MyVault™

MyVault™ accepts any digital file. This can be photos, scans, mp3 files, Word documents, PDF files, video files. Anything that can be put onto your computer, can be uploaded to your Vault.

You will designate trusted Keyholders®, each of whom will be assigned a unique and secure ID and password. At the appropriate time, your Keyholder® will request access to your Vault. As soon as this request is received, we will automatically send a notification to your email address and you will be given an opportunity to refuse access to your Vault. If, after a period of time determined by you, we have not received an order to block the requested access, then your Vault will be opened.

It is important that you choose Keyholders® whom you trust. Although safeguards are in place to prevent the premature access to your Vault, you should not expect any of your Keyholders® to request access to your Vault before the appropriate time.

MyVault™ becomes a service enabled on your account at ExpatLegalWills.com. You can then maintain an account with us, and this gives you unlimited access to all of the services on your account.

You may use MyVault™ together with other premium services at ExpatLegalWills.com such as the MyWill™ service. If you do this, MyVault™ will continue to be available to you during the entire time that your account is active at ExpatLegalWills.com.

After your first year of using MyVault™, you will be invited to maintain an account with us. This can be purchased either on a year by year basis or in multiple year bundles:

If 20 Megabytes is not sufficient to store your key content, then you can expand the size of your Vault with a one time payment. You can add:

Dropbox and Google Drive are simply document repositories. You cannot assign access to these documents other than by giving somebody your User ID and password. You also have no clear tracking to know when somebody has accessed, or attempted to access, your Dropbox or Google Drive.

MyVault™ is an estate planning tool. It is most powerful when used in conjunction with your Will, Power of Attorney, Living Will, Messages, LifeLocker and other services.

The value of our service comes from the power of our proprietary Keyholder® Security System. You name Keyholders® and grant them access to different services within your ExpatLegalWills.com account. You can then set up access to these documents to individual Keyholders® through the MyKeyholders™ service.

At a bare minimum, you should have your legal estate planning documents in place, including your Will, Power of Attorney and Living Will. But this only gets you so far.

Your Executor will need to administer your estate, and this means gathering up your assets. Using MyLifeLocker™ you can list all of your assets and contact information for critical people. MyLifeLocker™ is an invaluable tool for your Executor to understand the scope of your assets.

MyMessages™ can be used to create personal messages for individuals. When the MyMessages™ service is unlocked by one of your Keyholders®, these messages are distributed to their respective recipients. Each person will receive the message that is intended just for them.

MyVault™, on the other hand, allows you to store uploaded items. It is a secure repository for important files. These can be documents, but also audio, video, photographs, recipes, anything that you need to be passed on as part of your estate.

All of your information stored at ExpatLegalWills.com is safe and secure.  Your information is so highly encrypted that nobody has access to this information other than yourself and your trusted Keyholders® using their randomly generated personal key.  Even the owners and administrators of ExpatLegalWills.com are not able to view the contents of your Vault due to the software design and encryption methods used.

All data passing from your computer to ExpatLegalWills.com is authenticated and encrypted using 256-bit "SSL encryption".  This is the most advanced level of encryption available today, and it means that any information sent from your computer is scrambled in a way which makes it completely unintelligible if intercepted.  When you are on a secure section within the web site, a padlock will appear on your web browser.  This is your assurance that the encryption is in place and that you are communicating across a secure link.

Furthermore, ExpatLegalWills.com uses an industry standard high security streaming-encryption algorithm known as "RSA" to encrypt all of your information before it is stored online.  To give you a feeling for the level of security provided by this encryption, it has been estimated that with the most efficient algorithms known to date, it would take a computer operating at 1 million instructions per second over 300 quintillion years (that's 3 with 20 zeros behind it!) to break the encryption. That's several trillion times longer than the age of the Earth.

All of our data is securely stored in a highly encrypted format on database servers. To protect against catastrophic data loss, daily backups are performed on each of our servers. Hence, if any one of our servers experienced technical difficulties, the data would not be at risk.

Furthermore, physical protection of our primary systems includes:

• Fire detection and fire suppression systems with dry pipe pre-action sprinkler systems
• N + 1 redundant power supplies, providing dual power feeds and backup batteries, water coolant systems and generators
• N + 1 redundant climate control, providing primary and backup chiller units, cooling towers, and water storage
• Local network operations center (NOC) for monitoring all data center operations
• 24x7 monitoring and support of network connection and server availability
• 24x7 uniformed guard service with interior and exterior closed-circuit television surveillance
• Electronic access at all data center entrances, including biometric hand scanners
• Electronic key management systems and individually keyed cabinets

As you can see, we take the security and privacy of all of our member information very seriously.

Services such as MyVault™, MyFuneral™, MyLifeLocker™ and MyMessages™ do not create legal documents and make no assumptions about your country of residence. 

In the US, Canada, England and Wales, we have worked extensively to ensure that the legal documents created by the MyWill™, MyExpatWill™, and MyLivingWill™ services are up to date with the laws in all of the states in the United States and the provinces in Canada, including: Alabama, Alaska, Alberta, Arizona, Arkansas, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward Island, Québec, Rhode Island, Saskatchewan, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington D.C., West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and Yukon.  Hence, these services can be used to generate legal documents in any state in the United States with the exception of Louisiana, and any Canadian Province or Territory, and in England and Wales in the United Kingdom.

Furthermore, the MyPowerOfAttorney™ service is available for all States in the United States except Louisiana, and for all Provinces and Territories in Canada. In the UK, power of attorney forms are provided free of charge by the government.

Note that even in unsupported areas, there is value in stepping through the wizards provided in these services in preparation for a consultation with an attorney.  It is strongly recommended that residents outside of the above supported states/provinces/countries seek legal advice even after completing the wizards. Local laws in these unsupported areas have not been considered in the structure of the legal documents.

If you have any doubts about the legal standing of any documents in your jurisdiction, feel free to seek legal counsel in your area to have your documents reviewed.

Just send an email to [email protected].  We will be happy to answer any questions you may have.