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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