Electronic Signature Disclosure

Effective 2026-11-02

Your consent to electronic signatures

By using ForgeSign to sign a document, you consent to do business electronically with the sender. Your electronic signature has the same legal effect as a handwritten signature under the U.S. Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (ESIGN, 15 U.S.C. § 7001) and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA).

Your right to a paper copy

You may at any time request a paper copy of any document you signed through ForgeSign. Contact the document sender directly. We are unable to mail paper copies on behalf of senders.

Withdrawing consent

You may withdraw consent to do business electronically. To withdraw consent for a specific document, decline it. To withdraw consent generally, do not use the Service further. Documents you have already signed remain valid.

System requirements

To use the Service you need: a modern browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge — last two major versions), an internet connection, an email account that can receive messages from us, and a device capable of opening PDF files.

How we identify you

The Service uses email-based identity verification. We do NOT verify government-issued ID. The recipient's identity is established by their control of the email address to which the signing link was sent.

What we are not

The Service is ESIGN/UETA compliant. It is NOT a Qualified Electronic Signature (QES) under the EU eIDAS Regulation. For documents requiring QES (some EU real-estate transactions, certain government contracts), use a service that supports QES.

Audit trail

Each signature ships with a tamper-evident audit trail recording: the sender's identity, the signer's identity, timestamps for each event (sent, viewed, consented, signed), the IP address (hashed) and user-agent string of the signer, and a SHA-256 hash chain proving the audit log has not been altered. The audit trail is appended to the signed document as a Certificate of Completion. The hash root can be independently verified at /verify/<envelope-id>.

Retention

We retain signed documents and audit trails for 10 years from the signing date.