If privacy is important for you, you will wish to have a protomail account. They provide a very good privacy in hosted email, if you of course believe their claims, which I have no reason not to.

To celebrate the 1st year anniversary, protonmail has created a special link that allows instant account creation:
https://protonmail.ch/privacyforall

This will only last for a limited amount of time.

Happy private e-mailing.