About us

Posteo is an independent email provider based in Berlin. We offer anonymous and sustainable email accounts, address books and calendars. Our service is completely ad-free and self-financed. Posteo was founded in 2009. We want to provide an impetus for greater security, privacy and sustainability on the internet, and offer alternatives.

Posteo is for all who have had enough of companies that collect data, inboxes polluted with advertising and all-pervasive surveillance on the internet. It’s also for those who find it important to act sustainably in terms of both ecology and economics. Our concern is to protect your personal information, not to sell it to the highest bidder from the advertising industry. For this reason, we do not collect your personal information, do not use tracking tools and make daily back-ups. Posteo is equipped with an innovative encryption concept. We always encrypt your data with the newest technologies – and promote wider use of open standards. We actively support digital civil liberties: In May 2014, Posteo became the first German telecommunications service to publish a transparency report.
Privacy page >> | Encryption info page >>

Posteo has a comprehensive concept of sustainability. We work using real green energy from Green Planet Energy, not (so-called) “certified energy” from old hydro-electric stations, which other providers term green energy. The use of efficient hardware and recycled paper is self-evident for us, as is our bank account with GLS Bank. Sustainability page >>

Since the NSA scandal became public, our service has often been recommended in the media and evaluated by various computing magazines. Press reviews >>