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Customer and Product Data Bill

Preliminary provisions - Interpretation

8: Customer, customer data, and designated customer data

You could also call this:

“Understanding customers and their information in the new law”

This part of the proposed law talks about customers and their information. It explains what these terms mean in simple words.

A customer is someone who buys things or services from a company, or wants to buy them. The company that sells these things is called a data holder.

Customer data is information about a customer that the company has. This could be things like your name, address, or what you’ve bought before.

The law also talks about something called designated customer data. This is a special kind of customer information that the law says companies need to handle in a certain way. The exact details of what counts as designated customer data will be written in separate rules 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 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—

  4. that is specified, or belongs to a class specified, in the data holder’s designation regulations for the purposes of that provision; and
    1. that is held by (or on behalf of) the data holder on or after the day specified in, or determined in accordance with, the designation regulations.