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Compliance Administrators

This section applies only to compliance-managed accounts. If your account is not compliance managed, you will not have a Compliance Administrator role and can skip this page.

Compliance Administrators handle Legal & Compliance review on Block requests and related compliance tasks. They also use the Compliance Portal to manage which datasets your organization may access (subject to Carbon Arc and provider restrictions).

Related documentation

What you can do

  • Approve or deny Block requests on the Compliance Administrator tab when your Block workflow requires compliance review.
  • Preapprove datasets so compliance review is skipped for those assets on future Block requests.
  • Download compliance tearsheets (including due diligence materials) from dataset details on Block or the Data Library, or via the SDK compliance_tear_sheet.download_url on dataset and request objects. Compliance Administrators only (compliance-managed accounts).

Block access: Block User only

Compliance Administrators need Block User—not Block Administrator—to work with Block Data.

AssignmentPurpose
Role: Compliance AdminCompliance approvals on Block requests, preapprovals, documentation
Block Access: Block UserOpen Block, view datasets, use the Compliance tab on the Administrator Dashboard

You do not need Block Administrator unless you should also approve requests on the Block Data Administrator tab.

Typical setup: Compliance Admin + Block User

Compliance Portal (separate from Block)

The Compliance Portal controls account-level access to data assets (toggles, day lag, provider details). See Compliance for full documentation. Block preapprovals are specific to the Block request workflow and require a Compliance Administrator.