Ohio Administrative Code › Title 164 - Ohio Public Works Commission › Chapter 164-1 - General Provisions › Section 164-1-39 - Privacy policy

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A)
								The purpose of this rule is to establish the
			 requirements for regulating access to confidential personal information that is
			 maintained by the commission.
(B)
								For the purposes
			 of administrative rules promulgated in accordance with section
			 1347.15 of the Revised Code, the
			 following definitions apply:
(1)
									"Access" when used in this rule as a noun means an
			 instance of copying, viewing, or otherwise perceiving. Access when used in this
			 rule as a verb means to copy, view, or otherwise perceive.
(2)
									"Acquisition of a
			 new computer system" means the purchase of a "computer system," as defined in
			 this rule, that is not a computer system currently in place nor one for which
			 the acquisition process has been initiated as of the effective date of the
			 commission rule addressing requirements in section
			 1347.15 of the Revised
			 Code.
(3)
									"Computer system" means a "system," as defined by
			 section 1347.01 of the Revised Code,
			 that stores, maintains, or retrieves personal information using electronic data
			 processing equipment.
(4)
									"Confidential personal information" (CPI) has the
			 meaning as defined by division (A)(1) of section
			 1347.15 of the Revised Code and
			 identified by rules promulgated by the commission in accordance with division
			 (B)(3) of section 1347.15 of the Revised Code that
			 reference the federal or state statutes or administrative rules that make
			 personal information maintained by the commission confidential.
(5)
									"Commission"
			 means the Ohio public works commission.
(6)
									"Employee" means
			 each commission employee regardless of whether the employee holds an elected or
			 appointed office or position within the commission.
(7)
									"Incidental
			 contact" means contact with the information that is secondary or tangential to
			 the primary purpose of the activity that resulted in the
			 contact.
(8)
									"Individual" means a natural person or the natural
			 person's authorized representative, legal counsel, legal custodian, or legal
			 guardian.
(9)
									"Information owner" means the individual appointed in
			 accordance with division (A) of section
			 1347.05 of the Revised Code to
			 be directly responsible for a system.
(10)
									"Person" means a
			 natural person.
(11)
									"Personal information" has the same meaning as defined
			 in division (E) of section
			 1347.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(12)
									"Personal information system" means a "system" that
			 "maintains" "personal information" as those terms are defined in section
			 1347.01 of the Revised Code.
			 "System" includes manual and computer systems.
(13)
									"Research" means
			 a methodical investigation into a subject.
(14)
									"Routine" means
			 commonplace, regular, habitual, or ordinary.
(15)
									"Routine
			 information that is maintained for the purpose of internal office
			 administration, the use of which would not adversely affect a person" as that
			 phrase is used in division (F) of section
			 1347.01 of the Revised Code
			 means personal information relating to employees and maintained by the agency
			 for internal administrative and human resource purposes.
(16)
									"System" has the
			 same meaning as defined by division (F) of section
			 1347.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(17)
									"Upgrade" means a substantial redesign of an existing
			 computer system for the purpose of providing a substantial amount of new
			 application functionality, or application modifications that would involve
			 substantial administrative or fiscal resources to implement, but would not
			 include maintenance, minor updates and patches, or modifications that entail a
			 limited addition of functionality due to changes in business or legal
			 requirements.