Federal Act on Data Protection

The fol­low­ing defin­i­tions ap­ply:

a.

per­son­al data (data): all in­form­a­tion re­lat­ing to an iden­ti­fied or iden­ti­fi­able per­son;

b.

data sub­jects: nat­ur­al or leg­al per­sons whose data is pro­cessed;

c.

sens­it­ive per­son­al data: data on:

1.

re­li­gious, ideo­lo­gic­al, polit­ic­al or trade uni­on-re­lated views or activ­it­ies,

2.

health, the in­tim­ate sphere or the ra­cial ori­gin,

3.

so­cial se­cur­ity meas­ures,

4.

ad­min­is­trat­ive or crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings and sanc­tions;

d.

per­son­al­ity pro­file: a col­lec­tion of data that per­mits an as­sess­ment of es­sen­tial char­ac­ter­ist­ics of the per­son­al­ity of a nat­ur­al per­son;

e.

pro­cessing: any op­er­a­tion with per­son­al data, ir­re­spect­ive of the means ap­plied and the pro­ced­ure, and in par­tic­u­lar the col­lec­tion, stor­age, use, re­vi­sion, dis­clos­ure, archiv­ing or de­struc­tion of data;

f.

dis­clos­ure: mak­ing per­son­al data ac­cess­ible, for ex­ample by per­mit­ting ac­cess, trans­mis­sion or pub­lic­a­tion;

g.

data file: any set of per­son­al data that is struc­tured in such a way that the data is ac­cess­ible by data sub­ject;

h.

fed­er­al bod­ies: fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies and ser­vices as well as per­sons who are en­trus­ted with fed­er­al pub­lic tasks;

i.¹

con­trol­ler of the data file: private per­sons or fed­er­al bod­ies that de­cide on the pur­pose and con­tent of a data file;

j.²

form­al en­act­ment:

1.

fed­er­al acts,

2.

de­crees of in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­isa­tions that are bind­ing on Switzer­land and in­ter­na­tion­al treat­ies con­tain­ing leg­al rules that are ap­proved by the Fed­er­al As­sembly;

k.³

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