§7006 Definitions

Summary

Gives plain meanings for important words used in this part. Consumer — a person who gets goods or services mainly for personal, family, or household use, and that person’s legal representative. Electronic — about technology that uses electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar methods. Electronic agent — a computer program or automated tool that acts or responds on its own without a person checking it at the time. Electronic record — a contract or other record made, sent, or kept by electronic means. Electronic signature — an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to a record and used by a person to sign it. Federal regulatory agency — an agency as defined in section 552(f) of title 5. Information — data like text, images, sounds, code, programs, software, or databases. Person — an individual or any legal or business entity (for example, corporations, trusts, partnerships, government bodies). Record — information written on a physical medium or stored electronically and retrievable in perceivable form. Requirement — includes a rule that forbids something. Self-regulatory organization — a non-Federal group supervised by a Federal regulatory agency and allowed under Federal law to make rules for its members. State — includes the District of Columbia and U.S. territories and possessions. Transaction — one or more actions about business, consumer, or commercial matters between people, including selling, leasing, exchanging, licensing, or otherwise transferring goods, services, intangibles, or interests in real property.