Terms of Service

By using ShieldMail you accept these terms. They are written plainly because a free tool does not need six pages of defensive drafting.

What the service is

ShieldMail provides temporary, receive-only email addresses through third-party mail providers. No account is required and no personal information is requested.

What is guaranteed

Nothing, and it is fairer to say so than to imply otherwise.

The service is provided as is, without warranty of any kind. Specifically, there is no guarantee that:

• An address will be available when you want one
• A message will arrive, or arrive within any particular time
• A mailbox will remain reachable for its full advertised lifetime
• Any given website will accept an address issued here

The service depends on upstream providers that may change, rate-limit, or disappear without notice. Building a workflow that assumes availability is a mistake the terms cannot protect you from.

Permitted use

You may use ShieldMail for lawful purposes, including:

• Receiving one-time messages such as downloads, confirmations, and portal access
• Keeping a permanent address out of low-stakes signups
• Manual testing of signup and verification flows in systems you are authorised to test

Prohibited use

You may not use ShieldMail to:

• Break any applicable law
• Evade a ban, suspension, or account limit on another service
• Create duplicate accounts or take repeated free trials in breach of a service's terms
• Harass, impersonate, defraud, or threaten anybody
• Send, receive, or store unlawful material
• Run automated load against this service or the providers behind it
• Circumvent rate limits or other technical controls here

The full detail is in acceptable use. Breaching these terms may result in blocking, and serious abuse will be referred to the relevant authorities.

The limits you are accepting

These are consequences of how the service works, not disclaimers of responsibility, and you should read them as operational facts:

• Mailboxes have no access control. Anyone who knows an address can read it. Treat every message as public.
• Expired mail is unrecoverable. By you, by us, and by the provider. There is no archive.
• Mail is held by third parties. Their retention and privacy policies apply to your messages. See the privacy policy.
• Accounts registered with a temporary address may become unrecoverable. If a service later needs to verify you through an address that no longer exists, nobody can fix that.

Advertising

The service is free and funded by advertising. Using it means accepting that advertising is displayed, subject to the consent choices described in the cookie policy.

Intellectual property

The site's code, design, and written content belong to ShieldMail. The articles and guides may be quoted with attribution and a link. They may not be republished wholesale.

The contents of messages you receive belong to whoever sent them; ShieldMail claims nothing over them and keeps no copy.

Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, ShieldMail is not liable for any loss arising from use of the service, including lost access to third-party accounts, missed messages, or the consequences of a message being read by somebody else.

This is a free service with no account and no fee. The remedy available, in every case, is to stop using it.

Changes

These terms may be revised. The "last updated" date at the top of this page reflects the current version, and continued use after a change constitutes acceptance.

Governing law

Any dispute is governed by the laws applicable to the operator's place of residence, and disputes should first be raised through the contact page.

FAQ

Do I need to accept these terms explicitly?

Using the service constitutes acceptance. There is no account, so there is no signup checkbox.

Can my access be blocked?

Yes, for abuse, automated hammering, or unlawful use. Blocking is applied at the network level since there are no accounts.

Is it a breach of these terms if a website bans disposable addresses?

No — that is between you and that website. But using a disposable address specifically to evade their ban does breach these terms.

What happens to these terms if the service shuts down?

The site would be taken offline. Since there are no accounts, no stored mail, and no fees, there is nothing to wind down or refund.

Can I use ShieldMail commercially?

For manual testing of systems you are authorised to test, yes. Do not build a product or automated pipeline on top of it; it is not infrastructure and offers no stability guarantee.