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Data Principal
The person the personal data is about.
Your customers, employees, patients, students and website visitors are Data Principals. For a child, or a person with a disability who has a lawful guardian, the parent or guardian acts for them.
Data Principals have rights under the Act, and a few duties of their own.
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