You can name a legacy contact in Settings → Your data. That's the person who may read your account after you die. Naming them is your direction to us under the Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act, as adopted in Virginia (Code of Virginia § 64.2-118) and most other states. It is also your consent, under the federal Stored Communications Act, for us to let them read your account after you die. You can change or remove it anytime, so it overrides anything a will, trust or power of attorney says about this account. Your legacy contact sees nothing while you're alive. If you choose, we email them that they were named, with the access key they'll need. If your account is ever due to be deleted for inactivity, we warn them too. They must be 18 or older to read the memorial.
To claim your account after you die, your legacy contact gives us the access key, their email address as you named it, a copy of your death certificate, and a signed statement that the claim is true. We then email and notify you, and wait 30 days. If you sign in during that time, the claim is cancelled. After the wait, we review the certificate. We may ask for more, or decline a claim we can't verify. A knowingly false claim breaks these Terms and may be a crime.
When we approve a claim, your account becomes a memorial. Nothing in it can be changed or added to by anyone, including your legacy contact. Sign-in is locked, reminders stop, and connected services such as Google Calendar are disconnected. It's free, and it isn't deleted for inactivity. We cancel any subscription at once, and refund to the card on file every charge made after your date of death.
Your legacy contact reads the memorial from their own Remember account. They can search it, ask questions of it, copy things into their own account, hide it from their own lists, and ask us to delete it. While they hold a memorial, their own account isn't deleted for inactivity. Anything you shared with others stays shared, read-only. If your legacy contact names a legacy contact of their own, what they inherited passes on the same way when they die.
Anything you mark "Don't pass this on" is left out of the memorial: a single note, photo, file or reminder, or a person or life area with everything filed under it and every note about that person.
If you named no one, your executor or administrator can write to privacy@embodied-era.com with the death certificate and their letters of appointment. We then send them a list of what your account holds and when it was added, but nothing it says. To read the contents, they also need a record showing you agreed, such as your will, or a court order, and we then give them access on these terms. This is what the same law requires (Code of Virginia §§ 64.2-121 and 64.2-122, and its counterparts in other states). If your legacy contact loses the access key, they can write to the same address from the email address you named, with the death certificate, and we open the claim for them. The same wait and review apply. None of this costs anything.
While you're alive, someone with legal authority over your affairs, such as an agent under a power of attorney, a trustee or a court-appointed conservator, can write to the same address with proof of that authority. As the same law provides, we send them the same list, without contents. They get the contents only if you allowed it, for example in the power of attorney, or a court orders it.