SecureSafe

Using this function, you can arrange to have passwords and files passed on automatically and securely to beneficiaries among your family, partners and friends in the case of an emergency or fatality.

Data inheritance is easy -to- use:

1. Store documents and passwords in the SecureSafe online safe.
2. Specify beneficiaries who are to be given access to the data if anything should happen to you.
3. Allocate your data and passwords to your beneficiaries.
4. In the event of an emergency, the DataInherit -function guarantees the safe notification of your beneficiaries and the secure transfer of your data.

Documents and passwords which have not been assigned to anyone are securely deleted during the data inheritance, just as the account holder had wished.

You specify individuals who are to be recipients, such as people from among your circle of family, partners and friends. You then allocate the various documents and passwords to these individuals. Data which you do not allocate to anyone will be securely deleted in the event of your demise.

You specify one or more persons to be authorized activators, such as your life partner or close friends. These beneficiaries will then be able to activate the data inheritance by using an activation code. You do not need a lawyer or other formalities for this process. Improper activation is rendered impossible by the DataInherit safeguarding delay.

Beneficiaries will receive the access codes for the files and passwords which you have allocated to them by means of a securely encrypted email or by registered mail sent to any destination worldwide through the Swiss postal service.

No, you do not have to inform the Beneficiaries that they will be receiving data at a later date. You should, however, regularly check to see that you have entered the correct telephone numbers, email addresses, and also the correct place of residence for your beneficiaries. 

Authorized Activators are persons you trust, who are authorized to effect activation; they are those persons to whom you have handed an activation code. These Authorized Activators will then activate the data inheritance according to your wishes. You may designate one or more Authorized Activators. Entry of a single activation code is sufficient to start the data inheritance.

It can be one or several persons. You can also append the activation code to your will. Entry of a single activation code is sufficient to start the data inheritance.

As the account owner, you define a person you trust to be your authorized activator. You will hand over instructions and an inheritance activation code to one or several activators (e.g. your business partner, spouse, parents...). In casethe event that anything happens to you, the trusted activator enters the activation code into the system. SecureSafe has a fraud protection system in place that will first warn the account owner that the process has been started. Only if you do not react within a specified time interval (anywhere from minutes to months) will the process be started.

The safeguarding delay time serves to prevent the data inheritance from happening without your consent. If one of the Authorized Activators enters the activation code, the safeguarding delay period starts running (e.g. 15 days). During this safeguarding delay period you will be contacted by SecureSafe by email and SMS. If it is an erroneous activation, you simply log in as usual to your SecureSafe account and stop the data inheritance. If the data inheritance has been stopped, confidentiality is guaranteed as before. No data or passwords will have left your data-safe and none of the beneficiaries will have been notified.

In the SecureSafe status indicator (bottom right in the SecureSafe application) you can see whether the account is properly set up so that the data inheritance can be performed.

• If it says “Data inheritance is switched off” or “Warning!”, then click on this text to see the status window. Go through and check the whole status window, until there is a green tick (OK) for the status shown everywhere.
• If you use the Password-Safe FREE, then make sure you have the “Activation code” which you have printed out handy. Now log out.
• As described on the activation code document, go to the website https://www.securesafe.com/activate. Now you will see an input field.
• Enter the 36-figure activation code on the screen.
• The data inheritance will now be started. As the account holder you will be notified by email and SMS that the inheritance has been initiated. You still have time now to halt this inheritance (should it have been started erroneously). If you do nothing, the data inheritance will be activated at the end of the safeguarding delay time which you yourself have specified in your SecureSafe account.

You can stop a data inheritance from actually taking place, after it has been started, and you have received the email or the SMS, by simply logging on to your account in the usual way, before the safeguarding delay period chosen by you has expired. After logging on you will see an unmistakable notice informing you that the data inheritance process is running, which you can now simply stop. If the data inheritance is halted, confidentiality is ensured as before. No data and passwords will have left your data-safe and none of the beneficiaries will have been notified.