001-1 Wyo. Code R. § 1-2
a. Access. A way or means of approaching, obtaining, using, etc; the ability to obtain the information contained in a record.
b. Agency. Any authority, bureau, board, commission, committee, or subagency or the state, county, municipality or other political subdivision which is created by or pursuant to the Wyoming Constitution, statute, or ordinance, other than the state legislature and the judiciary.
c. Confidential. The status of personal information according to federal regulations, state statutes, executive order, or agency or regulations that connotes some commitment to withhold from authorized users information obtained from an individual or institution.
d. Disclosure. Providing an individual (other than those authorized access for routine use) the information contained in a record; the release or transfer of information through oral, written, or electronic means.
e. File. Any aggregation of individual records gathered for a particular purpose and organized or indexed as a unit.
f. Financial. Fiscal, relating to salary, benefits, profits, debts of and individual.
g. Individual. Any man, woman, or child, or place of business or organization on whom an agency keeps records or maintains information.
h. Interest. A right or claim to something; share or participation in something; advantage; welfare; benefit; importance; concern.
i. Medical. Of or connected with medicine or the practice or study of medicine.
j. Personal Information. All information that describes anything about an individual such as identifying characteristics, measurements, or test scores; evidences things done by or to an individual, such as records of financial transactions, medical treatments, or other services; any information that is or can be retrieved from a record or record-keeping system by reference to the name, number, or some other identifying feature associated with the individual to whom the information pertains.
k. Privileged Information. Information that one cannot legally be compelled to divulge, as that to a lawyer from his client; information given with the stipulation that it shall not be divulged further.
l. Psychological. Of the mind; mental.
m. Public Interest. Something in which the public, the community at large, has some particular interest, or some interest by which their legal rights or liabilities are affected; interest shared by citizens generally in affairs of local, state or national government.
n. Record. Any grouping of information about an individual that is maintained in the file of an agency or organization that contains a name or identifying number or symbol assigned to the individual used to make a decision about the rights, character, opportunities, benefits, or liabilities of the individual to whom the record pertains.
o. Responsible Authority. Any office established by state law as the body responsible for the collection and use of any system of record on persons or summary data; the official involved, or if more than one state official involved, the official designated by the Director of Information Practices.
p. Right To Know. Conferred upon specific individuals either by statute or jurisprudence to execute the statutory function of the information maintained.
q. Right to Privacy. The individual's right to be left alone, to decide for himself how much he will share with others his thoughts, his feelings, and the facts of his personal life.
r. Routine Use. The use of a record for the purpose for which it was collected according to statutory authority or agency regulation.
s. Sociological. Having to do with the associated life of an individual; social identifiers relating to interaction with society.
t. Statistical Record. A record maintained for statistical research or reporting purposes only and not used in whole or in part in making any determination about an identifiable individual.
u. Subject. An individual or legal entity about whom personal information is maintained in an information system.
v. System of Record. A group of any records under the control of an agency from which information is retrieved by the name of the individual or by some identifying number, symbol or other identifying particular assigned to the individual.
w. Trade Secrets. A plan or process, tool, mechanism, or compound known only to its owner and those of his employees to whom it is necessary to confide it; a secret formula or process having commercial value.
001-1 Wyo. Code R. § 1-2