You’re Born Private.
Your email should be too.
We enter the world unseen. Unknown, untracked, unmonetized. Offline, that privacy is sacred. Online, however, it disappears almost instantly.
The moment you create an account with Big Tech giants like Gmail or Outlook, profit-seeking surveillance tools begin their quiet work. Trackers record your every move. They use this data to target you, influencing what you see, what you buy, and how you’re categorized.
Born Private is for anyone who believes this shouldn’t be the status quo. That privacy should be something protected for you, not extracted from you.
Your inbox shouldn’t double as a surveillance tool
Email wasn’t supposed to become a tracking device.
But today, it’s the master key to your digital identity, the entry point that lets companies follow you across your entire online life in pursuit of dollars.
Most Big Tech inboxes (Gmail, Outlook, and others) are built to observe you:
Tiny invisible pixels see when you open emails, how often, and your location, quietly reporting back to companies.
Ad systems model your behavior to sell you things you never asked for. Detail by detail, a portrait is built. Not for you, but for profit.
A better starting point: Proton Mail
Proton Mail began with the belief that the internet didn’t have to be built this way: Privacy is a fundamental right. Your inbox should protect you. Period.
Only you can read your messages
End-to-end encryption and password protection keep your conversations private — even from us.
No ads, no tracking, no data mining
Your inbox isn’t fuel for an advertising engine or an AI model.
Transparency you can trust
Independently audited, open-source code that is publicly available for all to verify, so you never have to take our word for it.
Stronger legal protection
Your data is safeguarded under Switzerland’s strict privacy laws, some of the strongest in the world.
Privacy should be their first step online
Naturally, parents choose the familiar options: Gmail, Outlook, whatever the school recommends. They seem safe. They’re everywhere. Right? But these platforms operate on a logic that treats users as data, not people.
Born Private is the movement pushing back against that. The belief that children shouldn’t inherit a digital world where surveillance is the default. And that starts with something simple: giving them a private email identity they can grow into.
How to reserve a private email address for your child
Choose their email address
Select and reserve the email address you want for your child.
Donate $1 or more to the Proton Foundation
Your donation prevents abuse or fraud and supports global digital privacy initiatives.
Receive a secure voucher
We send you a unique link and QR that you can give to your child next month or in 15 years — it's your choice.
Unlock it when they'll ready
You activate your child's email address and their Proton Mail account is created — fully private, fully theirs.
A better digital future starts here
Born Private is a simple way to take back control, to preserve the right to begin life untracked. Stand with us, and protect your inbox today. Give the next generation a better one tomorrow.