In 2011, the decision in the Naldi v. Grunberg ruled that emails are similar if not the same as ink-on-paper contracts.
A 5-judge panel in the state of New York decided that commercial real estate transactions made via email can be proof of a deal and expands to the state’s Statute of Frauds.
In October 8, 2019, the Bujnoch, Life Estate, et al. V. Copano Energy, LLC, et al. case made it to the Texas Supreme Court. In this case, an exchange of emails between two parties occurred with agreed-upon offers. Copano ultimately refused to honor the terms set forth and Bujnoch Life Estate sued them for breach of contract.
The Texas Supreme Court found that the emails consisted of all the essential elements of a legally binding contract: the terms of the parties’ agreement, the identity of the parties involved, and a description of the property being sold.
Emails can, in fact, be legally binding and satisfy the statute of frauds.
Under the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (applied to all interstate and foreign transactions) and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA) (used by California and adopted by many other states), a contract and a signature won’t be denied legal effect solely on the grounds that they are in electronic form.
Luckily for you, there are precautions you can take to limit liability and protect yourself.
The first is to be careful with what you say in your emails. For example, if an offer, acceptance of the offer, consideration with talks of payment, and agreement of intention to legally bind the contract is mentioned, then you have a recipe for a legally binding contract.
Adding an automated disclaimer to all your emails is highly recommended.
A disclaimer is a note or warning added to an outgoing email that is separate from the main message.
The disclaimer should clearly state your intentions with phrases such as:
You can use Letsignit to add disclaimers to every email automatically. Try it for free to secure your emails.
Yes, with the 'Campaigns' offer, it is possible to track the number of clicks on the email signatures of all your employees in the 'Statistics' area of the platform.
You can then access a detailed or global view of the number of clicks on the email signatures of each employee. You can use the search option to target a specific signature or a given period. Finally, you have the possibility to export all statistics to an Excel document.
If you launch campaigns with banners inserted in your email signatures, you can also access their performance via this same space.
With Letsignit, you can easily add social network icons in your collaborators' email signatures and link to your company pages. Also, our "attributes" feature allows you to manage personalized URLs for each of your collaborators such as their individual LinkedIn profile.
And that's not all: you can add links to an appointment-setting application, allow your customers to leave reviews easily, and integrate our 'Chat on Teams' widget to let anyone start a discussion via Microsoft Teams chat.
It’s up to you! As an administrator of the Letsignit platform, you choose whether or not to grant modification rights to your employees. These permissions are managed on an attribute-by-attribute basis, which means that you can decide to allow the employee to change their phone number, but not the address of your premises, for example.
This feature applies to all attributes in your directory, including custom attributes created on Letsignit. When your employees change one or more attributes, your directory is obviously not affected.
It often happens that employees make their email signature their own: custom format, bad fonts, colors inconsistent with the brand standards... all of this has an impact on your brand!
A consistent visual identity is considered authentic and outperforms a perceived weak one by 20%. And, your customers are 2.4 times more likely to buy your products.
With Letsignit, take back control over your brand identity by standardizing all your email signatures. Our tool has many features that allow you to customize your signatures by department, by audience or by subsidiary. Not to mention the possibility of carrying out campaigns within your email signatures thanks to our Campaign offer.
What is the user experience like for our employees?
In both cases:
In short, they have autonomy in their email signature, but you keep control on the field, signatures, and banners they can edit or use.
With our "multi-signature" feature, your employees can benefit from multiple email signatures. No technical manipulation is required. Thanks to our Add-in for Outlook or the desktop app, they can change their email signatures as they wish with just a few clicks.
Regarding the creation of email signatures, you can make several variations such as:
Everything has been thought of to go further in the personalization process based on the recipient of your emails.
If sending emails has an impact, non-optimized email signatures also have an impact. An unsuitable format or an image that is too heavy considerably increases the size of your signatures... and therefore, your emails.
As a responsible economic actor, we contribute to reducing our CO2 emissions and those of our customers in several ways:
As we are increasingly involved in sustainability initiatives, our priority in 2023 is to develop even more green IT functionality.
If sending emails has an impact, non-optimized email signatures also have an impact. An unsuitable format or an image that is too heavy considerably increases the size of your signatures... and therefore, your emails.
As a responsible economic actor, we contribute to reducing our CO2 emissions and those of our customers in several ways:
As we are increasingly involved in sustainability initiatives, our priority in 2023 is to develop even more green IT functionality.
