# Getting started

The Entitled Party is the legal person that holds one or more legitimate rights regarding access to, use of, or control over data and/or data services provided by a Service Provider (role) with which it has a legal agreement.

This may include:

* The right to access or consume a data service (e.g. retrieve or send data)
* The right to exercise legal or contractual control over the data itself (e.g. data ownership, stewardship, or regulatory responsibility)

The Entitled Party, Service Consumer and Service Provider roles can be fulfilled by the same entity, i.e. a legal entity that consumes a service based on its own entitlements to this service (for example, a trucking company's entitlement to request Estimated Time of Arrival and optimal route information), but this is not necessary.

Entities entitled to a service can delegate others to consume it on their behalf. In such cases, the consuming entity operates based on another entity’s entitlements. In these cases, the Service Consumer uses a Service Provider’s service based on the Entitled Party’s entitlements, but the role of Service Consumer is performed by a different entity than the Entitled Party.

The Entitled Party may make the Authorisation Registry discoverable for each capability in its /capabilities endpoint or in general or for specific dataspaces in the Participant Registry. (See [*Discovering Authorisation Registry*](/reference/authorization.md#discovering-authorisation-rules)*).*


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