Entity Type

An entity type object represents a category of person, organization, or object about which data can be stored. For use cases focusing solely on compliance with personal privacy regulations such as GDPR or CCPA, the built-in datasubject entity type should be sufficient, but in more complex situations it may be useful to create additional entity types for concepts such as employees, companies, or products.

Definition

The metadata associated with an entity type is as follows:

Name	Type	Description
key	String	An unambiguous identifier for this entity type. Only alphanumeric characters and underscores may appear in entity type keys.
name	String	A human-readable identifier for this entity type.
description	String	An explanation of what this entity type represents.

Examples

An example entity type definition:

{
  "key": "supplier",
  "name": "Product supplier",
  "description": "A company from which products are purchased"
}