Definitions in the Dominican Republic
Definition of personal data
Personal data consists of any information, whether numerical, alphabetical, graphic, photographic, or acoustic, or any other type of data which concerns individuals that are identified or identifiable.
Definition of sensitive personal data
The term 'sensitive data' refers to personal data that reveals its subject´s:
- Political opinions
- Religious, philosophical or moral convictions
- Racial or ethnic origin
- Affiliation to labor unions or trade union membership, and
- Information concerning health or sex life
Personal data concerning the health of an individual encompasses any information concerning their past, present or future physical or mental health.
Affected or interested party
Any natural person whose information is the object of data processing, as well as any creditor, whether a natural or legal person, who has or has had a commercial or contractual relationship with a natural person for the exchange of goods and services, where the natural person is the creditor's debtor. As well as any natural or legal person who has had, has or requests to have a good or service of an economic, financial, banking, commercial, industrial, or any other nature, with a financial intermediation institution or with an economic agent.
Data processing
Systematic operations and procedures that allow the collection, conservation, ordering, storage, modification, relation, evaluation, blocking, destruction and, in general, the processing of personal data, as well as its transfer to third parties through communications, consultations, interconnections or transfers.
Data Processor
The natural or legal person, public or private, who carries out the processing of personal data on behalf of the controller.
