Article 2. The provisions of this Law are applicable, whenever possible, to non-‐ profit private entities which receive, in order to perform actions of public interest, public funds directly from the budget or through social subventions, management contract, partnership terms, covenants, agreements, adjustments, or other instruments of the same kind. Sole Paragraph. The publicity applicable to the entities mentioned in the caption of this article refers to the received portion of public funds and its respective destination, without prejudice to the accountability to which they are legally bound. Article 3. The procedures established by this Law are intended to ensure the fundamental right of access to information and should be performed according to the basic principles of the Public Administration and the following guidelines: I – observance of publicity as a general rule and of secrecy as the exception; II – disclosure of information of public interest, irrespective of requests; III -‐ use of the existing means of communication made available by information technology; IV – promotion of the development of a transparency culture within the Public Administration; V -‐ development of the social control of the Public Administration. Article 4. Given the purposes of this Law, one shall consider: I – information: processed or unprocessed data that can be used in the production and transmission of knowledge, within any media, support or format; II – document: unit of recorded information regardless of its support or format; III – classified information: that piece of information which is temporarily unavailable to public access due to its relevance to social and State security; IV – personal information: that piece of information which is related to an identified or identifiable natural person; 2