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third party

nounid 4403·updated Aug 28, 2026
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An individual or organization other than the entity and its employees. Third parties may be customers, suppliers, business partners, or others.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Group100%manual reviewaxis_review_queue.v1

Sensitivity

85%rule-basedr:sens.regulated.framework.v1

Information Class

50%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

synonym
related party
alternatephrasing
Third Party
plural
third parties
possessive
third party's
pluralpossessive
third parties'

Framework definitions

NIST Cybersecurity Framework1 senseview framework →
§1
A person or group besides the two primarily involved in a situation, agreement, business, etc.
FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, Baseline, May 20171 senseview framework →
§1
A person or group besides the two primarily involved in a situation, agreement, business, etc.
FFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 20121 senseview framework →
§1
A person or group besides the two primarily involved in a situation, agreement, business, etc.
NY DFS Part 500 (NYCRR Title 23, Chapter 1, Part 500)1 senseview framework →
§1
A person or group besides the two primarily involved in a situation, agreement, business, etc.
General Data Protection RegulationEU1 senseview framework →
§1 · EU
Natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, controller, processor
third party1 senseview framework →
§1
an entity that is involved in some way in an interaction that is primarily between two other entities. [Please see note, especially regarding NIST CSRC terms that we might incorporate into this definition.]
Wordset Dictionary2 sensesview framework →
§1
a political party organized in opposition to the major parties in a two-party system
§2
someone other than the principals who are involved in a transaction
TSP Section 1001 senseview framework →
§1 · glossary
An individual or organization other than the entity and its employees. Third parties may be customers, suppliers, business partners, or others.
Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (glossary)
AICPA Privacy Management Framework1 senseview framework →
§1 · glossary
This is an entity or service organization that may not be legally controlled by a covered entity but might otherwise be legally affiliated with the covered entity that collects PI. In many cases, affiliated entities are also impacted by and should be covered by the originating covered entity's privacy agreements or by applicable legal statutes.
Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (glossary)
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
A person or group besides the two primarily involved in a situation, agreement, business, etc.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

Outgoing relationships

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Incoming relationships

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