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Customer and Product Data Act 2025

Preliminary provisions - Interpretation

8: Customer, customer data, and designated customer data

You could also call this:

“What the law means by customers and their information”

In this law, a customer is someone who has bought, is buying, or wants to buy things or services from a data holder. This could be you if you’ve ever bought something from a company or are thinking about it.

Customer data is information about you that a company (called a data holder) has. This could include personal details about you.

Designated customer data is a special kind of customer data. It’s information about you that the law says is important for a specific reason. The exact type of data depends on what the law says for each company.

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Part 1 Preliminary provisions
Interpretation

8Customer, customer data, and designated customer data

  1. Customer means a person that has acquired, acquires, or is seeking to acquire goods or services from a data holder.

  2. Customer data means data that is about an identifiable customer that is held by or on behalf of a data holder (including, for example, personal information).

  3. Designated customer data, in relation to a data holder and a provision of this Act, means customer data that is specified, or belongs to a class specified, in the data holder’s designation regulations for the purposes of that provision.