Data governance policies endpoint

Last update: 2024-02-27
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Data governance policies are rules that describe the kinds of marketing actions that you are allowed to, or restricted from, performing on data within Experience Platform. The /policies endpoint in the Policy Service API allows you to programmatically manage data governance policies for your organization.

IMPORTANT

Governance policies are not to be confused with access control policies, which determine the specific data attributes that can be accessed by certain Platform users in your organization. Refer to the /policies endpoint guide for the Access Control API for details on how to programmatically manage access control policies.

Getting started

The API endpoint used in this guide is part of the Policy Service API. Before continuing, please review the getting started guide for links to related documentation, a guide to reading the sample API calls in this document, and important information regarding required headers that are needed to successfully make calls to any Experience Platform API.

Retrieve a list of policies

You can list all core or custom policies by making a GET request to /policies/core or /policies/custom, respectively.

API format

GET /policies/core
GET /policies/custom

Request

The following request retrieves a list of custom policies defined by your organization.

curl -X GET \
  https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/dulepolicy/policies/custom \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
  -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
  -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
  -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}'

Response

A successful response includes a children array that lists the details of each retrieved policy, including their id values. You can use the id field of a particular policy to perform lookup, update, and delete requests for that policy.

{
    "_page": {
        "start": "5c6dacdf685a4913dc48937c",
        "count": 2
    },
    "_links": {
        "page": {
            "href": "https://platform.adobe.io/policies/custom?{?limit,start,property}",
            "templated": true
        }
    },
    "children": [
        {
            "name": "Export Data to Third Party",
            "status": "DRAFT",
            "marketingActionRefs": [
                "https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/dulepolicy/marketingActions/custom/exportToThirdParty"
            ],
            "description": "Conditions under which data cannot be exported to a third party",
            "deny": {
                "operator": "AND",
                "operands": [
                    {
                        "label": "C1"
                    },
                    {
                        "operator": "OR",
                        "operands": [
                            {
                                "label": "C3"
                            },
                            {
                                "label": "C7"
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "imsOrg": "{ORG_ID}",
            "created": 1550691551888,
            "createdClient": "{CLIENT_ID}",
            "createdUser": "{USER_ID}",
            "updated": 1550701472910,
            "updatedClient": "{CLIENT_ID}",
            "updatedUser": "{USER_ID}",
            "_links": {
                "self": {
                    "href": "https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/dulepolicy/policies/custom/5c6dacdf685a4913dc48937c"
                }
            },
            "id": "5c6dacdf685a4913dc48937c"
        },
        {
            "name": "Combine Data",
            "status": "ENABLED",
            "marketingActionRefs": [
                "https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/dulepolicy/marketingActions/custom/combineData"
            ],
            "description": "Data that meets these conditions cannot be combined.",
            "deny": {
                "operator": "AND",
                "operands": [
                    {
                        "label": "C3"
                    },
                    {
                        "label": "I1"
                    }
                ]
            },
            "imsOrg": "{ORG_ID}",
            "created": 1550703519823,
            "createdClient": "{CLIENT_ID}",
            "createdUser": "{USER_ID}",
            "updated": 1550714340335,
            "updatedClient": "{CLIENT_ID}",
            "updatedUser": "{USER_ID}",
            "_links": {
                "self": {
                    "href": "https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/dulepolicy/policies/custom/5c6ddb9f5c404513dc2dc454"
                }
            },
            "id": "5c6ddb9f5c404513dc2dc454"
        }
    ]
}
Property Description
_page.count The total number of policies retrieved.
name The display name for a policy.
status The current status of a policy. There are three possible statuses: DRAFT, ENABLED, or DISABLED. By default, only ENABLED policies participate in evaluation. See the overview on policy evaluation for more information.
marketingActionRefs An array that lists the URIs of all applicable marketing actions for a policy.
description An optional description that provides further context to the policy’s use case.
deny An object which describes the specific data usage labels that a policy’s associated marketing action is restricted from being performed on. See the section on creating a policy for more information on this property.

Look up a policy

You can look up a specific policy by including that policy’s id property in the path of a GET request.

API format

GET /policies/core/{POLICY_ID}
GET /policies/custom/{POLICY_ID}
Parameter Description
{POLICY_ID} The id of the policy you want to look up.

Request

curl -X GET \
  https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/dulepolicy/policies/custom/5c6dacdf685a4913dc48937c \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
  -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
  -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
  -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}'

Response

A successful response returns the details of the policy.

{
    "name": "Export Data to Third Party",
    "status": "DRAFT",
    "marketingActionRefs": [
        "https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/dulepolicy/marketingActions/custom/exportToThirdParty"
    ],
    "description": "Conditions under which data cannot be exported to a third party",
    "deny": {
        "operator": "AND",
        "operands": [
            {
                "label": "C1"
            },
            {
                "operator": "OR",
                "operands": [
                    {
                        "label": "C3"
                    },
                    {
                        "label": "C7"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    "imsOrg": "{ORG_ID}",
    "created": 1550703519823,
    "createdClient": "{CLIENT_ID}",
    "createdUser": "{USER_ID}",
    "updated": 1550714340335,
    "updatedClient": "{CLIENT_ID}",
    "updatedUser": "{USER_ID}",
    "_links": {
        "self": {
            "href": "https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/dulepolicy/policies/custom/5c6dacdf685a4913dc48937c"
        }
    },
    "id": "5c6dacdf685a4913dc48937c"
}
Property Description
name The display name for the policy.
status The current status of the policy. There are three possible statuses: DRAFT, ENABLED, or DISABLED. By default, only ENABLED policies participate in evaluation. See the overview on policy evaluation for more information.
marketingActionRefs An array that lists the URIs of all applicable marketing actions for the policy.
description An optional description that provides further context to the policy’s use case.
deny An object which describes the specific data usage labels that the policy’s associated marketing action is restricted from being performed on. See the section on creating a policy for more information on this property.

Create a custom policy

In the Policy Service API, a policy is defined by the following:

  • A reference to a specific marketing action
  • An expression describing the data usage labels that the marketing action is restricted from being performed against

To satisfy the latter requirement, policy definitions must include a boolean expression regarding the presence of data usage labels. This expression is called a policy expression.

Policy expressions are provided in the form of a deny property within each policy definition. An example of a simple deny object that only checks the presence of a single label would look like the following:

"deny": {
    "label": "C1"
}

However, many policies specify more complex conditions regarding the presence of data usage labels. To support these use cases, you can also include boolean operations to describe your policy expressions. The policy expression object must contain either a label or an operator and operands, but not both. In turn, each operand is also a policy expression object.

For example, in order to define a policy that prohibits a marketing action from being performed on data where C1 OR (C3 AND C7) labels are present, the policy’s deny property would be specified as:

"deny": {
  "operator": "OR",
  "operands": [
    {"label": "C1"},
    {
      "operator": "AND",
      "operands": [
        {"label": "C3"},
        {"label": "C7"}
      ]
    }
  ]
}
Property Description
operator Indicates the conditional relationship between the labels provided in the sibling operands array. Accepted values are:
  • OR: The expression resolves to true if any of the labels in the operands array are present.
  • AND: The expression only resolves to true if all of the labels in the operands array are present.
operands An array of objects, with each object representing either a single label or an additional pair of operator and operands properties. The presence of the labels and/or operations in an operands array resolves to true or false based on the value of its sibling operator property.
label The name of a single data usage label that applies to the policy.

You can create a new custom policy by making a POST request to the /policies/custom endpoint.

API format

POST /policies/custom

Request

The following request creates a new policy that restricts the marketing action exportToThirdParty from being performed on data containing labels C1 OR (C3 AND C7).

curl -X POST \
  https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/dulepolicy/policies/custom \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
  -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
  -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}' \
  -d '{
        "name": "Export Data to Third Party",
        "status": "DRAFT",
        "marketingActionRefs": [
          "https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/dulepolicy/marketingActions/custom/exportToThirdParty"
        ],
        "description": "Conditions under which data cannot be exported to a third party",
        "deny": {
          "operator": "OR",
          "operands": [
            {"label": "C1"},
            {
              "operator": "AND",
              "operands": [
                {"label": "C3"},
                {"label": "C7"}
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      }'
Property Description
name The display name for the policy.
status The current status of the policy. There are three possible statuses: DRAFT, ENABLED, or DISABLED. By default, only ENABLED policies participate in evaluation. See the overview on policy evaluation for more information.
marketingActionRefs An array that lists the URIs of all applicable marketing actions for the policy. The URI for a marketing action is provided under _links.self.href in the response for looking up a marketing action.
description An optional description that provides further context to the policy’s use case.
deny The policy expression that describes the specific data usage labels the policy’s associated marketing action is restricted from being performed on.

Response

A successful response returns the details of the newly created policy, including its id. This value is read-only and is assigned automatically when the policy is created.

{
    "name": "Export Data to Third Party",
    "status": "DRAFT",
    "marketingActionRefs": [
        "https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/dulepolicy/marketingActions/custom/exportToThirdParty"
    ],
    "description": "Conditions under which data cannot be exported to a third party",
    "deny": {
        "operator": "OR",
        "operands": [
            {
                "label": "C1"
            },
            {
                "operator": "AND",
                "operands": [
                    {
                        "label": "C3"
                    },
                    {
                        "label": "C7"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    "imsOrg": "{ORG_ID}",
    "created": 1550691551888,
    "createdClient": "{CLIENT_ID}",
    "createdUser": "{USER_ID}",
    "updated": 1550691551888,
    "updatedClient": "{CLIENT_ID}",
    "updatedUser": "{USER_ID}",
    "_links": {
        "self": {
            "href": "https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/dulepolicy/policies/custom/5c6dacdf685a4913dc48937c"
        }
    },
    "id": "5c6dacdf685a4913dc48937c"
}

Update a custom policy

IMPORTANT

You can only update custom policies. If you wish to enable or disable core policies, see the section on updating the list of enabled core policies.

You can update an existing custom policy by providing its ID in the path of a PUT request with a payload that includes the updated form of the policy in its entirety. In other words, the PUT request essentially rewrites the policy.

NOTE

See the section on updating a portion of a custom policy if you only want to update one or more fields for a policy, rather than overwrite it.

API format

PUT /policies/custom/{POLICY_ID}
Parameter Description
{POLICY_ID} The id of the policy you want to update.

Request

In this example, the conditions for exporting data to a third party have changed, and now you require the policy that you created to deny this marketing action if C1 AND C5 data labels are present.

The following request updates the existing policy to include the new policy expression. Note that since this request essentially rewrites the policy, all of the fields must be included in the payload, even if some of their values are not being updated.

curl -X PUT \
  https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/dulepolicy/policies/custom/5c6dacdf685a4913dc48937c \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
  -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
  -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}' \
  -d '{
        "name": "Export Data to Third Party",
        "status": "DRAFT",
        "marketingActionRefs": [
          "../marketingActions/custom/exportToThirdParty"
        ],
        "description": "Conditions under which data cannot be exported to a third party",
        "deny": {
          "operator": "AND",
          "operands": [
            {"label": "C1"},
            {"label": "C5"}
          ]
        }
      }'
Property Description
name The display name for the policy.
status The current status of the policy. There are three possible statuses: DRAFT, ENABLED, or DISABLED. By default, only ENABLED policies participate in evaluation. See the overview on policy evaluation for more information.
marketingActionRefs An array that lists the URIs of all applicable marketing actions for the policy. The URI for a marketing action is provided under _links.self.href in the response for looking up a marketing action.
description An optional description that provides further context to the policy’s use case.
deny The policy expression that describes the specific data usage labels the policy’s associated marketing action is restricted from being performed on. See the section on creating a policy for more information on this property.

Response

A successful response returns the details of the updated policy.

{
    "name": "Export Data to Third Party",
    "status": "DRAFT",
    "marketingActionRefs": [
        "https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/dulepolicy/marketingActions/core/exportToThirdParty"
    ],
    "description": "Conditions under which data cannot be exported to a third party",
    "deny": {
        "operator": "AND",
        "operands": [
            {
                "label": "C1"
            },
            {
                "label": "C5"
            }
        ]
    },
    "imsOrg": "{ORG_ID}",
    "created": 1550691551888,
    "createdClient": "{CLIENT_ID}",
    "createdUser": "{USER_ID}",
    "updated": 1550701472910,
    "updatedClient": "{CLIENT_ID}",
    "updatedUser": "{USER_ID}",
    "_links": {
        "self": {
            "href": "https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/dulepolicy/policies/custom/5c6dacdf685a4913dc48937c"
        }
    },
    "id": "5c6dacdf685a4913dc48937c"
}

Update a portion of a custom policy

IMPORTANT

You can only update custom policies. If you wish to enable or disable core policies, see the section on updating the list of enabled core policies.

A specific portion of a policy may be updated using a PATCH request. Unlike PUT requests that rewrite the policy, PATCH requests update only the properties specified in the request body. This is especially useful when you want to enable or disable a policy, as you only need to provide the path to the appropriate property (/status) and its value (ENABLED or DISABLED).

NOTE

Payloads for PATCH requests follow JSON Patch formatting. See the API fundamentals guide for more information on the accepted syntax.

The Policy Service API supports the JSON Patch operations add, remove, and replace, and allows you to combine several updates together into a single call, as shown in the example below.

API format

PATCH /policies/custom/{POLICY_ID}
Parameter Description
{POLICY_ID} The id of the policy whose properties you want to update.

Request

The following request uses two replace operations to change the policy status from DRAFT to ENABLED, and to update the description field with a new description.

IMPORTANT

When sending multiple PATCH operations in a single request, they will be processed in the order in which they appear in the array. Ensure that you are sending the requests in the correct order where necessary.

curl -X PATCH \
  https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/dulepolicy/policies/custom/5c6dacdf685a4913dc48937c \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
  -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
  -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}' \
  -d ' [
          {
            "op": "replace",
            "path": "/status",
            "value": "ENABLED"
          },
          {
            "op": "replace",
            "path": "/description",
            "value": "New policy description."
          }
        ]'

Response

A successful response returns the details of the updated policy.

{
    "name": "Export Data to Third Party",
    "status": "ENABLED",
    "marketingActionRefs": [
        "https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/dulepolicy/marketingActions/custom/exportToThirdParty"
    ],
    "description": "New policy description.",
    "deny": {
        "operator": "AND",
        "operands": [
            {
                "label": "C1"
            },
            {
                "operator": "OR",
                "operands": [
                    {
                        "label": "C3"
                    },
                    {
                        "label": "C7"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    "imsOrg": "{ORG_ID}",
    "created": 1550703519823,
    "createdClient": "{CLIENT_ID}",
    "createdUser": "{USER_ID}",
    "updated": 1550712163182,
    "updatedClient": "{CLIENT_ID}",
    "updatedUser": "{USER_ID}",
    "_links": {
        "self": {
            "href": "https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/dulepolicy/policies/custom/5c6dacdf685a4913dc48937c"
        }
    },
    "id": "5c6dacdf685a4913dc48937c"
}

Delete a custom policy

You can delete a custom policy by including its id in the path of a DELETE request.

WARNING

Once deleted, policies cannot be recovered. It is best practice to perform a lookup (GET) request first to view the policy and confirm it is the correct policy you wish to remove.

API format

DELETE /policies/custom/{POLICY_ID}
Parameter Description
{POLICY_ID} The ID of the policy you want to delete.

Request

curl -X DELETE \
  https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/dulepolicy/policies/custom/5c6ddb56eb60ca13dbf8b9a8 \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
  -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
  -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
  -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}'

Response

A successful response returns HTTP status 200 (OK) with a blank body.

You can confirm the deletion by attempting to look up (GET) the policy again. You should receive an HTTP 404 (Not Found) error if the policy has been successfully deleted.

Retrieve a list of enabled core policies

By default, only enabled data governance policies participate in evaluation. You can retrieve a list of core policies that are currently enabled by your organization by making a GET request to the /enabledCorePolicies endpoint.

API format

GET /enabledCorePolicies

Request

curl -X GET \
  https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/dulepolicy/enabledCorePolicies \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
  -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
  -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
  -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}'

Response

A successful response returns the list of enabled core policies under a policyIds array.

{
  "policyIds": [
    "corepolicy_0001",
    "corepolicy_0002",
    "corepolicy_0003",
    "corepolicy_0004",
    "corepolicy_0005",
    "corepolicy_0006",
    "corepolicy_0007",
    "corepolicy_0008"
  ],
  "imsOrg": "{ORG_ID}",
  "created": 1529696681413,
  "createdClient": "{CLIENT_ID}",
  "createdUser": "{USER_ID}",
  "updated": 1529697651972,
  "updatedClient": "{CLIENT_ID}",
  "updatedUser": "{USER_ID}",
  "_links": {
    "self": {
      "href": "https://platform.adobe.io:443/data/foundation/dulepolicy/enabledCorePolicies"
    }
  }
}

Update the list of enabled core policies

By default, only enabled data governance policies participate in evaluation. By making a PUT request to the /enabledCorePolicies endpoint, you can update the list of enabled core policies for your organization using a single call.

NOTE

Only core policies can be enabled or disabled by this endpoint. To enable or disable custom policies, see the section on updating a portion of a policy.

API format

PUT /enabledCorePolicies

Request

The following request updates the list of enabled core policies based on the IDs provided in the payload.

curl -X GET \
  https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/dulepolicy/enabledCorePolicies \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
  -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
  -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
  -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}' \
  -d '{
        "policyIds": [
          "corepolicy_0001",
          "corepolicy_0002",
          "corepolicy_0007",
          "corepolicy_0008"
        ]
      }'
Property Description
policyIds A list of core policy IDs that are to be enabled. Any core policies that are not included are set to DISABLED status and will not participate in evaluation.

Response

A successful response returns the updated list of enabled core policies under a policyIds array.

{
  "policyIds": [
    "corepolicy_0001",
    "corepolicy_0002",
    "corepolicy_0007",
    "corepolicy_0008"
  ],
  "imsOrg": "{ORG_ID}",
  "created": 1529696681413,
  "createdClient": "{CLIENT_ID}",
  "createdUser": "{USER_ID}",
  "updated": 1595876052649,
  "updatedClient": "{CLIENT_ID}",
  "updatedUser": "{USER_ID}",
  "_links": {
    "self": {
      "href": "https://platform.adobe.io:443/data/foundation/dulepolicy/enabledCorePolicies"
    }
  }
}

Next steps

Once you have defined new policies or updated existing ones, you can use the Policy Service API to test marketing actions against specific labels or datasets and see whether your policies are raising violations as expected. See the guide on the policy evaluation endpoints for more information.

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