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| Any data which relates to a living, identifiable person. |
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| Anything that is held which can be said to be part of a record. This covers both manual and computer data. |
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| Obtaining, recording or holding the information or data. It also includes operations; organising it, changing it, retrieving it and using it in some way, disclosing it, and destroying it. |
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| The data subject is the living, identifiable human being about whom the data is being held. |
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| This is the individual within the company who is responsible for making sure that all of the provisions of the Data Protection Act are being complied with. This is also the person that you would contact if you had any queries with a company about the Data Protection Act. |
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| This is any person (other than an employee of the Data Controller) who processes data on behalf of the Data Controller. This is for companies that hire a third party to process their data for them. Even if the processing is done by a third party, the data controller retains responsibility for making sure the Data Protection Act is followed. |
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| These are individuals who are given the data in order to do some form of processing on it. They are usually employees of the data controller or are data processors. |
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| This is the person who receives the data for processing. A company may need to pass on it's data to certain people in order to do it's job, for example schools give references and information to the government. |
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| This is the individual who is responsible for ensuring that the Data Protection Act is being adhered to, by giving advice, running training sessions and investigating complaints. |
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