As used in ORS 119.006 to 119.081:
- (1) “Account” means an arrangement under a terms-of-service agreement in which a custodian carries, maintains, processes, receives or stores a digital asset of the user or provides goods or services to the user.
- (2) “Agent” means a person designated as an agent under a power of attorney in accordance with ORS 127.005 to 127.045.
- (3) “Carries” means engages in the transmission of an electronic communication.
- (4) “Catalog of electronic communications” means information that identifies each person with which a user has had an electronic communication, the time and date of the communication and the electronic address of the person.
- (5) “Conservator” has the meaning given that term in ORS 125.005.
(6) “Content of an electronic communication” means information concerning the substance or meaning of the communication that:
- (a) Has been sent or received by a user;
- (b) Is in electronic storage by a custodian providing an electronic communication service to the public or is carried or maintained by a custodian providing a remote computing service to the public; and
- (c) Is not readily accessible to the public.
- (7) “Court” means a circuit court in this state.
- (8) “Custodian” means a person that carries, maintains, processes, receives or stores a digital asset of a user.
- (9) “Designated recipient” means a person chosen by a user using an online tool to administer digital assets of the user.
- (10) “Digital asset” means an electronic record in which an individual has a right or interest. “Digital asset” does not include an underlying asset or liability unless the asset or liability is itself an electronic record.
- (11) “Electronic” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic or similar capabilities.
- (12) “Electronic communication” has the meaning set forth in 18 U.S.C. 2510(12).
- (13) “Electronic communication service” means a custodian that provides to a user the ability to send or receive an electronic communication.
- (14) “Fiduciary” means a person that is an original, additional or successor personal representative, conservator, agent or trustee.
- (15) “Information” means data, text, images, videos, sounds, codes, computer programs, software, databases and similar intelligence of any nature.
- (16) “Online tool” means an electronic service provided by a custodian that allows the user, in an agreement distinct from the terms-of-service agreement between the custodian and the user, to provide directions for disclosure or nondisclosure of digital assets to a third person.
- (17) “Person” means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality or other legal entity.
- (18) “Personal representative” means an executor, administrator or special administrator, or a person legally authorized to perform substantially the same functions.
- (19) “Power of attorney” means a record that grants an agent authority to act in the place of a principal.
- (20) “Principal” means an individual who grants authority to an agent in a power of attorney.
- (21) “Protected person” means an individual for whom a conservator has been appointed. “Protected person” includes an individual for whom an application for the appointment of a conservator is pending.
- (22) “Record” means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.
- (23) “Remote computing service” means a custodian that provides to a user computer processing services or the storage of digital assets by means of an electronic communications system as defined in 18 U.S.C. 2510(14).
- (24) “Terms-of-service agreement” means an agreement that controls the relationship between a user and a custodian.
- (25) “Trustee” means a fiduciary with legal title to property under an agreement or declaration that creates a beneficial interest in another person. “Trustee” includes a successor trustee.
- (26) “User” means a person that has an account with a custodian.
- (27) “Will” includes a codicil, testamentary instrument that only appoints an executor and instrument that revokes or revises a testamentary instrument.
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