If you have a mobile phone, an email account, use social media, do online shopping – you have a significant digital footprint. And that means when you die, someone has to manage your digital death legacy.
We’re familiar with the concept of writing a will to ensure the safe and legal transfer of our assets and estate. But we rarely apply this to our digital legacy. So here’s our guide to planning your digital death legacy.
Take a note of all…
- Email accounts
- Social media: Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, Snapchat and many more
- Subscriptions: Spotify, Amazon, Netflix, iCloud, Dropbox are just some of the subscriptions most families have bearing in mind there may be shared accounts
- High street retailers or supermarkets
- Websites/blogs/domains
- Online accounts: gaming, trading, crypto, where there are assets and values to be traded
Make a plan
- Keep a note of passwords, pins and log-ins, but this should be stored separately and only shared with trusted loved ones and executors
- Tools like Digital Asset Logs can assist in recording details
- Define your wishes for each asset: delete, memorialise, transfer etc
- Assign someone to act on your behalf which may be split amongst people you trust
- And remember to keep updating your plan, as passwords and log-ins change more often than the