As defined by this general information for employees, the terms listed below have the following meanings:

1. Personal data – all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person; a natural person is regarded as identifiable if they can be identified directly or indirectly, especially by means of allocation to a personal identifier, such as a name, ID number, localized data, online recognition or one or more special characteristics which express the physical, psychological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that person. Examples of this are contact data, communication data, accounting data.
2. Responsible body – the natural person or legal entity, authority, institution or other body which, either alone or together with others, decides on the purpose and funding of the processing of personal data; if the purposes and funding of processing of this kind are prescribed by EU law or that of a member state, the responsible body or the specific criteria of its appointment can be arranged in line with the law of the EU or the member state.
3. Data processor – a natural person or legal entity, authority, institution or other body which processes data on behalf of the responsible body.
4. Recipient  –  a natural person or legal entity, authority, institution or other body to which personal data is disclosed, irrespective of whether the person/body concerned is a third party or not.
5. Personnel – employees, including temporary workers in their relation to the borrower, persons employed to further their professional training, participants in measures to permit participation in working life or to clarify their professional suitability, probationary workers (rehabilitants), persons employed in recognized workshops for the handicapped, youth volunteers and people who have to be regarded as employee-like persons due to their economic dependency. These also include people employed to work at home and those with the same status, national government civil servants and judges, soldiers and community service workers, job applicants and persons whose employment has terminated.
6. Third party – a natural person or legal entity, authority, institution or other body apart from the person in question, the responsible body, the data processor and those persons authorized to process the personal data at the direct responsibility of the responsible body or data processor.
7. Profiling – every type of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of the personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects related to a natural person. This applies in particular to the analysis or prediction of aspects regarding the work performance, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, place of residence or change of residence of this natural person.
8. Restriction of processing – the marking of stored personal data with the goal of limiting its future processing.