How it Works
Learn the basics and understand the benefits
Planning for the future is never easy. Just in Case Message aims to take some of that stress off your shoulders by offering you the ability to communicate with friends and family in the event of a tragedy.
Share sensitive information with your trusted and loved ones, such as account information, so they will be able to carry out financial and personal duties. Further, leave important messages containing instructions for paying bills, closing accounts, and other life activities.
Having an emergency parenting plan, an end-of-life planning strategy, and a family emergency preparedness plan in place ensures that your loved ones are well-prepared for any situation.
Trustees
Trustees are designated recipients of your messages and can include family, friends, or anyone you trust. They’ll only see messages assigned to them and remain unaware of other recipients. Access to information cards is secured through personalized quizzes, ensuring only trustees can view them.
For instance, a quiz could ask about a favorite family vacation spot like Acadia National Park, with multiple choices including places you haven’t visited. This feature is part of our just in case security measures to keep your information safe.
Personalized security quizzes are a unique element of our system. They allow you to build quizzes using personal photos or questions that ONLY your trustees can solve.
For example, let’s assume you’ve visited Acadia National Park in Maine a few times with your kids (great experience, by the way) and it is becoming your favorite place for camping. You can create a multiple-choice quiz asking: “Select one of our favorite vacation places?”
Add “Acadia National Park” along with 4-5 other places you’ve never been. Your kids (trustees) should be able to solve the quiz easily.
A personalized security quiz can also be a photo of you and your kids at the campground during one of your vacation summers. Only your kids can identify the location from the photo (assuming it is not taken next to a revealing traffic sign), therefore answering the quiz.
Another example: let’s assume you have a daughter and a son, and you are creating a quiz for your son to solve. Upload a photo of one of your daughter’s birthday parties, and ask your son to click on his sister. This ensures your child emergency contacts are secure and accessible.
Many sites use questions to secure logins, but they always use a fixed list of questions that you cannot change. JICM allows you to build your own, enhancing just in case security.
Messages
Just-in-case messages are email messages with a subject, body, recipients (your trustees), and information cards as attachments (more info below). These messages form an integral part of your family emergency preparedness plan and emergency parenting plan.
Be detailed to guide trustees on necessary actions if something happens to you. Note: Sent messages are irreversible. In accidental check-in failures, you can restrict access to your information cards.
Add as many details in your messages to help your trustees understand what to do in case something happens to you. Write your messages as clearly as possible and ensure they have any necessary information. This clarity is vital for effective end of life planning.
Once a just-in-case message is sent, it cannot be undone. If you failed to check in OK accidentally (more about check-ins below), you can stop access to your information cards at any time so your trustees won’t be able to open them even if they receive your messages. This feature ensures that your emergency plan is flexible and secure.
Information Cards
First, you decide what personal information you want to share with your trustees. We’ll help you organize your important information into cards containing whatever data you want your trustees to know. This can include child emergency contacts and other vital details.
Create information cards for all the important records in your life such as:
- Email accounts.
- Financial accounts.
- Insurance accounts.
- Social media accounts.
- Accountant or tax-preparation services.
- Any subscriptions (online or not).
- Utilities.
- Anything else that is important to you.
Information Cards can hold text, images, or documents, and they are handled with extra levels of security encryption, aligning with our just in case security protocols. This ensures that your family emergency preparedness plan is comprehensive and secure.
Note:
Direct sharing of sensitive data like passwords isn’t required. We offer secure methods to convey such information. Attach these cards to your messages for comprehensive communication.
Read here on how to share sensitive information safely.
Transform your passwords into meaningful yet secure riddles. For example, change your password to something like “Sequoia1998”. Then, provide your trustees with simple clues on your information card: “First family trip location + the year of our adventure”. Our innovative system keeps your details safe and makes access intuitive for your trustees, offering peace of mind without compromising security.
Once all your data is organized in information cards, it can be added to any of your messages. Attach information cards to your just-in-case messages as you attach files to regular email messages.
If your messages are ever sent, your trustees will be able to view the information you are sharing with them for 90 days.
For security reasons, information cards attached to your messages do not contain the actual data you entered when creating the cards, only their titles. Your trustees must visit our secure site to access the real content.
Check-ins
We’ll periodically send you “check-in” emails to ensure everything is fine. All you have to do is open the email and click the [OK] button. If you fail to reply we’ll send your messages to your trustees.
Use email addresses you check various times a day. You can set as many email addresses as you want.
To ensure that your messages won’t be sent accidentally if you fail to check in OK, you can configure the system on how often you should receive the check-in messages. For example: you can configured the system to send you check-in messages every day for 5 days, so even if you miss a few emails, you’ll have more chances to check-in OK.
You can also pause these check-in messages at any time in case you’ll be traveling to a place without internet access for a few days.
Rest assured that your messages will reach their receipients when communicating with them is not possible.