Privacy Policy

Test-Emails.com is a free disposable inbox for receiving test messages. This policy explains exactly what data passes through the service, who else handles it, and what we keep. It is written to describe how the service actually works rather than to cover every hypothetical.

1. No account, no personal details

You do not register, and we never ask for your name, your real email address, a password of your choosing, or payment details. Inboxes are generated on demand with a random local part and a random password created by the server.

2. Your inbox is provided by a third party

This is the most important disclosure on the page. Test-Emails.com does not operate its own mail servers. Temporary addresses and the messages sent to them are provided by mail.tm. When you generate an address, our server asks mail.tm to create it; when you open your inbox, our server fetches the messages from mail.tm on your behalf.

In practice this means the contents of every message you receive are stored on mail.tm's infrastructure, not ours, and are subject to mail.tm's own handling and retention. We do not copy message bodies into a database of our own, and we do not read them.

Because mail.tm controls storage, we cannot promise a specific deletion time for a message, and we cannot delete a message on your behalf. Treat every disposable inbox as impermanent and non-confidential.

3. What your browser stores

Your current inbox - its address, its generated password, and its access token - is kept in your browser's local storage so the inbox survives a page reload. This never leaves your device except when it is sent to our server to fetch your messages. Clearing your browser storage, or pressing the button to generate a new inbox, discards it permanently and we cannot recover it.

4. Server logs

Our web server keeps standard request logs. These include your IP address, the time of the request, the page or API endpoint requested, the referring page, and your browser's user agent string. We use them only to keep the service running, to enforce rate limits, and to investigate abuse or technical faults. We do not use them to build a profile of you and we do not sell them.

5. Analytics

The site currently runs no analytics or tracking scripts of any kind. If that changes, this page will be updated before the script is deployed.

6. Advertising and cookies

We may display advertising on this site to keep it free. When advertising is served:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, may place and read cookies on your browser, or use web beacons and your IP address, to collect information as a result of ads being served on this site.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this and other sites.
• You can opt out of personalised advertising from Google in your Google Ad Settings, and you can opt out of many other vendors at aboutads.info.
• You can read how Google uses data from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Where the law requires consent for non-essential cookies, advertising cookies are set only after you have given it.

7. What we never do

• We do not sell or rent any data about you.
• We do not send you marketing email - the service is receive-only and we have no way to contact you.
• We do not attempt to identify you or link your inbox to your real identity.

8. Do not send sensitive information here

This service exists for testing signup flows, receiving one-time codes, and keeping marketing mail out of a real inbox. It is not private communication infrastructure. Do not route password resets for accounts you care about, medical or financial records, identity documents, or anything you would be harmed by losing or exposing. Use an address on a domain you control instead.

9. Children

This service is not directed at children and is not intended for anyone under 16. We do not knowingly collect information from children.

10. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask what data we hold about you, to ask for it to be deleted, or to object to how it is used. Because we hold no account for you, in practice the only data tied to a request is a server log entry containing an IP address. Write to us at the address below and we will act on it.

Requests about the contents of a mailbox need to go to mail.tm, since that is where messages are stored.

11. Changes

If this policy changes materially, the date at the top of this page changes with it. Continuing to use the service after an update means you accept the revised policy.

12. Contact

Questions about privacy, or a request under section 10, can be sent to contact@test-emails.com.