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Emergency Access enables users to designate and manage trusted emergency contacts, who may request access to their Vault with a configurable level of permissions.
{% callout info %}
Emergency Access is available for Premium users, including members of Paid Organizations (Families, Teams, or Enterprise).
Establishing Emergency Access to a Vault is available for Premium users, including members of Paid Organizations (Families, Teams, or Enterprise), but anyone with a Bitwarden account can be designated *as* a trusted emergency contact (i.e. your trusted emergency contacts do not need to have Premium).
**If your premium features are cancelled or lapses due to failed payment method,** trusted emergency contacts will still be able to request and obtain access to your Vault. As a grantor, however, you will not be able to add new or edit existing trusted emergency contacts.
**If your premium features are cancelled or lapses due to failed payment method,** your trusted emergency contacts will still be able to request and obtain access to your Vault. As a grantor, however, you will not be able to add new or edit existing trusted emergency contacts.
{% endcallout %}
## How it Works
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### Trusted Emergency Contacts
Emergency Access relies on public key exchange within Bitwarden, therefore trusted emergency contacts must be existing Bitwarden users, or will be prompted to create a Bitwarden account before they can accept an invitation.
Emergency Access relies on public key exchange within Bitwarden, therefore trusted emergency contacts must be existing Bitwarden users, or will be prompted to create a Bitwarden account before they can accept an invitation. Trusted emergency contacts do not need to have Premium to be designated as such.
There is no limit to the number of trusted emergency contacts a user can have.
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4. Select the {% icon fa-plus %} **Add emergency contact** button. In the Invite Emergency Contact window:
{% image /features/emergency-access/ea-invite.png Add emergency contact%}
- Enter the **Email** of your trusted emergency contact. Trusted emergency contacts must have Bitwarden accounts of their own.
- Enter the **Email** of your trusted emergency contact. Trusted emergency contacts must have Bitwarden accounts of their own, but don't need to have Premium.
- Set a **User Access** level for the trusted emergency contact ([View-only or Takeover](#user-access)).
- Set a **Wait Time** for Vault access. Wait Time dictates how long your trusted emergency contact must wait to access your Vault after initiating an emergency access request.
5. Select the **Save** button to send the invitation.