interactive GDPR 2016/0679 EN

(a)

in the course of an activity which falls outside the scope of Union law;

(b)

by the Member States when carrying out activities which fall within the scope of Chapter 2 of Title V of the TEU;

(c)

by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity;

(d)

by competent authorities for the purposes of the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, including the safeguarding against and the prevention of threats to public security.

(1)

‘ personal_data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one 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 that natural person;

(2)

‘ processing’ means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal_data or on sets of personal_data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;

(3)

‘restriction of processing’ means the marking of stored personal_data with the aim of limiting their processing in the future;

(4)

‘ profiling’ means any form of automated processing of personal_data consisting of the use of personal_data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person's performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements;

(5)

‘ pseudonymisation’ means the processing of personal_data in such a manner that the personal_data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organisational measures to ensure that the personal_data are not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person;

(6)

‘ filing_system’ means any structured set of personal_data which are accessible according to specific criteria, whether centralised, decentralised or dispersed on a functional or geographical basis;

(7)

‘ controller’ means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal_data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law;

(8)

‘ processor’ means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal_data on behalf of the controller;

(9)

‘ recipient’ means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or another body, to which the personal_data are disclosed, whether a third_party or not. However, public authorities which may receive personal_data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law shall not be regarded as recipients; the processing of those data by those public authorities shall be in compliance with the applicable data protection rules according to the purposes of the processing;

(10)

‘ third_party’ means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, controller, processor and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorised to process personal_data;

(11)

‘ consent’ of the data subject means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal_data relating to him or her;

(12)

‘ personal_data breach’ means a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal_data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed;

(13)

‘ genetic_data’ means personal_data relating to the inherited or acquired genetic characteristics of a natural person which give unique information about the physiology or the health of that natural person and which result, in particular, from an analysis of a biological sample from the natural person in question;

(14)

‘ biometric_data’ means personal_data resulting from specific technical processing relating to the physical, physiological or behavioural characteristics of a natural person, which allow or confirm the unique identification of that natural person, such as facial images or dactyloscopic data;

(15)

‘ data_concerning_health’ means personal_data related to the physical or mental health of a natural person, including the provision of health care services, which reveal information about his or her health status;

(16)

‘ main_establishment’ means:

(17)

‘ representative’ means a natural or legal person established in the Union who, designated by the controller or processor in writing pursuant to Article 27, represents the controller or processor with regard to their respective obligations under this Regulation;

(18)

‘ enterprise’ means a natural or legal person engaged in an economic activity, irrespective of its legal form, including partnerships or associations regularly engaged in an economic activity;

(19)

‘ group_of_undertakings’ means a controlling undertaking and its controlled undertakings;

(20)

‘ binding_corporate_rules’ means personal_data protection policies which are adhered to by a controller or processor established on the territory of a Member State for transfers or a set of transfers of personal_data to a controller or processor in one or more third countries within a group_of_undertakings, or group of enterprises engaged in a joint economic activity;

(21)

‘ supervisory_authority’ means an independent public authority which is established by a Member State pursuant to Article 51;

(22)

‘ supervisory_authority concerned’ means a supervisory_authority which is concerned by the processing of personal_data because:

(23)

‘cross-border processing’ means either:

(24)

‘ relevant_and_reasoned_objection’ means an objection to a draft decision as to whether there is an infringement of this Regulation, or whether envisaged action in relation to the controller or processor complies with this Regulation, which clearly demonstrates the significance of the risks posed by the draft decision as regards the fundamental rights and freedoms of data subjects and, where applicable, the free flow of personal_data within the Union;

(25)

‘ information_society_service’ means a service as defined in point (b) of Article 1(1) of Directive (EU) 2015/1535 of the European Parliament and of the Council (19);

(26)

‘ international_organisation’ means an organisation and its subordinate bodies governed by public international law, or any other body which is set up by, or on the basis of, an agreement between two or more countries.

(a)

the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal_data for one or more specific purposes;

(b)

processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract;

(c)

processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject;

(d)

processing is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person;

(e)

processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;

(f)

processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third_party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal_data, in particular where the data subject is a child.

(a)

Union law; or

(b)

Member State law to which the controller is subject.

(a)

any link between the purposes for which the personal_data have been collected and the purposes of the intended further processing;

(b)

the context in which the personal_data have been collected, in particular regarding the relationship between data subjects and the controller;

(c)

the nature of the personal_data, in particular whether special categories of personal_data are processed, pursuant to Article 9, or whether personal_data related to criminal convictions and offences are processed, pursuant to Article 10;

(d)

the possible consequences of the intended further processing for data subjects;

(e)

the existence of appropriate safeguards, which may include encryption or pseudonymisation.