The legislator requires that personal data are processed in a lawful manner, in good faith and in a way that can be comprehended by the person concerned ("legality, processing in good faith, transparency"). In order to ensure this, we inform you about the individual legal definitions that are also used in this data protection declaration:
Personal Data
"Personal data" is all information that relates to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter "data subject"); as identifiable, a natural person is considered who can be identified directly or indirectly, in particular by assignment to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or one or more special characteristics which express the physical, physiological, genetic, psychic, economic, cultural or social identity of this natural person.
Processing
"Processing" is any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, deletion or destruction.
Limitation of Processing
"Limitation of processing" is the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting their future processing.
Profiling
"Profiling" means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of such 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.
Pseudonymization
"Pseudonymization" is 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 organizational measures to ensure that the personal data are not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Filing system
"Filing System" means any structured set of personal data which are accessible according to specific criteria, whether centralized, decentralized or dispersed on a functional or geographical basis.
Controller
"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 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.
Processors
"Processor" means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller.
Recipient
"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.
Third party
"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 authorized to process personal data.
Consent
"Consent" of the data subject means any freewill expression of will, in an informed and unambiguous manner, in the form of a statement or a clear confirmatory act, by which the data subject indicates his or her consent to the processing of personal data.