Infomaniak Newsletter
A single roll-up of ownership and CLOUD Act exposure.
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EU-Sovereign This listing EU/EEA/Switzerland-owned and -operated, with no identified CLOUD Act exposure.
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EU-Based EU-operated, with at most minor or transient US exposure.
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EU-Hosted EU hosting available, but a US parent or hyperscaler sub-processor creates material exposure.
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US-Linked Operated by a US-incorporated entity, directly subject to US jurisdiction.
Swiss credit-based newsletter tool (Infomaniak, Geneva, since 1994); unlimited contacts, own Swiss DCs, ISO 27001, no CLOUD Act.
Infomaniak Newsletter is an EU-owned service hosted in Switzerland, with no identified CLOUD Act exposure. It is listed under Email marketing.
Assessment notes
Infomaniak Newsletter is the email-campaign product of Infomaniak Group SA (Geneva, Switzerland; founded 1994 by Boris Siegenthaler and Fabian Lucchi; independent, privately held, founder-led; full ownership cross-reference in the kdrive listing), a credit-based newsletter tool (templates, unlimited contacts, real-time stats) run on Infomaniak's own Swiss data centres with ISO 27001 + ISO 9001 + ISO 14001 + ISO 50001 + B Corp 2025, GDPR-compliant under Swiss law and the EU adequacy decision keeping EU↔CH transfers SCC-free; Swiss-owned, Swiss-hosted, in-house software, no CLOUD Act exposure; a clean Swiss alternative to Mailchimp where peers in this category (Brevo, Mailjet) run on US-owned cloud, though its feature surface is lighter than full marketing-automation suites.
Findings
- CLOUD Act
- CLOUD Act exposure
How exposed customer data is to US authorities under the CLOUD Act (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act).
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None This listing EU operator, no US parent, no US sub-processors of note.
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Minor A transient US sub-processor (CDN, maps); data at rest stays in the EU.
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Material US parent, or a core sub-processor is a US-owned hyperscaler.
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Direct The operator itself is US-incorporated.
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- Ownership
- Ownership
Where ultimate control over the operating company sits.
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EU-owned EU-incorporated and EU-controlled; no significant US ownership.
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European This listing Swiss/EEA-owned, with no significant US ownership; treated as European.
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EU HQ, US-funded EU-headquartered but US venture- or PE-controlled.
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EU subsidiary, US parent European operating company owned by a US parent company.
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US-owned The operating company itself is US-headquartered.
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- Sub-processors
- 1 · 1 US
Verified signals
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EU / adequacy hosting: Yes
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EU / adequacy operator: Yes
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No US CLOUD Act exposure: Yes
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Public DPA: Yes
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Sub-processors disclosed: Yes
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Open-source clients: No
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Third-party certification: Yes
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About Infomaniak Newsletter
Infomaniak Newsletter is the email-marketing product of Infomaniak Group SA, the independent Swiss technology company founded in Geneva in 1994 by Boris Siegenthaler and Fabian Lucchi, privately held, founder-led, with no venture-capital or private-equity investors on the cap table (the kdrive listing documents the same vendor in full). The tool covers the core newsletter workflow: a drag-and-drop / template-based campaign editor, unlimited contacts and contact lists, list import and segmentation, scheduled sends, and real-time open / click statistics. It integrates with the rest of the Infomaniak estate (Mail, kSuite, the website/site-creator products), and uses Infomaniak's own sending infrastructure for deliverability.
For an EU-sovereignty audit, the differentiator is the hosting. The competitive set in this category (Brevo, Mailjet and similar) are EU-headquartered but typically run customer data on US-owned cloud (Google Cloud, AWS) with Cloudflare in front, which puts them at material CLOUD Act exposure. Infomaniak Newsletter instead runs on Infomaniak's own Swiss data centres in Geneva, with software developed in-house and all customer data on Swiss-located infrastructure under Infomaniak's direct control. The compliance footprint mirrors the rest of the estate: ISO/IEC 27001 (since June 2018), ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 50001, and B Corp (2025); Switzerland's Art. 45 GDPR adequacy decision keeps EU↔CH transfers SCC-free.
Pricing is unusual: there is no subscription. The tool uses a credit model (one credit sends one email) with a block of free credits for new users and recurring free monthly credits granted by other Infomaniak products (for example mail hosting or a VPS), then additional credits purchased on a sliding scale. This suits senders with irregular or seasonal volume better than a fixed monthly contact-tier plan. The trade-off is feature depth: Infomaniak Newsletter is a focused campaign tool, not a full marketing-automation suite: there is no built-in CRM, multi-step automation journeys, landing-page builder, or SMS channel of the kind Brevo or GetResponse offer. Best fit: Swiss and EU businesses, associations, and public-sector senders that want GDPR-clean, Swiss-hosted newsletters on a pay-as-you-go basis (especially existing Infomaniak Mail / kSuite customers) and anyone who prioritises data residency over advanced automation.
Sub-processor map · 1
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PayPal USUnited States
Payment processing for credit purchases; ancillary, off the subscriber-data path
| Vendor | Country | Purpose | Owner |
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| PayPal | United States | Payment processing for credit purchases; ancillary, off the subscriber-data path | US |
Source: the vendor’s published sub-processor list, read 18 Jun 2026.
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