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Digital Asset Storage
A Digital Vault that keeps your legacy accessible
Safely store your important digital assets and ensure the right person receives them with ease.
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We were named Estate Planning Firm of the Year – Boutique at the 2025 British Wills and Probate Awards.
What is a Digital Vault?
Writing a Will can protect your physical assets, such as your property, money and valuables – but what about your digital assets?
The ELM Digital Vault is a purpose-built cloud storage solution that automatically distributes your digital items to your intended recipients. You can store memorable photos, account passwords and meaningful documents so your loved ones can easily access the devices and accounts you want when you are no longer around.
Our digital asset vault is included within our storage packages or as a standalone add-on.
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What digital assets can I store?
Logins and passwords
Enables access to online accounts, assets, and devices.
Photos and videos
Preserve personal memories for your family and loved ones.
Personal messages
Store personalised videos and messages for your loved ones.
Legal documents
Keep up-to-date copies of your Will, LPA or Trust documents for you to review at any time.
Digital currencies
Ensure your loved ones can access any cryptocurrencies you may have.
How do my digital assets get delivered?
We use a strict process to ensure we don’t release your digital assets incorrectly.
1 Notification
One of your digital executors lets us know of your passing using the app.
2 Verification
We attempt to contact you to check this claim and examine your last login time, devices used, and other activity data. If we can’t reach you, we ask all of your digital executors to confirm that you have passed away and a death certificate has been received.
3 Distribution
Once we have confirmation, your digital assets are released to your intended recipients.
How do I set up my Digital Vault?
1 Initial setup
We’ll set up your vault and you’ll receive an invitation to create your login.
2 Add recipients
Add the details of the people you want to receive your digital assets.
3 Start uploading
Upload documents, create messages, and assign them to your recipients. We will also upload copies of any documents we have prepared for you.
Your questions answered
A digital asset is anything stored digitally that has a financial or sentimental value. These assets can be stored, accessed, and transferred electronically.
Types of digital assets can include:
- Photos
- Documents
- Videos
- Books
- Audio files
- Websites
- Logos
- Email accounts
- Social Media accounts
- Cryptocurrencies
- Security tokens
- Business details or assets
You likely have hundreds, if not thousands, of photos or videos stored across various devices and social media accounts. Ensuring your loved ones have easy access to those accounts can save them countless hours of frustration if they try to gain access on their own.
Digital asset storage is not only about preserving memories; it can also be used to safeguard online businesses, legal documents, and cryptocurrencies.
Our Digital Vault is built by BePrepared using military-grade security and is both SOC2 and ISO27000 compliant. All data is stored in the UK and has multiple layers of encryption. To find out more, please visit BePrepared’s dedicated security page.
Dropbox and Google Drive require you to share access immediately, anyone you add can see your documents right now. Our Digital Vault lets you choose: share access straight away, or keep everything locked down until your documents need to be released to your executors and beneficiaries when the time comes.
You have complete control. Only you can see everything in your vault, though you can choose to share specific information with whoever you like. ELM can place documents such as your Will or LPA into your vault, but can only see what you permit.
Any contacts you assign will be prompted to create a login, and will only ever see what you allow them to, either immediately or after your passing.
No. Your Will remains the legal foundation of your estate plan, it’s what instructs who inherits your assets and appoints your executors. Your Digital Vault works alongside it, giving those people secure access to the documents, information, and digital assets they need to carry out your wishes.
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