Editorial policy

Who writes this site

Content on mailboxtemp.com — the blog, the guides, and the documentation — is written and maintained by the MailboxTemp Editorial Team: the small independent team that builds and operates the service itself. We don't publish individual staff bylines, and we won't invent fake author personas to look bigger than we are. What we can offer instead is first-hand accuracy: the people writing about how MailboxTemp handles your mail are the same people who wrote the code that handles it.

Sourcing standards

• Product claims are first-hand. Statements about MailboxTemp's behavior — retention timers, deletion, code detection, limits — describe the production system as actually implemented, and we update them when the product changes (see how it works).
• External facts link to primary sources. Where an article states a technical or regulatory fact beyond our product, we cite the authoritative origin — internet standards (IETF RFCs), government and standards-body guidance (NIST, FTC, EU regulations), or official vendor documentation — rather than other blogs.
• No invented numbers. We do not publish made-up statistics, fake ratings, fabricated testimonials, or "studies show" claims we can't trace to a source.
• Honest scope. Disposable email is not the right tool for everything, and our content says so explicitly — including a dedicated safety guide on when not to use our own product.

Use of AI assistance

We use AI writing tools to help draft and edit some content. Every published page is reviewed, fact-checked against the actual behavior of the service, and edited by the team before it goes live, and the sourcing standards above apply regardless of how a draft was produced. Responsibility for everything published here is ours, not a tool's.

Dates, updates, and corrections

• Articles display their original publication date. When an article materially changes — new facts, corrected claims, substantive rewrites — we add a visible "Updated" date and update the page's structured data. We do not touch dates to fake freshness.
• If we discover (or you report) a factual error, we correct the article itself rather than quietly deleting it, and mark it updated.
• When we consolidate overlapping articles, the old URL permanently redirects to the improved one so links keep working.

Spotted a mistake? Email support@mailboxtemp.com with "Content correction" in the subject and a link to the page. We read every report.

Advertising disclosure

MailboxTemp is funded by its optional Pro plan and by advertising (Google AdSense) on the free product. Advertisers have no input into our editorial content, our guides don't exist to promote advertisers, and we clearly separate ads from content. We do not currently publish sponsored posts; if that ever changes, they will be labeled as such.