Unfortunately, there are reasons to doubt their sincerity: In 2016, AV-Comparatives, AV-Test, and Virus Bulletin released a joint statement accusing Qihoo 360 of inappropriate business practices. The meaning of 'adequate' is very subjective and users simply have to take the Beijing-based provider at their word. We do, however, ensure an adequate data protection level by agreements with our data base provider and other arrangements.' These countries may not have equivalent data protection laws to those applicable in the European Union. ' Some information we collect may be transferred to other countries, such as to our own servers or servers of our database providers in Singapore, and the United States and accessed from China by us and our external IT services providers. For example, according to the company's privacy policy : We must mention that Qihoo 360 raises some eyebrows when it comes to privacy, and not in a good way.