Cloud Storage & e-signatures

Carrie Bey-Little

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• Electronic signatures• Cloud storage• Transaction management • Paperless products• The trend with working in “the Cloud”

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What is an e-signature?

• An electronic signature is when you or your client signs on an iPhone, droid phone, tablet or a touch screen computer

• Electronic signatures are also by agreement or a pin# and should have a way to prove that the document was signed electronically (certificates)

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Electronic Signatures

• Yes, electronic signatures are real• Electronic signatures are legal in all 50 states

– Uniform Electronic Commerce Act • 3 states have developed their own e-commerce

security acts, “Illinois, New York, Washington”• Most states enacted the act in the early 2000’s.• UETA makes electronic records and signatures

as legal paper and manually signed signatures.

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From The UETA (Act)

• SECTION 7. LEGAL RECOGNITION OF ELECTRONIC RECORDS, ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES, AND ELECTRONIC CONTRACTS.

• A record or signature may not be denied legal effect or enforceability solely because it is in electronic form.

• A contract may not be denied legal effect or enforceability solely because an electronic record was used in its formation.

• If a law requires a record to be in writing, an electronic record satisfies the law.

• If a law requires a signature, an electronic signature satisfies the law. Source: UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce, Articles 5, 6, and 7

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Cloud Storage

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Cloud Storage

• Cloud Storage is the ability to save your files, document, receipts and photos in an online storage system

• Your files are not really in the “Cloud”• So where are they? Simply put, “on a really,

really, really large computer.

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Transaction Management

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Transaction Management

• A transaction Management system is like having an online “cloud filing cabinet”.

• Many programs give you the ability to fax and email documents directly to a client, attorney, lender or just about anyone attached to the transaction

• Some programs give you the ability to allow clients to upload and see documents.

• Provide permission to have access to specific documents.

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Choose the accessOnline Filing Cabinet

Allow everyone into the transaction

Source: Docusign transaction Rooms

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Paperless products

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Google Drive

A few options but not limited to these paperless tools

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The trend in cloud based systems

• At least 115,000 agents use Docusign– E-signature program– Also has a transaction room product

• Over 2500 brokers use the Dotloop dash board– All inclusive– E-signature program – Brings everyone into the transaction as if they were

all in the same room in a virtual format

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More on the Trend

• More efficient• Clients are expecting us to go green and use paperless

technology• Cloud Computing can equal big savings and more time

to work on your business and not in the business.• High Income earners spend $2500 or more on

technology each year.• Mid-Income earners spend under $2500 each year.• Both Income earners prefer iPads over Droid tablets

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Thank You

• "The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.“

• Alvin Toffler

• Why Not learn the technology today so you are not left “list-less”.

• Don’t wait to use the e-signature products. There is nothing like trying to learn something new because you are forced to.

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Source Page

• The Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA)

• Illinois: 5 ILCS 175/1-101 • New York:

NY CLS State Technology § 301 et seq.Washington: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.34

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