For the purposes of this Law, the following definitions apply:
I. Privacy Notice: Document made available to the data subject, in physical or electronic form or in any other format generated by the data controller, from the moment their personal data is collected, in order to inform them of the purposes of its processing, in accordance with Article 14 of this Law;
II. Databases: Ordered set of personal data relating to an identified or identifiable person, conditioned by specific criteria, regardless of the form or modality of its creation, type of medium, processing, storage and organization;
III. Blocking: Identification and retention of personal data once the purpose for which it was collected has been fulfilled, for the sole purpose of determining possible liabilities in connection with its processing, until the legal or contractual statute of limitations for such liabilities expires. During that period, the personal data may not be processed and, once it has elapsed, the data shall be cancelled in the corresponding database;
IV. Consent: Free, specific and informed expression of the will of the data subject by means of which the processing of the data is carried out;
V. Personal data: Any information concerning an identified or identifiable person. A person is considered identifiable when their identity can be determined directly or indirectly through any information;
VI. Sensitive personal data: Personal data that affects the most intimate sphere of the data subject, or whose misuse may give rise to discrimination or entail a serious risk for the data subject. By way of example but not limitation, personal data that may reveal aspects such as racial or ethnic origin, present or future health status, genetic information, religious, philosophical and moral beliefs, political opinions and sexual preference is considered sensitive;
VII. ARCO Rights: Rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition to the processing of personal data;
VIII. Days: Business days;
IX. Dissociation: Procedure by which personal data cannot be associated with the data subject nor, by reason of its structure, content or degree of disaggregation, allow the data subject to be identified;
X. Publicly accessible source: Databases, systems or files that, by provision of law, may be publicly consulted when there is no impediment by a limiting rule, and with no requirement other than, where applicable, the payment of a consideration, fee or contribution. A source shall not be considered publicly accessible when the information contained in it is obtained unlawfully or is of unlawful origin, in accordance with the provisions of this Law and other applicable legal provisions;
XI. Law: Federal Law on Protection of Personal Data Held by Private Parties;
XII. Data processor: Individual or legal entity that, alone or jointly with others, processes personal data on behalf of the data controller;
XIII. Regulations: Regulations of the Federal Law on Protection of Personal Data Held by Private Parties;
XIV. Data controller: The regulated parties referred to in section XVI of this article;
XV. Ministry: Ministry of Anti-Corruption and Good Governance;
XVI. Regulated parties: Private individuals or legal entities that carry out the processing of personal data;
XVII. Third party: Individual or legal entity, Mexican or foreign, other than the data subject or the data controller;
XVIII. Data subject: Person to whom the personal data pertains;
XIX. Processing: Any operation or set of operations performed by manual or automated procedures applied to personal data, relating to the obtaining, use, recording, organization, retention, preparation, utilization, communication, dissemination, storage, possession, access, handling, exploitation, disclosure, transfer or disposal of personal data, and
XX. Transfer: Any communication of personal data within or outside Mexican territory made to a person other than the data subject, the data controller or the data processor.