Who can see what
Not a promise, a map. For each party involved in a purchase and in using the line, what they can see and what they cannot, including the parts we have no power over.
Anonymous to whom
Anonymity is not a single property. It is always anonymous to a particular party, and it stops at the edge of what that party can observe. Saying a product is anonymous without saying to whom is marketing, not information.
At checkout, the anonymity is real and easy to state: we never ask for a name, an identity document, a card or an account, so none of those exist to be leaked, subpoenaed or sold. There is nothing to hand over because nothing was collected.
Once the line is active, a different set of parties is involved, and some of them see things we cannot hide from them. That is the honest boundary and the rest of this page draws it.
Party by party
What each side sees
Us, BuyUKeSIM
Can see
- The crypto payment and whether it has confirmed.
- The country a request came from, which we use for coverage and for crediting a referral. Not a precise location.
- An email address, only if you chose to type one.
- Whatever you write to us in chat or by email.
Cannot see
- Your name, your identity documents, your card, your bank. We never ask, so we never hold them.
- Who you are. There is no account: an order is found by a code, and a code is not a person.
The mobile carrier running the line
Can see
- The IMSI of the eSIM profile. A line authenticates to a network with it; there is no version of a working mobile line where the network does not know this.
- The IMEI of the handset the profile is used in.
- Which cell the handset attaches to, so location at the level a mobile network works at.
- Metadata for calls and messages: numbers, times, durations.
Cannot see
- Who you are. No name was collected anywhere in the chain, so there is no name for the line to be attached to.
The payment network
Can see
- On transparent chains, so Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, USDC, Solana, Tron, BNB, GRAM and Dogecoin: the amount, the addresses and the timing. Public, permanent, searchable by anyone, and not removable later.
- If those coins reached you through an exchange that knows your identity, that link exists in the exchange records, outside anything we control.
- The payment processor sees the transaction it settles.
Cannot see
- Monero shields the amount, the sender and the recipient at the protocol level, which is why it is on the list.
- The processor never receives a name from us, because we never have one to send.
Your handset
Can see
- It carries the same IMEI across every line it runs, this one included.
- This is the practical link worth understanding: a party able to observe both an identified line and this one, on the same handset, can associate them.
Cannot see
- Nothing we do at checkout changes this. It is a property of the device and the network, not of how the eSIM was bought.
Tor, if you use it
Can see
- Your network provider sees that you used Tor, not which site you reached.
Cannot see
- We do not see your IP address when you reach us over the onion service.
- Tor protects the purchase. It changes nothing about what the carrier sees once the eSIM is installed and attached to a network.
Limits
What we cannot protect
Stated plainly, because a limit you learn later is worse than one you were told about first.
What a carrier sees
We are a retailer of eSIM profiles, not a mobile network operator. What a network records about a line attached to it is not ours to change, and no seller can change it for you.
A transparent-chain payment, afterwards
Once a Bitcoin or USDT payment is on a public ledger it stays there. If that matters to you, the decision is at the moment you choose the coin, not later.
The VPN operator’s no-logs claim
Our VPN capacity is bought on a wholesale network rather than run on our own servers. We pass it a generated username, a generated password and an expiry date, and nothing about you. The no-logs statement is the operator’s, carried by us and not audited by us.
An identity you attach yourself
Use the line for accounts in your own name and the line becomes yours in those records. That is a use decision, and it is outside anything a seller can undo.
Whether a given app accepts a given number
Standard SMS verification works, and the line is a real carrier line rather than VoIP, which is why services that reject virtual numbers accept it. No provider can guarantee that any particular app will accept any particular number.
Anything you choose to tell us
An email address you type is an identifier that did not exist before you typed it. You can delete it again from your own order page, and the reason that button exists is this one.
Why we publish this
A privacy claim that only lists strengths is a claim you cannot check. This page is the version we would want to read before buying: specific about what is protected, equally specific about what is not, and written so that nothing here surprises you afterwards.