Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 431 > Article 3A > Part II - Privacy and Opt Out Notices for Financial Information

• Affiliate: means any company that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with another company. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:3A-102
• Bar: means an establishment that is devoted to the serving of alcoholic beverages for consumption by guests on the premises regardless of whether food is served, including but not limited to taverns, cocktail lounges, and cabarets, including outdoor areas of bars. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 328J-1
• Clear and conspicuous: means reasonably understandable and designed to call attention to the nature and significance of the information in the notice. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:3A-102
• Consumer: means an individual, or that individual's legal representative, who seeks to obtain, obtains, or has obtained an insurance product or service from a licensee that is to be used primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, and about whom the licensee has nonpublic personal information. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:3A-102
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• Department: means the department of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 201-1
• Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 328J-1
• Employee: means a person who is employed by an employer in consideration for direct or indirect monetary wages or profit, and a person who volunteers the person's services for a nonprofit entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 328J-1
• Employer: means a person, business, partnership, association, corporation, including the State or any of its political subdivisions, a trust, or nonprofit entity that employs the services of one or more individual persons, but shall not include the United States. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 328J-1
• Enclosed or partially enclosed: means closed in by a roof or overhang and at least two walls. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 328J-1
• 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.
• Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. ^{Source: OCC}
• Government: means the State, or any of its political subdivisions, agencies, and instrumentalities, corporate or otherwise. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 201-1
• Health care facility: means an office or institution, including all waiting rooms, hallways, private rooms, semiprivate rooms, and wards, which provides care or treatment of diseases, whether physical, mental, or emotional, or other medical, physiological, or psychological conditions, including but not limited to hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals or other clinics, including weight control clinics, nursing homes, homes for the aging or chronically ill, laboratories, and offices of surgeons, chiropractors, physical therapists, physicians, dentists, and all specialists within these professions. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 328J-1
• 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.
• Nonaffiliated third party: means any person except:

  (1) A licensee's affiliate; or

  (2) A person employed jointly by a licensee and any company that is not the licensee's affiliate; provided that for purposes of this paragraph, a nonaffiliated third party includes the other company that jointly employs the person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:3A-102

• Open to the public: means enclosed or partially enclosed areas to which the public is invited or permitted and areas within any building available for use by or accessible to the general public during the normal course of business conducted therein by either private or public entities, including but not limited to bars, educational facilities, financial institutions, health care facilities, hotel and motel lobbies, lanais, laundromats, public transportation facilities, including airport areas from curb to cabin and including all areas within and immediately in front of and adjacent to passenger terminals and pick-up areas, throughout the airport facility, and up to the passenger loading gates of all state airports, reception areas, restaurants, retail food production and marketing establishments, retail service establishments, retail stores, shopping malls, sports arenas, theaters, and waiting rooms, but does not include a private residence unless it is used as a child care, adult day care, or health care facility. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 328J-1
• Place of employment: means an area under the control of a public or private employer that employees normally frequent during the course of employment, including but not limited to auditoriums, cafeterias, classrooms, clubs, common work areas, conference rooms, elevators, employee lounges, hallways, medical facilities, meeting rooms, private offices, restrooms, and stairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 328J-1
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Smoking: includes the use of an electronic smoking device. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 328J-1