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Decree 47-2008 of 19 August 2008, the Act for the Recognition of Electronic Communications and Signatures, sanctioned on 16 September 2008 and published in the Diario de Centro América on 23 September 2008, sets the current rules. It entered into force eight days after publication. Article 2 defines an electronic signature as electronic data in, attached to, or logically associated with an electronic communication that can identify the signer in relation to that communication and show that the signer approves the information. Article 5 says a communication or a contract is not denied legal effect, validity, or binding force solely because it is an electronic communication. Article 7 says a writing requirement is met if the information in the electronic communication remains accessible for later consultation. Article 8 says a signature requirement is met if a method is used to determine the identity of that party and to indicate that party's will as to the information, and if the method is reliable and appropriate for the purpose in all the circumstances, including any applicable agreement, or if it has been shown in practice that the method, alone or with other evidence, performs those functions. Article 15 says an offer and an acceptance may be expressed by an electronic communication, and a contract is not denied validity solely because electronic communications were used. The standard inSigner signature is an electronic signature under article 2. It is not an advanced electronic signature. Whether article 8 is met still depends on the document and the law that governs it. inSigner does not decide that question.

Article 2 defines an advanced electronic signature as one uniquely linked to the signer, able to identify the signer, created with means the signer can keep under exclusive control, and linked to the data so that any later change is detectable. Article 33 says an electronic signature or an advanced electronic signature, which may be certified by a certification-service provider, that has been produced with a secure signature-creation device has the same legal value as a handwritten signature on paper and is admissible as evidence, valued under the procedural rules. When an advanced electronic signature is placed on an electronic communication, the subscriber is presumed to intend to authenticate that communication and to be bound by its content. Article 33 leaves out dispositions causa mortis and family-law acts. Articles 40 and 49 create the Registro de Prestadores de Servicios de Certificación as part of the Ministry of Economy, the authority that authorizes certification-service providers. inSigner is not that register and is not an authorized provider. QES for Europe is an Enterprise option and is not a Guatemalan advanced electronic signature.

Each person signs the fields you placed on the document you sent. The evidence record keeps their name and email or phone, when the document was sent, viewed, and signed, the IP address, the device data, and the authentication used.

Yes. You can download the completed PDF and the evidence record, including a SHA-256 hash of the final file. If a single byte changes, the hash no longer matches. The hash shows whether the final file still matches. It is not an advanced electronic signature under article 2, and it is not encryption. Article 8 asks whether the method is reliable and appropriate. The hash does not by itself decide that article or article 33.

No. Essential and Pro use a simple electronic signature. Article 2 and article 33 of Decree 47-2008 treat an advanced electronic signature as one uniquely linked to the signer, created with means under exclusive control, able to show a later change, and, for the handwritten equivalence in article 33, produced with a secure signature-creation device. A certification-service provider authorized by the Registro de Prestadores de Servicios de Certificación may certify that signature. inSigner is not that provider. QES for Europe is an Enterprise option, priced separately, and it is not a Guatemalan advanced electronic signature. It is not on Essential or Pro.

No. Article 33 leaves out dispositions causa mortis and family-law acts. Article 1 says the certification-service rules do not replace or modify the functions of the persons authorized to attest a signature or to raise a document to a public instrument. Article 1 also leaves the Act subject to the rules on the formation, formalization, validity, and efficacy of contracts and other legal acts. inSigner does not act as a notary, does not witness a signature, and does not file a document in a public registry. Your counsel decides the form a document needs.

Not by itself. Article 5 says nothing in the Act obliges a party to use or accept information as an electronic communication, but consent may be inferred from conduct. Accepting the electronic process in inSigner records consent to sign that document. It does not, by itself, decide whether the method in article 8 is reliable and appropriate, and it does not create an advanced electronic signature under article 2 or article 33. inSigner does not decide those points for you.

No. For the documents you send, you decide the purpose. inSigner does not write your privacy notice and does not make a workflow compliant with Guatemalan privacy or data protection law. Nubesti handles the account, billing, security, support, and marketing. Do not use the product by default for patient forms, clinical consent, account opening, credit decisions, or KYC. Identity checks are add-ons priced separately. There is no public status page and no uptime percentage. The mobile apps are planned, not a public download.