several administrative departments (which are registered corporate structures): including: Lyoness eBiz GmbH, Lyoness Dataservice GmbH, Lyoness Lyco Soft GmbH, Lyoness Child & Family Foundation, Lyoness Greenfinity Foundation. Continental and country organisation The continental organisations are subsidiaries of Lyoness International AG and are registered as stock corporations. These are: Lyoness Europe AG (founded in 2003), "Lyoness IMEA S.A." (2009), Lyoness North America Ltd., "Lyoness South America S.A.", "Lyoness Asia Ltd." (2011). The country offices are subsidiaries of the continental stock corporations and are registered as privately owned, limited-liability companies. Cooperations Lyoness has initiated Cashback cooperations with several sports clubs in Europe since 2015: MotoGP (via Dorna Sports) SK Rapid Wien Austrian Golf Association HC Slovan Bratislava SK Slavia Praha Legia Warszawa Federazione Italiana Golf Österreichische Sporthilfe Lechia Gdansk Lech Poznan Wisla Kraków Landesfeuerwehrverband Steiermark HC Kometa Brno Velux EHF Final4 Jokerit Helsinki Social involvement According to Lyoness, every purchase made by its members at its partner companies benefits the Lyoness Child and Family Foundation (a Lyoness-owned charity organisation) and the Lyoness Greenfinity Foundation (a Lyoness-owned organisation promoting sustainability). In 2012, Lyoness announced that it and its affiliated Greenfinity foundation would be the title sponsors of the Austrian Open golf tournament for three seasons, through to 2014. Lyoness also sponsored the ‘European Juniors League’, a European football competition for youth teams, as well as Austrian club SK Rapid Wien. Lyoness announced that it would pay 9 million euros over 5 soccer seasons but would not be the main sponsor of Rapid Wien. Legality and alleged deceptive practices One year after Lyoness was founded, in 2004, the Austrian criminal police (Kriminalpolizei) published an article in the December issue of its organisation’s magazine, in which it warned of the resurfacing of Ponzi schemes and pyramid schemes in Austria. Lyoness was explicitly mentioned in this article. The company contested the allegations publicly. In 2005, Austrian Parliament member, Johann Maier (SPÖ) asked the then-incumbent Austrian Minister of Justice (Karin Miklautsch, BZÖ) parliamentary questions about the reports filed against alleged pyramid schemes in Austria in 2004. Lyoness was one of the organisations complaints were filed against. In 2008, the Austrian Chamber of Labour (‘Arbeiterkammer’) of Steiermark issued a warning against Lyoness, listing its alleged privacy violations, misleading advertising, deceptive information and unrealistic and negligible benefits as red flags for doing business with Lyoness. In March 2010, the Swiss magazine Beobachter published an article by Pascale Hofmeier entitled