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If you do business in Europe, the Regulation (EU) No. 910/2014, best known as the eIDAS Regulation, is good news for you.

This regulation simplifies and standardises the systems for electronic interactions all over Europe to help create a “unique digital market”. Ever since it came into force in 2016, it is much easier for any citizen, company or public authority to carry out secure digital transactions in any of the member states of the European Union.

In this post, we answer the 10 most Frequently Asked Questions about this regulation so that you can understand all the advantages it offers.

This post is also available in Spanish.

The way a government regulates the electronic signature in their country obviously has a great impact on its economic policy. If the regulation is very strict, business activity can become stagnant. If it is very weak, security can be compromised, and also affect user confidence.

In this post we will explain the laws that regulate the electronic signature in the leading country in electronic commerce, the United States. Specifically, we will talk about the two laws that establish requirements regarding the electronic signature: UETA Act and E-Sign Act.

This post is also available in Spanish.

An API that is easy to integrate into software solutions such as ERPs or CRMs is the wish of any CTO. When adopting a new technology to streamline processes in companies, an easy integration of the tool is almost as important as its benefits.

In this post we will speak about our API, the reasons for integrating our electronic signature solution via API, as well as the advantages and integration methods.

This post is also available in Spanish.

Contracts signed with the advanced electronic signature have legal validity.

Given that in some cases doubts arise to the truth of this statement, due to the mere fact that a contract is signed through an electronic medium such as the advanced electronic signature, in this post we want to explain and answer those questions. And we will do so by taking into account the laws in force that govern the legal validity of contracts in Spain and the law regulating eSignatures in Europe (which applies to all member states).

This post is also available in Spanish.

A timestamp is a mechanism that allows to prove the integrity of a series of data. That means it demonstrates that this data existed in a specific moment, and has not been altered since then.

The integrity is precisely one of the requirements that allows for a signature process to be secure and to have full legal guarantees for all parties. In this post we explain the importance of integrity in an electronic signature process, and how to achieve it thanks to a timestamp.

This post is also available in Spanish.