controller: the natural or legal person or unincorporated body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes for which the data are to be processed, takes and implements the decisions concerning the processing (including the means used) or implements them with the processor, within the limits set by law or by a legally binding act of the European Union;
joint controller: a controller who, within the limits set by law or by a legally binding act of the European Union, determines the purposes and means of processing jointly with one or more other controllers, takes decisions on processing (including the means used) jointly with one or more other controllers and carries out or has carried out the processing with the processor;
data processing: any operation or set of operations which is performed upon data, regardless of the procedure used, in particular any collection, recording, recording, organisation, storage, alteration, use, retrieval, disclosure, transmission, alignment or combination, blocking, erasure or destruction of data, prevention of their further use, taking of photographs, sound recordings or images and physical features which can be used to identify a person (e.g. fingerprints, palm prints, DNA samples, iris scans);
transfer: making data available to a specified third party;
indirect transfer: the transfer of personal data to a controller or processor in a third country or to a controller or processor in another third country or to a processor in an international organisation by transferring the personal data to the controller or processor in a third country or to a processor in an international organisation;
international organisation: an organisation governed by public international law and its subsidiary organs, and any other organ which is established by or under an agreement between two or more States;
erasure: making data unrecognisable in such a way that it is no longer possible to recover it;
restriction of processing: blocking of stored data by marking it for the purpose of restricting its further processing;
data marking: the marking of data with an identification mark to distinguish it;
data blocking: the marking of data with an identification mark for the purpose of limiting its further processing permanently or for a limited period of time;
data destruction: the complete physical destruction of the data medium containing the data;
processing: the totality of processing operations carried out by a processor acting on behalf of or under the authority of the controller, in particular the performance of technical tasks related to processing operations, irrespective of the method and means used to carry out the operations and the place of application, provided that the technical task is carried out on the data;
data processor: a natural or legal person or an unincorporated body which processes personal data on behalf of or under the instructions of the controller, within the limits and under the conditions laid down by law or by a legally binding act of the European Union;
data controller: the public sector body which has produced the public interest data subject to mandatory disclosure by electronic means or in the course of whose activities the data were generated;
data provider: a public sector body which, if the data controller does not publish the data itself, publishes the data submitted to it by the data controller on a website;
dataset: the set of data managed in a single register;
data breach: a breach of data security that results in the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or transmission of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed;
criminal personal data: personal data relating to the criminal offence or the criminal proceedings, obtained in the course of or prior to criminal proceedings, by the authorities authorised to conduct criminal proceedings or to investigate criminal offences, by the law enforcement authorities, which can be linked to the data subject, and personal data relating to the criminal record;
EEA State: a Member State of the European Union and another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, and a State whose nationals enjoy the same status as nationals of a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area under an international treaty between the European Union and its Member States and a State not party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area;
data subject: any natural person who is identified or can be identified, directly or indirectly, on the basis of personal data;
‘identifiable natural person’ means a natural person who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of the natural person
Consent: a freely given, explicit and properly informed indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she signifies, by means of a statement or other conduct unambiguously expressing his or her wishes, his or her agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her. Silence or inaction shall not be considered as consent;
third party: any natural or legal person or unincorporated body other than the data subject, the controller, the processor or the persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are carrying out operations relating to the processing of personal data;
third country: any state that is not an EEA state;
personal data: any information relating to the data subject, any data which can be associated with the data subject, in particular the name, the identification mark and one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of the data subject, and any inference relating to the data subject which can be drawn from the data;
special categories of personal data: any data which fall within special categories of personal data, namely personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade-union membership, genetic data, biometric data revealing the identity of natural persons, health data and personal data concerning the sex life or sexual orientation of natural persons,
health data: personal data relating to the physical or mental health of a natural person, including data relating to the provision of health services to a natural person which contain information about the health of the natural person;
Genetic data: any personal data relating to the inherited or acquired genetic characteristics of a natural person which contain specific information about the physiology or state of health of that person and which result primarily from the analysis of a biological sample taken from that natural person;
biometric data: personal data relating to the physical, physiological or behavioural characteristics of a natural person obtained by means of specific technical procedures which allow or confirm the unique identification of the natural person, such as facial image or dactyloscopic data;
criminal personal data: personal data relating to the criminal offence or the criminal proceedings, obtained in the course of or prior to criminal proceedings, by the authorities authorised to conduct criminal proceedings or to investigate criminal offences, by the law enforcement authorities, which can be linked to the data subject, and personal data relating to the criminal record;
data of public interest: information or knowledge, in whatever form or by whatever means, which is held by a body or person performing a State or local government function or other public function as defined by law and which relates to its activities or arises in the course of the performance of its public function, but which is not personal data, irrespective of the way in which it is handled, whether or not it is of a specific or collective nature, in particular data concerning the powers, competences, organisation, structure, professional activities, including an assessment of their effectiveness, the types of data held and the legislation governing their operation, as well as data concerning management and contracts concluded;
objection: a statement by the data subject objecting to the processing of his or her personal data and requesting the cessation of the processing or the deletion of the processed data;
disclosure: making the data available to anyone;
filing system: a set of personal data, structured in any way, which is accessible on the basis of specific criteria;
profiling: any processing of personal data by automated means intended to evaluate, analyse or predict personal aspects relating to the data subject, in particular his or her performance at work, economic situation, state of health, personal preferences or interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements;
recipient: the natural or legal person or unincorporated body to whom or which personal data are disclosed by the controller or processor;
pseudonymisation: the processing of personal data in a way that makes it impossible to identify the data subject without further information, stored separately from the personal data, and ensures that the personal data cannot be linked to an identified or identifiable natural person by technical and organisational measures;
Authority: National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information