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# NeetoSign Electronic signature disclosure

Read NeetoSign Electronic signature disclosure.

This disclosure is for people who have been asked to sign a document through
NeetoSign. You do not need a Neeto account to sign, and most people who read
this page will never have one. Please read it before you sign — U.S. law
requires that you receive this information, and that you agree to it, before an
electronic signature counts as your signature.

This page covers NeetoSign only. It is not the
[Neeto Terms of Service](/legal/terms-of-service), which is the contract between
Neeto and the customers who subscribe to our products. Nothing on this page
makes you a Neeto customer or binds you to that agreement.

## The short version

- **Signing electronically is your choice.** You can decline and ask the sender
  to complete the document another way.
- **Read the document before you sign it.** If you have questions about what is
  in it, ask the sender.
- **You get a copy automatically.** When everyone has signed, the completed PDF
  is emailed to you as an attachment. You do not need an account, a login, or a
  live link to keep it.
- **You can ask for it on paper.** Ask the sender first — it is their document.
- **You can change your mind before you sign.** Declining costs nothing.
- **This consent covers one document at a time.** Agreeing today does not sign
  you up for anything else.

## What you are agreeing to

Before you can sign, NeetoSign asks you to confirm that you agree to use
electronic records and electronic signatures for the document in front of you.
When you tick that box, you are agreeing to two things:

1. That the document may be given to you electronically instead of on paper.
2. That the mark you apply — a drawn, typed, or uploaded signature or initials —
   is intended as your signature, with the same effect as signing with a pen.

Before signing, make sure you have reviewed the document and understand what it
says. If you have questions about its contents, ask the sender before you sign.

Electronic signatures are recognized in the United States under the Electronic
Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (the "E-SIGN Act") and the
Uniform Electronic Transactions Act ("UETA") as adopted by most states, and in
the European Union and United Kingdom under eIDAS. Other countries have their
own laws. Whether a document is legally enforceable depends on the document
itself and the law that applies to it — not on the software used to sign it.
NeetoSign provides signing software, not legal advice.

## What counts as your signature

Your signature is the mark you apply in the signing session, together with the
record NeetoSign keeps of you applying it. That record is part of what makes the
signature yours, so it is worth knowing what is in it. See
[What we record when you sign](#what-we-record-when-you-sign) below.

Some documents also ask you to fill in fields — your name, a date, a text box, a
checkbox, a choice from a list. Those entries are part of the signed document
too.

Not everyone who receives a document is asked to sign one. A document may also
be sent to you for review and approval, or simply so that you receive a copy
when it is finished. If you are asked to review rather than sign, this
disclosure still applies to the records you receive and to your approval.

## Getting a copy of what you signed

**By email, automatically.** When every party has completed the document,
NeetoSign emails the finished PDF to everyone involved, as an attachment. It is
yours to keep forever — save it, print it, or forward it. Nothing expires and no
link has to stay alive for you to open it later.

The finished PDF is sealed, which means it carries a tamper-evident digital
seal: if anyone alters a page afterwards, the seal breaks and a PDF reader will
say so. It also carries an audit certificate, described below.

**On paper, if you prefer.** You have the right to request a paper copy of any
document you sign, and of this disclosure.

The sender is usually the best source, because it is their document — they hold
the original and they can send it to you directly. They set their own terms and
may charge you for it; that is between you and them.

If you cannot get a copy from the sender, write to legal@neeto.com from the
email address the document was sent to and tell us which document you need. We
will work with the sender to arrange it, and we will tell you whether any
reasonable printing and postage charges apply before we process the request.
Please allow up to 10 business days for post.

We will check that the request is really yours before we send anything. An email
saying the right things is not enough on its own — a From line can be forged —
so expect us to ask you to confirm a postal address, and expect us to go back to
the sender to confirm you are who you say you are. We would rather be slow than
post someone's contract to a stranger.

## Withdrawing your consent

You can withdraw your consent to sign electronically at any time before you
sign. There is no fee and no penalty.

**How.** Open the document and use **Decline** in the signing screen. You will
be asked for a reason; it is optional, but the sender sees whatever you write,
so a line explaining that you would rather sign on paper saves everyone a round
trip. You may also simply reply to the sender and tell them.

**What happens then.** Declining stops the document. The sender is notified,
nobody else is asked to sign it, and it cannot be completed in that form. If you
still want to enter into the agreement, arrange it with the sender directly —
they can send a paper version, or a fresh document if something needed changing.

**What it does not undo.** Withdrawing consent applies from that point onward.
It does not unwind a document you have already completed. A signed document is a
signed document; getting out of one is a matter between you and the other party,
not something a software setting can reverse.

Ignoring the document has much the same practical effect as declining — it will
not be completed — but it leaves the sender guessing. Declining tells them.

## What this consent covers

Your consent applies to the document in front of you. It is not an ongoing
arrangement, it does not cover future documents from the same sender, and it
does not cover documents from anyone else. Each new document asks again.

If the wording of this disclosure changes, that does not alter what you already
agreed to. This page always shows the date it was last updated, and we record
which version of it you were shown. Only the current version lives at this
address, so if you need the exact text that was in front of you on the day you
signed, ask us and we will send it to you.

## What you need to sign electronically

You will need:

- An email address you can receive mail at, and the ability to open attachments
  sent to it.
- A device with an internet connection — a computer, tablet, or phone.
- A current version of a major browser — **Chrome**, **Safari**, **Firefox**, or
  **Edge** — with JavaScript and cookies enabled. A phone or tablet browser is
  fine; NeetoSign is built to be signed on one. Very old built-in browsers, and
  the cut-down web views inside some apps, may not work.
- A PDF reader, to open and keep the completed document. Most browsers, phones,
  and computers include one.
- Enough storage to save the file, or a printer, if you want to keep your own
  copy — and we recommend that you do.

If your setup cannot meet these requirements, you can still complete the
document on paper. Ask the sender, or write to legal@neeto.com.

These requirements are for signing. They are not a condition of keeping what you
have signed: the completed document reaches you as an email attachment and is
yours from that moment, held in your inbox rather than behind our software, so
nothing we change later can put it out of reach.

One promise we deliberately do not make: telling you when these requirements
change. Neeto has no address book for signers, so we cannot write to everyone
who has ever signed. Instead, the current version is always on this page, and
you will meet it before you sign again. You can decline then, at no charge.

## Keeping your email address current

NeetoSign reaches you at the address the sender used, and the completed document
is delivered there. Neeto does not hold an address book for signers — you are
not our customer and we have no account of yours to update — so if your address
changes, tell **the sender** before the document is completed. If you have
already lost access to the address a completed document went to, write to
legal@neeto.com and we will help you get another copy, subject to the checks
described above.

## What we record when you sign

Every completed document carries an audit certificate as part of the PDF. It
records the document's name and identifier, a digital fingerprint of the
original file, who sent it, and when it was completed. Then, for each person who
signed or approved it: their name and email address, when they did it, the IP
address they did it from, the browser they used, and that they agreed to this
disclosure. That last one is labelled **Electronic records consent**, and gives
the version you were shown and the moment you accepted it.

That line is the point of the rest of them. A signature is worth what the record
of it is worth, and the record of your agreement now travels inside the same
sealed file as the signature it justifies — so you can produce it yourself,
without asking anyone.

It is the record, not the wording. The certificate names the version you
accepted; it does not reproduce the text of it. If you need that text, ask us —
see [What this consent covers](#what-this-consent-covers) above.

Two things follow from "completed" that are worth being plain about. A document
that is declined never completes, so no certificate is produced for it — the
decline is recorded and the sender is told, but there is no finished PDF for a
certificate to sit in. And someone who was sent the document only to receive a
copy is not listed on it, because they were never asked to do anything.

This is what makes the signature evidence rather than a picture of a signature,
and it is why the certificate travels inside the same sealed file as the
document itself. Everyone who receives the completed document receives the
certificate with it — including you.

Neeto handles this information as described in our
[Privacy policy](/legal/privacy-policy). In the language of that policy and of
data-protection law generally, the sender is the controller of the document and
its contents; Neeto processes it on their behalf.

## Who is responsible for the document

Neeto provides the software. The document itself — what it says, whether it is
appropriate, and what it obliges you to do — is the responsibility of the person
or company who sent it. Neeto is not a party to it and does not review its
contents.

So: questions about **what you are signing** go to the sender. Questions about
**how NeetoSign works**, or about getting a copy, come to us.

## Questions

Write to us at legal@neeto.com. If you are asking about a specific document, it
helps to send us the email address it was sent to and the name of the document.

## Links

- [Human page](https://www.neeto.com/legal/electronic-signature-disclosure)