Arrange all the details in time with SecureSafe
Have you thought about what happens to your online accounts and digital documents after death? Make sure ahead of time that your relatives have access to usernames and passwords in the event of an emergency. Digitize important deeds, documents and contracts and make them accessible to selected survivors in a central, secure location.
Organizational hurdles for survivors in the digital age
If a death occurs in a close circle of family and friends, the surviving dependents must not only deal with a great loss, but also address a large number of organizational issues. This also applies if a person loses their capacity to act for other reasons.
Challenges for survivors include:
- informing authorities, insurance companies, pension providers and the employer
- the tedious collection of important documents during the mourning period
- the cancellation of contracts and
- dissolving the digital identity of the person concerned. Internet users have an average of 90 online accounts on various platforms and websites.
Settle data inheritance efficiently with SecureSafe
SecureSafe is a multi-award winning and secure cloud storage service provider with integrated password manager that allows you to keep all important documents and passwords in one centralized, digital location. With SecureSafe's data inheritance, you make it easier for survivors to access important user accounts and files during difficult times.
Important tasks in data inheritance
Deactivate social media accounts
Whether it's Tiktok, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook: Each social network has its own specific procedure to follow when a user dies. Make it easy for your survivors to deactivate your accounts and leave them your usernames and passwords.
Transfer email boxes
Email inboxes are more than just a collection of electronic messages. In addition to their use as contact books and calendars, they can also be used to reset passwords for online accounts. Email inboxes are more than just a collection of electronic messages. In addition to their use as contact books and calendars, they can also be used to reset passwords for online accounts.
Cancel subscriptions
Give your survivors the option to quickly cancel digital subscriptions to Netflix, Spotify and Co. or subscriptions to physical services – such as gym memberships – provided they can be managed with online accounts. This saves money and nerves.
Secure financial documents
Don't leave your survivors scrambling through countless folders and files when their minds will be elsewhere. Make sure important financial documents from banks, insurance companies and pension providers can be found quickly in one place.
Share memorable photos
Photo files are digitized memories that you can leave behind for your family and friends. The focus is not only on personal highlights such as past adventures and vacations, but on the memories of a life spent together.
Provide access to contracts
Secure other important documents: Make digital copies of all contracts and store them in your private file safe so survivors can easily manage or cancel rental, phone and leasing contracts.
Setting up a data inheritance in six simple steps
The data inheritance function helps surviving dependents manage the important documents and login data of a deceased person. This feature is turned off by default in SecureSafe and must be set up by the SecureSafe user in the Web App. To secure important documents, log in to the SecureSafe Web App. Click on "Inheritance" in the bottom left menu first, then go to the settings icon next to "Data inheritance inactive". Follow the instructions to set up the data inheritance.
Instructions for data inheritance in the SecureSafe web application
1. Enter contact details
Enter the following information: First name, last name, cell phone number and email address.
2. Determine beneficiaries
Enter at least one beneficiary to whom you wish to transfer your data in the event of death. To do this, enter the name, cell phone number and email address of the beneficiary.
3. Assign passwords and files to beneficiaries
Assign the desired passwords and files to your beneficiaries.
4. Pass on activation code to trusted person
Pass on the activation code to a person of trust. This code is used to trigger the inheritance process in the event of death or loss of capacity to act.
5. Set blocking period
Define the time period that should elapse between the triggering of the inheritance process and the handover of data to the beneficiaries. At the beginning of this period, SecureSafe will inform you about the upcoming handover and allow you to stop the inheritance process.
6. Activate inheritance function
Activate the inheritance function in the settings. Your SecureSafe account is now prepared for emergencies.
Death or incapacity to act – What happens to the data inheritance now
Trusted person activates the data inheritance
In the event of the SecureSafe user's death, the person of trust enters the activation code on securesafe.com, triggering the inheritance process.
Beneficiaries receive the files and passwords
After the expiration of the blocking period, the beneficiaries will be notified via email / SMS. The message contains instructions to access the data. The password will be sent to the beneficiaries in a separate SMS.
Account is blocked
Once the beneficiaries have downloaded the data intended for them and thus received the data inheritance, the account of the deceased is automatically blocked.
