Privacy Policy
A temporary mailbox exists to keep things away from your real one. That only works if you know exactly what this site does and does not hold. Hence this page, in ordinary words.
The mailbox is open — read this first
There is no password here, for anybody. The address is the whole of the access control: type it and you are in, whether you are the person who created it or somebody who guessed the same word. Two people who pick the same address share one inbox and see the same messages.
So: registration codes, download links, one-time confirmations — yes. Bank letters, documents, resets for accounts that matter — no, and no setting will change that.
Mail only comes in
The service cannot send. There is no compose box, no submission endpoint, nothing that puts a message onto the network. That single fact removes an entire family of privacy questions: nothing here can be sent in your name, because nothing here can be sent at all.
What is stored
- Messages that arrive — kept for at least a few days, and frequently longer; the exact span depends on server load, so we do not quote a number we would then have to keep. After that they are deleted automatically. There is no archive, and no backup we could restore a message from.
- Server records — the IP address, the browser identification string and the time of each request. They exist for rate limits, blocking abuse and finding faults.
- No profile of any kind, because there is no account to attach one to.
Kept in your browser, not by us
The list of mailboxes you have opened lives in your browser's own storage. It never reaches our servers. Clearing site data removes it, and we cannot produce it on request because we never had it.
Long-term addresses and your own domain
Shared domains come and go — they get added to public lists of disposable domains by third parties, and sites that check those lists start refusing them. If you need an address that keeps working, point a domain of your own at the service; the steps are in add new temp mail domain name.
What that changes is the name in the address, not this page. Mail to a connected domain is stored the same way, kept for the same span, and readable by anyone who knows the address — including addresses on your domain that you never used.
The cookies this site sets
- The mailbox currently open, so a reload does not lose it.
- Keeps the inbox address stable while you are on the site.
- Your answer about cookies, asked once rather than every visit; a second cookie hides the reminder strip after a refusal.
- Light or dark appearance.
- How new mail announces itself: pop-up, sound, frequency, silence.
- Whether longer second-level domains show up in the address list.
- You said not to ask before deleting.
Each remembers a choice you made on this site. None of them identifies a person.
Cookies that are Google's, not ours
Traffic statistics come from Google Analytics, which sets cookies whose names start with _ga. If advertising is enabled on the site, Google's advertising system sets further cookies of its own.
We deliberately do not print a full list of those: it is not ours, and it changes when Google changes it — a list that goes stale is worse than a pointer to the current one. The rules are described in how Google uses data from partner sites.
Things this site does not do
No selling of visitor data. No newsletters — we have no address of yours to write to. No attempt to work out that two inboxes belong to the same person; there is no identity collected that would allow it.
What security here means, and what it does not
Pages are served over HTTPS, and incoming mail is stripped of anything that could run in your browser before it is displayed. Neither protects the contents of an inbox from another visitor — that is the trade described at the top of this page, not an oversight.
Misuse
Anything illegal, harassing someone, impersonating another person, or hammering the service with automated requests is not allowed. Where a technical measure can stop abuse — a rate limit, a block, removing content — it is used.
Children
The service is not intended for children and nothing is knowingly collected about them. There is no stored information to delete on request, because none is gathered.
Updates to this page
Changes appear here and replace what was written before. There is no list to notify, for the reason given two sections up.
Questions
The address is in the footer of every page. Mention the inbox address and roughly when the problem happened, so there is something to look up.