Expires at the displayed time
New addresses are valid for 3 hours by default. Each extension adds 1 hour. The address and its emails are cleared at expiration; the product name does not determine the duration.
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Privacy · How we handle data
Temporary inbox
Forwarding archive
Access credentials
What data is involved when you sign up?
A temporary address, your real email, and a forwarding archive are separate records. First, identify which service you use, then decide what to keep or delete.
Last updated:
support@temprapid.com
Kept for 30 days
Only applies to the separate long-term forwarding service. Deleting an archive here does not retract emails already forwarded to your real inbox.
Understand the three types of deletionKeep them separate from the address
The email address receives messages; the access token lets you read and manage the inbox. Protect it in screenshots, support requests, and on shared devices.
Learn about securityTwo services, two data paths
This notice applies to the temporary inboxes at temprapid.com and the separate long-term forwarding service, which requires a login. It explains the data we use to create addresses, receive and display emails, verify accounts, and handle support requests. It does not replace the privacy notices of signup sites or senders.
Temporary inboxes require no registration or real email address. Long-term forwarding requires a real email address for one-time-code login and delivery of messages sent to your aliases. The two sets of access credentials are separate: logging out of your forwarding account does not destroy a temporary inbox.
This notice was revised on November 3, 2026. We’ll post future updates here. For questions about how a particular type of data is handled, contact support@temprapid.com and tell us which service you use.
If you’re not sure which type of address to use, start with our guide to receiving signup emails. If you need to recover an account or stay in touch over time, don’t rely solely on a temporary address that expires automatically.
From address creation to viewing emails
You can give a temporary email address to an event organizer, but keep its access credentials in a browser you control. After an email reaches our server, the page uses the inbox token to retrieve the message list and contents. The address itself does not grant access to manage the inbox.
The three steps below describe the temporary inbox only. Your real email address is used on a separate path only if you sign in to long-term forwarding; it is not required just to open the temporary inbox homepage.
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Create an address
The server creates a temporary address, access token, and expiration time. Your browser keeps the inbox credentials so you can return after refreshing the page. API requests also generate necessary technical records.
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Receive an email
The sender emails the temporary address. Our server processes the sender, recipient, subject, receipt time, and message body. Any personal information included in the email also becomes part of the inbox.
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View emails
Your browser uses the token to retrieve the email list and the selected message. You can view, copy, or delete emails. Anything you copy, screenshot, or download is no longer stored only on our site.
Access credentials → message list and contents
Long-term forwarding is a separate path
Real email address → email verification code → create a forwarding alias → messages arrive at the alias → forwarded to your real email address and saved in an on-site archive. Your real email address is used for delivery and account identification; the alias is the address you share with event organizers.
Senders can still see the information you submit on their forms. A forwarding alias does not anonymize your name, phone number, or other identifying details on a signup form. To keep receiving emails over time, manage your aliases through long-term forwarding.
Check the expiration time, not the product name
“10-Minute Mail” is part of the product name; it doesn’t mean every inbox is deleted after ten minutes. New inboxes are valid for 3 hours by default, and each extension adds 1 hour. Always check the expiration time shown in your inbox.
Temporary inboxes and forwarding archives follow different retention rules. Extending a temporary address does not extend the archive’s 30-day retention period, and disabling an alias does not automatically remove an existing archive early.
Temporary address and inbox emails
Current expiration time
Once expired, the inbox is no longer available and is queued for cleanup. If you need more time, extend it before it expires. An expired inbox cannot be restored.
Long-term forwarding archive
30 days
On-site archives are cleared according to the retention policy and can also be deleted manually. This does not affect copies already delivered to your real inbox.
| Record type | Retention period or trigger | What you can do |
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| Temporary address, inbox emails, and attachments | Expires at the inbox’s current expiration time. Destroying it earlier ends access to the inbox. | Save anything you need before expiration, delete individual emails, or destroy the entire temporary inbox. |
| Forwarding archive | Kept for 30 days; you can manually delete on-site records before then. | Log in to forwarding management to view or delete archives. To stop future messages, separately disable or delete the alias. |
| Login email and alias settings | Used to identify your account and keep forwarding active; not deleted when a temporary inbox expires. | Manage your aliases. For requests to access or delete account data, contact support so we can confirm what can be handled. |
| Login and inbox credentials in your browser | Logging out, credential expiration, or clearing browser site data can affect continued access. | On shared devices, log out and clear this site’s data. This does not delete emails on the server. |
| Technical records and support correspondence | Used for security, rate limiting, delivery troubleshooting, and handling requests; email content’s expiration rules do not apply. | You can ask what a particular record is used for and how long it is retained. We don’t promise a single cleanup period without first confirming the record type. |
If you’re unsure how long you’ll need the inbox, check the expiration and wait-time planner first; don’t count on being able to recover emails after they expire. For the order of creation, extensions, and cleanup, read about the expiration process.
Deleting one email, destroying an inbox, and clearing an archive are different
The item you delete determines what is affected. First confirm whether you’re using a temporary inbox or a forwarding account. Clearing your browser history is not a substitute for deleting data from the server.
On-site cleanup only affects records controlled by this site. It does not undo a signup you’ve completed or delete information saved by the sender. You’re responsible for removing copies you’ve made to your clipboard, screenshots, downloads, or other services.
- Delete one temporary email
- Removes the selected email without changing the temporary address or stopping it from receiving messages during its validity period. Save any confirmation you need first; deleted emails cannot be restored.
- Destroy a temporary inbox
- Ends access to the entire temporary inbox and clears its emails. Creating a new address creates a new inbox and destroys the old one; messages from the old address are not transferred.
- Delete a forwarding archive
- Removes the selected forwarding record from our site, but does not retract messages already delivered to your real inbox. To stop messages from that sender, you must also disable or delete the relevant alias.
- Clear browser data or log out
- Affects credentials and login status saved on this device; it does not mean the server-side inbox, aliases, or archives have been deleted. If you clear the temporary inbox credentials, you may lose access to an inbox that has not yet expired.
Expired or deleted temporary emails cannot be recovered. Don’t use the only copy of important credentials to test deletion. Before requesting a bulk deletion or account-level action, ask support using the contact details at the end of this page.
Isolating email content doesn’t tell you whether a message is trustworthy
HTML email bodies are displayed in an isolated reading frame to reduce their direct impact on our site. Plain-text emails are displayed as text. This isolation does not verify the sender’s identity, the safety of attachments, or the destination of external links, and it cannot tell you whether a confirmation email is genuine.
Don’t trust a request to pay, log in, or share personal information just because it appears in your inbox. External resources and links in emails may be controlled by third parties. When you open them, those parties may receive information about your request, so consider their privacy practices too.
Treat your access token like a key, not part of the address
Anyone with the temporary inbox access credentials may be able to read or manage its emails. Don’t share the token, full API requests, browser screenshots containing credentials, or developer tools logs. Never post them in public feedback areas.
Temporary email isn’t suitable for banking, payments, identity verification, important work accounts, or account recovery. If you may need to recover an account later, use an email address you control long-term rather than trying to find a recovery option after a temporary address expires.
Closing the page may not immediately destroy the inbox, and private browsing does not mean there are no server-side records. Before leaving a shared device, complete any deletions you need, log out of your forwarding account, and clear this site’s browser data.
Real email is for verification and forwarding, not temporary inbox registration
The separate forwarding service uses email verification codes for login; verifying your email for the first time can create an account. We process your login email, verification result, and session credentials to identify your account, authorize alias and archive actions, and forward messages sent to your aliases to the real email address you specify. No password is required.
The site header and forwarding management use an account session stored locally in your browser. Temporary inbox credentials are stored separately. Logging out clears the account login information on this device, but does not destroy a temporary inbox or automatically disable active forwarding aliases.
When you enable two-step verification
You can set up two-step verification in forwarding management. Scan the QR code with a mobile app such as Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, or 1Password, then enter the 6-digit code it generates to confirm setup. This process involves an authenticator secret and verification results; the QR code and secret are sensitive information.
These apps generate one-time codes on your device. This does not authorize us to send email contents to the app providers. Never share your authenticator secret, QR code screenshot, email login code, or one-time code with support staff or anyone else.
Necessary technical records and external processing
API access, email delivery, troubleshooting, and abuse prevention may involve technical records such as IP addresses, request times, API status, email identifiers, and delivery results. These records help maintain the service, enforce security limits, and diagnose issues. They are different from inbox emails that are cleared at expiration.
The sender’s email system, your real email provider, and any external links you choose to open may process data independently. We don’t list unconfirmed analytics tools, advertising services, or third-party analytics providers as features enabled on this site, nor do we claim that necessary technical logs are never kept.
If you want to know what records are associated with a particular request, share an approximate time and the feature you used. Once we’ve verified your authorization and checked which records are available, we’ll explain what we can confirm. You can view archived emails in forwarding management so there’s no need to resend the full message in a support email.
Tell us about the issue, but keep your secrets
To ask how data is used, check what records can be accessed, or request deletion or correction, email support@temprapid.com. We need to verify that your request concerns data you’re authorized to manage. If the original inbox has expired or a record has already been deleted, we may not be able to check or restore its contents.
Include the service type (temporary inbox or long-term forwarding), the approximate time and time zone, the address or alias involved, and what you’d like us to do. For account requests, we recommend contacting us from the account’s login email. Share only what’s needed to investigate, and redact other people’s personal data from screenshots.
Never send us
Email verification codes, 6-digit one-time codes, two-step verification secrets, QR codes, access tokens, or full request links containing credentials. Support staff don’t need these secrets to understand your issue.
Support email:support@temprapid.com
This notice and our separate Terms of Service describe the boundaries of the service together. We can’t restore expired emails or delete copies held by other services. If your concern is that an event organizer continues to use personal information you submitted, you’ll also need to contact them directly.