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Digital legacy score

How much of your online life would survive you — and how much would quietly lock, lapse or vanish.

Online accounts fail differently from bank accounts: they lock rather than freeze, and much of what is in them cannot be reissued by anyone. This checks whether the accounts that matter would be reachable, and whether anyone would even know they existed.

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Section 1 of 3 · 40% of the score

What exists

Is there a list of the online accounts that matter to you?

Email first — it is the account that recovers all the others.

Does it include the ones that cost money or run something?

Domains, hosting, cloud storage, payment processors, subscriptions.

Does it include where photos, messages and writing are stored?

The part families grieve over losing.

Section 2 of 3 · 35% of the score

Provider mechanisms

Have you set up the successor or legacy-contact features your providers offer?

Several large providers have one. They differ in name, scope and eligibility.

Does the person you nominated in those settings know they were nominated?

The mechanism only works if they come forward.

Have you avoided relying on simply handing over your password?

Most providers' terms do not permit signing in as somebody else, and accounts often lock.

Section 3 of 3 · 25% of the score

What you want to happen

Have you said, per account or per category, whether it should be kept, closed or memorialised?

Without instructions somebody makes an irreversible choice while grieving.

Is there a copy of anything sentimental somewhere outside the platform holding it?

The only protection against a platform decision you cannot appeal.

Nothing answered yet. Your score appears once every question has an answer — a part-finished score would measure the questions you skipped.

How this score is worked out

Three sections: whether an inventory exists, whether the provider mechanisms are set up, and whether your wishes for each account are written down. Inventory carries the most weight because nobody can act on an account they do not know about.

Every question is yes/no and carries a weight of 1 to 3. A section scores the weight you answered “yes” to as a percentage of its total weight. The overall score combines the section percentages by the section weights shown on each heading, which always total 100, then rounds. Anything you have not answered counts as “no”, so a half-finished assessment always scores lower than the same situation fully answered — the score is never flattered by stopping early.

The score reflects only the answers you gave. It cannot see your documents, your accounts or the rules where you live, so treat it as a prompt for what to check next, not a verdict.

This is a self-assessment, not advice. It scores the answers you gave against a checklist we wrote — it does not see your documents, your accounts or your jurisdiction, and it is not legal, tax or financial advice. What is required varies by country. Treat the score as a prompt for what to look at next, and speak to a qualified professional about your own situation.

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