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Compliance for Corporate Programmes

An employer can fund estate planning as a benefit without ever seeing what an employee writes. This guide explains where that boundary sits, what each side can see, and what happens when someone leaves.

What an Employer Cannot See

The employer-employee boundary is architectural rather than a matter of policy: the personal estate data sits in a different place from the programme data, so there is no administrator screen that could show it and no setting that could turn it on.

  • No access to estate data: will content, asset registers, uploaded documents and family details are never visible to HR or to a programme administrator
  • Aggregate adoption only: an administrator sees seat counts, activation rates, programme engagement and billing. They never see who used what, and counts over a small cohort are suppressed so an individual cannot be identified from the aggregate
  • The employee owns the data: the account, the will and the evidence pack behind it belong to the person who created them, not to the organisation paying for the seat

If you are the employee here

Nothing you write is reported back to your employer, in summary or in detail. What your employer sees is that a seat was activated, never what was done with it.

Two Audit Layers, Never Crossed

Both sides of a programme need an audit trail, and they need different ones. Keeping them separate is what makes the boundary above survive contact with a real audit request.

Programme audit, for administrators

Seat activations and deactivations, billing changes and administrator role changes. Visible to corporate administrators, and retained on the terms of the corporate contract.

Personal audit, for the employee

Reads, changes and shares of the employee's own data. Visible only to that employee, retained on the terms of the consumer privacy policy, and never rolled up into the programme view.

Paperwork Available at Onboarding

Procurement documents are available during onboarding rather than chased after signature. What follows describes the documents on offer, not what any organisation is required to hold.

  • Data Processing Agreement: covering UK GDPR Article 28 obligations, with sub-processor flow-through and Standard Contractual Clauses for cross-border transfers. Joint-controller terms apply where they are relevant, and the terms are negotiable
  • Named sub-processors: a short published list, each bound by written confidentiality and data-protection contracts that flow through to employees
  • Named-region data residency: the regions are listed in the agreement, and data is not moved between regions without contractual notice
  • Jurisdiction scoping: a programme can be scoped to the jurisdictions where will generation is supported, and an employee outside that scope sees a clear message rather than a half-supported experience

Single Sign-On Without Widening Access

SAML 2.0 and OIDC are both supported, with just-in-time provisioning and group-based seat assignment.

Connecting an identity provider changes who authenticates the user. It does not change who can read the estate data, which lives in a separate identity space. Removing the connection later does not hand that data to the employer either: it ends the sign-in route, not the ownership.

What Happens When Someone Leaves

A benefit that evaporates with the job is not much of a benefit for a document meant to last decades, so the seat and the account come apart cleanly.

  • The personal account survives: the corporate seat ends and the account continues on a personal subscription or on the free tier
  • The evidence pack is preserved: identity verification, the witnessing record and the audit trail stay reachable by the former employee, including through probate
  • The employer cannot transfer or delete it: personal data created by the employee cannot be reassigned to the organisation or removed by it

This page describes our platform, not the law

Nothing here tells you what your organisation is required to do, what a regulator expects of a benefits programme, or how employment law applies to a leaver. Those rules differ from place to place and change. Speak to a qualified professional about your own situation.

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