How to ensure a truly private vault for the purposes of estate planning

maxlegroom
maxlegroom
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in Families

We're doing some estate planning and I'm trying to get some clarification on recovering family accounts and access to private vaults.
Basically what I'd like to do is allow a family member to recover the shared vaults and their own private vault without accessing my private vault. This isn't nefarious, but I have passwords to things like a journal that I'd like no one to read and embarrass me even in death 😃

From what I understand that means: I can be the only Family Organizer and should not share my Emergency Kit. Without access to my recovery email, they wouldn't be able to use the Emergency Kit anyway.
But a Family account member with their own Emergency Kit could still recover access to their own private vault and the shared vaults as intended.

Am I missing anything else?

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  • ag_tommy
    ag_tommy

    @maxlegroom

    There seems to be a tiny bit of terminology difference at play.

    • For anyone locating this topic these questions are general but some answers are specific to the users situation. Please ask in a new topic if you have any questions.

    From what I understand that means: I can be the only Family Organizer and should not share my Emergency Kit. Without access to my recovery email, they wouldn't be able to use the Emergency Kit anyway.

    If they know your password and know your Secret Key they would have what they need to access your data.

    But a Family account member with their own Emergency Kit could still recover access to their own private vault and the shared vaults as intended.

    They would need to create a recovery code to alleviate any trouble should they forget their password. Generate and use recovery codes

    The recovery code would allow them to recovery access to their account. A recovery code requires an ability to access the associated email.

    • Secret Key *part of the Emergency Kit = half of the encryption of your data. Does not allow for recovery of a forgotten password. * See recovery code.

    • Recovery code - allows recovery of an account should it become necessary. e.g. forgotten password.