● Information security breach is any incident:
o in which sensitive and/or protected and/or private and/or confidential
information has been lost, disclosed, stolen, copied, transmitted,
viewed, altered, destructed, or otherwise used or processed in an
unauthorised manner; or o that results in the unauthorized access of information, applications,
services, networks, and/or devices by bypassing our firm’s security
mechanisms.
● Personal information is information relating to an identifiable, living, natural
person, and where it is applicable and identifiable, existing juristic person,
including, but not limited to -
o information relating to the race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital
status, national, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age,
physical or mental health, well-being, disability, religion, conscience,
belief, culture, language, and the birth of the person o information relating to the education or the medical, financial, criminal
or employment history of the person o any identifying number, symbol, e-mail address, physical address,
telephone number, location information, online identifier, or other
particular assignments to the person o the biometric information of the person o the personal opinions, views, or preferences of the person o correspondence sent by the person that is implicitly or explicitly of a
private or confidential nature or further correspondence that would
reveal the contents of the original correspondence o the views or opinions of another individual about the person; and o the name of the person if it appears with other personal information
relating to the person or if the disclosure of the name itself would
reveal information about the person.
● Processing means any operation or activity or any set of operations of the
responsible party, whether by automatic means, concerning personal
information, including -
o the collection, receipt, recording, organisation, collation, storage,
updating or modification, retrieval, alteration, consultation, or use of
personal information o dissemination of personal information by means of transmission,
distribution, or making available in any other form; and o merging, linking, as well as restriction, degradation, erasure, or
destruction of personal information.
● Record means any recorded information regardless of form or medium,
including any of the following:
o writing on any material o information produced, recorded, or stored by means of any
tape-recorder, computer equipment, whether hardware or software or both,
or other devices, and any material subsequently derived from
information so produced, recorded or stored o label, marking or other writing that identifies or describes anything of
which it forms part, or to which it is attached by any means o book, map, plan, graph, or drawing; and o photograph, film, negative, tape or other devices in which one or more
visual images are embodied so as to be capable, with or without the
aid of some other equipment, of being reproduced in the possession or under our firm’s control, whether or not it was
created by us; and regardless of when it came into existence.