Security isn’t a feature we added. It’s the reason Myend works at all.
From day one, Myend has had to earn a specific kind of trust — the kind you’d normally only give a bank vault or a lawyer’s filing cabinet. You’re not just storing information here. You’re storing the passwords to your accounts, your healthcare wishes, the messages you want your family to read after you’re gone, and — for many people — the details of a legal will. None of that works if you can’t fully trust where it lives.
So every design decision at Myend starts with the same question: does this protect your privacy? Not “is this convenient for us,” not “does this let us personalize your experience” — just, is your data safe. That question shapes the architecture, not just a settings page.
End-to-end encryption, and only you hold the key
Everything you store in Myend is end-to-end encrypted, starting with AES-256 — the same encryption standard used to protect financial and government data. Sensitive entries, like the credentials in your Vault, are encrypted client-side, on your device. That means Myend staff cannot read your plan. We can’t see your passwords, your directives, or your goodbye messages — which also means we can’t use them, share them, or sell them. There’s no version of Myend’s business model that depends on reading your data, so there’s no incentive to build a backdoor into it.
This extends to Justine, Myend’s AI planning companion. Your answers in a Justine conversation are never used to train AI models. Talking through a hard question with her doesn’t mean that conversation becomes training data for anyone else’s chatbot.
What “secure” actually protects
Security isn’t just about the encryption math — it’s about who can see what, and when. A few concrete examples of how that plays out inside Myend:
- Your Vault stays encrypted. Account logins, financial details, and other credentials you store are encrypted client-side, not just while they’re in transit. The Free plan includes a 10-document vault to get started.
- Legacy Contacts can’t get in early. The trusted people you name to carry out your wishes — your Legacy Contacts — do not get access to your account just because you added them. Access requires three things to line up: their Access Key, email verification, and your Proof of Life check-ins actually lapsing. While you’re alive and checking in normally, a Legacy Contact cannot view your directives, read your messages, or change anything in your plan.
- Nothing is released by accident. Proof of Life is an automated check-in schedule you control. If you miss a check-in, Myend doesn’t immediately hand over your plan — it escalates gradually, starting with gentle reminders to you, and only notifying your Legacy Contacts if those reminders go unanswered.
- Your data is portable, not locked in. You can print, export, or delete anything in your plan at any time. If you ever decide to leave Myend, everything you built goes with you — it’s yours, not ours.
Built to be checked, not just trusted
We don’t ask you to take our word for it on faith. Myend’s security approach is built so it can be scrutinized — the same encryption standard (AES-256), the same client-side-first design for sensitive credentials, and the same careful access rules that keep your Vault and your messages private until you’ve chosen otherwise.
The short version: only you have access to your Myend data while you’re here, and access only ever passes to the people you’ve chosen, under the conditions you’ve set, after you’re gone.