African Union Legal Instrument Page|6 Electronic mail means any message in the form of text, voice, sound or image sent by a public communication network, and stored in a server of the network or in a terminal facility belonging to the addressee until it is retrieved; Electronic signature means data in electronic form which are attached to or logically associated with other electronic data and which serve as a method of authentication; Electronic signature verification device means a set of software or hardware components allowing the verification of electronic signature; Electronic signature creation device means a set of software or hardware elements allowing for the creation of an electronic signature (s); Encryption means all techniques consisting in the processing of digital data in an unintelligible format using cryptology tools; Exceeds authorized access means to access a computer with authorization and to use such access to obtain or alter information in the computer that the accesser is not entitled so to obtain or alter; Health data means all information relating to the physical or mental state of the data subject, including the aforementioned genetic data; Indirect electronic communication means any text, voice, sound or image message sent over an electronic communications network which is stored in the network or in the recipient's terminal equipment until it is collected by the recipient; Information means any element of knowledge likely to be represented with the aid of devices and to be used, conserved, processed or communicated. Information may be expressed in written, visual, audio, digital and other forms; Interconnection of personal data means any connection mechanism that harmonizes processed data designed for a set goal with other data processed for goals that are identical or otherwise, or interlinked by one or several processing official(s); Means of electronic payment refers to means by which the holder is able to make electronic payment transactions online; Member State or Member States means Member State(s) of the African Union; Child or Minor means every human being below the age of eighteen (18) years in terms of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child respectively; Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person by which this person can be identified, directly or indirectly in particular by