Disclaimer

Last updated: May 1, 2026.

What this site is for

PocketInbox exists to help people protect their primary email address from spam, accidental subscriptions, marketplaces that sell their data, and the general entropy of online life. Common, perfectly legitimate uses include:

Signing up for a one-off discount on a retail site you'll never visit again.
Joining a forum or community where you don't want to share your real handle.
Receiving a verification code for an experimental SaaS trial.
Testing a website you're building, including its onboarding emails.
Whistleblowing, journalism, and activism in jurisdictions where reprisals are a risk — alongside other safety tools (a VPN, Tor, end-to-end encrypted communications).

What this site is not for

Disposable email is not anonymity. It is not a fraud-enabling tool, an ID-document substitute, or a way to evade legal obligations. PocketInbox explicitly does not condone, and prohibits in its Terms, the following:

Defrauding individuals or businesses, including signing up to financial services with intent to deceive.
Bypassing bans on platforms that have legitimately banned a user.
Harassment, threats, doxxing, or stalking.
Distribution of malware, phishing, or any unlawful content.
Money laundering or sanctions evasion.
Activity prohibited in your jurisdiction.

Reliability and uptime

We aggregate over multiple upstream providers. Any one of them can be slow, rate-limited, or temporarily offline. We make a best effort to fall over to a working provider, but we cannot guarantee an inbox will receive a message within any specific time window. Some senders deliberately block disposable-email domains; if a verification code never arrives, that may be why.

Security

Disposable inboxes are public or semi-public by design. Anyone who guesses or shares the address can read its contents (subject to the upstream provider's authentication). Do not use disposable inboxes for genuinely sensitive purposes, including but not limited to:

Banking, brokerage, or other financial services.
Government or healthcare communications.
Two-factor authentication for accounts you care about — use an authenticator app or hardware key instead.
Password resets for any account whose loss would matter.

No professional advice

Articles on the PocketInbox blog are educational. They are not legal, financial, or security advice. Consult a professional for advice tailored to your situation.

Affiliate disclosure

PocketInbox may include affiliate links to privacy tools we genuinely use. If we add such a link, we'll clearly mark it. We do not currently take affiliate fees from any of the upstream temp-mail providers.

Contact

Questions about this disclaimer? Email hello@pocketinbox.app.

What this site is for

Signing up for a one-off discount on a retail site you'll never visit again.

Joining a forum or community where you don't want to share your real handle.

Receiving a verification code for an experimental SaaS trial.

Testing a website you're building, including its onboarding emails.

Whistleblowing, journalism, and activism in jurisdictions where reprisals are a risk — alongside other safety tools (a VPN, Tor, end-to-end encrypted communications).

What this site is not for

Defrauding individuals or businesses, including signing up to financial services with intent to deceive.

Bypassing bans on platforms that have legitimately banned a user.

Harassment, threats, doxxing, or stalking.

Distribution of malware, phishing, or any unlawful content.

Money laundering or sanctions evasion.

Activity prohibited in your jurisdiction.

Reliability and uptime

Security

Banking, brokerage, or other financial services.

Government or healthcare communications.

Two-factor authentication for accounts you care about — use an authenticator app or hardware key instead.

Password resets for any account whose loss would matter.