Code of Virginia § 59.1-502.14. Electronic error; consumer defenses.
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(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.
2000, cc. 101 , 996 .