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;
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