Privacy

This policy explains how Thirtel handles information for the temporary email product, companion tools, and site advertising. Operator: Aarish Rathi (creator of Thirtel), contact hello@thirtel.com, website thirtel.com. Mail to that address reaches Aarish’s work inbox.

What Thirtel is

Thirtel provides short-lived, receive-only inboxes and browser-local utilities (password generation, synthetic test identity fields). Temporary contact is the point — not a permanent mail account.

Inbox data and expiry

When you create an inbox, we store mailbox details and message content in temporary storage for 30 minutes by default. When that time is up, the data is deleted. We do not operate a traditional long-lived database of inboxes for ordinary product use.

While an inbox is alive, message content must exist on our infrastructure so we can show it to you. Treat the address as sensitive for that window: anyone who knows it may be able to read mail until expiry.

Receive-only scope

v1 does not send outbound mail from temporary addresses. That reduces abuse surface and keeps the product honest.

Companion tools

Password and test-identity generators run in your browser. Their outputs are not uploaded to Thirtel as part of generation. We encourage storing important credentials in a password manager you trust.

Operational logs and security

We may process standard operational data needed to run and secure the service — for example request metadata, abuse-prevention counters, error logs, and standard hosting and security analytics from our infrastructure provider. We use this to keep the service available and to limit abuse, not to build advertising profiles from your message bodies.

Inbox creation is protected with a bot check in your browser, verified on our servers before a mailbox is issued. We do not use it to build advertising profiles from message bodies.

Advertising, cookies, and third parties

We may display third-party advertising on Thirtel, including Google AdSense and related Google advertising services. These partners may use cookies, pixel tags, or similar technologies to serve ads, measure performance, and (where permitted) personalize ads based on your browsing activity across sites and apps.

Google and its partners may collect or receive information about your visits to this site. For more on how Google uses data when you use partner sites, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services and Google Privacy Policy. You can manage ad personalization at Google Ads Settings and learn about industry opt-outs at aboutads.info.

The core inbox experience does not require an account cookie. The bot check may use short-lived challenge storage as part of that check. Advertising cookies are set by Google and other ad partners when ads are present. Where required by law (for example in the EEA/UK), we will obtain consent before non-essential advertising cookies are used.

We do not sell the contents of temporary inboxes to advertisers. Message bodies are not used to build advertising profiles.

Your choices and requests

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or restrict certain personal data, or to object to certain processing. Because temporary inboxes expire automatically, many inbox records are already gone after the inbox expires. For privacy requests, email hello@thirtel.com with “Privacy request” in the subject. We may ask for information needed to verify the request.

What you should not send

Do not send highly sensitive personal data (government IDs, health records, financial secrets) to a temporary inbox you do not control long-term. Prefer durable addresses for anything you must recover later. See when not to use temp email.

Children

Thirtel is not directed at children under 13 (or the equivalent minimum age in your region).

Changes and contact

We may update this page as the product evolves. Material changes will be reflected here with an updated date. Questions: Contact or hello@thirtel.com.

Last updated: 2026-07-27