Privacy Center Definitions

Keep these terms in mind when working with Privacy Center.

Required Editions

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Privacy Regulation Laws

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
Privacy law that regulates how businesses collect and process the personal information of Californians
California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)
California privacy law that requires all commercial websites and online services that collect personally identifiable information from California consumers to conspicuously display a privacy policy that outlines how they collect, use, and share personal information
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
US privacy law that regulates commercial websites or online services that are directed at children under 13 or that knowingly collect children’s personal information and requires that operations of websites and online services obtain verifiable parental consent before collecting a child’s personal information
Federal Trade Commission
Government agency that serves as the primary authority regarding privacy issues in the USA and serves to prevent unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Privacy law that regulates how businesses collect, store, and use personal information about European residents
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)
US privacy law that regulates US companies and their affiliates engaged in providing financial products or services to consumers
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
US privacy law that limits the collection, use, disclosure, and protection of protected health information
Privacy Act
US privacy law that governs federal governmental agencies’ collection, maintenance, use, and disclosure of personally identifiable information stored in their records
Shine the Light Act
California privacy law that requires for-profit companies to disclose any personal information that they share with third parties and who those third parties are

Data Subject Rights

Data Subject Rights
The broad range of rights provided to data subjects (“customers”) regarding their personal data

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Anonymous data
Data that can’t ever be connected to an identified or identifiable person
Data Access
The right to confirm with a data controller whether the organization is processing their personal data and, if so, to be informed about how that information is processed, why it’s being processed, and what other parties the information has been shared with
Data Portability
The right to ask a controller to provide one’s own personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format (for example, a .CSV file) so that the information can be transmitted to another company
Data Rectification
The right to request that a controller correct or complete personal data if the data is inaccurate or incomplete
Privacy by Default
The idea that organizations must always use the most “privacy friendly” default settings when collecting, processing, or storing data
Pseudonymous data
Personal data that can’t be tied to a specific data subject without additional information that is stored separately, with technological measures to ensure the data is not combined with that additional information
Restriction of Processing
The right to request that a controller stop access to and the modification of one’s personal data
Right to Erasure (or “Right to Be Forgotten”)
The right to request that a data controller delete or remove their personal data in situations when the data is no longer needed for the original purpose, when the data subject withdraws consent, or when the data subject objects to the processing and the controller has no overriding legitimate interest in the processing
Right to Object
The right to object at any time to the processing of one’s own personal data, in particular if the processing is for direct marketing purposes
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
Right to Access
The right to request that a business disclose any or all of this information:
  1. Categories of personal information collected about them
  2. Categories of sources that personal information is collected from
  3. Purpose that personal information is collected for
  4. Third parties that the business shares personal information with
  5. Specific personal information that the business holds about a consumer
Right to Equal Services and Pricing
The right of consumers to exercise their rights under the CCPA without a business reducing the quality of services or charging a higher price to that consumer
Right to Know (or “Right to Notice”)
The right of consumers to receive clear and transparent information about the categories and types of personal information businesses are collecting about them, as well as the purpose for the data collection and the identity of the third parties that their personal information is being shared with
Right to Opt Out
The right at any time to tell businesses to stop selling a customer’s personal information
Right to Request Deletion
The right to request that businesses delete their personal information when such information was collected from the consumer

Privacy Center

Permission set
A convenient way to assign users specific settings and permission to use various tools and functions
Permission set license
A license that incrementally entitles users to access features that aren’t included in their user licenses; users can be assigned any number of permission set licenses
Personal data
Any data that relates to an identified or identifiable individual that’s generally used in and covered by EU privacy laws
Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
Information that can be used to identify a specific individual or that is particularly sensitive and that generally is used in and covered by US privacy laws
Salesforce Connect
A technology for exposing external data inside Salesforce as though it’s inside Salesforce (or, virtualized data)

Heroku

Dyno
An isolated, virtualized, and dynamic Linux container designed to execute code based on a user-specified command
Heroku
A managed cloud platform that’s also known as a Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Heroku Connect
A means of communicating customer information between Salesforce and Heroku that provides bi-directional synchronization between Salesforce and Heroku Postgres to unify data in your Postgres database with the Contacts, Account, and other customer objects in the Salesforce database
Heroku Private Space
A dedicated environment with its own isolated network, routing layer, and control plan that isn’t shared with any other apps outside the space; used for running dynos and Heroku add-ons
Postgres Private 6
A secure, scalable, and fully managed open-source database provided by Heroku
Redis Private 7
A key-value data store provided by Heroku