§7006 Definitions

Summary

Defines common words used in the subchapter. Consumer means a person who gets products or services mainly for personal, family, or household use, and it also covers that person’s legal representative. Electronic means technology that uses electricity, digital signals, magnets, wireless, optical, or similar methods. Electronic agent means a computer program or other automated tool that acts on its own to start actions or respond to electronic records without a person checking it at that moment. Electronic record means a contract or other record created, sent, received, stored, or handled electronically. Electronic signature means an electronic sound, symbol, or process a person uses to show they intend to sign a record. Federal regulatory agency means an agency as defined in section 552(f) of title 5. Information means data in many forms, like text, images, sounds, code, programs, software, or databases. Person means an individual or any legal or business entity, such as a corporation, trust, partnership, government agency, or similar entity. Record means information fixed on paper or stored electronically that can be retrieved and perceived. Requirement includes rules and also prohibitions. Self-regulatory organization means a nonfederal, nonstate group overseen by a federal agency and allowed by federal law to make and enforce rules for its members. State includes the District of Columbia and U.S. territories and possessions. Transaction means business or consumer actions between two or more people, such as selling, leasing, exchanging, licensing, or otherwise transferring goods, services, intangibles, or interests in real property.