Email Providers · Email Provider · No confirmed finding (unverified, not clean)
GMX Mail
Headline
Nothing confirmed
GMX is operated by United Internet, a German company, alongside Mail.com - the same parent behind two brands that appear as separate rows in this tab and would be assessed identically.
Not independently verified. Verification status: Unverified - heuristic first draft. Publish state: draft unverified.
What this pass recorded. Nothing confirmed this pass. GMX is operated by United Internet, a German company, alongside Mail.com - the same parent behind two brands that appear as separate rows in this tab and would be assessed identically. German and EU data protection law applies, which is a real advantage over US free webmail on paper, but GMX's free tier is advertising-supported, so the monetisation incentive that drives content-adjacent data use is present regardless of jurisdiction. GDPR constrains how that data may be processed; it does not remove the business reason to want it.
- Severity
- Evidence tierUnassigned
- Claims confirmed
- Last verified2026-08-04
Primary source. None recorded — Unverified - heuristic first draft.
Terms
Arbitration
Not independently confirmed this pass — standard binding arbitration + class action waiver expected; as a German/EU-based company, GMX is subject to GDPR, which provides a baseline of consumer privacy protection stronger than what applies to some other providers in this tab.
Data sharing
Not independently confirmed this pass with a specific named lawsuit or breach. GMX (part of German internet group 1&1/United Internet) is generally positioned as a solid, if unremarkable, free provider with generous storage (up to 65GB on free plans per some comparisons) — primarily popular in Germany/Europe, with a smaller global footprint (reportedly ~20 million users; not verified) than Gmail/Yahoo/Outlook.
Fees and billing
Free-tier ads and attachment-size caps are the main trade-off noted by independent reviewers, not a billing/fee issue in the traditional sense.
Contacts
Privacy contact. Not recorded.
Legal notice. Not verified this pass. If publicly traded: SEC Form 10-K cover page gives the official corporate address; the Secretary of State business-entity search in the state of incorporation gives the registered agent, which must accept service. If private: the state registered agent is usually the only reliable route.
Mailing address. Not recorded.
Evidence
No claims have been itemized for this row yet.
No sources are on file for this row yet.
Source vault
Link status: Candidate - not yet fetched
| Document | Last fetch | |
|---|---|---|
| Privacy policy gmx.com/general/gmx-privacy-policy/ | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Terms of service gmx.com/general/gmx-terms-of-use/ | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Website No URL recorded | Not fetched yet | — |
| Primary source No URL recorded Verification: Unverified - heuristic first draft | Not fetched yet | — |
Enforcement
No enforcement actions are linked to this row.
State statute
No HQ state on file, so no state statute applies by headquarters.