Our lives are full of things that are meaningful to us. Heirlooms, photos, furniture, art, dishes, jewelry,...things that live with us as much as we live with them, carrying a bit of us along the way.
These are the things that we want to pass along to family and friends. And these are the things that can be hard to divide among people that we care about.
Easy Divider was designed to make this job easy.
Using photos, Easy Divider gives each of your Beneficiaries a way to look at every item and, most importantly, gives everyone an easy way to create a personally ranked list for all items.
Easy Divider combines your Beneficiaries’ separate lists using a single rule: the person who ranks an item highest should receive that item.
More to the point: The person who most wants an item should receive that item.
Easy Divider treats every person in your estate with care, respect, and ever-present fairness.
Everyone will be able to see how your estate is being distributed. Transparency means people will understand how things are happening, which means people will be happier.
Happiness matters. A lot.
Each item must have one and only one photo.
Your photos will be automatically formatted and sized to work with Easy Divider.
Photos should be in the following formats: JPG, TIF, PNG, and BMP.
Use Easy Divider's drag-and-drop Upload page on your estate's website.
You may upload as many photos as you like, as long as you don't exceed the number of items allowed in your plan.
Your uploaded photos will automatically appear on your estate's Inventory web page.
Titles and Descriptions: Add titles and/or descriptions to your items.
Categories: Use categories to organize your Inventory. For example, room names: "Living Room," "Kitchen," "Garage," etc. Or you might prefer people: "Grandma," "Uncle Hugo," etc.
Designate: Designate items that you'd like to give to specific people.
Donate: Organize items that you'd like to Donate to charities or other organizations.
Every Beneficiary will receive an email invitation to your estate's website.
Your Beneficiaries' web pages will include every item in your estate's distribution, ready to be ranked.
Your Beneficiaries will have private/secure access via their email addresses and a personal password that each of them will create.
Drag-and-Drop!: Drag-and-drop your items into the correct location to create your list.
Your ranked list will be automatically re-numbered as you move items.
If you decide you don't want an item, simply move it to the "No Thanks" column.
The "Undecided" column must be completely empty before you submit your final rankings.
Click the "Submit My Rankings" button to submit your final rankings.
One week before they are due, Easy Divider will automatically send all of your Beneficiaries a reminder about submitting rankings.
You may change your rankings anytime, as long as you do so before the "Rankings Due" deadline set by your Manager.
If needed, your Manager or Assistant can purchase additional time.
Easy Divider checks that every Beneficiary has submitted his or her rankings.
A reminder is sent to anyone who has not submitted rankings.
Easy Divider will not combine rankings until everyone has finished ranking.
Lists are combined round-by-round: round one includes everyone's first choice, round two includes everyone's second choice, and so on.
If two people give an item the same rank, Easy Divider has a built-in tie-breaker system.
Easy Divider keeps track of the distribution to assure that anyone who loses a tie-breaker will win his or her next tie-breaker.
Anyone who loses a tie-breaker will automatically receive the next-highest ranked item on his or her list.
Note: While it is impossible to avoid the possibility of ties, it is possible to maximize fairness if they occur.
Every Beneficiary will have access to a personalized list of the items that he or she has received.
Every Beneficiary will have access to an overall distribution list, showing how all of the estate's contents were distributed.
The Manager and Assistant will have access to a comprehensive report for your overall estate distribution.
Distribution information will be available on your Easy Divider website until your plan expires.
Try it.
Please take a look at our demo site here.
Privacy.
Your estate is private and will stay private.
Your information is held and encrypted on Amazon Web Services servers.
We will not sell or otherwise provide your information to anyone or any organization. Ever.
Transparency.
The best way to assure that people are comfortable with how your estate items are being distributed is to let them see how it is happening.
Unless they are also Beneficiaries, your Designees will not have access to your Easy Divider website.
Easy Divider is not a substitute for legal work.
Easy Divider does not produce a will, trust, or any other form of legal document.
That said, your distribution results can be attached to a will or trust, making them part of a legally binding document. Please consult your lawyer about how to do this.
Easy Divider does not determine financial values.
Easy Divider does not offer opinions or thoughts on the dollar-value of items in your estate.
Easy Divider cannot appraise the value of anything.
Easy Divider is not for dividing financial proceeds.
Money is better distributed in simpler ways, which is to say through mathematical division.
Any property whose value is primarily financial should be appraised and handled elsewhere.
What you need: A camera and a computer.
Everyone using Easy Divider will need a computer connected to the internet.
Your Manager or Assistant will need a digital camera.
What you don't need: Any special expertise.
Easy Divider was designed so that anyone can use it.
You don't need to be a lawyer, a photographer, an appraiser, or a tech wizard.
You just need to be, well, you.
An email address.
Everyone in your estate must have an email address.
Email addresses are used to assure security and to let everyone stay in touch.
Use your Setup page.
Add People & Roles to your estate:
Schedule important dates:
Organize your items with Categories.
Add Donation organizations.
Use your Inventory page.
Easy Divider lets you add as much or as little information as you'd like to your Inventory items:
Drag-and-drop lets you quickly put items in the right place.
Easy Divider reduces the need for typing by automating Category and Designee information.
Contact your estate's members.
Easy Divider automates as much communication as possible:
Easy Divider has email and blog tools for communicating with people in your estate.
Upgrade or customize your estate.
If you are currently using a Basic plan:
If you are currently using a Premium plan:
Drag-and-Drop. That's it!
Rank your items:
Your item rankings will automatically update as you work.
If you're not interested in an item, just move it to the "No Thanks" column.
The "Undecided" column must be completely empty before you submit your final rankings.
Know how your estate is organized.
See your Manager's organization of your estate on the Setup page.
See your estate's contents on the Inventory page.
You'll always know what's happening with your distribution, even if only the Manager or Assistant can make changes to your estate's setup.
Use the Connect page to get in touch with people.
The Connect page lets you send email messages to your Manager, Assistant, and Beneficiaries.
It also includes a blog forum for posting estate-related subjects/questions that you'd like to discuss.
While they don't occur often, it is impossible to be certain that tie-breaks will never be needed. One need only think of two or more people ranking the same item as their first choice.
Easy Divider acknowledges this fact and uses dynamic math-based methods to assure fairness across the overall distribution of estate items.
Easy Divider was created by Ben Cerjan and Ron Witte...because we think it might make life a little better.
Ben works at Purdue University as an Instrumentation Specialist helping improve scientific research equipment. In his spare time, he enjoys baking, home-built systems administration, and board games.
Ron is an architect, co-founder of WW Architecture, and Professor in Residence of Architecture at Harvard University. Ron's mother was a physicist, his father a mathematician; together they gave him an affection for how things and lives add up.
Ben and Ron like making things that improve the days of as many people as possible. Easy Divider helps you distribute personal items in an estate. To do that, we store the minimum amount of data necessary to make the website run.
Easy Divider LLC ("we” or “us” or "our") values its visitors’ privacy. This privacy policy is effective August 23, 2021; it summarizes what information we might collect from a registered user or other visitor (“you” or "your"), and what we will and will not do with it.
Please note that this privacy policy does not govern the collection and use of information by companies that Easy Divider LLC does not control, nor by individuals not employed or managed by Easy Divider LLC. If you visit a website that we mention or link to, be sure to review its privacy policy before providing the site with information.
How We Collect Your Data
All the data we collect is explicitly provided by you when you fill out the sign-up form, add estate members, add images of your items, describe those items, and rank them. We also log the time at which these events occur.
What We Do With Your Personally Identifiable Information
It is always up to you whether to disclose personally identifiable information to us, although if you elect not to do so, we reserve the right not to register you as a user or provide you with any products or services. “Personally identifiable information” means information that can be used to identify you as an individual, such as, for example:
About Email Addresses and User Names: When you sign up we will ask for your email address and a user name. We require a working email address to use our site. This allows you to set and reset your password. It allows us to communicate with you about your account. It also allows all members of your estate to communicate with one another.
About Passwords: We never store the plaintext of your password. Our server only stores your password when it is salted and hashed. This lets us manage account log-ins. In the event of a data breach, the plaintext of your password will not be leaked because we don’t have it.
If you do provide personally identifiable information to us, either directly or through a reseller or other business partner, we will:
Cookies
Easy Divider LLC uses “cookies” to store personal data on your computer. We may also link information stored on your computer in cookies with personal data about specific individuals stored on our servers. If you set up your web browser (for example, Internet Explorer or Firefox) so that cookies are not allowed, you might not be able to use some or all of the features of our website.
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We do not acknowledge your browser's 'do not track' setting. See the Cookies section for more information.
External Data Storage Sites
We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.
Your Privacy Responsibilities
To help protect your privacy, be sure:
Notice To Non-US Users
Easy Divider LLC‘s operations are located primarily in the United States. If you provide information to us, the information will be transferred out of your country of residence to the United States. By providing personal information to us, you are consenting to its storage and use as described herein.
Information Collected From Children
You must be at least 13 years old to use Easy Divider LLC‘s website and services. Easy Divider LLC does not knowingly collect information from children under 13. (See the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.)
Changes To This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change this privacy policy as we deem necessary or appropriate because of legal compliance requirements or changes in our business practices.
Questions or Comments?
If you have questions or comments about Easy Divider LLC's privacy policy, please contact us by clicking here.
Thank you for choosing Easy Divider to assist you with your estate!
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