> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.magicpages.co/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # How to sign the data processing agreement (DPA) - URL: https://www.magicpages.co/help/plans/how-to-sign-the-data-processing-agreement-dpa/ - Published: 2026-10-24T12:06:35.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-24T12:06:35.000Z - Description: You sign the DPA in the customer portal. We email you a link, you sign on sign.magicpages.co, we countersign, and the signed PDF lands in your portal. - Author: Jannis Fedoruk-Betschki - Tags: Help Center & Guides, Our Ghost CMS Hosting Plans You sign it in the customer portal. We email you a link, you sign on `sign.magicpages.co`, we countersign, and the signed PDF ends up in your portal and your inbox. The GDPR asks for a written agreement with every company that handles personal data for you (Article 28). For your site, that's us: we store your members' names and email addresses, and we send your newsletters. The data processing agreement, or DPA, sets out how we do that. ## Sign the agreement 1. Log in to your Ghost admin and click **Customer portal** in the left sidebar. 2. Open the **Account** tab and scroll down to **Legal agreements**. 3. Click **Email me the signing link**. ![The Legal agreements section on the Account tab, with the data processing agreement marked Not signed and an Email me the signing link button](https://www.magicpages.co/content/images/2026/10/not_signed.png) The link goes to the email address on your Magic Pages account, and the line under the button shows which one. If that isn't you, change it under **Account email** on the same page first. The email can take a minute to arrive. If it doesn't show up, check your spam folder, then click **Resend email** in the portal. That sends the same link again, and you can do it once a minute. 1. Open the email and click the link. You can also click **Review and sign** in the portal, which opens the same page in a new tab. ![The data processing agreement marked Awaiting signature, with Review and sign and Resend email buttons](https://www.magicpages.co/content/images/2026/10/awaiting_signature.png) 1. On the signing page, fill in your name or your company's name and address on the first page. Add your initials where the pages ask for them. 2. Sign at the end. You can type your signature, draw it, or upload an image of it. If the fields on the signing page don't respond to clicks, a browser privacy feature is getting in the way. In Brave, click the lion icon in the address bar and turn off **Shields** for sign.magicpages.co. Anti-tracking extensions in other browsers do the same, so pause them for the page, or sign in a different browser or on your phone. ## What happens after you sign The portal shows **Awaiting our signature** until we've countersigned. You don't need to do anything in the meantime. Once we've signed too, the card switches to **Signed**. We email you the signed PDF, and **Download signed PDF** gets you the same copy from the portal at any time. The PDF includes the signing certificate, which records who signed and when. ![The data processing agreement marked Signed, signed by Jane Doe, with a Download signed PDF button](https://www.magicpages.co/content/images/2026/10/signed.png) If you signed our DPA on `sign.magicpages.co` before it moved into the portal, that signed copy is already here. ### Check our seal We seal every signed agreement with our own certificate, so any later change to the PDF breaks the seal. Your PDF reader shows the signer as unknown or not trusted, because the certificate is ours and not from a certificate authority. That's expected. To confirm the seal is ours, open the signature's certificate details and compare its SHA-256 fingerprint with ours: - **Sealed from 24 October 2026:** `EE 03 ED 36 85 AD CA 9B D0 2B 15 F1 6F AC 5B 3B EF EE 04 AA ED 02 7E F5 F0 D4 49 A2 CA E0 56 E2` - **Sealed before that:** `21 5B 75 AD FF B1 A6 AD 0F 33 A6 76 AB 4F B2 5E CD F3 C9 99 1F 0F A2 89 8A EE C6 48 AD A5 13 81` Agreements sealed from 24 October 2026 also carry a timestamp from DigiCert, which proves when we sealed them. ## When we update the agreement The card shows **New version**. Your signature on the old version stays valid for what it covered. Click **Email me the signing link** to sign the new one, and the download button next to it keeps your copy of the old version. ## If a clause doesn't work for you Reply to the signing email. It comes straight to us, and we'll go through the clause with you. If you decline on the signing page, the card shows **Declined**. When you're ready, **Email me a new signing link** starts over. You can read the full agreement before you ask for the link: [Data Processing Agreement (DPA)How Magic Pages processes personal data on behalf of its customers under Art. 28 GDPR — sub-processors, security measures, retention periods, and deletion.![](https://www.magicpages.co/content/images/icon/magic-pages_full-logo_dark-plum-icon-30145800-4bb3-41a4-912f-7b53d1b709b6.png)Magic PagesJannis Fedoruk-Betschki![](https://www.magicpages.co/content/images/thumbnail/Facebook-post---1-1-d6d1ba0f-1548-44d2-a572-c330e18418d2.jpg)](https://www.magicpages.co/legal/data-processing-agreement/) And this covers where your site and your members' data actually sit: [Where are the Magic Pages servers located?Where your site, your backups and your newsletter data are stored, and why a nearby CDN edge isn't the same as data living there.![](https://www.magicpages.co/content/images/icon/magic-pages_full-logo_dark-plum-icon-63642214-a8da-4c46-8dcd-a7ae308a9422.png)Magic PagesJannis Fedoruk-Betschki![](https://www.magicpages.co/content/images/thumbnail/Facebook-post---1-1-3e1d6fdd-378a-4c6f-bd6a-dd16dc27eeeb.jpg)](https://www.magicpages.co/help/plans/where-are-the-magic-pages-servers-located/)