# Getting started The Entitled Party's role is fulfilled by a legal entity that has appropriate entitlement over a set of data. The entitlement provides the party with one or more rights over the data. These rights, or entitlements, are established in a legal relationship between the Entitled Party and the Service Provider when they are different entities. Data may be stored and provided access to as a service to perform various actions over it. 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. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://dev.ishare.eu/version-2.2/entitled-party/getting-started.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.