Confidentiality refers to the right of the people being cared for to not have the information they have provided or that relating to their care process disclosed .

The law recognizes the right to privacy for every person, regardless of age or level of competence , always requiring respect for the confidentiality of their data. While, as a general rule, the person receiving care is the holder of the right to information, the law also legitimizes sharing information with family members or people connected to them when the person lacks the full capacity to understand it.

Confidentiality between the health professional and the child or adolescent will be configured as a duty to preserve the information when it is the minor who requests this trust from the health professional, a situation that does not necessarily always occur and that usually only occurs when the minor is faced with situations or decisions that affect their most intimate and personal sphere (sexual and reproductive health, consumption of toxins, etc.), which they want to preserve as their own, and certainly not in life-threatening interventions in which it will be the adolescent himself who requests the assistance and accompaniment of his parents.