Emergency / ICE kit

Your in-case-of-emergency kit, ready before you need it.

Passports, medical directives, insurance, and the contacts who should be called first — held end-to-end encrypted, reachable from your phone, and releasable to a trusted contact when you can’t answer. The kit you hope you never open, set up while it’s calm.

E2E
Encrypted on your device first
Trusted
Contact release when you can’t respond
Mobile
Reachable from your phone, anywhere
0
Keys we can read
Create your free vaultHow it works

The papers you scramble for in a crisis

Emergencies don’t wait for you to be organised. A lost passport at a border, a hospital asking for your allergies and next of kin, a claim that needs a policy number you can’t find — these are the moments when the documents matter most and are hardest to reach. Keep them in your head and no one else can use them when you can’t. Keep them in plain email or ordinary cloud storage and you’ve handed a thief your identity. What you actually need is a kit that’s locked tight, travels with you, and can open for the right person at the worst moment — without you having to do anything.

How the kit works when it counts

Each card pairs the moment with the mechanism. The cryptography behind it is documented on the security page.

Trusted-contact release

The moment

An emergency kit is no use if it’s locked behind a password only you know. The moment you most need someone to reach your medical directive or next-of-kin details is exactly the moment you can’t hand over a passcode.

Glassbreak supplies

You name one or more trusted contacts who can request release when you can’t respond. Set it to need their action alone, a quorum of several people, or a missed check-in — so the kit opens for the right person at the right moment, and stays shut otherwise.

Reachable from your phone, anywhere

The moment

Crises happen on the road, in an A&E waiting room, at a border — not at your desk next to a filing cabinet. A kit you can’t reach from a phone, on a strange network, isn’t ready.

Glassbreak supplies

Your kit is reachable from any device you sign in on. The documents decrypt on your device, so you can pull up an insurance policy, a directive, or a passport scan wherever you are — and so can the trusted contact you’ve authorised.

Encrypted — these are sensitive papers

The moment

Passports, medical histories, and insurance details are gold for identity theft. Emailing them to yourself or dropping them in ordinary cloud storage leaves them readable by anyone who gets in.

Glassbreak supplies

Everything is end-to-end encrypted on your device before it reaches us. We store ciphertext we cannot read and hold zero usable keys, so a breach of our systems exposes nothing — and there’s no master key for an attacker to chase.

A check-in that watches your back

The moment

If you travel solo or work alone, the danger isn’t only the emergency — it’s that no one knows it happened. Hours can pass before anyone realises something is wrong.

Glassbreak supplies

Set a check-in you answer on a schedule. Miss it for the window you chose and your trusted contacts are alerted and given access to exactly what they need — your itinerary, contacts, and directives — turning silence into an early warning instead of a delay.

What goes in the kit

A starting set. Add what fits your life — a frequent flyer keeps different things than a new parent or a lone worker.

Identity & travel

  • Passport and ID scans
  • Visa and travel-insurance documents
  • Itinerary and accommodation details
  • Driving licence and vehicle papers

Medical

  • Advance directive / living will
  • Allergies, conditions, and medications
  • Blood type and GP / specialist contacts
  • Health insurance and policy numbers

Insurance & money

  • Home, contents, and life policies
  • Emergency cash / card details
  • Roadside or repatriation cover
  • Key account contacts

People

  • In-case-of-emergency (ICE) contacts
  • Next of kin and who to call first
  • Employer or lone-worker check-in contact
  • Instructions for each contact

For solo travellers and lone workers

If you spend time on the road, in the field, or working alone, the kit doubles as a safety net. The scheduled check-in means that if you go quiet, the right people are alerted automatically and handed exactly what they need to find and help you — and because your vault lives across independent clouds, that lifeline stays reachable even through an outage.

← Back to IndividualsSecurity & encryption →Resilience architecture →

Frequently asked questions

What is an ICE plan, and why keep one in a vault?

ICE — in case of emergency — is the set of contacts and documents someone would need if you were hurt, unresponsive, or unreachable: your next of kin, medical directive, allergies, insurance. Keeping it in an encrypted vault means it’s both protected from prying eyes and reachable by the trusted people who need it, instead of being either exposed in plain sight or locked away where no one can get to it in time.

How does someone reach my kit if I can’t respond?

You name trusted contacts in advance and choose the release rule: a single trusted contact requesting access, a quorum of several people acting together, or an automatic alert when you miss a scheduled check-in. Until one of those conditions is met, no one — including the contacts — can open the kit. You stay in control while you’re able to.

Is it safe to store passport and medical details here?

Yes. These are exactly the high-value documents the kit is built for. Everything is encrypted on your own device before it reaches us; we store ciphertext we cannot read and hold zero usable keys. There’s no master key for an attacker to steal and nothing readable to leak if our systems are breached.

I travel and work alone a lot — how does the check-in help?

The biggest risk for solo travellers and lone workers is the gap between something going wrong and anyone noticing. A scheduled check-in closes that gap: answer it and nothing happens; miss it for the window you set and your trusted contacts are automatically alerted and given the itinerary, contacts, and directives they’d need to act. It turns silence into an early warning.

Can I get to my documents from my phone abroad?

Yes. Your kit is reachable from any device you sign in on, and documents decrypt locally on that device, so you can pull up a passport scan, insurance policy, or directive on the road or at a border. Your authorised trusted contacts can reach the released items the same way.

Pack it now, while it’s calm

Create a free vault, add your passport and medical directive, and name the contact who should be able to reach them if you can’t. Ten minutes today buys real peace of mind on every trip after.

Create your free vaultHow it works

Glassbreak does not provide medical, legal, or safety advice and is not an emergency service. In an emergency, always contact your local emergency number first. A vault stores and releases the documents you place in it under the rules you set.

Stay Updated

Get product updates and security insights. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.

We respect your privacy. See our privacy policy.