§ 59.1-501.12 Manifesting assent
a. A person manifests assent to a record or term if the person, acting with knowledge of, or after having an opportunity to review the record or term or a copy of it:
1. authenticates the record or term with intent to adopt or accept it; or
2. intentionally engages in conduct or makes statements with reason to know that the other party or its electronic agent may infer from the conduct or statement that the person assents to the record or term.
b. An electronic agent manifests assent to a record or term if, after having an opportunity to review it, the electronic agent:
2. engages in operations that in the circumstances indicate acceptance of the record or term.
c. If this chapter or other law requires assent to a specific term, a manifestation of assent must relate specifically to the term.
d. Conduct or operations manifesting assent may be proved in any manner, including showing that a person or an electronic agent obtained or used the information or informational rights and that a procedure existed by which a person or an electronic agent must have engaged in the conduct or operations in order to do so. Proof of compliance with subsection (a) (2) is sufficient if there is conduct that assents and subsequent conduct that reaffirms assent by electronic means.
e. The effect of provisions of this section may be modified by an agreement setting out standards applicable to future transactions between the parties.
f. Providers of online services, network access, and telecommunications services, or the operators of facilities thereof, do not manifest assent to a contractual relationship simply by their provision of these services to other parties, including but not limited to transmission, routing, or providing connections, linking, caching, hosting, information location tools, or storage of materials at the request or initiation of a person other than the service provider.
History
This law was first created in 2000. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 101 and 996 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 2001, chapter 763; in 2004, chapter 794.
2000, cc. 101, 996; 2001, c. 763; 2004, c. 794.