Under the applicable Federal United States law, Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commence Act (E-Sign Act), before we can process your executed W8-Ben Form and any related documents (“Tax Documents”) and your consent to the electronic delivery of all such forms and documents for your account, we must provide you with the following information and you must affirmatively consent and thereafter not withdraw such consent.
By clicking on the “Sign and Submit W8-Ben” box, you indicate your informed consent to electronic delivery to you and/or submission from you to us of your Tax Documents and you are instructing us to accept your entries and submission and to treat the signature as a valid electronic signature on your W8-Ben as described here. Additionally, you are consenting to our maintaining and your receiving electronic records of your tax form and all related documents. You understand that you may withdraw your consent to such electronic records at any time by notifying us and acknowledging your revocation of the E-Sign Act. After revoking the E-Sign Act, you will be required to complete the paper version of these forms and related documents until you reaffirm your consent to the E-Sign Act.