Who owns Trend Micro VPN Proxy One? Company, jurisdiction and related brands

Trend Micro VPN Proxy One is made by Trend Micro Incorporated, which is also its parent company. This is a large antivirus maker, and the VPN is one of many consumer products for it, sitting alongside TrendLife, Trend Micro Maximum Security and the Premium Security Suite bundle. There is no separate VPN company behind the service.

Japan or the US

The head office of the group is in Japan, but the website for buyers lists an American office: 225 East John Carpenter Freeway, Irving, Texas. Going by this address, we place VPN Proxy One under US jurisdiction, and the US is part of the 5 Eyes alliance. This matters for the rating: the service gets zero points for the alliance item. In the card for Trend Micro VPN, the name under which the product is now sold, the jurisdiction is listed as Japan, and that item is fully credited. Which legal entity is responsible for your data in a specific country is not stated directly on the VPN pages.

What the company discloses about data

Trend Micro has plenty of documents at the level of a large corporation. The website carries a policy on government requests for data (Government Data Request Policy, in PDF) and separate contact addresses for data protection specialists for the European Union and for the US. What it does not have is a promise to keep no logs specifically for the VPN: on the official pages we read, there is no such policy, and no independent audit either. The privacy score is therefore zero, even though the company itself is out in the open and has a legal address.

Other brands in the group

Among VPNs, Trend Micro also has Trend Micro VPN in our database, with a score of 1.51. All of its brands are collected on the page Trend Micro VPN brands, and other services from the same country are in the list VPNs with US jurisdiction.