Why Do I Need Online Privacy Protection?

Secure VPN Services for PC, Mac and Linux

Everyone can use more privacy and our VPN service accounts give you exactly that. When you create a private virtual tunnel between your computer and ours and then surf the internet from our Canadian servers, your secure VPN account is giving you a bullet-proof layer of protection and privacy that you did not have before. This is especially key if your PC or laptop is on a wireless connection.

Our anonymous VPN service accounts provide you with completely anonymous surfing capabilities so that no one can ever know your true IP Address. IP addresses are tracked and traced in order forms, websites (especially search engines) for many purposes good and bad. Google says they keep logs of your search requests for many months. ConnectInPrivate.com has its VPN situated in Canada because of superior privacy laws and the fact that we are not required to keep logs of your internet habits whatsoever.

Another benefit of using our VPN, is that you will avoid any throttling by your internet service provider. "Throttling" mostly targets internet traffic generated by peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing applications and slows down the transfer rate. Using Connect In Private as your secure VPN service provider will vastly increase the speed of your file transfers, give you a Canadian IP address and anonymity.

Wireless Hot Spots can be found almost everywhere these days and they are very convenient but also very hazardous. Hot Spot hackers are on the rise, it's far too easy now for criminals to sniff wireless traffic. Using our VPN will prevent wireless sniffing devices from viewing your logins, passwords and private data. 

If you travel overseas you know the problems that can be had when connecting to the internet. Often times your traffic and email is intercepted, scrutinized and even filtered by the host government. Our VPN solves this challenge. When you connect to the internet through our VPN you bypass any and all interference that you may encounter. Similarly your work place may restrict access to certain web sites and our VPN removes their ability to do this too.

How can our VPN prevent a direct attack on your computer? Attacks are often directed directly at your IP address. With our VPN service accounts your home computer IP will not be seen, instead one of our VPN server IP addresses will be. Luckily our VPN servers are behind some of the best known hardware, network engineers and system administrators in the industry who monitor all traffic diligently and make sure the VPN servers are protected.

To learn more about all aspects of computer security see OnGuardOnline.gov – practical information to secure your computers. They even have games to help make it fun to learn this material.

How Our VPN Works.

Below is a diagram presenting how the Connect In Private VPN works.

eMail Security

Our secure email servers are situated in Panama City, Panama (the world's second most popular locale for offshore businesses) and you will connect to your secure email via our SSL connection and in most cases through a VPN. It's all seamless and this jurisdictional layering affords our users much greater privacy.

A major advantage of web-based encrypted email over application-based email is that users have the ability to access their inbox from any Internet-connected PC and some mobiles too. The messages are stored and viewed from a central server as opposed to POP mail where you use an email client such as Outlook to download your mail and then read it. Where email security and privacy is concerned, we prefer web mail because messages and attachments are locked up safe and sound on our secure offshore servers instead of insecurely stored on your hard drive. Our Web Mail allows you to access POP3 and IMAP mailboxes using the mail client of your choice too.

You can experience web mail via a fluid, intuitive interface that excels aesthetically and functionally; a benchmark that very few web mail clients have achieved. Our web mail is accessible to users via any web browser and some wireless devices too. It's iPhone ready.

Our web mail Client has been translated into a number of different languages including Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Espanol, French, German, Greek, Italiano, Japanese and Portuguese.

iPhone "Push E-mail" support - allowing users to receive notifications for new email messages on their phone, instantly. All e-mails on the server are synchronized with the mobile device in realtime. Access your email via any WAP/XHT ML enabled mobile phone or PDA.

Keep your mail private by enabling email encryption. Options range from commercial to military grade encryption (4096 bit) for outgoing secure email messages. Secure email messages can be automatically signed with your public encryption key, allowing others to send encrypted email messages to you. You can use this function to encrypt and store confidential files in your web mail folders too. Remember too that if all of the parties sharing an email message are ConnectInPrivate users, the message and its attachments never leave our offshore servers.

Staying in touch with business or personal contacts is made easy by the optional groupware features. The easy-to-use calendar events, tasks, and free-busy scheduler provide collaboration and communication around the clock, with the simplicity of a browser-based interface.

At ConnectInPrivate.com we believe in your inalienable right to privacy.
Our web mail boasts an innovative user interface, pushing the boundaries of the traditional Web mail feature set. Features include:

SECURE E-Mail Features

Intuitive web mail GUI (Graphical User Interface)
We include "Advanced" interfaces for both IE and Mozilla/Firefox that look like traditional desktop web mail clients, utilizing the latest in JavaScript/XUL & Ajax technologies. A light-weight "Simple" interface is also provided, for access via any browser.

Groupware support
Utilizing a permissions-based assignment system, Address Book and Calendar/Task data can be shared with and assigned to other users or groups [within CIP mail]. Implement the Groupware solution to achieve maximum efficiency and enhance team productivity.

Enhanced address book
Our enhanced address book functionality allows users to import and export contacts from/to CSV (Comma Separated Values) file format. Search and import functionality via LDAP is also provided. Users can utilize the powerful tabbed interface of the Address Book to create permissions-based shared contacts, controlling which contacts are visible to or editable by other users. The Address Book can also be configured to disallow permissions controls for all users (useful for free email services where global address book access is not desired).

Enhanced scheduler (Calendar)
The improved Scheduler interface allows users to manage appointments (tasks) on a quarterly, annual, or daily basis.

Outlook-to-web mail sync
Microsoft Outlook can be synchronized with your Web mail account so that Contacts and Scheduler data can be shared between a desktop and Web mail client. If a user adds a new appointment (task) or contact while using Outlook or CIP Mail, the data will be automatically synchronized between the applications.

Start page
After logging into your email security account, view a summary via the web mail client "start page". Here you can check new messages, calendar entries, tasks, and recent logins.

Tabbed email browsing
Secure email messages can be viewed within a tabbed pane below the folder message-list pane. The tabbed interface allows quick navigation of messages.

Tree-style folder menu
Email security folders are now accessible via a tree-menu, making it easy to categorize folders and access them again quickly. Sub-folders can be created by right-clicking on a folder. To move a message into a folder, simply 'drag and drop' the message into the desired folder (or check the box next to message and select the destination folder from a list).

Multi-account support
From within the CIP mail interface, users can access any number of external email accounts via POP3 or IMAP.

Full MIME support
CIP mail supports MIME encrypted email messages, allowing users to receive attached pictures, multimedia content and data contained in email messages. Users can compose email messages and attach files to outgoing messages.

User-customizable preferences and web mail client interface Users can change the web mail Client interface style and colors to suit their personal taste. CIP web email encryption Software offers many options that you can choose from, providing a powerful and feature-rich web mail service.

Support for wireless devices
Mobile phones and PDA's that support the WAP/XHTML protocol can access email resources. The CIP Web Mail Client provides an interface via XHTML, allowing users to send & receive email using their mobile device. This is dependent upon setting up a mobile VPN though.

Folder management utility
Messages received by your CIP web mail Client can be moved among folders for sorting and archiving purposes. New folders and sub folders can be added and deleted, allowing users to categorize and organize messages.

Mailbox sorting and searching
Messages contained in a user's Inbox can be sorted by Subject, Date, or Email Address. Users can search their mailbox for messages containing matches of the user-specified string, allowing quick and easy access to stored email.

Windows Mobile VPN - iPhone VPN

Windows Mobile & iPhones supported.

Our Mobile Protection solution is similar to our VPN Agent. It's a mobile VPN for your iPhone or Windows Mobile device. Our web mail is designed to operate on an iPhone as well and as a CIP subscriber you can connect to our VPN securely, surf and send and receive secure offshore email on the fly.

Use PC Cleaner & Privacy Software Everytime You Use Your PC.

Anyone with access to your computer and a little know-how can uncover confidential and sensitive information about you. Even when you delete files such as your banking and credit card numbers, browser history, recently viewed video and picture files and more can still be retrieved.

Our PC Cleaner operates on Windows XP and Vista and removes your Recent Documents List, Windows Temporary Folder Contents, Clipboard Data, Media files and Lists from Windows Media Player, empties your Recycle Bin Contents, Process Plug-ins, removes any Remote Desktop Connection History, Run MRU, Registry Backups, Find Files and Folders History. For Internet Explorer (6.0 & 7.0) and Firefox (2.0,3.0, 3.0.8). It deletes the Cookies, History (List of URLs from the Address Bar), Temporary Internet Files, Form Data and Passwords and index.dat files.

Privacy software can help speed up your computer and increase your PC's performance by cleaning the above unwanted files regularly. We recommend that you use this privacy software just before you log off of your computer each and every time that you use it.

PC Cleaner software from Connect In Private also cleans the Standard Free Space, File Slack Space (Cluster Space) and SWAP File to ensure that there is not any confidential information left on your PC whatsoever.

If you or someone you know has ever had photos accidentally erased from a digital camera and were subsequently able to recover them, you can comprehend that there are layers to storage devices like hard drives and they need to be written over again and again and erased again and again to make whatever data was there unrecoverable. Depending on the size of your hard drive(s) this can take quite some time and you may opt to do this only periodically.

Privacy software provides additional protection by keeping your information private. Additionally, if you are going to be replacing your computer or giving it away you should use a pc cleaner to get rid of personal information.

At ConnectInPrivate.com we believe in your inalienable right to privacy.