Who owns Aura VPN? Company, jurisdiction and related brands

The company behind the service

Aura VPN is released by Aura Sub, LLC, which operates under the name Aura, with Aura itself listed as the parent company. Address: 250 Northern Ave., 3rd Floor, Boston, USA. The VPN is not sold separately. It comes as part of an identity theft protection bundle with antivirus, a password manager and insurance, and the Kids plan does not include it at all. For the owner, the VPN is just one of the modules.

Related brands

The related brands listed for Aura are Circle Media Labs (the Circle parental control app) and Qustodio. The connection shows up in documents too: the privacy policy names Circle Media Labs among the affiliated companies Aura may share data with. The same list includes contractors, co-branded partners and advertising pixels on the site.

US jurisdiction and government requests

The US is part of the 5 Eyes alliance, so the jurisdiction earns no points in our privacy assessment. According to Aura's policy, the company keeps no data on VPN activity, discloses other information when the law requires it, and challenges overly broad requests. The service does not publish a transparency report or a warrant canary, and there is no independent audit of the no-logs claim. When you connect, the company receives your IP address, encrypts it and deletes it at the end of the session, while session duration and traffic volume are logged.

What this means for the user

The service is built for the US: full access requires identity verification, and the identity protection features ask for a Social Security number. For EU residents, Aura has appointed a GDPR data protection officer, the law firm Dentons Europe in Berlin. Other services under the same jurisdiction are gathered in the list of VPNs from the USA, and a similar setup with a VPN inside a protection bundle can be compared with the owner of McAfee VPN.