What information does Part X apply to?

Part X applies to personal information, which is in the custody or control of a service provider, and which relates to the provision of a service.

Now that you have determined you are a service provider to whom Part X applies, the next step is to understand what types of information Part X covers.

Generally, Part X applies to personal information, which is in the custody or control of a service provider, and which relates to the provision of a service. However, there are exceptions for certain types of records (such as adoption records) to which Part X does not apply. We will now walk through each of these concepts in :

  1. What is personal information?
  2. What is “custody or control”?
  3. What does collected for or relating to the provision of a service mean?
  4. Exceptions

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