Security and privacy
An estate plan is the most personal document there is.
Your family, your assets, your debts, your wishes at the end of your life. Here is how that data is protected — stated plainly, without the security theatre.
Encryption in transit and at rest
All traffic runs over TLS (HTTPS), and stored data — your estate record, your documents, your generated wills — is encrypted at rest on our infrastructure.
Sign-in handled by a dedicated identity provider
Authentication is delegated to Clerk, a specialist identity platform, with support for strong passwords and modern session security. We never see or store your password.
Access is role-scoped, always
Every person in a space has a role — owner, admin, lawyer or viewer — and sees only what that role allows. Executor shares are read-only by construction.
Your documents live in private storage
Generated documents and uploads are stored in private buckets, retrieved through authenticated, expiring links — never public URLs.
We collect what the documents need, nothing more
The questionnaire asks what a will legally requires. We do not sell data, we do not run advertising, and our revenue is the price on the pricing page.
You can leave, completely
Export your documents, then delete your account and the estate data in it. The privacy policy states what is retained and for how long.
A note on honesty: we are a young product and we do not yet hold certifications like SOC 2. We would rather tell you that than imply otherwise with a page of padlock icons. Responsible disclosure reports are welcome at the address on our contact page.
Questions people ask
Who can see my estate plan?
You, and only the people you explicitly invite. Estate plans live in spaces, and every invitation carries a role — owner, admin, lawyer or viewer — that determines what that person can do. Nobody gets access by default.
Can I share my plan with my executor without giving them my account?
Yes. You can generate a read-only share for your will and estate record. Your executor sees what they need to see and cannot change anything or reach the rest of your account.
Is my will stored online instead of on paper?
Both. We store your generated documents so you can download them again, but the legally operative will is the paper copy you sign and witness. Keep that original somewhere safe and tell your executor where it is — a copy is not a substitute for it.
What happens to my data if I stop using EstateCanvas?
You can delete your account and the estate data in it. See our privacy policy for what we keep, for how long, and why.
Start your will. Pay when you approve it.
Answer the questions, read your finished will, then decide. $15 until October 31, 2026 — $29 after that.