Personal data means any
information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data
subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified,
directly or indirectly, in
particular by
reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location
data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical,
physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that
natural person;
‘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;
‘Restriction of processing’ means
the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting their processing
in the future;
‘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;
