Version Date:  January 7, 2022

Purpose

At DocuSign, privacy is a priority. The purpose of this document is to set out how DocuSign, Inc. and its affiliates (“us,” “our,” or “we”) collect, use, store, or otherwise process personal information about customers and other individuals (collectively "you") who access or use our websites, including docusign.com and docusign.net, our mobile applications, our web client or professional client, and/or any of our other websites, products, or services that link to this Privacy Notice (the “Services”). By using our Services, you understand that we will collect and use your personal information as described in this Privacy Notice.

In some cases, we may process your personal information pursuant to an agreement with a third party organization. In those cases, the terms of that agreement may govern how we process your personal information. If you believe a third party organization has asked us to process your personal information on their behalf, please consult with them in the first instance as they will be responsible for how we process your information. This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) does not apply to any third-party websites and apps that you may use, including those to which we link in our Services. You should review the terms and policies for third-party websites and apps before clicking on any links.

DocuSign’s core product and Services help users create, complete, and show the validity of digital or electronic transactions, such as electronically signing a contract for mobile phone services or placing a digital signature on a loan application. As part of our Services, users want us to collect and record information that helps the parties prove the validity of the transactions, such as the names of the persons who are involved in the transactions and the devices those persons use.

We recommend that you read this Notice in full to ensure you are fully informed about the manner in which we collect, use, store, or otherwise process your personal information as well as your privacy rights. However, if you want to skip to a particular section of this Notice, please refer to the table of contents below.

  1. Collection of Personal Information
  2. Use of Personal Information
  3. Personal Information Sharing
  4. Retention of Personal Information
  5. Your Choices
  6. Children's Privacy
  7. Information for California Residents
  8. Your Privacy Rights
  9. How We Protect Your Personal Information
  10. Changes to This Privacy Notice
  11. How to Contact Us
  12. Supplemental Privacy Disclosures for Customers and Users in Certain Countries

1. Collection of Personal Information

You have choices about whether you visit our websites, install our apps, or provide personal information to us. However, if you do not provide us with certain personal information, you may not be able to use some parts of our Services. For example, if you do not adopt an electronic signature, then you will not be able to sign certain electronic documents on our Service. For choices and rights you may have, please see Sections 5 and 8 of this Notice.

Personal Information We Collect from You.  You provide us with personal information about yourself when you:

You also provide us with personal information about others when you use parts of our Services, such as when you:

Your main choice for this type of personal information is simply not providing it, such as by not creating a profile or not leaving a comment in a blog. For other choices you may have, please see Section 5 of this Privacy Notice.

Examples of the categories of personal information you may provide are:

Personal Information We Collect Automatically. We may automatically collect personal information from you and your devices when you use our Services, including when you visit our websites or apps without logging in. For choices you may have on what information we automatically collect, please see Section ­­5 of this Privacy Notice.

The categories of personal information we may automatically collect includes:

Information We Collect from Other Sources. Subject to applicable law, we may collect personal information about you from others, such as:

Personal Information We Collect & Process on Behalf of Customers. When our business customers use certain Services, we generally process and store limited personal information on their behalf as a data processor. For example, in the context of DocuSign eSignature, when a customer uploads contracts or other documents for review or signature, we act as a data processor and process the documents on the customer's behalf and in accordance with their instructions. In those instances, the customer is the data controller and is responsible for most aspects of the processing of the personal information. If you have any questions or concerns about how personal information is processed in these cases, including how to exercise your rights as a data subject, you should contact the customer (either your employer or the individual or entity requesting your signature). If we receive any rights requests concerning instances where we act as data processor, we will forward your query on to the relevant customer.

2. Use of Personal Information

In general, and subject to applicable law, including consent (as required), we may use your personal information to provide, fix, and improve our Services, develop new Services, and market our companies and their products and Services. Examples of how we use the personal information we process include, but are not limited to, the following:

Other Uses. We may combine the personal information we collect (“aggregate”) or remove pieces of personal information (“de-identify”) to limit or prevent identification of any particular user or device to help with goals like research and marketing. Once such information has been aggregated and anonymized so that it is no longer considered personal information under applicable data protection law, this Notice does not apply.

Lawful Basis for Processing Your Personal Information. If European data protection law applies and where DocuSign acts as a data controller, our lawful basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Notice will depend on the type of personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect or use it.

We normally collect or use personal information only where we have your consent to do so, where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you, or where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, we may have a legal obligation to collect or retain personal information or may need the personal information to protect your vital interests or those of another person. For example, when we:

If you have questions about or need further information concerning the lawful basis on which we collect and use your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided in Section ­­11 of this Notice.  Note that in situations where DocuSign acts as a processor, it is our customer who determines the appropriate legal basis associated with processing activities, and queries about the applicable lawful basis should be directed to them.

3. Personal Information Sharing

Subject to applicable law, including consent (as required), we may share personal information as follows:

Your personal information may also be shared as described below:

4. Retention of Personal Information

We keep your personal information for no longer than necessary for the purposes for which it is processed. The length of time for which we retain personal information depends on the purposes for which we collected and use it and/or as required to comply with applicable laws as set out in our data retention policy and information handling standards. Generally, this means we retain your personal information to comply with any retention or statutory limitations or for purposes of performing a contract with you. Where there are technical limitations that prevent deletion or anonymization, we safeguard personal information and limit active use of it.

5. Your Choices

This section describes many of the actions you can take to change or limit the collection, use, storage, or other processing of your personal information.

6. Children's Privacy

Our Services are not designed for and are not marketed to people under the age of 18 or such other age designated by applicable law (“minors”). We do not knowingly collect or ask for personal information from minors. We do not knowingly allow minors to use our Services. If you are a minor, please do not use our Services or send us your personal information. We delete personal information that we learn is collected from a minor without verified parental consent. Please contact us via the Privacy Request Portal if you believe we might have personal information from or about a minor that should be removed from our system.


7. Information for California Residents

In addition to the other information and rights described in this Privacy Notice, California residents are also entitled to certain additional information and have certain additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) with respect to their personal information.  If you are a resident of California (a “Consumer” as defined by the CCPA), this section of the Privacy Notice applies to you.  If you are not a Consumer, this section does not apply to you and you should not rely on it.

A. Information We Collect and How We Use It

Below is a summary of our collection and use of “personal information” (as defined by the CCPA) about Consumers in connection with our Services.  For additional details, please consult the other sections of this Privacy Notice.

Categories of Personal Information we may collect and use for our commercial and business purposes:

Commercial and Business purposes for which we use the personal information we collect:

B. The Right to Opt Out of Sales of Personal Information

Consumers have the right to opt out of “sales” of their personal information under the CCPA. According to the CCPA, and subject to certain exceptions, a business “sells” personal information when it sells, rents, releases, discloses, disseminates, makes available, transfers, or otherwise communicates orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.

As explained further in Section 3 of this Privacy Notice, we share personal information with other companies. 

Consumers may submit requests to opt out of such sharing using the following methods:

  1. Adjust your cookie settings and select the option to opt out of respective cookie activities.  
  2. Click the link to “unsubscribe” at the bottom of any DocuSign marketing communication.
  3. Update your email/marketing preferences at the following link: https://pref.docusign.com/preference-center.

C. The Right to Access

Consumers have the right to request certain details about the personal information we have collected about them (generally, within the past 12 months).  This includes the right to request:

D. The Right to Deletion

Consumers have the right to request that we delete the personal information we have collected from them.  In certain circumstances, however, the CCPA allows us to retain information for particular purposes (for example, if we need to retain the information to meet our legal obligations, and for certain other limited reasons set forth by the CCPA).

E. How to Exercise Access and Deletion Rights

Consumers may submit requests for access to or deletion of their personal information using any of the following methods:

  1. You can access and review personal information associated with your account at any time by clicking here (https://support.docusign.com/en/guides/ndse-user-guide-manage-your-identity).
  2. You may contact us via the Privacy Request Portal or by mail as outlined in Section 11.

For security purposes, we will attempt to verify your identity prior to fulfilling your request.  If you have an account with us, we may verify your identity through your login to your account.  If you do not have an account with us, we may need to respond to your request or otherwise contact you to request additional information from you to verify your identity (including, but not limited to your name, email address, or telephone number).

If we are able to verify your identity, we will respond to your request to the extent we are able to and as required by law.  If we cannot verify your identity, we may request additional information from you or we may deny your request.  If we are unable to fulfill your request(s) in their entirety, we will provide further information to you about the reasons that we could not comply with your request. 

Certain personal information may be exempt from such requests under applicable law. In addition, we need certain types of personal information so that we can provide the product and Services to you. If you ask us to delete it, you may no longer be able to access or use our product and Services.

F. The Right to Nondiscrimination

Consumers have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising their CCPA rights.  We will not deny, charge different prices for, or provide a different level of quality of goods or services with respect to Consumers who choose to exercise their CCPA rights.

G. Authorized Agents

Consumers may designate an agent to make CCPA requests on their behalf. For Consumers who do so, we will take steps to verify both the identity of the consumer seeking to exercise their rights as described above, and to verify that the consumer’s agent has been authorized by them to make a request on their behalf by requesting a signed written authorization or a copy of a power of attorney.

H. “Shine the Light”

California residents may ask for a list of third parties that have received your personal information for direct marketing purposes during the previous calendar year. This list also contains the types of personal information shared. We provide this list at no cost. If you are a California resident and would like to request this information, please contact us via the Privacy Request Portal.

8. Your Privacy Rights

You may have certain rights related to your personal information, subject to local data protection laws, as described in more detail below. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us via the Privacy Request Portal​.

If you make a request to exercise the rights referenced above, we will require you to provide certain information for identity verification purposes. If you have an account with us, we may verify you through your login of your account. If you do not have an account with us, we may require you to provide additional information from which we can confirm your identity. You may authorize an agent to make a request to us on your behalf and we will verify the identity of your agent or authorized legal representative by either seeking confirmation from you or documents that establish the agent’s authorization to act on your behalf.

Certain personal information may be exempt from such requests under applicable law. We need certain types of personal information so that we can provide the product and Services to you. If you ask us to delete it, you may no longer be able to access or use our product and Services.

If you wish to exercise these rights, please contact us via the Privacy Request Portal.

Transfers to the U.S. and Third Countries. Subject to applicable law, we may transfer your personal information outside of your jurisdiction, including for further processing. DocuSign has adopted Binding Corporate Rules to facilitate the transfer of personal information from the European Economic Area and/or United Kingdom ("EEA") to DocuSign outside of the EEA. Transfers outside the DocuSign group are only made to organizations that agree to adhere to the standards in our Binding Corporate Rules or use another valid alternative under data protection law.  You may view our Binding Corporate Rules at https://www.docusign.com/trust/privacy/bcrp-privacy-code and https://www.docusign.com/trust/privacy/bcrc-csb-code.

9. How We Protect Your Personal Information

We have implemented appropriate technical, physical and organizational measures to protect your personal information from misuse or accidental, unlawful, or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, disclosure, acquisition, or access as well as all other forms of unlawful processing. To achieve this, we have developed and implemented an Information Security Management System and other sub-policies and guidelines relating to the protection of your personal information. For example, our staff is permitted to access customer personal information only to the extent necessary to fulfill the applicable business purpose(s) and to perform their job, subject to confidentiality obligations.

10. Changes to This Privacy Notice

We may amend this Notice to reflect changes in the law, our companies, our Services, our data processing practices, or advances in technology. Our use of the personal information we collect is subject to the Privacy Notice in effect at the time such personal information is used. Depending on the type of change, we may notify you of the change by posting on this page.

11. How to Contact Us

For questions or complaints regarding our use of your personal information or this Notice, please contact us at privacy@docusign.com or by sending a letter to DocuSign Inc., Attention: Privacy Team, 221 Main Street, Suite 1550, San Francisco, CA 94105.

If you are a visitor from the EEA, please contact Docusign International (EMEA) Ltd at privacy@docusign.com or by sending a letter to DocuSign International (EMEA) Ltd, Attention: Privacy Team, 5 Hanover Quay, Ground Floor, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland.

12. Supplemental Privacy Disclosures for Customers and/or Users in Certain Countries

If you reside in one of the following countries, the below Privacy Notice also applies to the processing of your personal information. To the extent there is a conflict between the country-specific language below and the provisions above, the below provisions control to the extent of that conflict.

Australia

Brazil

Canada

France

Israel

Philippines