Electronic signature consent

This notice explains what happens when you sign a document in this system by drawing your signature and typing your name, what that signature means, and what you are entitled to before you agree to it.

Read it before you sign. If you would rather sign on paper, say so — you may, and nothing is lost by asking.

1What You Are Agreeing To

By drawing your signature, typing your name and ticking the consent box, you agree that the electronic signature you have just made is your signature, that you intend it to sign the document in front of you, that it has the same effect as one written in ink, and that the document you signed is binding on you to the same extent.

You also agree to receive that document, and the records that go with it, electronically, and that a printed or electronic copy of the signed document, produced from this system with its signing certificate, may be used as evidence of what you signed.

2The Law Behind It

In the European Union, Regulation (EU) 910/2014 (eIDAS) provides that an electronic signature is not to be denied legal effect, or admissibility as evidence, merely because it is electronic.

In the United Kingdom, an electronic signature is admissible in evidence under section 7 of the Electronic Communications Act 2000, and the courts accept it as capable of signing a document the law requires to be signed.

In the United States, the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (15 U.S.C. 7001 and following) and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as each state has adopted it, provide that a signature or a record may not be denied legal effect solely because it is in electronic form.

The signature made here is a simple electronic signature. It is not a qualified or an advanced electronic signature, and it is not witnessed or notarised. The method is designed so that it identifies you, records your approval, and makes any later change to the document detectable.

3What Cannot Be Signed This Way

Some documents must still be made on paper, witnessed, notarised or delivered in a particular way, whatever this system can do. Depending on where the property is, they can include a deed, a transfer or a long lease of land that must be registered, a will, and certain notices — in the United States, for example, a notice of default or of eviction under a lease of a person's main home may not be given only electronically.

the Customer decides which of its documents are offered for signing here, and is responsible for offering only those the law allows. If you believe a document should not be signed electronically, say so before you sign.

4What Is Recorded With Your Signature

At the moment you sign, the system records:

• the signature you drew, and the name you typed;
• the exact text of the document, identified by a fingerprint that changes if a single character of it changes;
• the date and time, and the timezone your device reported;
• the network address you connected from;
• your device and browser, and your screen size and language;
• where your browser asks you and you allow it, one reading of your location, with its accuracy.

Your location is read once, at that moment, and only if you allow it. It is never read in the background, and refusing does not stop you signing.

5What That Record Is For

It exists so that a signature can be shown to be yours, and so that the document can be shown to be the one you saw. It is produced as a signing certificate alongside the document, and it is kept for as long as the document is kept.

It is used for no other purpose. How it is protected, and your rights over it, are in the data privacy notice.

6What You Need

To sign and to keep your copy you need a device with a current web browser, a connection to the internet, the ability to open a PDF file, and either storage to save it on or a printer. If you cannot open the document or its copy, do not sign: tell the Customer and ask for paper.

7Your Copy, And Paper

You may download or print the signed document with its certificate at any time from your own pages.

You may ask the Customer for a paper copy of any document you signed here, at any time and at no charge.

8If You Change Your Mind

Consent to sign electronically applies to the document in front of you. You may withdraw it for future documents at any time, at no charge, by telling the Customer at the address below, and sign those on paper instead. Withdrawing consent does not undo a document you have already signed, and it takes effect for future documents once the Customer has had a reasonable time to act on it.

Keep your email address and telephone number current with the Customer, so that the documents and notices meant for you reach you.

9Who To Ask

privacy@premises.ph