Methods and Systems for Accessing Information Stored in an Online Vault

A method for providing limited, controlled access to digital information of a user:

• a) creating, by a processor, a digital vault of a user, said digital vault comprising storing, by the processor, encrypted digital information of the user in one or more predetermined destination locations;
• b) permitting, by the processor, the user to allocate encrypted digital information in the digital vault into one or more digital sub-vaults;
• c) permitting, by the processor, the user to allocate one or more sub-vault access contacts with controlled access to one or more sub-vaults;
• d) permitting, by the processor, the user to allocate digital sub-vault access to the one or more allocated sub-vault access contacts of step (c) based on the occurrence of one or more vault access circumstances,
• e) receiving, by the processor, notification that a sub-vault access circumstance has occurred;
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• f) providing, by the processor, the sub-vault access contact(s), with controlled access to a sub-vault upon the occurrence of the sub-vault access circumstances of step (d), said controlled access includes (i) verifying the identity of a sub-vault access contact and (ii) allowing access for a limited period of time.