All the smart techie people who built Avast Secure Browser PRO know what it’s like to be a student (how do you think we got clever enough to build award-winning software in the first place?). Money can be tight.

We believe everyone has the right to stay safe and private online and students are no different. We want to make sure students can enjoy quality online protection without having to break the bank. Let’s be honest, there are more exciting things to spend your money on than software when you’re a student.

Well — we aren’t ashamed to admit this — we hope you’ll enjoy our browser so much you’ll stay with us and tell your friends and family all about Avast too. The bigger the Avast family, and the more people using our products, the stronger our network protection becomes. This helps us be even better equipped to see off new types of cyberthreats in the future — so it really is win-win for all.

No catch. We offer you Avast Secure Browser PRO for 99p for the whole year, which includes unlimited VPN access. If you choose to continue your subscription in 12 months’ time it will be for the standard rate of £34.99.

But don’t worry, if you only want to use us for one year, you’ll get plenty of advanced notice if you want to cancel your subscription.

Seven days ahead of your renewal date, we will email you a reminder that your subscription with us will be automatically renewed. If you want to cancel, we understand. Simply go to Avast Account portal and cancel the subscription any time. You will still have access to your subscription until it expires and you won’t be charged for a new subscription..

To be honest, in the year we give you our browser for 99p, we may well lose money on the cost of supplying you with unlimited VPN since we have costs associated with the operation of the associated servers. That’s ok. If we keep you safe and you fall in love with Avast products, it’ll be worth it.

We do make some money from search. If you use our browser to search, then we get paid for the ads that the search providers have been able to show you thanks to our browser. We do know you’ve made a search, but we don't know what you searched for. We do not track any of your search or web activity, we only track browser usage to improve our product. That means we track things like crashes, errors, and usage of our features, to help us better understand what is most popular with our users and, importantly, what we need to improve.

But don’t worry, we’re not sharing your data or personal information. That’s not how we work. All search data is anonymized and none of the data that could potentially lead to your identification are shared with any third party — so you can search with the peace of mind that your personal and private information remains just that.

If you choose to continue your subscription after one year, you will be paying the standard rate for Avast Secure Browser. We very much hope you will do so, but fully understand if you choose to stop.