Privacy Policy

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This page says what emailfake.com does with information, in ordinary words. Using the site means accepting what is described here; if any of it does not suit you, the honest answer is not to use it.

Read this part even if you skip the rest

An inbox here has no password. Anyone who knows or guesses the address opens the same mailbox and reads the same messages. That is not a hole we failed to close; it is the entire reason the service can work without registration. Treat every inbox as a public surface. Nothing private, nothing financial, nothing you would mind a stranger reading.

If you point your own domain here

Connecting a domain of yours by MX record changes who the mail belongs to, not how it is stored. Mail sent to anything@your-domain.com arrives on our servers, is held for the same short period, and is readable by anyone who knows the address — including addresses at your domain that you never handed out, if someone guesses them. A private domain is protection against block-lists, not against being read. The setup itself is described in add a new domain.

What is stored

What is not done

Cookies this site actually sets

The names below are the real ones, and they are ours. Google sets its own on top of them; those are listed in the next section.

Blocking them costs you those conveniences and nothing else. Mail still arrives.

Cookies set by Google, not by us

Two Google services run on this site, and each stores its own cookies in your browser once you have agreed to them. We can switch the services on or off; we cannot rename their cookies, read them, or promise what they will be called next year. After you agree, expect to see:

Decline, and none of the above is written at all: analytics falls back to a mode that stores nothing on your machine, and ads are non-personalised. The site works exactly the same either way, and you can change your mind later from the same banner. You can also go over our head: Google's ad settings apply everywhere you browse, and the Analytics opt-out add-on switches Analytics off across every site that uses it.

Analytics

Google Analytics 4 counts visits in aggregate: how many people come, which pages help, where the site is slow. It runs under consent mode: until you agree, it behaves in a cookieless, non-identifying way. Email addresses and message contents are never sent to it.

Advertising

The service may carry advertising to stay free. Where ads are shown, whether they are personalised follows your consent choice; without consent, non-personalised ads are served. Google's side of that is described in its advertising privacy policy. Ads never appear inside the body of a received message, and no advertiser is given the address of an inbox or anything sent to it.

How long anything is kept

Messages are erased automatically after their retention window, and you can clear an inbox yourself at any time. Operational records are short-lived. Since nothing is attached to an identity, expiry is the normal outcome rather than something you have to request.

Security, and what it does not cover

Traffic is encrypted in transit and stored mail is not openly browsable. That protects the pipe. It cannot protect an inbox whose address someone else can type; see the first section. For correspondence that genuinely matters, use a real mailbox with a password on it.

Abuse

The operational records above exist so that fraud, harassment and attempts to trawl other people's inboxes can be stopped. Rules are in the acceptable use policy. Lawful requests are answered where we are required to answer them.

Children

The service is not meant for children under 13, and nothing here is knowingly collected from them. Since no identifiers are collected at all, no one can be targeted by age either.

Where processing happens

The site is reachable worldwide and the limited technical data above may be processed on servers in another country. Using the service accepts that.

Changes

This page is revised as the service changes. Continuing to use the site after a change means accepting the current version.

Contact

Privacy questions go through the Feedback link in the footer of every page.

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