yes, like every legal business

the difference is that there needs to be an actual, justifiable injunction (in Switzerland), and in that case the info revealed is just metadata, not message content

they're quite transparent about this

and it's a world away from using gmail

They don't have anything to give authorities if you use their VPN and pay with BTC. The issue previously was that they logged IP addresses. They won a couple big court cases in Switzerland though regarding this and they don't have to archive any data.