I would have left this very comment if you hadn't beaten me to it. :)

Gandi is very up-front about every aspect of their services. I found out that Gandi's whois privacy doesn't hide the name you provide as the registrant long before I entered my credit card details to provide payment information.

Their whois privacy is structured in this way because for many (all?) TLDs ICANN requires that the entity listed as the registrant be the actual owner of the registered domain.