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Definitions

Electronic Signature — In accordance with the means electronic information that a person has created or adopted in order to sign a document and that is in, attached to or associated with the document.

Original Signatures — Original ink signatures and secure electronic signatures; they do not include rubber stamp signatures, digitized signatures and facsimile signatures.

Secure Electronic Signature — An electronic signature that is unique to the person making the signature and the technology or process used to make the signature is under the sole control of the person making the signature.

Total life-cycle cost — Total cost of ownership over the life of a purchase including planning, design, construction and acquisition, transportation, operation, maintenance, renewal and rehabilitation, depreciation, financing costs, cost of disposal, etc.

Unit — Academic or administrative unit as defined in the University Calendar.

Unit Head — For the purposes of this policy, unit head is the term used to mean Deans, Department Heads, Division Heads, Heads of Schools, Directors, Executive Directors, University Librarian, University Registrar and other senior administrators at a comparable level; Associate Vice-Presidents and Vice-Presidents, as applicable.

University — ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ University of Newfoundland.

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