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Inheribase is designed to complement — not replace — traditional estate planning. The platform provides tools and documentation that work alongside wills, trusts, and powers of attorney to ensure your digital estate is properly addressed alongside your physical one. Inheribase is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Consult your estate attorney to integrate Inheribase into your comprehensive estate plan.

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Working with estate law

Digital assets require special handling in estate planning because they involve terms of service agreements, encryption boundaries, and anti-hacking statutes. Inheribase provides a technical mechanism to transfer access to these assets, but the legal right to that access must still be established in your estate documents. We recommend specifically mentioning your Inheribase vault in your will or trust to authorize your executor or trustee to access and distribute its contents. This prevents ambiguity about whether your personal representative has legal authority to act on the vault’s release. Key considerations for your estate attorney:
  • Authorization language — Your will or trust should explicitly authorize your executor or trustee to access your Inheribase vault and distribute its contents to named heirs.
  • Guardian alignment — The people you designate as Inheribase Guardians should be consistent with the roles assigned in your traditional estate documents where possible.
  • Digital asset schedules — Attach a schedule or memorandum to your will that references your vault’s public funding address and the email addresses associated with your heirs, so your executor can locate them.

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Court orders and subpoenas

Due to Inheribase’s zero-knowledge architecture, we cannot access or decrypt your files — even under compulsion by a court order or subpoena. If we receive a valid legal request, we can only provide:
  • Account creation dates and metadata
  • Billing and transaction records
  • Encrypted data blobs (which are unreadable without your passkey or guardian shares)
This is a technical limitation, not a policy choice. Inheribase servers store only ciphertext. The keys that could decrypt your files are derived on your device and distributed in fragments among your guardians — neither of which is accessible to Inheribase. A court order cannot compel us to produce something we do not possess.
If a court requires access to vault contents, the appropriate path is to direct the legal request to the vault owner’s estate executor, who can work with the designated guardians to reconstruct the key through the normal release process.

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Terms of service and privacy

For full legal details regarding your use of Inheribase, refer to the official agreements:
  • Terms of Service — The rules and guidelines governing your use of the Inheribase protocol.
  • Privacy Policy — How Inheribase handles your personal data and account metadata.