‘information’, includes data, text, images, sound, voice, code, computer programmes, software and databases or microfilm or computer generated microfiche;

‘intermediary’, with respect to any particular electronic message, means any person who on behalf of another person receives, stores or transmits that message or provides any service with respect to that message;

‘originator’, means a person who sends, generates, stores or transmits any electronic message to be sent, generated, stored or transmitted to any other person, but does not include an intermediary;

‘user agreement’, means the agreement entered into between the registered user and the Commissioner.

‘registered user’ means a person registered in terms of the provisions of subsection (3);

‘computer system’, means a device or collection of devices, including input and output devices and capable of being used with external files which contain computer programmes, electronic instructions, input and output data that performs logic, arithmetic, data storage and retrieval, communication control and other functions;

‘addressee’, means a person who is intended by the originator to receive the electronic message, but does not include an intermediary;