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Electronic (E-Signatures) and Digital Signatures are used when dealing with electronic contracts. According to the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA), an electronic signature may be a "sound, symbol, or process attached to or associated with, an electronic record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record". This means that an electronic signature could be anything that you click online that is asking you for your consent. Whenever you get a Pop-Up asking you if you agree to something or not, or when they say "click OK to continue", or even when they don't ask you explicitly but you get a page where you have to click ok before continuing on to whatever you were researching. All those are Electronic Signatures. All of them are enforceable and all of them are measuring your intent. For example, if you are making a search on google that results in a page that says click ok to continue, you click only to find out that the page is nothing of what you were looking for, instead is of something that you would have never googled. If later you are faced with the question on whether you support what that page showed or not. You say you don't support it, but someone says "then why did you consent on visiting a site that promotes that which you are opposed? and they produced a record indicating your consent to view that information. Now what? The bottom line is that e-signatures capture intent, even though that intent does not reflect the reality of ones purpose or reasons for an action, or whether we agree with something or not. Digital signatures, on the other hand, are encrypted representations of your signature that are held by a particular entity as proof that you have agreed with the terms of a contract that both you and the entity have openly and explicitly discussed and have agreed to or not. In other words, a digital signature is the capture of the DEFINITE INTENT of a person when executing a contract, an agreement, or any other legally binding action that is agreed upon by all partied signing. Therefore, Digital signatures are much more secure and better indicators of the real intent behind the signature.

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Electronic signature and digital signature are often used interchangeably, but these two concepts are slightly different. Both eSignatures and digital signatures are legally binding. The difference between the two is that an electronic signature is a finger swipe or typed signature by a person with the intent to sign – usually associated with a contract, whereas a digital signature is mainly used to secure documents and is authorized by certification authorities to guarantee that a document is authentic. You can find more info on esignautres here: https://www.lightico.com/blog/esignatures-legal-perspective/

The terms Electronic Signatures and Digital Signatures are frequently misused and often thrown around loosely. To learn the difference between an electronic signature and digital signature, visit here: https://support.emsigner.com/category/difference-between-electronic-and-digital-signatures

Electronic signatures, e-signatures, are a broad category of methods for signing a record or a document. A digital signature is a type of e-signature that uses a specific technical implementation. Digital signatures providers like DocuSign follow the PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) protocol. Both digital signatures and other e-signature solutions enable you to sign documents and authenticate the signer. But, the purpose, technical implementation, geographical use, and legal and cultural acceptance of digital signatures versus e-signatures varies. .

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I would personally feel much better going with a more well known and established document signing app. DocuSign is well established and bigger, they offer great tech support and on-line portal to track things. Not as familiar with Pandadoc. Also, many people use DocuSign - that will save you time explaining what it is and walking people through an unfamiliar process.