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Customer and Product Data Act 2025

Preliminary provisions - Interpretation

9: Product, product data, and designated product data

You could also call this:

“What products are and what information about them is important”

When a company offers goods or services, these are called their products. The information about these products is called product data. This includes details about the products but doesn’t include information about customers.

Some product data is called designated product data. This is special product data that the rules say is important for a specific part of the law. The rules will tell you which product data is designated for each part of the law.

Remember, product data is about the things a company sells, not about the people who buy them.

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Part 1 Preliminary provisions
Interpretation

9Product, product data, and designated product data

  1. Product, in relation to a data holder, means goods or services offered by the data holder.

  2. Product data, in relation to a data holder,—

  3. means data that is about, or relates to, 1 or more of the data holder’s products; but
    1. does not include customer data.

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