A-Any data including voice, visuals, written, signs, maps, numbers or combination of them that
have been recorded as documents or stored in software format or saved in any other setup.
B-Personal Information: Any information related to identity, personal status, individual
situation, beliefs and opinions, electronic post, photograph and video and voice and visual and
behavioral habits and individual characteristics such as name and surname, date and place of
birth, marriage, divorce, spouse information, parents and children, family relation, physical and
mental illnesses, bank account and password, place of work and residence and also personal
information regarding to commercial affairs, job, academic, financial, educational,
administrative, medical and legal.
C-Privacy Limits: [is] the domain of one’s personal life that expects not to be violated unless
there is consent or prior notification or in compliance with law or judicial authorities, including
body integrity, entrance, observation, surveillance and access to one’s personal information via
computer, cell-phone, letter, place of residence, vehicle and the areas that are personally rented
such as hotel and ship, and also whatever is considered private professional activity of a real or
legal person according to law; including trade and invention and discovery documents.
D-Classified Information (State Secrets): Includes state secret and confidential documents that
are subject of law on penalty for publication and disclosure of state secret and confidential
information-passed in 1353- and it executive regulation-passed in 1354-.
E-Law: Law on publication and free access to information-passed in 1388-.
F-Publication of Information: Disclosure of information for public access.
G-Private Institutions: Legal entities that have been established or are established pursuant to
the law or by recommendation of the law and they have for-profit or non-profit activities;
including companies, non-commercial institutions, parties and NGOs.
H-Public Institutions: Institutions and organizations affiliate to state in general including
executive bodies subject to article (5) of law on country’s public service, revolutionary
establishments, armed forces, and legislative and institutions, companies, institutions,
dependent establishments and foundations and institutions that are managed under the
supervision of the supreme leader complying with the note under article (10) of the law and also
each institution, company or foundation whose whole share or more than 50 percent of its
share belong to the state or government that have been defined in the laws of Islamic republic
of Iran.
I-Private Institution that Provide Public Services: The category of non-state institutions that
provide public service to people including professional or guild institutions, banks and stock
exchange.
J-Commission: Commission on article (18) of law.
K-Institutions liable under the law: Private institutions, public institutions and private
institutions providing public service.
L-: Portal: Including portal, website, or media following the institutions liable under the law.