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Online signature software such as EchoSign or signNow use electronic signatures, also known as digital signatures.Most countries now have legislation that provide for the use of electronic signatures.However, these countries may have slightly different requirements for what constitutes a legally binding electronic signature.The United Nations has attempted to provide some unifying features through the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Signatures 2001 but this model law has only been adopted in 32 states including the UK, China, Mexico and India.In the UK, the Electronic Communications Act 2000 was enacted to comply with the UNCITRAL Model Law but it has now been replaced by Europe’s Electronic Identification and Authentication Services Regulation (910/2014/EC)(eIDAS) which came into force on July 1 2016.This new law applies to all EU member states, but since BREXIT, it is uncertain whether the UK will continue with eIDAS.The eIDAS states that only "qualified electronic signatures" will be mutually accepted by all the EU member states. A qualified electronic signature must be uniquely linked to the signer and based on a qualified electronic certificate that is issued by an approved authority.In the USA, the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (ESIGN, 2000) and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA, 1999) give similar recognition to online signatures as paper signatures.Under these two acts, the term "electronic signature" means an electronic sound, symbol, or process, attached to or logically associated with a contract or other record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record.Briefly, the following requirements must be met for an electronic signature to be valid:The signer intended to sign, consented to the use of electronic records for the transaction and did not withdraw his or her consent.The electronic transaction system must keep a record of how the signature was created or make a textual or graphic statement that must be attached to the agreement.The signer must have received a copy of the UETA consumer consent disclosures.The electronic signature records must be capable of being retained and accurately reproduced later by all parties. In other words, all parties must be allowed to reprint the agreement and the signatures if they want to.In Canada, electronic signatures are governed by the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA, 2000). A secure electronic signature must be:Unique to the person signing.The person signing has sole control over the signing process and his or her identify can be verified.The electronic signature is linked to an electronic document in a way that any attempt to change the document can be determined.In general, there's a lot of similarity in requirements governing electronic signatures, mainly because this is necessary to promote the growth of international e-commerce and trading.However, to avoid uncertainty, you should always state in your agreement which country’s law applies to the agreement. If there was going to be a dispute later on, you then know which country’s law will apply to the agreement and what the likely result will be.Also, even though you sign an agreement online using these software, ensure that you print a copy of the agreement and the signatures and keep these paper copies for your own records.For more info, you can check out our article on 4 tools to sign NDA agreements electronically.Credits: Icon "edit" by Chameleon Design from the Noun Project.

TenfoldTenfold is a CTI or computer-telephony integration solution that has functions like call analytics, call logging, and caller ID. Basically, it integrates your CRM with your phone system for a smooth and seamless workflow. It also helps you track lead sources, average lead response time, call duration, and monitor your reps’ interaction with existing leads. What’s great about it is that it removes the need for manually entering data. It supports more than 20 CRMs and over a hundred phone systems.Google AlertsThis free and handy tool keeps you updated with your leads and prospects and helps you smoothen conversations. What you do is set up an alert for the company or prospect you’re selling to so every time they’re mentioned in a web page you will be alerted by Google. These updates may contain news on their company, important changes, and other information that help give you a reason to do a meaningful follow-up as opposed to the usual “just touching base.”CharlieCharlie is an email-based app assistant that sends a meeting briefer on the day of your appointment with a prospect. It gathers links to social media profiles, recent news on the prospect, shared interests and hobbies, mutual connections, and their latest social media posts. In essence it enables you to build rapport with prospects without having to spend a lot of time googling.Knowledge TreeThis app is a sales enablement solution that provides document management that helps sales reps get easy access to content they need throughout the sales process. What they do is collect rich data on content performance which helps content creators prioritize building pieces that are helpful to both reps and prospects.CalendlyCalendly is your good old scheduler that is simple and easy to use. You only have to add a Calendly link to the emails you send and when the recipient clicks that link, they are directed to a page that shows your available times. It helps speed up the sales process by avoiding any kind of doubt settling in before you get to schedule a phone conversation with a prospect.

In a word: Yep!Thanks to the E-SIGN Act, documents signed electronically have the same legal protections as those signed with a physical pen! As long as your eSignature solution is committed to strong legality and your NDA is drafted by a professional, you absolutely can trust NDAs that are created, signed, and stored online.There are a few options out there. The rest of these examples are using signNow’s service. You can even create one now with a free signNow account.Here’s how to set up the NDA:Step 1: Acquire an NDA TemplateYou can find NDA templates online, but I would recommend seeking out a legal professional to create one that’s right for your needs.Step 2. Upload the Template, Add SignersAfter signing in to your signNow account, you’ll see the "Who needs to sign?" menu. For a confidentiality agreement, you’ll probably want to choose between “Me & others” or “Just others.” After selecting one, you’ll be able to drag and drop, choose “Add File,” or use any of our integrations to upload your non-disclosure agreement.Now you can add signers, loop in other parties via our CC feature, and assign a signer order if needed. Select “Prepare doc for signing” to move on to the really cool part!Step 3. Format the NDA and Fill in Your InformationWith the NDA you imported pulled up in front of you, click any of the fields across the top of the page and drag it to where you want to place it in the document. Most of the fields have advanced features and some even let you add a validation type (email address, numbers only, etc.) to help guide signers and reduce errors. Take some time to click around to get your NDA dialed in.Once you get your formatting just right, hit Continue at the top of the page. Back on the “Get your document signed” page, you’ll add a title, an optional message, and send your online NDA out for signatures!Step 4. Sign Your NDA Online (Legally and Securely!)If you’re one of the signers, a prompt to sign the non-disclosure agreement will hit your (and other signers’) email inbox as soon as you send it out for signatures. Just click the “Review & Sign” button in the email to continue.We provide a variety of ways to create your electronic signature:Draw your signature on a touch screen using your finger or a stylusUpload a photo of your signatureType in your signature and customize from a selection of fontTake a picture of your signature using your smartphone’s camerasignNow will automatically prompt each signer to complete all their required fields. Once you’ve filled out your portion of the NDA, all you have to do is agree to one last legality measure and your job is done!Step 5. Access Your Online NDA Any TimeTo check the status, edit, or even download a hard copy of your confidentiality agreement; just visit the Documents section of your signNow dashboard any time.

Typically, no. There is no difference between the form of stock held by founders and other early employees. Most early stage companies have a class called "Common Stock" for founders, advisors, optionees, and so on, that basically comes with no rights except the bare legal minimum, plus another class called "Preferred Stock" for investors that comes with various rights the investors are able to negotiate.If you ask any business, finance, or investment banking person this all seems set in stone. But from a lawyer's position it is arbitrary. You could create any classes of stock you want, name them "Banana Stock",  "Orange Stock", and "Founder Folly Sponsored GoPro Winterfest 2014 Stock", give each whatever rights you choose, and it would all fit in with corporate law one way or another. In practice the bean counters are right, company stock is either common or preferred.Even if the *class* of stock is the same, stock is subject to very important *contracts* saying what you can do with it. Founders who start a company, if they are shrewd and well represented by lawyers, set up their corporation for the best of their team. Investors, with their own experiences and legal advice, negotiate against the founders for stock-related contract provisions to protect their investment. Meanwhile, nobody is representing later-stage employees, typically. So the founders have contracts that give them better vesting conditions, protections against getting fired, and so on, whereas the agreements signNowed with employees are basically "you snooze, you lose".The notion that the stock is the same but the rights are different is a little confusing, because it is all just ink on paper, or now, word processing documents with an electronic signature attached. The best analogy I can consider is that both the founders and employees have a voucher for a rental carr at Avis. It's the same car, a 2011 Ford Fusion. The founder versions, if they are awake at the wheel, come with free insurance (indemnification clauses), a prepaid tank of gas (purchase at par value), and no questions asked unlimited mileage and privileges in Canada and Mexico ("permitted transfers" to relatives, among other things). The employee version might have a 100 mile per day limit, pay for navigation system, and so on. Same car, different contract.

AuthenticationAlthough messages may often include information about the entity sending a message, that information may not be accurate. Digital signatures can be used to authenticate the source of messages. When ownership of a digital signature secret key is bound to a specific user, a valid signature shows that the message was sent by that user. The importance of high confidence in sender authenticity is especially obvious in a financial context. For example, suppose a bank's branch office sends instructions to the central office requesting a change in the balance of an account. If the central office is not convinced that such a message is truly sent from an authorized source, acting on such a request could be a grave mistake.IntegrityIn many scenarios, the sender and receiver of a message may have a need for confidence that the message has not been altered during transmission. Although encryption hides the contents of a message, it may be possible to change an encrypted message without understanding it. (Some encryption algorithms, known as nonmalleable ones, prevent this, but others do not.) However, if a message is digitally signed, any change in the message after signature invalidates the signature. Furthermore, there is no efficient way to modify a message and its signature to produce a new message with a valid signature, because this is still considered to be computationally infeasible by most cryptographic hash functions (see collision resistance).Non-repudiationNon-repudiation, or more specifically non-repudiation of origin, is an important aspect of digital signatures. By this property, an entity that has signed some information cannot at a later time deny having signed it. Similarly, access to the public key only does not enable a fraudulent party to fake a valid signature.

[full disclosure: I’m VP Digital Transformation at Solutions Notarius Inc., a company that supplies electronic and digital signature solutions]It completely depends on the requirements. I do not believe there is a uniquely better e-signature solution for all scenarios. For example, if the type of documents to be signed require low to medium reliability only, most modern e-signature platforms could be ok, subject to meeting legal requirements in the applicable jurisdiction, but if the document must meet stringent regulatory and statutory requirements that include high reliability of identity of signers, those platforms do not typically meet that threshold.Ideally, you would analyze, define and obtain agreement as to what constitutes the minimal acceptable legal reliability threshold you are willing to accept - or that readers of that document will accept. Next, define the technology requirements that correspond to that threshold. Finally, research e-signature options that meet these requirements and provide the best combination of price, features, scalability, etc..Finally, it should be noted that higher legal reliability e-signature platforms and solutions can always accommodate lower reliability documents while the converse is not true…

I’m not a computer specialist. But someone has asked my answer even on this topic. Alright, I try to contribute something. Almost every one of us is sure that he knows the computer well, whether it's “Windows” or "Macintosh". And 99% of us are mistaken. Meanwhile, studies show (and any programmer will confirm) that short-cuts can speed up your computer tasks by several times. Here are the main hot keys. Maybe some of you know these tricks, but if you don’t know them, I assure: they will really save you thousands of hours of life! 1- How to instantly open a randomly closed tab? Unfortunately, this happens often: wanted to close a window in the browser but accidentally closed other important windows as well. Instead of looking for it in history, use these "short-cuts" to compensate your inattention: For Windows: Ctrl + Shift + T For Mac: cmd + Z (Safari) and cmd + Shift + T (for Google Chrome). 2- What if the boss/Papa/Mama crept in from behind? Sometimes you feel lazy at work and start reading random stuff on Quora. And you have a dozen other windows opened. How to quickly pretend that you are working? These shorts quickly remove the browser windows by minimising all and showing the desktop(in windows) and you can return to the Word or Excel screen (manually): For Windows: Windows + D (minimises all applications and shows desktop) For Mac: Fn + F11 3- How to lock the computer, if you need to leave for a while? No one likes his boss to read his chat conversations or you do not want anyone to look into your monitor, until you leave to make coffee. Others will not able to open only if you have set a password to login. One can simply enter by clicking your user icon if you dont have a password. This quick combination of keys will instantly lock your computer and you will be able to fully enjoy the break: For Windows: "Windows" key + L. For Mac: cmd + Alt + Eject. 4- What if the computer halts? It happens that you are sitting in Photoshop, and all of a sudden - the entire computer is “hung”. And it does not react to anything. Typically, users immediately press Ctrl + Alt + Del to reboot. But this is far from the best solution. It is much better to use short-cuts: they will stop only this one nasty program: For Windows: Ctrl + Shift + Esc (Opens the task manager) For Mac: cmd + Option (alt) + Shift + Esc. Hold these buttons for three seconds in a row, and the hung program closes, and you will be able to work on and not lose any changes in all your documents. 5- Need to quickly save the url of any web-page? As practice shows, this combination will save you millions of minutes: For Windows: Ctrl + D Mac version: cmd + L 6- How to make a screenshot not of the whole screen, but only of the required part of it? All Windows users are accustomed to press "Print Screen" when they need to show something to their comrades. But it happens that there are too many things on the screen, and it is long and tedious to crop the picture. Here's how to always allocate only what you need: For Windows: -Alt + Print Screen(the screenshot is saved to a folder called “Screenshots” in Pictures folder) For Mac: - cmd + Shift + 3 (the screenshot is saved on the desktop) - cmd + Shift + Ctrl + 3 (the screenshot gets to the clipboard) - cmd + Shift + 4 (Only the desired piece of the screen gets saved on the desktop) - cmd + Shift + Ctrl + 4 (the desired piece gets copied to the clipboard) I think for now, it’s enough. Maybe next time, under any other question, I’ll add a few more tips. Good Luck!

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India can be considered as one of the countries who are much involved in learning the application of digital signatures. As soon as India began to encounter its first phase of digitization, various terminologies involving former practices started getting replaced with the newer implementations.With digital technology experiencing a widespread expansion over India, the authorities governing authorities have become more involved in using it for bringing efficiency. With so many inconsistencies involved in the former regulations, the newer implications brought in with digital signature has led...