; and (ii) all onward disclosures of the information shall be subject to the requirement described in clause (i). (10) Employee screening data The term employee screening data means, with respect to a covered entity, covered data of an individual who is an employee, owner, director, officer, staff member, trainee, vendor, visitor, intern, volunteer, or contractor of the covered entity, provided that such data is only collected, processed, or transferred by the covered entity for the purpose of determining, for purposes related to the COVID–19 public health emergency, whether the individual is permitted to enter a physical site of operation of the covered entity. (11) Delete The term delete means to remove or destroy information such that it is not maintained in human or machine readable form and cannot be retrieved or utilized in the normal course of business. (12) Individual (A) In general The term individual means a natural person residing in the United States. (B) Exclusion Such term does not include, with respect to a covered entity, an individual acting as a full-time or part-time, paid or unpaid employee, owner, director, officer, staff member, trainee, vendor, visitor, intern, volunteer, or contractor of a covered entity permitted to enter a physical site of operation of the covered entity. (13) Persistent identifier The term persistent identifier means a technologically derived identifier that identifies an individual, or is linked or reasonably linkable to an individual over time and across services and platforms, which may include a customer number held in a cookie, a static Internet Protocol (IP) address, a processor or device serial number, or another unique device identifier. (14) Personal health information (A) In general The term personal health information means information relating to an individual that— (i) is— (I) genetic information of the individual; or (II) information relating to the diagnosis or treatment of past, present, or future physical, mental health, or disability of the individual