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id: KB-CO-021
url: https://app.codecontract.io/help/consigne/ive-signed-do-i-get-a-copy
idioma: en
categoria: consigne
audiencia: usuario
nivel: basico
actualizado: 2026-08-13
tambienEn: [es]
relacionados: [KB-CO-004, KB-CO-020]
citadoPor: [KB-CO-001]
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# I've signed — do I get a copy?

_Yes, and it is worth keeping your own: alongside the document comes the evidence of when and how it was signed._

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**Yes, you get a copy, and you should keep your own in your own files.** Trusting that whoever sent it will have it is not enough: those are their files, not yours, and in three years that company may no longer exist or the person handling it may have left.

## What to keep — and it is not only the document

| What | What it is for |
| --- | --- |
| The signed document | It says what you agreed |
| **The signature evidence** | **It says who signed, when and how** |
| The email it came with | It sets the context if doubts ever arise |

> [!IMPORTANT]
> **Keep both together, in the same folder, from day one.** A signed document without its evidence is a PDF with a name typed on it: if someone disputes the signature, what answers that dispute is the record of how it was made, not the document. It is precisely the part people do not download because it does not look important, and the only one needed on the day it matters.

## If you cannot find it

1. **Look for the email from when signing finished** — Usually the shortest route, and it is in your inbox.
2. **Try the original link** — While it is still live, it can sometimes be downloaded again.
3. **And failing that, ask whoever sent it to you** — They have it, and it is not an odd request: it happens daily.

> [!WARNING]
> An oversight with consequences years later: **keeping it only on your phone or in the downloads folder**. That document survives a change of handset less often than you would think, and it is exactly the one you will be asked for when you no longer remember who you signed with. Two minutes moving it to where you keep important things is worth more than anything else you do with it today.

**Do I have to register to download it?**

No. It downloads from the link or arrives by email.

**What if I lose the email?**

Ask whoever sent it to sign: they keep it.

**Is a screenshot enough?**

To remember, yes. As evidence, no: download the document.

## Ejemplos

**Someone signs on their phone and leaves the document in the handset's downloads folder.**

- Moves it the same day to where they keep important things, along with the signature evidence

→ The document survives the next change of phone.

**Two years later a clause is disputed and only the PDF turns up, with no evidence.**

- Asks whoever sent it for the record of how the signature was made

→ The dispute closes on who signed and when, not on a loose PDF.

**It is signed and closed without downloading anything.**

- Saves the copy that arrives after signing

→ Your own record depends on nobody else.

**Only a screenshot of the signing screen is kept.**

- Keeps the complete signed file

→ The proof is the document rather than an image.

**The copy is kept in a personal mailbox.**

- Keeps it where the team can see it

→ It is not lost when people change.

**The copy is requested months later from whoever sent it.**

- Saves the copy at the moment of signing

→ No favours have to be asked later.