Current with changes from the 2024 legislative session through ch. 845
Section 59.1-502.14 - Electronic error; consumer defenses(a) In this section, "electronic error" means an error in an electronic message created by a consumer using an information processing system if a reasonable method to detect and correct or avoid the error was not provided.(b) In an automated transaction, a consumer is not bound by an electronic message that the consumer did not intend and which was caused by an electronic error, if the consumer: (1) promptly on learning of the error: (A) notifies the other party of the error; and(B) causes delivery to the other party or, pursuant to reasonable instructions received from the other party, delivers to another person or destroys all copies of the information; and(2) has not used, or received any benefit or value from, the information or caused the information or benefit to be made available to a third party.(c) If subsection (b) does not apply, the effect of an electronic error is determined by other law.Amended by Acts 2000, § cc. 101, 996.