User Guide Cancel

Configure Terms of Use and Consumer Disclosure acceptance

Search
Adobe Sign

Adobe Sign

Open app

 

Adobe Acrobat Sign Guide

What's New

  1. Pre-Release Notes
  2. Release Notes
  3. Important Notifications

Get Started

  1. Quick start guide for administrators
  2. Quick start guide for users
  3. For Developers
  4. Video tutorial library
  5. FAQ

Administer

  1. Admin Console Overview
  2. User Management
    1. Adding users
      1. Add a User
      2. Add Users in Bulk
      3. Add Users from your Directory
      4. Add Users from MS Azure Active Directory
    2. Create function-focused users
      1. Technical accounts - API driven
      2. Service accounts - Manually driven
    3. Check for users with provisioning errors
    4. Change Name/Email Address
    5. Edit a user's group membership
    6. Edit a user's group membership through the group interface
    7. Promote a user to an admin role
    8. User Identity Types and SSO
    9. Switch User Identity
    10. Authenticate Users with MS Azure
    11. Authenticate Users with Google Federation
    12. Product Profiles
    13. Login Experience 
  3. Account/Group Settings
    1. Settings Overview
    2. Global Settings
      1. Account tier and ID
      2. New Recipient Experience
      3. Self Signing Workflows
      4. Send in Bulk
      5. Web Forms
      6. Custom Send Workflows
      7. Power Automate Workflows
      8. Library Documents
      9. Collect form data with agreements
      10. Limited Document Visibility
      11. Attach a PDF copy of the signed agreement 
      12. Include a link in the email
      13. Include an image in the email
      14. Files attached to email will be named as
      15. Attach audit reports to documents
      16. Merge multiple documents into one
      17. Download individual documents
      18. Upload a signed document
      19. Delegation for users in my account
      20. Allow external recipients to delegate
      21. Authority to sign
      22. Authority to send
      23. Power to add Electronic Seals
      24. Set a default time zone
      25. Set a default date format
      26. Users in Multiple Groups (UMG)
        1. Upgrade to use UMG
      27. Group Administrator Permissions
      28. Replace recipient
      29. Audit Report
        1. Overview
        2. Allow unauthenticated access on the transaction verification page
        3. Include reminders
        4. Include view events
        5. Include agreement page/attachment count
      30. In Product Messaging and Guidance
      31. Accessible PDFs
      32. New authoring experience
      33. Healthcare customer
    3. Account Setup
      1. Add logo
      2. Customize company Hostname/URL    
      3. Add company name
      4. Post agreement URL redirect
    4. Signature Preferences
      1. Well formatted signatures
      2. Allow recipients to sign by
      3. Signers can change their name
      4. Allow recipients to use their saved signature
      5. Custom Terms of Use and Consumer Disclosure
      6. Navigate recipients through form fields
      7. Decline to sign
      8. Allow Stamps workflows
      9. Require signers to provide their Title or Company
      10. Allow signers to print and place a written signature
      11. Show messages when e-signing
      12. Require signers to use a mobile device to create their signature
      13. Request IP address from signers
      14. Exclude company name and title from participation stamps
    5. Digital Signatures
      1. Overview
      2. Download and sign with Acrobat
      3. Sign with Cloud Signatures
      4. Include metadata for Identity Providers
      5. Restricted Cloud Signatures Providers
    6. Electronic Seals
    7. Digital Identity
      1. Digital Identity Gateway
      2. Identity Check policy
    8. Report Settings
      1. New report experience
      2. Classic report settings
    9. Security Settings
      1. Single Sign-on settings
      2. Remember-me settings
      3. Login password policy
      4. Login password strength
      5. Web session duration
      6. PDF encryption type
      7. API
      8. User and group info access
      9. Allowed IP Ranges
      10. Account Sharing
      11. Account sharing permissions
      12. Agreement sharing controls
      13. Signer identity verification
      14. Agreement signing password
      15. Document password strength
      16. Block signers by Geolocation
      17. Phone Authentication
      18. Knowledge-Based Authentication (KBA)
      19. Allow page extraction
      20. Document link expiration
      21. Upload a client certificate for webhooks/callbacks
      22. Timestamp
    10. Send settings
      1. Show Send page after login
      2. Require recipient name when sending
      3. Lock name values for known users
      4. Allowed recipient roles
      5. Allow e-Witnesses
      6. Recipient groups
      7. Required fields
      8. Attaching documents
      9. Field flattening
      10. Modify Agreements
      11. Agreement name
      12. Languages
      13. Private messages
      14. Allowed signature types
      15. Reminders
      16. Signed document password protection
      17. Send Agreement Notification through
      18. Signer identification options
        1. Overview
        2. Signing password
        3. One-Time Password via Email
        4. Acrobat Sign authentication
        5. Phone authentication
        6. Cloud-based digital signature
        7. Knowledge-based authentication
        8. Government ID
        9. Signer Identity reports
      19. Content Protection
      20. Enable Notarize transactions
      21. Document Expiration
      22. Preview, position signatures, and add fields
      23. Signing order
      24. Liquid mode
      25. Custom workflow controls
      26. Upload options for the e-sign page
      27. Post-sign confirmation URL redirect
    11. Message Templates
    12. Bio-Pharma Settings
      1. Overview
      2. Enforce identity authentication
      3. Signing reasons
    13. Workflow Integration
    14. Notarization Settings
    15. Payments Integration
    16. Signer Messaging
    17. SAML Settings
      1. SAML Configuration
      2. Install Microsoft Active Directory Federation Service
      3. Install Okta
      4. Install OneLogin
      5. Install Oracle Identity Federation
    18. Data Governance
    19. Time Stamp Settings
    20. External Archive
    21. Account Languages
    22. Email Settings
      1. Email header/footer images
      2. Permit individual user email footers
      3. Customize the Signature Requested email
      4. Customize the To and CC fields
      5. Enable Linkless Notifications
      6. Customize email templates
    23. Migrating from echosign.com to adobesign.com
    24. Configure Options for Recipients
  4. Guidance for regulatory requirements
    1. Accessibility
      1. Accessibility Compliance
      2. Create accessible forms with Acrobat desktop
      3. Create accessible AcroForms
    2. HIPAA
    3. GDPR
      1. GDPR Overview
      2. Redact a user
      3. Redact a user's agreements    
    4. 21 CFR part 11 and EudraLex Annex 11
      1. 21 CRF part 11 validation pack
      2. 21 CFR and EudraLex Annex 11 handbook
      3. Analysis of shared responsibilities
    5. Healthcare customers
    6. IVES support
    7. "Vaulting" agreements
    8. EU/UK considerations
      1. EU/UK Cross-border transactions and eIDAS
      2. HMLR requirements for deeds signed electronically
      3. The impact of Brexit on e-signature laws in the UK
  5. Download Agreements in Bulk
  6. Claim your domain 
  7. Report Abuse links

Send, Sign, and Manage Agreements

  1. Recipient Options
    1. Cancel an email reminder
    2. Options on the e-signing page
      1. Overview of the e-sign page
      2. Open to read the agreement without fields
      3. Decline to sign an agreement
      4. Delegate signing authority
      5. Restart the agreement
      6. Download a PDF of the agreement
      7. View the agreement history
      8. View the agreement messages
      9. Convert from an electronic to a written signature
      10. Convert from a written to an electronic signature 
      11. Navigate the form fields
      12. Clear the data from the form fields
      13. E-sign page magnification and navigation
      14. Change the language used in the agreement tools and information
      15. Review the Legal Notices
      16. Adjust Acrobat Sign Cookie Preferences
  2. Send Agreements  
    1. Send page overview
    2. Send an agreement only to yourself
    3. Send an agreement to others
    4. Written Signatures
    5. Recipient signing order
    6. Send in Bulk
      1. Overview of the Send in Bulk feature
      2. Send in Bulk - Configure a parent template
      3. Send in Bulk - Configure the CSV file
      4. Cancel a Send in Bulk transaction
      5. Add reminders to Send in Bulk
      6. Reporting for Send in Bulk
  3. Authoring fields into documents
    1. In-app authoring environment
      1. Automatic field detection
      2. Drag and drop fields using the authoring environment
      3. Assign form fields to recipients
      4. The Prefill role
      5. Apply fields with a reusable field template
      6. Transfer fields to a new library template
      7. Updated authoring environment when sending agreements
    2. Create forms with text tags
    3. Create forms using Acrobat (AcroForms)
      1. AcroForm creation
      2. Creating accessible PDFs
    4. Fields
      1. Field types
        1. Common field types
        2. In-line Images
        3. Stamp Images
      2. Field content appearance
      3. Field validations
      4. Masked fields values
      5. Setting show/hide conditions
      6. Calculated fields 
    5. Authoring FAQ
  4. Sign Agreements
    1. Sign agreements sent to you
    2. Fill & Sign
    3. Self-signing
  5. Manage Agreements
    1. Manage page overview
    2. Delegate agreements
    3. Replace Recipients
    4. Limit Document Visibility 
    5. Cancel an Agreement 
    6. Create new reminders
    7. Review reminders
    8. Cancel a reminder
    9. Access Power Automate flows
    10. More Actions...
      1. How search works
      2. View an agreement
      3. Create a template from an agreement
      4. Hide/Unhide agreements from view
      5. Upload a signed agreement
      6. Modify a sent agreement's files and fields
      7. Edit a recipient's authentication method
      8. Add or modify an expiration date
      9. Add a Note to the agreement
      10. Share an individual agreement
      11. Unshare an agreement
      12. Download an individual agreement
      13. Download the individual files of an agreement
      14. Download the Audit Report of an agreement
      15. Download the field content of an agreement
  6. Audit Report
  7. Reporting and Data exports
    1. Overview
    2. Grant users access to reporting
    3. Report charts
      1. Create a new report
      2. Agreement Reports
      3. Transaction Reports
      4. Settings Activity Report
      5. Edit a report
    4. Data Exports 
      1. Create a new data export
      2. Edit a data export
      3. Refresh the data export content
      4. Download the data export
    5. Rename a report/export
    6. Duplicate a report/export
    7. Schedule a report/export
    8. Delete a report/export
    9. Check Transaction Usage

Advanced Agreement Capabilities and Workflows

  1. Webforms 
    1. Create a web form
    2. Edit a web form
    3. Disable/Enable a web form
    4. Hide/Unhide a web form
    5. Find the URL or script code 
    6. Prefill web form fields with URL parameters
    7. Save a web form to complete later
    8. Resize a web form
  2. Reusable Templates (Library templates) 
    1. US Government forms in the Acrobat Sign library
    2. Create a library template
    3. Change a library template's name
    4. Change a library template's type
    5. Change a library template's permission level
    6. Copy, edit, and save a shared template
    7. Download the aggregate field data for a library template
  3. Transfer ownership of web forms and library templates
  4. Power Automate Workflows 
    1. Overview of the Power Automate integration and included entitlements
    2. Enable the Power Automate integration
    3. In-Context Actions on the Manage page
    4. Track Power Automate usage
    5. Create a new flow (Examples)
    6. Triggers used for flows
    7. Importing flows from outside Acrobat Sign
    8. Manage flows
    9. Edit flows
    10. Share flows
    11. Disable or Enable flows
    12. Delete flows
    13. Useful Templates
      1. Administrator only
        1. Save all completed documents to SharePoint
        2. Save all completed documents to OneDrive for Business
        3. Save all completed documents to Google Drive
        4. Save all completed documents to DropBox
        5. Save all completed documents to Box
      2. Agreement archival
        1. Save your completed documents to SharePoint
        2. Save your completed documents to One Drive for Business
        3. Save your completed documents to Google Drive
        4. Save your completed documents to DropBox
        5. Save your completed documents to Box
      3. Webform agreement archival
        1. Save completed web form documents to SharePoint Library
        2. Save completed web form documents to OneDrive for Business
        3. Save completed   documents to Google Drive
        4. Save completed web form documents to Box
      4. Agreement data extraction
        1. Extract form field data from your signed document and update Excel sheet
      5. Agreement notifications
        1. Send custom email notifications with your agreement contents and signed agreement
        2. Get your Adobe Acrobat Sign notifications in a Teams Channel
        3. Get your Adobe Acrobat Sign notifications in Slack
        4. Get your Adobe Acrobat Sign notifications in Webex
      6. Agreement generation
        1. Generate document from Power App form and Word template, send for signature
        2. Generate agreement from Word template in OneDrive, and get signature
        3. Generate agreement for selected Excel row, send for review and signature
  5. Custom Send workflows
    1. Custom Send Workflow Overview
    2. Creating a new Send Workflow
    3. Edit a Send Workflow
    4. Activate or Deactivate a Send Workflow
    5. Send an agreement with a Send Workflow
  6. Share users and agreements
    1. Share a user
    2. Share agreements

Integrate with other products

  1.  Acrobat Sign integrations overview 
  2. Acrobat Sign for Salesforce
  3. Acrobat Sign for Microsoft
    1. Acrobat Sign for Microsoft 365
    2. Acrobat Sign for Outlook
    3. Acrobat Sign for Word/PowerPoint
    4. Acrobat Sign for Teams
    5. Acrobat Sign for Microsoft PowerApps and Power Automate
    6. Acrobat Sign Connector for Microsoft Search
    7. Acrobat Sign for Microsoft Dynamics 
    8. Acrobat Sign for Microsoft SharePoint 
  4. Other Integrations
    1. Acrobat Sign for ServiceNow
    2. Acrobat Sign for HR ServiceNow
    3. Acrobat Sign for SAP SuccessFactors
    4. Acrobat Sign for Workday
    5. Acrobat Sign for NetSuite
    6. Acrobat Sign for VeevaVault
    7. Acrobat Sign for Coupa BSM Suite
  5. Partner managed integrations
  6. How to obtain an integration key

Acrobat Sign Developer

  1. REST APIs 
    1. Methods documentation
    2. SDK/Developer Guide
    3. API FAQ    
  2. Webhooks 
    1. Webhook overview
    2. Configure a new webhook
    3. View or edit a webhook
    4. Deactivate or reactivate a webhook
    5. Delete a webhook
    6. Two-way SSL certificates
    7. Webhooks in the API

Support and Troubleshooting

  1. Customer Support Resources 
  2. Enterprise Customer Success Resources 

The "Explicit Consent" feature is available to individual, team, business, and enterprise levels of service. Custom Consumer Disclosures are available to customers with enterprise service plans.

The explicit consent with forced review process requires the recipient to open the Consumer Disclosure and positively affirm (in steps 1 through 3) that they agree to the Terms of Use and Consumer Disclosure. Step 6 affirms the consent to do business electronically. These agreements are reflected in a discrete record logged in the agreement Audit Report.

Overview

Terms of Use (ToU) and Consumer Disclosure (CD) documents are a common part of the user experience when using a service like Adobe Acrobat Sign. They help define business relationships in terms of limitations, responsibilities, expectations, and, within the context of electronic signatures, allow the parties to agree to conduct business electronically.

For most use cases, an implicit agreement to these documents is sufficient. To that end, Acrobat Sign makes links to these documents conspicuous when any recipient has access to an Agreement in the signature cycle.

However, some compliance requirements demand a more assertive acceptance of these documents. To fill that need, the Terms of Use & Consumer Disclosure settings allow an Account level admin to require explicit agreement to each document type. These features are available to Customers with individual, team, business, and enterprise plans. Additionally, custom Consumer Disclosures are available to Customers with an enterprise service plan.

How it’s used

In most use cases, the Acrobat Sign ToU and Privacy Policy are presented to the recipient before they can interact with the agreement. There are two notable exceptions to this:

  • Recipients that have an active user in the same account as the sender.
  • Recipients that access the agreement while logged in to Acrobat Sign.  

The Consumer Disclosure is presented to the recipient based on the account configuration.  

The default setting (implicit consent) exposes the Consumer Disclosure link at the time the recipient is finalizing their signature.  

The ToU and CD consent when signing

Enabling Explicit Consent requires the Recipient to actively check a box affirming they agree to the ToU and CD.

Enabling Forced Review requires the Recipient to open each document individually, and then actively check the box agreeing to the terms.

Note:

If authentication is in place, the recipient will have to verify their identity first, and then they will be able to accept the ToU/CD.

Logging acceptance in the Audit Report

When Explicit Consent is enabled, the Audit Report reflects the nature of the recipient's actions when accepting the Terms of Use and Consumer Disclosure:

Explicit consent when signing in the audit log
Audit Report with Explicit Consent

The Implicit Consent setting does not reflect an overt acceptance of the Terms of Use and Consumer Disclosure in the Audit Report:

Implicit consent in the audit log
Audit Report with Implicit Consent

Configurable options

The account-level settings can be accessed by logging in as an Acrobat Sign account-level admin and navigating to Account Settings > Signature Preferences > Custom Terms of Use & Consumer Disclosure

All controls can also be configured at the group level. Remember that:

  • All groups inherit the account level settings by default.
  • Group-level configurations override the account-level settings.
  • All signature preferences embedded in the agreement are derived from the settings of the group the agreement is sent from.

The options for this feature are:

  • Define when the CD and ToU acceptance is displayed to the recipient.
  • Define the acceptance process based on the role of the recipient.
Controls in the UI

Process by consent option:

The setting option - Agree to terms when signing:

Implicit Consent Setting

The acceptance process:

  1. Accept the Adobe ToU and Privacy Policy by selecting the Continue button (after opening the agreement).
  2. Fill in the agreement fields as required.
  3. Accept the Consumer Disclosure by selecting the  Click to Sign button.
Implicit consent steps to accept the ToU and CD

Implicit consent is not explicitly recorded in the agreement Audit Report. The signature event registers the implicit consent of the recipient as described in step 3 of the acceptance process

Implicit consent in the audit log

The setting option - Agree to terms before signing:

The explicit consent with forced review process requires the recipient to open the Consumer Disclosure and positively affirm (in steps 1 through 3) that they agree to the Terms of Use and Consumer Disclosure. Step 6 affirms the consent to do business electronically. These agreements are reflected in a discrete record logged in the agreement Audit Report.

Explicit consent when signing setting

The acceptance process:

  1. Accept the Adobe ToU and Privacy Policy by selecting the Continue button (after opening the agreement).
  2. Fill in the agreement fields as required.
  3. Accept the Consumer Disclosure by checking the box.
  4. Click to Sign when done.
Explicit consent when signing steps to accept the ToU and CD

The explicit consent process requires the recipient to positively affirm (in step 3) that they agree to the Consumer Disclosure and to do business electronically. This agreement is reflected in a discrete record logged in the agreement Audit Report.

Explicit consent when signing in the audit log

The setting option - Agree to terms before viewing the agreement:

Explicit consent before viewing setting

The acceptance process:

  1. Accept the Adobe ToU and Privacy Policy by checking the box.
  2. Accept the CD by checking the box.
  3. Select the Accept button to progress to the agreement.
  4. Fill in the agreement fields as required.
  5. Click to Sign when done.
Explicit consent before viewing steps to accept the ToU and CD

The explicit consent process requires the recipient to positively affirm (in steps 1 and 2) that they agree to the Terms of Use and Consumer Disclosure. Step 5 affirms the consent to do business electronically. These agreements are reflected in a discrete record logged in the agreement Audit Report.

Explicit consent before viewing in the audit log

The setting option - Click terms, review, and agree before viewing the agreement:

Explicit consent with forcd review setting

The acceptance process:

  1. Accept the Adobe ToU and Privacy Policy by checking the box.
  2. Review the CD by clicking the Consumer Disclosure link.
  3. Accept the CD by checking the box.
  4. Select the Accept button to progress to the agreement.
  5. Fill in the agreement fields as required.
  6. Click to Sign when done.
Explicit consent with click through steps to accept the ToU and CD

The explicit consent with forced review process requires the recipient to open the Consumer Disclosure and positively affirm (in steps 1 through 3) that they agree to the Terms of Use and Consumer Disclosure. Step 6 affirms the consent to do business electronically. These agreements are reflected in a discrete record logged in the agreement Audit Report.

Explicit consent with click through in the audit log

Adding a custom Consumer Disclosure (enterprise service plans only)

Customers with an enterprise service plan have the option to provide a custom Consumer Disclosure. This option is not currently exposed to the customer interface, so if you would like to take advantage of this feature:

  • Make your CD available via a public URL.
  • Contact the Support team and provide them with the URL.
    • Adobe must review and approve the content of the document.
  • Once the content is approved, the URL provided is configured in your account, and the link points to your page.
  • Please note, custom Consumer Disclosures should not include any system requirements. If system requirements must be included, include a link to the System requirements for Adobe Acrobat Sign.

 Adobe

Get help faster and easier

New user?

Quick links

View all your plans Manage your plans
View quick links
Hide quick links

Legal Notices    |    Online Privacy Policy