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StartMail

E-mail privée · Pays-Bas
Fondé en 2014 · startmail.com

Dutch private email (StartMail B.V., est. ~2014, by Startpage founders), NL-hosted, one-click PGP, unlimited aliases, USD-priced from $4.99/mo annual.

StartMail est un service européen hébergé aux Pays-Bas, avec tout au plus une exposition américaine mineure et transitoire au titre du CLOUD Act. Référencé dans la catégorie E-mail privée.

Notes d’évaluation

StartMail is operated by StartMail B.V. in the Netherlands, founded around 2014 by Robert E.G. Beens and David Bodnick (the same founders behind the Startpage privacy search engine) with servers physically located in the Netherlands under Dutch privacy law and GDPR, PGP encryption support including one-click encryption and password-protected encrypted messages, unlimited disposable email aliases, and a published transparency report. Notable open questions: (a) the broader Startpage group has had US ad-tech investor exposure historically (the 2019 Privacy One Group / System1 investment was widely covered and triggered community concern. Current 2026 ownership status needs human verification before publishing; ownership_signal: eu_owned is provisional), (b) pricing is published in USD rather than EUR (unusual for a Dutch company), and (c) DPA and sub-processors URLs were not captured at audit.

Constats

CLOUD Act
Actionnariat
Sous-traitants
0 aucun divulgué

Signaux vérifiés

Juridiction
  • Hébergement UE / adéquation: Oui
  • Opérateur UE / adéquation: Oui
  • Aucune exposition au CLOUD Act: Non évalué
Confidentialité
  • Chiffrement de bout en bout: Non
    PGP intégré disponible ; les e-mails ne sont pas chiffrés en zéro-accès par défaut.
Transparence
  • DPA public: Non
  • Sous-traitants divulgués: Oui
  • Clients open source: Non
  • Certification tierce: Non
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À propos de StartMail

StartMail is a privacy-focused email service operated by StartMail B.V. in the Netherlands. It was founded around 2014 by Robert E.G. Beens and David Bodnick (the same founders behind the Startpage privacy-focused search engine) and the two products share the broader Startpage / Surfboard Holding group history. The product positioning is straightforward: encrypted email under Dutch privacy legislation and GDPR, with one-click PGP encryption support, password-protected encrypted messages for recipients without PGP, unlimited disposable / alias email addresses, no advertising and no tracking, and IMAP/SMTP compatibility with standard email clients.

The infrastructure side is clean: StartMail explicitly states that "our servers are located here as well" (referring to the Netherlands) meaning email storage stays under Dutch and EU law. PGP support is a real differentiator versus Gmail / Outlook / iCloud Mail (none of which offer first-class PGP) and against some other privacy-email vendors. A transparency report and a separate data-processing whitepaper are published.

For an EU-sovereignty audit, two open questions are worth noting. First, the Startpage group ownership history: in 2019 Startpage announced a strategic investment from Privacy One Group, a subsidiary of US ad-tech company System1. The deal triggered significant community concern at the time about a US ad-tech investor's relationship to a privacy product. The 2026 status of that investor relationship needs human verification before this listing publishes; ownership_signal: eu_owned is provisional pending that check. Second, StartMail's own pricing page is denominated in USD (Personal $4.99/month annual = $59.88/year; Business $6.99/month annual = $83.88/year), an unusual choice for a Dutch B.V. and a real signal worth surfacing. DPA and sub-processors URLs were not directly captured at audit.

Best fit: privacy-conscious EU users who want PGP-capable email under Dutch law with unlimited aliases, and who are willing to weigh the Startpage-group US-investor history. Buyers who want the strongest possible EU-sovereignty posture should prefer Tuta (DE, founder-owned, post-quantum), Mailbox.org (DE, BSI C5), Posteo (DE, anonymous signup) or Proton Mail (CH, Foundation-controlled), all elsewhere in this directory.

Carte des sous-traitants · aucun divulgué

Source
L'éditeur déclare zéro sous-traitant. Tout le traitement des données se fait en interne.

Référentiels & certifications · aucune répertoriée

Nous avons vérifié le site de l'éditeur et les registres des organismes de certification. Aucune certification active trouvée à la date du dernier audit (2026-08-26).

Matrice de fonctionnalités

Tableau 1Fonctionnalités de StartMail

Chiffrement TLS
Stockage boîte mail 20 Go
Alias e-mail Illimité
Domaine personnalisé Oui
IMAP / SMTP Oui
Contacts Oui

Intégration & accès

REST API Non
SSO (SAML / OIDC) Non

Conformité & gouvernance

Audit log Non
Self-host / on-prem option Non

Tarifs & paliers

à partir de 5 €/mois
Payant · facturé annuellement
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Documents publics

L'éditeur ne publie pas de DPA public. Sans contrat de sous-traitance accessible publiquement, les petits clients européens ne peuvent pas signer eux-mêmes l'accord : cela est consigné comme absence de DPA publique (voir Notre méthode).
  • Contrat de sous-traitance (DPA)
    — manquant
    manquant
  • Liste des sous-traitants
    www.startmail.com/privacy…
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  • Conditions d'utilisation
    www.startmail.com/terms-of-service…
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  • Proton Mail
    Suisse · 4 €/mois
    Basé UE
    E2E: Oui DPA public: Oui Sous-traitants: Oui Open source: Non
  • Tuta
    Allemagne · 3 €/mois
    Souverain UE
    E2E: Oui DPA public: Non Sous-traitants: Oui Open source: Non
  • Mailbox.org
    Allemagne · 1 €/mois
    Souverain UE
    E2E: Non DPA public: Non évalué Sous-traitants: Oui Open source: Non
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