30/07/2019 Republic Act No. 8792 | Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines adopted by a person and executed or adopted by such person with the intention of authenticating or approving an electronic data message or electronic document. (f) “Electronic document” refers to information or the representation of information, data, gures, symbols or other modes of written expression, described or however represented, by which a right is established or an obligation extinguished, or by which a fact may be proved and a rmed, which is received, recorded, transmitted, stored, processed, retrieved or produced electronically. (g) “Electronic key” refers to a secret code which secures and defends sensitive information that crosses over public channels into a form decipherable only with a matching electronic key. (h) “Intermediary” refers to a person who in behalf of another person and with respect to a particular electronic data message or electronic document sends, receives and/or stores or provides other services in respect of that electronic data message or electronic document. (i) “Originator” refers to a person by whom, or on whose behalf, the electronic document purports to have been created, generated and/or sent. The term does not include a person acting as an intermediary with respect to that electronic document. (j) “Service provider” refers to a provider of — i) Online services or network access, or the operator of facilities therefor, including entities offering the transmission, routing, or providing of connections for online communications, digital or otherwise, between or among points speci ed by a user, of electronic documents of the user’s choosing; or ii) The necessary technical means by which electronic documents of an originator may be stored and made accessible to a designated or undesignated third party. Such service providers shall have no authority to modify or alter the content of the electronic document received or to make any entry therein on behalf of the originator, addressee or any third party unless speci cally authorized to do so, and who shall retain the electronic document in accordance with the speci c request or as necessary for the purpose of performing the services it was engaged to perform. CHAPTER II Legal Recognition of Electronic Data Messages and Electronic Documents https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2000/06/14/republic-act-no-8792-s-2000/ 3/20