Definitions and acronyms
Here you can find definitions and acronyms used at the pages.
Definitions
Term | Definition |
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Company | The business entity that owns a signing order. |
Employee ID | An employee ID uniquely identifies an employee for a given eID using the Employer ID and the Employee Number. Employee ID=Employer ID + Employee number. Example: NemID medarbejdersignatur, Employee ID = CVR nr. + RID nr. |
Employee number | A number, unique within a company, uniquely identifying an employee in the given company. Example: RID number for NemID medarbejdersignatur in Denmark. |
Employer ID | An employer identity is the corporate equivalent to National ID number (see below). The Employer ID is used whenever the User or Signer is defined by a digital certificate identifying the user through an Employer ID and an employee ID. |
National ID number (National ID No.) | A national identification number is used by the governments of many countries as a means of tracking their citizens, permanent residents, and temporary residents for the purposes of work, taxation, government benefits, health care, and other governmentally-related functions. The number will appear on an identity document issued by a country. Country examples:
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Signer | The person to whom a signing order is directed. |
Signing order | DK: signeringsordre NO: signeringsoppdrag SE: signeringsorder FI: Allekirjoituspyyntö |
Super User | A User with assigned Super User permissions, allowing the User to do administrative tasks on behalf of the User’s Company |
User | A Company’s case handler, responsible for obtaining signatures from Signers. |
User name | When using Log in type Login using Username/Password, the Username is your registered email address |
Acronyms
Acronym | Description |
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CVR number | Danish Employer ID controlled by “The Central Business Register (CVR)”, the central register containing primary data on all businesses in Denmark. |
eID | An Electronic ID type supported by E-Signing. Examples: MitID (DK) NemID (DK) NemID medarbejdersignatur (DK) BankID (NO) BankID (SE) Finnish banks ID’s (FI) |
RID number | RID number is the Danish Employee ID used as a unique identifier with a Company when issuing NemID medarbejdersignatur to Employees. |
SSN | Social Security Number, see National ID number. |