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MxToolbox Email Header Analyzer privacy rating

Parses pasted email headers to show the delivery path, relay delays and SPF, DKIM and DMARC results, which helps check a message's authenticity and what outgoing mail reveals.

Summary

MxToolbox Email Header Analyzer scores 12 out of 100 (grade F) on the privacy test tools criteria. It meets 1 of 9 criteria: TLS configuration. It does not meet open source, no trackers or telemetry, no ads or data sales, independent audit, transparency report, tells users about requests, security headers and modern web standards. It is based in the United States: Five Eyes member; subject to the US CLOUD Act. Automated tests: SSL Labs grade A, Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade D and Internet.nl website score 61%.

Score 12 out of 100. How scoring works

Criteria

  • No

    Open source Weight 3 of 3

    Is all the source code needed to run the product public?

    Closed source.

  • No

    No trackers or telemetry Weight 3 of 3

    Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?

    The home page loads Google Tag Manager, and the privacy policy lists Google Analytics and other third-party analytics.

    mxtoolbox.com

  • No

    No ads or data sales Weight 2 of 3

    Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?

    The privacy policy states Google advertising cookies are used for interest-based ads.

    mxtoolbox.com

  • No

    Independent audit Weight 2 of 3

    Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?

    No independent audit is published.

  • No

    Transparency report Weight 2 of 3

    Does the provider regularly publish how many government and legal requests it receives and how it responds?

    No transparency report or government request policy is published.

  • No

    Tells users about requests Weight 1 of 3

    Does the provider promise to tell users about requests for their data, unless a court forbids it?

    No published policy on notifying users about data requests.

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