Legal Grounds And Purposes
What It Is
Legal grounds and purposes are lightweight first-class reference records used to model compliance-oriented vocabulary inside the tenant.
Why It Matters
Even simple governance vocabularies become more useful when they are represented as structured platform data instead of scattered text.
Legal Grounds
Legal grounds define named basis records. They are intentionally minimal and work best as controlled vocabulary.
Purposes
Purposes define named purpose records. Like legal grounds, they are minimal by schema but useful in governance and reporting design.
When To Use Them
Use these structures when:
- compliance vocabulary should be modeled consistently
- operators need stable named references
- reports or workflows should refer to structured governance concepts
Best Practices
- treat them as controlled vocabularies
- stabilize naming early
- avoid duplicating the same concept under slightly different labels