Electronic signatures

Mostly for people who never signed up for anything. If a proposal link was sent to you, you can read, approve and sign it without creating an account.

Your agreement is with the business that sent the proposal. DashProposal is the tool they used to send it and the place the record is kept.

Typing your name and confirming captures, at that moment:

• Your typed name and email address
• The exact consent wording shown on screen, stored word for word
• A complete copy of the document as it stood when you signed
• A SHA-256 fingerprint of that document
• A trusted timestamp from an independent authority
• Your IP address and the date and time

The stored copy is a snapshot. Later changes to the project never alter what you signed; agreed changes are recorded separately and approved on their own.

It is evidence that a particular signature happened, from a particular connection, at a particular time. Elsewhere in DashProposal an IP address is stored only as an irreversible hash; on a signature it is kept in full, because a signature record nobody can corroborate is worth little if the agreement is ever questioned.

Every signed agreement can be downloaded as a PDF, and every proposal link has a verification page showing the document fingerprint and timestamp. If a single character of the agreement changed, the fingerprint would no longer match.

Keep your own copy. Do not rely solely on a link somebody else controls.