MyMessages™

MyMessages™ is a very personal service, with limitless uses. Most commonly, it is used as a way of communicating instructions for loved ones or the Executor of your Will. It could describe the location of your Will, or it could point the Executor to assets that are not widely known. But you can use the service however you wish; explain how you feel about somebody, pass on your values to the next generation in the form of an "ethical Will", you could even divulge a secret that you have lived with your whole life.

Messages can be entirely text based, but you could add documents, photos, videos or audio files to each message. When you step through the MyMessages™ service, you will be guided through the process of creating the messages and identifying the recipients.

After you have passed away, your designated Keyholder® will trigger the distribution of your messages. The messages will then be delivered by email. Only the recipient will see the content of the message.

Your recipients must have a valid email address. The messages will all be delivered by email.

Feel free to read details about our proprietary Keyholder® mechanism.

You will name trusted Keyholders®, who will be given the responsibility to trigger the distribution of your messages. When a Keyholder® is set up, they are given a unique Keyholder® ID. After you have passed away, the Keyholder® will be able to login at LegalWills.co.za with their Keyholder® ID and see the services that they have responsibility for. These services will include MyMessages™.

As soon as the Keyholder® clicks to release the messages, you will be sent an email notification to tell you that your messages will be released after a period of time (set up by you in your MySecurity™ service). You will then be given an opportunity to block the release of these messages. If you do nothing (if you have passed away) then after a period of time, your messages are released.

The expectation is that you choose trusted individuals to be your Keyholders®. Although we have safeguards in place to ensure that your messages are not released prematurely, you should not expect any of your Keyholders® to release your messages until after you have passed away.

Please take a look at our Security page to see how seriously we take the privacy and security of your data. On this page we go into detail about our encryption methods and ways in which we secure your data.

With the MyMessages™ service, you can prepare as many messages as you wish, and set up your recipients of each message. You can add, modify or delete messages at any time. You can also set up your Keyholders®, who will be entrusted to release these messages at the appropriate time.

In addition, you can purchase more storage space for your messages at the following rates:

The MyMessages™ service allows you to create text messages, and to store them securely at LegalWills.co.za until it is time for them to be delivered to their recipients.  Before then, you can add, modify or delete messages at any time.  You can also designate your own personal "Keyholders® ", who with their unique ID can release your private messages for delivery at the appropriate time.

You can purchase more storage space for your messages at the following rates:

The best way to learn about the MyMessages™ service is to try it. We provide a great deal of information throughout the process. You have full access to the MyMessages™ service without paying and without having to enter any credit card details.

If you have additional questions about other services, or about LegalWills.co.za in general, please email us at [email protected].