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Security & Compliance

Yes: a document signed through DocuAgree is legally binding in the United States, under the federal ESIGN Act and state-level UETA. Both laws require the same basic elements — the signer's clear intent to sign, their consent to sign electronically, a reliable way to attribute the signature to them, and a record that can't be silently altered afterward. Every one of those is built into DocuAgree's signing flow by default, not sold as an upgrade.

How compliance is actually implemented

Courts evaluating whether an electronic signature is enforceable generally look for four things, and each is built into the signing flow automatically:

• Intent to sign. A signer draws or types a signature and takes a distinct "adopt & sign" action, separate from the final "complete signing" step — never a signature that's pre-applied or defaulted for them.
• Consent to sign electronically. Every signer sees an explicit ESIGN/UETA consent disclosure before ever viewing the document itself, and has to affirmatively accept it before signing.
• Attribution. Each signer's email address, IP address, device/user agent, and exact timestamps are captured server-side at the moment of consent and again at the moment of signing — never trusted from anything the signer's browser submits, which is what makes this evidence hard to forge after the fact.
• Record integrity. A SHA-256 hash of the completed document is computed the instant the last signature lands. Recompute it later and any change at all — even a single character — produces a different value, which is how tampering would be detected.

All of it is bundled into a certificate of completion attached to every signed document: the full event history (sent, viewed, consented, signed, and from where), each signer's attribution data, and the document hash — retained for both the sender and every signer to retrieve on their own. See our guide on what actually makes an e-signature valid in court for the legal reasoning behind each element.

Security practices

Stated accurately, without reaching for a certification DocuAgree doesn't have:

• All traffic is encrypted in transit — HTTPS-only, everywhere. Plain HTTP is never served.
• Every signing link is a cryptographically random, single-use token (256 bits of entropy, never derived from anything guessable like an email or a timestamp), scoped to exactly one signer and one document — it can't be reused for a different signer or a different document, and it's revoked the moment it's no longer needed.
• Passwords are hashed with bcrypt — never stored in plain text or a reversible format. Sign-in links are single-use and expire after 30 minutes.
• Every document action is logged — sent, viewed, consented, signed, downloaded — building the event history that becomes part of the certificate of completion.
• A signed document can't be altered after the fact. Once every signer has completed, the document and its fields are locked — no edits, by anyone, including DocuAgree's own team through the normal product.
• CSRF protection is applied to every request that changes data, and every signer-facing endpoint is rate-limited to blunt automated abuse.
• The audit trail's IP address is never client-supplied — it's read from the raw connection, not a header a signer's browser could set itself, so it can't be forged in a legal record.
• Billing runs through Stripe. Card details never touch DocuAgree's own servers, and webhook events are signature-verified before being trusted.
• Database access is locked down to the application itself — this is access-control hardening, not encryption at rest, and it isn't described as more than that here.

Being equally direct about what isn't true yet: DocuAgree does not hold SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, or GDPR certification. There's also no automated, scheduled backup process running today — database snapshots are taken by hand before any schema change, not on a recurring schedule. If a specific compliance requirement or backup guarantee matters for your use case, ask before you rely on it — hi@docuagree.com.

What signers see

If you landed here after getting a signing notification from someone you don't know DocuAgree by name: the email should show the actual sender's name, the real document title, and a link that visibly goes to docuagree.com — never a shortened or disguised URL. Opening it shows the document itself and a plain consent disclosure before anything is asked of you; nothing is signed, submitted, or shared until you actively agree and sign. You're never asked for a password to view or sign a document someone sent you — only the sender needs an account.

What this doesn't cover

This page describes DocuAgree's own engineering practices, not a third-party-audited compliance program. There's no notarization or identity-verification add-on for signatures that need a higher bar than standard e-signature attribution — if that's a hard requirement, get in touch and we'll talk through whether DocuAgree is actually a fit.

See the Privacy Policy for what data is collected and how it's used, and the Terms of Service for the legal terms of using DocuAgree. Questions about a specific security or compliance requirement? Contact hi@docuagree.com.