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European Law: E-Sign & E-Delivery Proof

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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.