For the purposes of interpretation and application of this policy, the following shall be understood by:
- a)Access to information: The right of any person to request and obtain public information held by the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, except for the constitutional and legal restrictions expressly established.
- b)Public Administration: The set of State bodies subject to Administrative Law, under the terms of Article 1 of the General Public Administration Act (LGAP).
- c)Institutional archive: The set of documents produced or received by the Office of the Attorney General in the exercise of its functions, organized according to technical and legal criteria.
- d)Informational self-determination: The fundamental right of any person to control the use and destination of their personal data, including its access, correction, deletion, and opposition to undue processing.
- e)Confidentiality: The legal and functional obligation to restrict access to information whose disclosure is limited by law.
- f)Personal data: Information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, according to Article 3 of Law No. 8968.
- g)Unrestricted-access personal data: Those that can be freely consulted in public registries, provided that the purpose and conditions provided by law are respected. An example of these data are those found in the databases of the Civil Registry and the Public Registry such as name, ID number, assets, companies, among others.
- h)Restricted-access personal data: Data that, although they may be in public registries, can only be consulted by their owner, by the Public Administration in the exercise of its powers, or with the consent of the data owner. An example of these data are personal email, physical address, photograph, banking data, salary deductions, employment information, telephone numbers, data referring to insurance, among others.
- i)Sensitive personal data: Information relating to a person's private sphere, such as ethnic origin, opinions political, religious or spiritual convictions, socioeconomic condition, biomedical or genetic information, life and sexual orientation, state of health, voice, biometric data, digital signature certificate, affiliations to unions, cooperatives, or solidarity associations, among others.
- j)Good-faith whistleblower (denunciante de buena fe): A person who files a complaint before the Office of the Attorney General in relation to allegedly irregular acts, in the exercise of their civic or employment duty, and with a presumption of truthfulness and honesty.
- k)Preliminary document: Any report, opinion, note, draft, draft resolution, or other document that has not yet been officially rendered or finalized.
- l)Vulnerable groups: Those that, due to age, gender, disability, socioeconomic condition, belonging to indigenous peoples, deprivation of liberty, sexual orientation, identity of gender, or other analogous conditions, face structural barriers to the effective exercise of their rights.
- m)Confidential information: Information whose access is legally restricted, whether temporarily or permanently, to safeguard public interests or individual rights. Within the confidential information may be found:
● The identity of whistleblowers.
●The contents of preliminary investigations, including the identity of the whistleblower and the respondent, while they have not been concluded.
●The case files (expedientes) of ongoing administrative proceedings that do not have a final act, except for the access that must be given to the parties for the proper exercise of their right of defense.
●Draft resolutions, opinions, and reports not yet rendered.
●Restricted-access personal data and sensitive data.
●Information that by constitutional or legal mandate must be safeguarded as confidential, such as State secrets, commercial, industrial, or economic secrets, information on line of business, financial, credit, and tax statements, credit operations, savings or other deductions in banks or cooperatives, police records, content of interviews and examinations of non-selected participants in public competitions, criminal matters, family, alimony, harassment, cases involving minors, among others.
- n)Public interest information: Any information that relates to the exercise of public functions or the use of State resources and that is not subject to restriction.
- o)Press and Communication Office: Administrative unit of the Office of the Attorney General responsible for the management of internal and external institutional communication, in accordance with the current policy.
- p)Data redaction (ocultamiento de datos): Technique by which sensitive or restricted information is protected before delivering or disseminating documents, preventing its reproduction or identification.
- q)Public official (persona funcionaria pública): Any person who, by virtue of their investiture, exercises public functions under the terms set forth in the law.
- r)Processing of personal data: Any automated or manual operation involving the collection, recording, storage, modification, consultation, communication, transfer, blocking, or deletion of personal data.
- s)Responsible unit: Department, office, or directorate that is in charge of a case file (expediente), document, or system containing information of public access, confidential information, or personal data.
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