itsme® is a major player in the EU digital identity market, gaining widespread recognition for its reliability and user-friendly interface. Now available in 16 countries, itsme® is revolutionizing the way individuals interact with businesses online and sign documents.
What is itsme®?
itsme® is a secure and trusted digital identity solution that offers five essential services to businesses:
- Identification: Facilitates efficient customer onboarding by allowing clients to securely share their identity data.
- Authentication: Simplifies access to online services by allowing clients to prove their identity.
- Confirmation: Ensures a clear process for approving transactions.
- Qualified electronic signatures: Allows you and your clients to create legally binding digital signatures.
- Data sharing: Enables clients to share additional data securely when needed.
These services help businesses streamline processes and improve the client experience while ensuring high levels of security and compliance.
Penneo now offers Qualified Electronic Signatures (QES) through itsme® Sign
Penneo Sign now integrates with itsme® Sign, allowing users to create qualified electronic signatures (QES). This integration guarantees that all digital signatures made through Penneo Sign using itsme® are secure and, under the eIDAS regulation, hold the same legal status as handwritten signatures throughout the EU.
This is especially relevant in Belgium as the local electronic signature regulations require QES for certain documents, such as:
- Employment contracts (Article 3bis of the Employment Contracts Act)
- Consumer credit contracts (Article VII.78 of the Economic Law Code)
- Certain forms, including tax returns and applications, filed with public authorities
- Formation and modification of articles of association of certain company types (limited liability companies, cooperatives, public limited companies, European companies and European cooperatives)
- Contracts requiring by law the involvement of the courts, government/public authorities, or professions exercising a public service (e.g., a notary), and documents that would need to be filed with official instances such as the clerk’s office, notary public, bank, etc. (Article 8.15 of the Civil Code – referred to as Authentic Acts)
- Connecting to government e-services (e.g. my eBox, MyMinFin)
- Documents related to insolvency proceedings (book XX of the Economic Law Code)
- Minutes of the meeting approving a merger (Article 12:50 of the Company and Association Code)
Are itsme® signatures legally binding?
Yes! itsme® signatures meet the eIDAS requirements for qualified electronic signatures, meaning they have the same legal effect as handwritten signatures throughout the EU.
Why choose Penneo Sign?
Penneo Sign is a digital signing solution designed to help businesses automate their signing processes securely and efficiently. It streamlines workflows by enabling the electronic signing of documents, ensuring legal compliance, and reducing manual work.
With Penneo Sign, you can digitally sign documents using various electronic IDs, automate workflows, and efficiently validate the identity of signers while ensuring compliance with legal regulations. This streamlines the signing process, making it faster and more secure for businesses, while also enhancing convenience for their clients.
- Ensure security and compliance by signing with Qualified Electronic Signatures (QES) using itsme®.
- Streamline workflows by sending documents and attachments to multiple signers and ensuring they are signed by the right people in the correct order.
- Boost efficiency with industry-standard automated signing flows, or create custom flows tailored to your specific business needs.
- Leverage Penneo’s open API and out-of-the-box integrations to seamlessly fit into your existing tech stack.
- Improve productivity using Penneo Sign Dashboard and Analytics. Identify bottlenecks and areas for improvement, and allocate resources efficiently.
