Dictionary · General Data Protection Regulation

Any operation or set of operations performed on personal data, whether or not by automated means

Natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, controller, processor

Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ('data subject')

Personal data shall be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date

‘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.

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;

‘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;

Any operation or set of operations performed on personal data, whether or not by automated means

Any operation or set of operations performed on personal data, whether or not by automated means

Any operation or set of operations performed on personal data, whether or not by automated means

Any operation or set of operations performed on personal data, whether or not by automated means

Any operation or set of operations performed on personal data, whether or not by automated means

Any operation or set of operations performed on personal data, whether or not by automated means

‘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.

Any operation or set of operations performed on personal data, whether or not by automated means

Any operation or set of operations performed on personal data, whether or not by automated means

Any operation or set of operations performed on personal data, whether or not by automated means

‘Processor’ means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller.

‘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.

‘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;