Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 56 > Chapter 2 > Part 10 - Insurance Data Security Law.

• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Code: includes the Tennessee Code and all amendments and revisions to the code and all additions and supplements to the code. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance, or the commissioner's designee. See Tennessee Code 56-2-1003
• Consumer: means an individual, including an applicant, policyholder, insured, beneficiary, claimant, or certificate holder, who is a resident of this state and whose nonpublic information is in a licensee's possession, custody, or control. See Tennessee Code 56-2-1003
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Department: means the department of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-2-1003
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Encrypted: means the transformation of data into a form that results in a low probability that its meaning is discernible without the use of a protective process or key. See Tennessee Code 56-2-1003
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Foreign: when used without limitation, includes all companies formed by authority of any other state or government. See Tennessee Code 56-1-102
• Immediate family: means a spouse. See Tennessee Code 56-2-1003
• Information security program: means the administrative, technical, and physical safeguards that a licensee uses to access, collect, distribute, process, protect, store, use, transmit, dispose of, or otherwise handle nonpublic information. See Tennessee Code 56-2-1003
• Information system: means :
  (A) A discrete set of electronic information resources organized for the collection, processing, maintenance, use, sharing, dissemination, or disposition of electronic nonpublic information. See Tennessee Code 56-2-1003
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Multi-factor authentication: means authentication through verification of at least two (2) of the following types of authentication factors:
  (A) Knowledge factors, such as by a password. See Tennessee Code 56-2-1003
• Nonpublic information: means information that is not publicly available and that is:
  (A) Business-related information of a licensee, in which the tampering with, unauthorized disclosure of, access to, or use of, would cause a material adverse impact to the business, operations, or security of the licensee. See Tennessee Code 56-2-1003
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means an individual or non-governmental entity, including a sole proprietorship, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, trust, religious organization, association, nonprofit organization described in §. See Tennessee Code 56-2-1003
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Risk assessment: means the risk assessment that each licensee must conduct under §. See Tennessee Code 56-2-1003
• sex: means a person's immutable biological sex as determined by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth and evidence of a person's biological sex. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Third-party service provider: means a person, not otherwise defined as a licensee, that contracts with a licensee to maintain, process, or store, or is otherwise permitted access to maintain, process, or store, nonpublic information through its provision of services to the licensee. See Tennessee Code 56-2-1003
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105