C.A.R. Standard Forms and zipForm®
- C.A.R. Standard Forms are the GOLD standard in California. C.A.R. and its members spend considerable time and money to copyright and protect those forms. As a valued member, we want you to be able to use these forms and count on C.A.R. to protect your rights in the C.A.R. Standard Forms. In addition, we don’t want unauthorized users to gain access to the forms and undermine your investment.
- C.A.R. has also made zipForm® the exclusive provider of its standard forms in electronic format to ensure that members have access to the most accurate, up-to-date standard forms. zipForm® protects C.A.R.’s standard forms from unauthorized use by using secure forms libraries that restrict access to authorized users and storing the forms as editable digitized files to prevent unauthorized use, reproduction or alteration of the forms, which helps C.A.R. protect its copyright interests in the forms. Other software providers do not go this extra mile.
We have put together some Dos and Don’ts to help you make the most of your valuable assets, the C.A.R. Standard Forms and zipForm®.
DOS
- Fill out the blanks in C.A.R. Standard Forms with actual real estate terms
- Depend on zipForm’s security to protect C.A.R. Standard Forms from unauthorized use, copying, displaying
- Filled out C.A.R. Standard Forms are ok to print, reproduce or fax
- Users may export filled out forms from zipForm® in a completed and locked .pdf format, filled out for a particular client or transaction
- Users may use zipForm® on any number of personal computers
- Users may move completed .pdf forms into other software systems to maintain that file, obtain signatures on it and share in a read-only format with others
DONT’S
- Don’t enter nominal characters such as “…” or “xxx” in order to export or print a form
- Don’t count on other software to protect you or C.A.R.’s Standard Forms copyright or prevent unauthorized usage
- Blank or essentially blank forms may not be printed, reproduced or displayed on the Internet
- Users may not share their account, password or credentials with anyone else, even other members
- Users may not alter, manipulate or change the .pdf forms, including altering the form text or data, adding any data, text, graphics or software into or on top of a form or converting the form from .pdf format to a different file format