Private emails protect your right to privacy. Protecting your emails with end-to-end and zero-access encryption helps you take back control of your data and acts as insurance for your online safety in the event of future data breaches or changes in legislation. On a wider scale, using a secure email like Proton Mail helps protect democracy and free speech by ensuring you can exercise your right to privacy wherever you are.

With Proton Mail, only you can read your emails. In fact, not even Proton can read your emails. This is not true for services like Gmail or Outlook, which retains the decryption keys for your data on the same servers where it stores your messages.

This means that Gmail/Outlook can read your messages or hand them over to the authorities if requested. Services like Gmail/Outlook that do not store your data with zero-access encryption also put you at an increased risk in the event of a data breach. Proton Mail stores your messages with zero-access encryption, which adds an extra layer of resiliency against data breaches.

You can switch to a private email by clicking this link. Once you have created a Proton Mail account, you can transfer your existing contacts and messages to your new secure inbox using their Easy Switch tool. You don’t need any technical expertise to start using private email with Proton Mail.

Yes! In the section below, we will list all services Proton offers in addition to the secure mail service.