What to Consider

What to Consider From a Legal Perspective.

Signed documents and contracts are critical to your operations. They provide a lasting record of decisions taken by your organization and agreements with your customers and suppliers. At the same time, they demonstrate your organization’s compliance with various laws and regulations. When moving signing processes online, it’s imperative that your electronic records provide the same, if not greater, compliance and auditability than what you have on paper.

As the world’s most experienced electronic signature provider, Silanis offers a risk-free solution.

Meeting Compliance Requirements

While electronic signatures have been recognized in law for more than seven years, organizations must still ensure that the method used to capture a person’s signature electronically complies with applicable legislation, regulations and business policies.

Silanis’ solutions surpass the requirements for capturing signing intent as specified by E-SIGN, UETA and other industry-specific laws. Our Web solution, for example, captures and stores a secure record of the entire document review and signing process, including information related to document routing, delivery, presentation, authentication and storage. Silanis e-signatures make it easier for you to demonstrate compliance than on paper.

Producing Strong Electronic Evidence

When properly executed, a signed business record enables the terms and conditions of a decision or transaction to be enforced. To do so, it must reliably demonstrate that: 1) the person intended to sign the document, 2) the signature in the document belongs to the person, and 3) that the document’s contents have not changed since the person signed.

Silanis meets all three requirements by capturing and storing some unique and identifiable information about the signer, the document’s exact contents, and how the person signed to demonstrate his / her intent. Our solutions then secure all of this electronic evidence using digital signature technology so that it can't be modified without detection.

Reproducing the Electronic Evidence

Should a dispute arise and your organization is forced to go to court, you’ll have to reliably reproduce the evidence in a format that can be understood by a judge. Silanis enables you to reproduce the electronic evidence as a secure, stand-alone document that can easily be brought into court, either in print or electronic format.

Our Web solution goes one step further by enabling you to view the user’s web experience, page by page. This includes any disclosures or additional web pages that were presented, and how long was spent on each page