Personal information
This includes information about customers, clients, suppliers, employees, volunteers or others you deal with. Personal information is any information about a living person that can be used on its own, or with other information, to identify or tell you something about them. Names, date of birth, contact details, location, financial details, or employment status are all examples of personal information.
Processing
Processing is a term to describe anything you can do with the personal information you have. This includes (but is not limited to) collecting, recording, organising, storing, using, retrieving, altering, erasing and disclosing it.