Access should be understandable
You should be able to tell whether information belongs to your individual estate profile, to shared household context, or to a purpose-limited preparation for someone who may later need to act.
Trust, privacy, and security
Your planning information deserves careful boundaries.
RiGEL is designed to help you organize sensitive personal and household information while keeping access understandable and purpose limited.
Trust principles
These principles describe how RiGEL Personal approaches sensitive planning information.
Shared and private information are different
Belonging to the same household does not mean every personal detail is automatically shared. Private estate information stays with the individual unless it is explicitly shared.
Executor preparation should stay purpose limited
Executor Handoff is for preparing clearer context for the person who may eventually need to act. It is not unlimited account access and does not appoint or validate an executor.
Trust claims should be specific
This page describes access design and responsible product boundaries that RiGEL can support today. It does not promise absolute privacy, absolute security, or certifications that are not listed here.
What you control
RiGEL Personal is built around adult estate profiles that you organize and update.
- You choose what planning information to enter and update in your estate profile.
- You can revise planning information as your household situation changes.
- Authorized adults can plan within one household while keeping separate estate profiles.
- Private estate information is not visible to another adult by default. It becomes visible only when it is explicitly shared.
- You can prepare purpose-limited information for Executor Handoff when that capability is available on your plan.
This overview does not claim that you directly control backups, logs, derived records, legal retention, or third-party processing. See the Privacy overview for formal data-handling language.
Household sharing and private information
RiGEL Personal treats a household as shared context with separate adult estate profiles.
Shared household information
Authorized adults in the same household may organize shared household context such as assets, contacts, and dependents where those items are linked for household planning. The Emergency Snapshot is also a shared household resource for active authorized adults.
Individual private information
Personal estate details such as beneficiaries, executor choices, family letters, secure storage, and personal wishes remain associated with the individual adult. Another authorized adult cannot see those private details by default.
Not every piece of information is automatically shared merely because adults belong to the same household. Shared household resources, including the Emergency Snapshot, stay distinct from private individual estate information.
Individual private information
Belongs to one adult estate profile. Not visible to another adult by default.
Shared household information
Household context that active authorized adults may organize together, including one shared Emergency Snapshot for the household.
Purpose-limited executor preparation
Information you prepare for the person who may eventually need to act, not a full account copy.
Emergency Snapshot
The Emergency Snapshot is a shared household resource. Active authorized adults in the household can view and update the same Snapshot, while private individual planning information remains separate.
It helps you prepare a focused set of practical information that may be useful first in an urgent moment.
Users should consider carefully what information is appropriate to include.
- Household membership alone does not make every piece of individual information visible to every adult.
- Emergency Snapshot does not replace emergency services, medical records, legal documents, or professional advice.
- RiGEL does not claim that emergency responders, hospitals, lawyers, or executors will automatically receive or accept it.
Executor Handoff
Executor Handoff helps you prepare purpose-limited information for the person who may eventually need to act, so they are not left starting without context.
The intended outcome is clearer, limited preparation rather than open access to your full RiGEL Personal account.
- Executor access is not unlimited, automatic, or equivalent to administering an estate.
- RiGEL does not appoint, validate, direct, or replace an executor.
- Executor Handoff does not replace probate or estate administration.
- This page does not claim that handoff access remains available indefinitely.
Verified access and privacy safeguards
These points describe access design and published privacy commitments that this website can support. They are not a guarantee that all risk is eliminated.
Separate adult estate profiles
Each adult in a household has their own estate profile, even when household information is connected.
Private information stays private by default
Private estate information is visible to the profile owner. Another adult sees it only when it has been explicitly shared.
Shared household context is deliberate
Shared assets and similar household context are available to active household profiles when those items are linked for shared planning. Belonging to a household does not by itself expose private estate fields.
One shared household Emergency Snapshot
Active authorized adults in a household work from the same Emergency Snapshot. Private individual planning information remains separate from that shared Snapshot.
Purpose-limited executor preparation
Executor Handoff is described as purpose-limited preparation for clearer executor context, not as unlimited account access.
Signed-in Personal accounts
RiGEL Personal registration and sign-in are provided through the Personal app account experience for Canadian households in consumer beta.
Website analytics stay separate from private plan contents
Public-website analytics tools are not used to collect the contents of your private RiGEL Personal household plan, estate information, secure storage, family letters, or account details.
No sale of client information; no AI training on private estate data
RiGEL states that it does not sell client, community, trust, estate, or financial information, and that it does not train AI models on private estate, trust, community, or financial information.
Data lifecycle and your choices
This page does not invent self-serve deletion, export, backup, or retention promises for household accounts.
The Privacy overview explains retention and deletion in the context of agreements, settings, and legitimate record-keeping needs.
For questions about RiGEL's privacy practices, contact privacy@therigelway.com.
Product and professional boundaries
- RiGEL supports planning and preparation. It does not provide legal, tax, accounting, medical, or financial advice.
- RiGEL is not an emergency service.
- Emergency Snapshot does not replace medical or emergency records.
- Executor Handoff does not appoint or validate an executor.
- RiGEL does not create a legally valid will in the current beta. Native RiGEL will creation remains in development.
- Users should seek appropriate professional advice for their circumstances.
Formal policies
This Trust page is a plain-language overview. It does not replace the Privacy overview or Terms of Service.
- Read the Privacy overview for collection, use, analytics, cookies, and formal data-handling language.
- Read the Terms of Service for contractual terms. Those Terms currently describe professional and business use; consumer beta use should still be read against the published Terms and Privacy overview until a consumer-specific addendum is published.
Trust questions
Start with clear boundaries
Create your free account when you are ready, or explore the consumer beta capabilities first.