How to share your saved items

You can use Dashlane's Secure Sharing feature to share passwords and secure notes with other Dashlane users securely.

Why use sharing?

Sharing data in emails or texts is not secure but using Dashlane's Sharing Center is.

Each time you share a password or any sensitive information by email, the email provider copies the plain text data to the following locations:

• The 'Sent' folder in your email provider's inbox
• The 'Sent' folder on all other devices connected to your inbox
• Your email provider's servers
• Your recipient’s email provider's servers (which may include several different locations and data centers)
• Your recipient’s computers or devices

Sharing this information through instant messaging apps is also not secure because the messaging service often does not encrypt the data, sending it in plain text over the network. This means the messaging service can read your information. They also often save your conversations in the application history.

Sharing this information using Dashlane's Sharing feature encrypts your data using the best encryption system to date before sending it over the internet.

Learn more about security and privacy.

Learn more about security and encryption.

How to share

You have two ways to share your data with another Dashlane user:

• From the item you want to share
• Using the main Share button or the Sharing Center

From the item you want to share

You can share Passwords and Secure Notes directly from the item.

1. Locate the item from either the Passwords or Secure Notes sections of your Dashlane app.
2. Click the Share icon at the bottom. (In the desktop app, right-click the item and select Share.)
3. Enter the Dashlane email address of the person you are sharing with and select the permissions. You can choose between two permission settings: Full rights and Limited Rights.
   • Full Rights: The recipient can see, use, edit, and share the password. Note that the recipient can also edit sharing rights, including revoking the sharing rights of other users who have shared this item, including you.
   • Limited Rights: The recipient can use this password but cannot share it or edit its sharing rights. The recipient cannot modify the password directly within Dashlane. However, if Dashlane detects you or the recipient changing the password outside of Dashlane, Dashlane will update the password. Within Dashlane, you see the password as a series of dots. Keep in mind that these dots only hide the password only from a casual or accidental observer. If determined to do so, a technically savvy recipient would be able to reveal the password.
4. Click Share and then OK.

Once you've shared an item, the recipient will receive an email from Dashlane and an alert in the Notification Center to accept access to this item. In the desktop app, the alert will show in the Sharing Center.

You'll notice that any shared items have a special icon next to their name, indicating this item is shared.

To see who you're sharing this item with, click the item and then Shared access at the top of the details window.

Using the main Share button or the Sharing Center

You can share passwords and secure notes by clicking the Share button at the top of the Passwords and Secure Notes sections or clicking the Share item button at the top of the Sharing Center section.

1. Select the items you want to share, and then click Next.
2. Select the people or groups you want to share the items with by manually entering or selecting the check box next to the name, and then click Next.

   

3. Choose between two permission settings: Full rights and Limited Rights.
   • Full Rights: The recipient can see, use, edit, and share the password. Note that the recipient can also edit sharing rights, including revoking the sharing rights of other users who have shared this item, including you.
   • Limited Rights: The recipient can use this password but cannot share it or edit its sharing rights. The recipient cannot modify the password directly within Dashlane. However, if Dashlane detects you or the recipient changing the password outside of Dashlane, Dashlane will update the password. Within Dashlane, you see the password as a series of dots. Keep in mind that these dots only hide the password only from a casual or accidental observer. If determined to do so, a technically savvy recipient would be able to reveal the password.
4. Click Share.

Once you've shared an item, the recipient will receive an email from Dashlane and receive an alert in the Notification Center to accept access to this item.

Shared items management

After a Password or Secure Note has been shared with you and you were granted Full Rights over the item, you will have the same rights over this data as its creator. This means you will be able to:

• Edit the Password or Secure Note (by doing so, this will update the item for all users it has been shared with)
• See who this item has been shared with (from the Sharing Center)
• Revoke the sharing rights of any or all users (when revoking access, Dashlane remotely deletes data from other computers at the next launch)

If an item has been shared with you and you delete it from your Dashlane account, the item will not be deleted from its creator's Dashlane account.

Do I need to have a paid subscription to share?

No, you don't need to have a paid subscription to use Dashlane's Sharing feature. However, if you're using the Free version of Dashlane, you can share a maximum of five items with each user.

For example, if you share two items with a user and they share three items with you, you both meet this maximum of five items per user. To access unlimited sharing, you must upgrade to one of our paid plans. Explore which Dashlane plan is best for you.

Explore which Dashlane plan is best for you.

Revoke a user

If you shared something with the incorrect user, the email address included a typo, or you change your mind later, you can revoke access from the shared item's details.

1. Locate the shared item and click it to show its details.
2. Click Shared access at the top.
3. Click Edit permissions next to the name of the user you wish to revoke from the sharing.
4. Select Revoke access and click Change rights.
5. Confirm by clicking the red Revoke access button.

You can also revoke access from the Sharing Center.

1. Locate the shared item and click it to show its details.
2. Click Edit access to stop sharing this item with this user.

Security and privacy

For each Dashlane user, we create the following:

• A unique public key that is saved to Dashlane's servers

  When you share records, Dashlane uses the recipient's public key to encrypt the data. This is known as asymmetric encryption.

• A unique private key that is saved in your Dashlane account and encrypted in your Dashlane settings

  Only you know this key, and it's never shared or transmitted to others. This key works even for free users who don't have the sync feature because your account settings are synced across all devices, even if you don't have a paid subscription.

  Dashlane uses this private key exclusively to decrypt data. Please note that your private key is different from your Master Password.

  Your private key is encrypted with your Master Password and stored in your Dashlane account settings along with all of your other saved sensitive data. This private key is synced to other devices the same way as your encrypted data is. We never send your Master Password over the internet.

Both keys are generated together and meant to work together because they work in only one direction. One can never be used to replace the other.

Even with access to your public key, a person would still need access to the private key for the decryption to take place. Shared data is encrypted with the recipient's public key, but it cannot be decrypted with the public key.