordVPN is a fantastic choice.