Privacy Policy
Plain description of what this site does with information. If something here does not suit you, the honest advice is not to use the service — there is no setting that changes any of it.
Start here: an inbox is a public place
Addresses on this site have no password and never had one. Whoever types the address sees the mail — you, and equally anyone who guesses the same address. That is not a gap we forgot to close; it is the mechanism that lets the service work with no sign-up at all.
Practical consequence: an address here is fine for a sign-up confirmation, a download link or a code you will use once. It is not a place for documents, invoices, password resets to accounts you care about, or anything you would mind a stranger opening.
If you point your own domain at us
The MX setup described in add new domain name changes whose domain the mail arrives on. It does not change anything on this page. Messages for any address on your domain land on our servers, are kept for the same period as everything else here, and are readable by whoever knows the address — including addresses you never handed out, if someone guesses them.
A domain of your own protects you from block-lists, not from being read.
What is kept, and for how long
- Incoming messages. Kept for at least a few days, often longer — how much longer depends on how busy the server is, so there is no fixed figure to promise. After that they are removed automatically. There is no archive and no backup you could ask us to restore from.
- Server records. IP address, browser identification string, time of request. They exist so that we can rate-limit, block abuse and find faults — not to build a picture of a visitor.
- Nothing in an account, because there are no accounts.
What stays in your own browser
The list of inboxes you have opened is written to your browser's local storage. It is never sent to us — we do not have it and cannot produce it. Clearing site data in your browser erases the list completely.
Cookies this site sets
These are all the cookies the site itself sets. Google adds its own on top of them; those are listed in the next section.
- Which mailbox you are reading, so reloading the page does not lose it.
- Keeps your inbox address stable within a visit.
- Your answer to the cookie question, so it is asked once instead of every time. A second cookie hides the reminder strip if you declined.
- Light or dark appearance.
- Notification preferences: pop-ups, sound, how often each, silent mode.
- Whether longer second-level domains appear in the address list.
- You asked not to be questioned before deleting.
None of them identifies a person. They exist so the site remembers what you chose a minute ago.
Cookies Google sets
Visitor statistics run on Google Analytics, which sets its own cookies with names beginning _ga. If advertising is switched on, Google's ad system adds further ones of its own.
We do not control those names and do not promise the list stays current — it is Google's, and it changes when they change it. What we can say is where the rules live: how Google uses data from sites that use its services.
What we do not do
- We do not sell or rent anything about visitors.
- We do not send marketing mail — we have no address of yours to send it to.
- We do not try to connect one inbox to another, or to a person. There is no identity collected that could be connected.
Security, honestly stated
Traffic runs over HTTPS and incoming mail is cleaned of active content before it is shown. Neither of those makes an inbox private: the address itself is the only key, and it is a key anyone can copy or guess.
Abuse
Using the service to break the law or to hurt other people is not permitted. That covers fraud, impersonation, harassment and bulk automated use of the service. Where we can technically stop abuse — rate limits, blocks, removing content — we do.
Children
The service is not built or aimed for children, and we do not knowingly keep information about them. There is nothing to hand over on request, because nothing is collected in the first place.
Changes
When this page changes, the new version replaces the old one here. There is no mailing list to notify, for the reason given above.
Questions
Write to the address shown in the footer of every page. Include the inbox address and the approximate time — without those two details a request usually cannot be traced.