We have just launched our brand new website, redesigned with streamlined navigation to make your experience faster and easier than ever.
What’s new
Everything in the right order. The new homepage leads with what we believe matters most: sustainable, private, secure email, hosted in Norway. Every page below it builds on that same foundation. The new site is fully responsive and it’s just easy to use on your phone or tablet as it is on desktop.
Sustainability, front and center. Runbox’s email servers run on 100% renewable energy — 87% hydro, wind and solar — and we’ve held the Ethical Consumer Best Buy designation since 2020. This information used to be buried, but now it’s part of our home page, as well as streamlined on our dedicated Sustainability page.
The Norwegian privacy advantage, explained properly. Norway isn’t just a nice backdrop for our servers (or some of our images) — it’s an actual legal shield. Norwegian law sets a high bar for any authority, foreign or domestic, to access your data, and this is backed by Norwegian criminal law rather than just a company promise. The new Privacy & Security page walks through exactly what that means.
Norwegian privacy law provides a strong shield. Because there are a lot of important details in regards to email privacy in Norway, we have a dedicated page titled Norwegian Privacy — you can find in the About section. This page discusses Norwegian privacy law in more detail, and lays out how Runbox holds up against laws like the U.S. CLOUD Act, which lets American agencies access data stored by U.S. companies with minimal oversight.
Read more: Runbox vs. the CLOUD Act: your data stays safe in Norway
A clearer look at what you’re actually getting. The Email Features page now brings everything together in one place — identity management, custom domains, calendar and contacts, spam and virus protection, IMAP/SMTP support.
A visual identity that feels like us. You’ll notice Old Norse touches throughout the new site — a Norse shield, Yggdrasil imagery, a viking ship. We have always drawn on Norse values of independence, resilience, and plain-spoken honesty, and now the design reflects this. We think it looks pretty cool.
Answers before you have to ask. We’ve added FAQs to our Email Features, Privacy & Security, and Pricing pages, so the questions you have are answered right there on the page.
The blog has a new home. The blog has a new look, and is now part of our main website, instead of a separate site. It now lives at runbox.com/blog instead of standalone on blog.runbox.com.
Email login. The main login page for Runbox now points to Runbox 7. If you’re using Runbox 6, the login is now accessed via the Runbox 7 login page, by checking the “Use Runbox 6” box right underneath the Log in button. For Norwegian runbox.no logins, please use runbox.no/mail either by pasting the url in your browser, or click the link on the login page.
What hasn’t changed
Everything underneath. Your inbox, your data, our no-tracking and no-advertising policies, our Norwegian jurisdiction — all exactly as it was. This is just a new front door. If you’re an existing customer, nothing about your account or your service changes because of this launch.
What’s next
This update to our website is part of a pattern of updates and upgrades you’re seeing across Runbox this year. We recently launched a new signup page, a new status page, and behind the scenes we’re putting real work into the rest of the platform to modernize things and allow for more and better features.
We’re also building a new help center and support system to replace the current help.runbox.com, which will make it much easier to find answers and get in touch with our team. More on all of this soon.
A quiet word, on that note
The word rune traces back to Old Norse rún — a secret, a whispered word. Fitting, for a company that’s spent 25 years built on privacy.
We’re still the same service we started as — Norwegian, private, and not for sale to advertisers. Thank you for being part of Runbox. Come take a look around! Runbox.com.
— The Runbox Team