Rights of the trustee
About Time is first and foremost intended as a tool for yourself. What can you, or even better: should you think about when it comes to death, farewell and legacy? But it is also intended to unburden your loved ones. They must be able to access your information when you are no longer there. How does that work?
Invite trustee
As a user, you can invite your trustees in the app. These are people who, in a certain phase of your life, can access the information you have entered in the About Time app. Trustees do not have to be users of About Time themselves. And as long as your trustee isn't a user, he or she doesn't have to pay anything.
Access for trustees
When you invite a trustee, you can set the following permissions. You can easily change this per trustee or revoke it completely.
Choose to view and edit if, for example, you want your children, or another loved one, to help you fill in and manage your data in the About Time app.
In life and well-being
These rights determine what a trustee can do with your information in life and well-being.
The possibilities are:
- Nothing
- View only
- View and edit
If I'm incapacitated
These rights determine what a trustee can do with your information if you are incapacitated.
The possibilities are:
- Nothing
- View only
- View and edit
After death
These rights determine what a trustee can do with your information if you are deceased.
The possibilities are:
- View only
- View and edit
Whoever may declare me incapacitated or deceased in About Time
To ensure that information becomes available to your trustees in the different phases of your life, you need someone who knows that you are incapacitated or deceased.
So you arrange it among yourself with your trustee(s). This can be done at any time, we are not among them. So make sure you always have at least one trustee who has this right, otherwise no one will be able to access your information as soon as it is really needed.
The possibilities are:
- Yes
- No
Mistake, can happen
People, including trustees, can 'accidentally' press the button that the user is 'no longer legally competent' or 'deceased'. The moment a trustee presses that button, the trustees gain access to the user's data (according to the rights set by the user). However, the user also receives an immediate notification (e-mail and response in the app). If the user has been 'wrongly' declared incapacitated or 'deceased', he or she can reverse that status.
Transparent use
Everything in the About Time app is logged and is transparent. So if a trustee has the rights to modify/update the file and he/she does so. Then the user, together with the other trustees, can see what has been changed by which trustee at what time. By making this transparency known in advance, we encourage transparent use.
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