Vivaldi

Vivaldi Technologies AS is a Norwegian aksjeselskap (private limited company) registered at Mølleparken 6, 0459 Oslo, with Brønnøysund organisation number 912 309 975. The EULA is governed by the laws of Norway with the Oslo City Court as the exclusive forum. Most of your browser data (bookmarks, history, passwords, open tabs, notes, themes, mail messages stored locally) stays on your device. The customer-data control plane that does touch a server -- Vivaldi Sync, Vivaldi.net Webmail, Vivaldi Translate, Vivaldi Social, Forum, the once-per-day telemetry endpoint and corporate mail -- runs on infrastructure operated by Hringdu hf. in Reykjavik, Iceland. The Sync privacy policy states verbatim: 'Vivaldi's servers are hosted at the Hringdu data centers in Iceland.' Both Norway and Iceland are EEA/EFTA jurisdictions covered by GDPR.

Vivaldi is employee-owned with no external investors. The company's February 2025 submission to the UK Competition and Markets Authority states verbatim: 'It has no external investors and is co-owned by its approximately 50 employees.' Vivaldi was bootstrapped by Jon von Tetzchner (Icelandic-Norwegian dual citizen, co-founder and former CEO of Opera Software) from his own funds in 2013; no venture capital round has been raised. The other co-founders are Tatsuki Tomita (COO, previously SVP at Opera) and Anne Christiansen (Head of Office). There is no Luxembourg or Cayman holding entity above the Norwegian operating company.

Partially. The browser is built on Chromium's Blink rendering engine and Google's V8 JavaScript engine, both BSD-3 open source. Vivaldi-authored C++ backend code is also published under BSD-3 as full source tarballs for every release since version 1.0.303 (2016) at vivaldi.com/source/. The UI layer (HTML, CSS and JavaScript for the desktop and Android shells) is proprietary -- Vivaldi self-reports the split as roughly 92% open Chromium / V8, 3% open Vivaldi C++ and 5% proprietary UI. There is no fully reproducible build of the official Vivaldi binary from public sources alone. On iPadOS and iOS the rendering engine is Apple's WebKit per the platform's pre-DMA-compliance restriction.

The Vivaldi Technologies AS legal entity is Norwegian and has no US filing subsidiary; CEO Jon von Tetzchner and COO Tatsuki Tomita have personal residences in the United States but no corporate entity has been disclosed. The customer-data control plane -- Sync, Webmail, Translate, Mastodon, Forum, Account auth, telemetry -- is in Iceland under Norwegian law and is not directly reachable by US legal process. Optional browser-client integrations do flow to US providers when you use them: Google Safe Browsing (URL-hash lookups, on by default), the search engine you select in the address bar (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Qwant, Startpage, Yahoo!, Yandex), Akismet (Automattic) anti-spam on the forum and Stripe for the donation page. None of those touch the encrypted sync payload, the webmail server or the translate runtime.

No. Vivaldi is a consumer browser product with no enterprise tier and no business-customer relationship; it is the data controller for the limited personal data its Vivaldi.net account services collect, not a processor handling business-customer data. There is no public DPA template and the EULA is the only customer-facing contract. A procurement-grade buyer integrating Vivaldi into a workplace fleet would rely on the privacy policies at vivaldi.com/privacy/ rather than a signed Article 28 instrument.

Vivaldi's published business model is search and partner revenue. The company states verbatim on its business-model blog: 'Every time you search using one of the pre-installed search engines, you're helping us grow, one search at a time. Currently, we work with DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Qwant, Startpage, Yahoo! and Yandex.' Google is explicitly noted as the exception -- Vivaldi does not earn revenue when a user searches with Google. Other revenue lines include partner Speed Dial bookmarks (Booking.com, eBay, Kayak, Amazon), Direct Match sponsored URL suggestions, Proton VPN Plus revenue share since March 2025, and user donations processed through Stripe.