Your personal Section 16 view

What to do

Sign each form from the link the company emails you, then create your free TakePublic account (or sign in) to keep every form in one place.

My filings is your own view: it is not a seat on any company's workspace, and there is nothing to set up or pay for.

1. Open the signing link in the company's email and enter the one-time code the page sends: by text to the US mobile the company holds for you, otherwise by email to the address the link went to, as for an insider abroad with no US mobile.
2. The page lists what the form reports and takes your typed name as your signature.
3. After signing, choose Create your free account (your details are filled in) or Sign in; the form joins your account.
4. Signed in, you land on your own Home, where Needs you lists every form waiting on your signature across the companies that list you. From a company seat, Your filings in the company menu opens it.

If you also administer the company

A company admin, company user or director who is on the roster too uses one account for both. When your roster row carries your sign-in email, it links at sign-in. When it carries no email, link it yourself: open Settings › Account › Your insider record, press This is me and choose your row; only current director and officer rows nobody's account holds are listed, on the companies where you hold a seat.

Once linked, the company menu carries Your filings, which opens the insider workspace; inside it, the same menu lists your companies as the way back. Not me on the same section undoes a link at that company only; your other companies stay linked, the company keeps the record and a company admin can link it again from Insiders. Every link and unlink is on the company's audit trail.

Your forms and each company's page

Filings lists your Forms 3, 4 and 5 across companies, each with its due date (ET) and where it stands for you: Waiting on your signature, Signed · EDGAR pending, Test accepted, not filed (only EDGAR's test system has accepted it; it is not filed yet) or Filed with its EDGAR accession number. A form you signed keeps its signed record to download.

Under Settings, Filing settings holds what is yours for every company: EDGAR (your CIK, codes and delegation) and Ink page. Each company that lists you has its own page: Before TakePublic files for you shows your EDGAR codes and delegation (Not yet confirmed through Active on EDGAR) and what that company still needs. A director or officer who has left still sees their history there.

Your ink page (Rule 302(b))

Signatures on EDGAR filings are typed. Before your first electronic signature, Rule 302(b)(2) of Regulation S-T asks you to sign one page in ink, agreeing that your electronic signature is the legal equivalent of your handwritten one for any filing it is used for.

You sign it once, from Settings › Ink page, which shows where it stands and each company's copy. The page names no company, so every company TakePublic prepares your forms for keeps a copy: one upload there files it with each of them, and a company that lists you later shows File a copy of the page you already signed. Its signing link does the same: Use the page you signed files the copy in one click.

When you upload, TakePublic checks the page for the code printed on it and for ink in the signature and date boxes. A blank page, or one printed for someone else, is not accepted. Anything else goes on file, and if the check could not confirm the signature the company looks at it. The company may send a page back with a reason; that page stops counting, and you sign and upload a new one.

Each company keeps its copy for as long as you may sign electronically and at least seven years after your last electronically signed document. It is not filed with the SEC or made public. Only you and the company's admins can open it.

TakePublic keeps it for as long as it provides the Service, and in any case for at least seven years after it is made and at least seven years after your most recent electronic signature through the Service. It is not deleted when an account, subscription or workspace ends, or in response to a request to delete personal information.

For your own Forms 3, 4 and 5 you are the filer who furnishes it to the SEC if asked. Download it from Settings › Ink page; Documents keeps each company's copy, even at a company you have left or that closed its account.

A power of attorney to sign by link

A company can ask you to sign a Section 16 power of attorney that lets the people it names sign and file your Forms 3, 4 and 5 with the SEC for you: the company's own form, written and approved by its securities counsel, or TakePublic's standard form. On your insider record the company picks those people, reads the document and sends it to the email it has for you.

Open the link, enter the one-time code sent to the contact the company has for you, and read the document. If the company does not have your ink page yet, the page asks for it first: SEC Rule 302(b) asks for one page signed by hand before your first electronic signature, and it counts for every form after. To sign, type your name as the company's records show it and agree to sign electronically.

The company records the signed copy on your insider record, and it files with a form signed for you as Exhibit 24 until it is on file with the SEC. If something is wrong, choose Decline and say why; the company reads your reason and can send a new request.

For 30 days after you sign, the same link, after its one-time code, shows the signed copy exactly as your insider record keeps it, with Download the signed copy. After that, ask the company or TakePublic for a copy.

• The link lives 30 days. A company that sends it again starts a new link, and the earlier one stops working.
• Signed in with the account linked to your insider record, your company page under Settings lists the request with Review and sign; the page still asks for the code.
• How long the power of attorney lasts, and how to revoke it, is in the document itself. A company's form that revokes earlier powers of attorney ends them on your record when you sign it.

Telling a company about your plan or holdings

On Holdings, open a company; the buttons there carry its name. Tell Meridian Bay about a plan sends a Rule 10b5-1 plan you have adopted: the day you adopted it, its name, the aggregate shares and the day it ends by its own terms, and the signed plan if you have it. A plan you have not adopted yet goes to the company directly, under its insider trading policy.

A plan the company recorded has Tell Meridian Bay about a change in its row's menu, for a modification or an early end. Tell Meridian Bay how you hold shares sends shares held through a trust, your spouse, a family member or an entity, with how the form would describe it.

What you send is your word until the company records it. What you told Meridian Bay lists each item as Waiting, Recorded, or Not recorded with the company's reason; Withdraw takes back one that waits, with Undo.

• After sending, the sheet shows what the company will see, such as when your cooling-off period ends. It is rule arithmetic, not advice; ask your counsel about your plan.
• A non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement goes to the company directly.
• You can tell a company for 6 months after you leave it.

Your EDGAR codes

A Form 3, 4 or 5 is your filing, so it carries your own CIK and CIK Confirmation Code (CCC), not the company's and not TakePublic's. The company can enter the code you gave it, or ask you to enter it under Your EDGAR codes on My filings or on the signing page before you sign. Either way we test it with EDGAR, store it encrypted and never display it again; the company never sees a code you typed.

Under EDGAR Next the CCC stays a filing credential you may give to whoever files for you: the SEC's Filer Manual says a filer may provide the CCC to its filing agent and should change it afterwards. Only an account administrator on your own EDGAR account can generate or change it. Anyone with permission to file for you, a delegated company or agent included, can see the current code on the EDGAR Filer Management dashboard.

Usually nobody types it: once your EDGAR account has delegated to TakePublic, TakePublic reads the code from EDGAR for you the moment the delegation shows Active, and the card reads Read from EDGAR. Read codes from EDGAR is there if that read did not happen.

Until EDGAR verifies your codes, everything you start with a company stays greyed, at every company whoever files there: Report a trade, Request pre-clearance, telling a company about a plan or holding, adding a broker confirmation or a correction to a trade you reported, and inviting a company. Select any of them to open Settings › EDGAR on your codes; enter them there even where no company files with them through TakePublic.

What a company asked of you stays open: signing a form, the Form 5 confirmation, a power of attorney, a questionnaire or a request. Until then, tell the company's Section 16 contact about a trade directly: the Form 4 is still due two business days after the trade.

1. Go to EDGAR Filer Management (https://www.filermanagement.edgarfiling.sec.gov/) and sign in with your Login.gov credentials.
2. Select My Accounts, then your own name (the filer with your CIK).
3. To see the code you already have, select Account Details, or Show CCC under Manage CCC. Anyone with permission to file for you, including a filing agent you delegated to, can see it there.
4. To get a new one, select Manage CCC, then Generate CCC (or type a custom code and select Create Custom CCC). Only an account administrator on your EDGAR account can do this.
5. Come back here and enter the code. We test it with EDGAR and store it encrypted.

If a company does not appear

Your companies show up on their own, from your EDGAR filings and from companies on TakePublic that list you as a director, officer or 10% owner. A company's forms appear as soon as it adds your email on its Insiders page.

When one is missing, open the menu on your name at the top of the sidebar and choose Add a company: confirm another email the company has for you with a code, or name the company and its team is asked to add you. Home shows the same choices while no company lists you yet. To run a company's own filings, choose Set up a company workspace at the end of the panel.