Electronic signatures
What an electronic signature is here.
When you sign on GoSignHere you adopt a signature (drawn, typed or uploaded) and place it on the document, after agreeing to the consent above. The signature, your identity details and the time are attached to the document and to its certificate of activity.
The laws this follows.
In the United States, the ESIGN Act (2000) and the UETA, adopted by most states, give electronic signatures and records the same legal effect as paper when the signer intends to sign and consents to electronic records. GoSignHere is built to capture both: an explicit consent before signing, a deliberate signing action, and a record of who did what and when. Some documents are excluded by law (for example wills and certain family-law and court documents); whether a particular document may be signed electronically is for you and, where needed, your adviser to decide.
Your rights as a signer.
You may decline to sign electronically; the sender can then provide the document another way. You may ask the sender for a paper copy. You may withdraw consent before you sign by closing the page. You can download every document you signed, and the certificate, from the link in your completion email, for 30 days from completion; keep your own copy.
What is needed to sign.
A current web browser on a phone, tablet or computer, an email address you can read, and a way to open PDF files. Nothing is installed.
What we record.
Name and email of each signer, the IP address and browser used, the time each page was viewed, consent was given and the signature was placed (in UTC and the signer's time zone), the consent text version, and the document fingerprints (SHA-256) before and after signing.
How a signed document is validated.
The finished PDF carries the certificate of activity as its last page, and GoSignHere keeps the document's fingerprints. Anyone can open the document's public verify page, drop their copy of the PDF on it, and see whether the fingerprint matches the record. A match means the bytes are identical to what was completed; a mismatch means the file was changed, re-saved or is a different file. The verify page needs no login and shows no document content.
Not legal advice.
This page and the certificate of activity describe how GoSignHere records a signing event. They are not legal advice. Whether a particular document may be signed electronically, and what it means, depends on the document and the law that applies to it.
Who runs this.
GoSignHere is a service of Create and Common LLC. Questions: support@gosignhere.com.