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RPost® Registered Email™ Technology As Legal And Admissible Registered Electronic
Delivery, Electronic Signatures,
Electronic Seals, And Official Electronic Timestamps in the Context of European Law.
In summary, services built upon the Registered Email™ technologies, offered inside platforms
RMail®, RSign®, and RForms™
as well as under service name Registered Email™ service, return to the sender:
DELIVERY PROOF: The Registered Receipt email provides a record of sending and receiving in
accordance with the Uniform
Electronic Transactions Act and eIDAS European Union Regulation No 910/2014 Article 43(1),
by recording the recipient’s
server’s receipt and associating it cryptographically with the original message content,
uniform timestamps, and
forensic audit trail;
CONTENT PROOF: The encryption and tamper-detectability of a Registered Receipt email and
Digital Seal mark preserves the
contents of emails and their attachments so as to satisfy process requirements designed
under the Uniform Electronic
Transactions Act, eIDAS European Union Regulation No 910/2014 Articles 43(1), 35(1), and 36,
and evidence law and to
establish evidence of content;
OFFICIAL TIME STAMP: The Registered Email system link to a trusted, objective, and legal
time source per eIDAS European
Union Regulation No 910/2014 Articles 41, provides essential and credible evidence in
disputes in which the time an
email was sent or received is material to the case;
ADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE: Registered Receipt emails are court-admissible as to their fact of
delivery, as to their legal time
of delivery and as to authenticity of content; time stamp, seal, and electronic signature;
per eIDAS European Union
Regulation No 910/2014 Articles 25(1), 26, 35(1), 36, 41, and 43(1).
FUNCTIONAL EQUIVALENCE: Registered Email message receipts, under Electronic Signatures in
Global and National Commerce
Act serves as the functional equivalent of paper mail, which may be used in lieu of return
receipt mail, private express
mail services, fax logs and similar types of paper mail services; per eIDAS European Union
Regulation No 910/2014
Articles 25(1), 26, 35(1), 36, 41, and 43(1).
ELECTRONIC ORIGINAL: A verified Registered Receipt email provides a true electronic original
of the message content,
message attachments, and transmission meta-data including the delivery audit trail.
ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE: The RSign electronic signature service and RMail service’s
handwritten, mouse-scripted electronic
signature service and Digital Seal® service provide for valid electronic signatures on
contracts, email, and documents
as defined by eIDAS European Union Regulation No 910/2014 Articles 25(1), 26, 35(1), and
36.
ENCRYPTED FOR PRIVACY: Registered Email™ messages that are RPost encrypted comply with
privacy requirements and return
receipts for auditable proof of compliance.
