+1 for Protonmail. Also been hearing a lot of good things about ProtonVPN, although I haven't tried it yet myself.
They have a free Version, it is worth checking out.
I had to wait a few months to get access to their VPN for free, I don`t know if it is open to everyone now or not. I use it sometimes, it is safe and I trust them with my data.
Certainly a good company which it is worth supporting also.
Even though not all VPNs take data seriously for keeping it secured or safe for the users but I only use VPN myself when i'm trying to access a site that I can't access or open the site without using a VPN like ProtonVPN which they also have ProtonMail for emails. We can set a two factor in ProtonMail right?