Why not? Law, regulation and policies matter. The servers fall under the jurisdiction of the country where they are located.
There are certainly other options, but I think Switzerland is among the countries with quite reasonable data protection laws. Here the text... https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19920153/...) or some statements which I found with a quick google search: https://protonmail.com/blog/switzerland/ or https://swissmade.host/en/data-protection.
which doesn't mean anything.