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The essentials on electronic signatures and legal validity in Brazil, in plain language.
Legal validity
Are electronic signatures legally valid in Brazil?
They are — and the law that says so dates from 2001. What changed in 2020 was the split into three levels. Here is which one your contract needs.
Read ComparisonICP-Brasil or a simple signature: which does your contract need?
Not every document calls for a digital certificate, and picking the wrong level costs you either way — in risk, or in friction with the customer.
Read In practiceHow to sign a contract over WhatsApp without losing validity
Sending a contract over WhatsApp is practical and lawful — as long as the channel is how you deliver it, not how you prove it. The difference is one detail.
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