Electronic Documents, Communications and Signatures. Any document, amendment, approval, consent, information, notice, certificate, request, statement, disclosure or authorization related to this Agreement (each an “Account Document”), including documents required to be in writing, may, if agreed by you and the Bank, be in the form of an Electronic Record and may be executed using Electronic Signatures, including, without limitation, facsimile and/or .pdf. You agree that any Electronic Signature (including, without limitation, facsimile or .pdf) that you provide on or associated with any Account Document shall be valid and binding to the same extent as a manual, original signature, and that any Account Document entered into by Electronic Signature, will constitute a legal, valid and binding obligation enforceable in accordance with the terms thereof to the same extent as if a manually executed original signature was delivered to the Bank. Any Account Document may be executed in as many counterparts as necessary or convenient, including both paper and electronic counterparts, but all such counterparts are one and the same Account Document. For the avoidance of doubt, the authorization under this paragraph may include, without limitation, use or acceptance by the Bank of a manually signed paper Account Document which has been converted into electronic form (such as scanned into PDF format), or an electronically signed Account Document converted into another format, for transmission, delivery and/or retention. The Bank may, at its option, create one or more copies of any Account Document in the form of an imaged Electronic Record (each an “Electronic Copy”), which shall be deemed created in the ordinary course of the Bank’s business, and destroy the original paper document. All Account Documents in the form of an Electronic Record, including an Electronic Copy, shall be considered an original for all purposes, and shall have the same legal effect, validity, and enforceability as a paper record. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Bank is under no obligation to accept an Electronic Signature in any form or in any format unless expressly agreed to by the Bank pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided, further, without limiting the foregoing, (a) to the extent the Bank has agreed to accept such Electronic Signature, the Bank shall be entitled to rely on any such Electronic Signature without further verification, and (b) upon the request of the Bank, any Electronic Signature shall be...
