---
id: "legal-vs-natural-persons"
kind: "glossary-term"
title: "legal vs natural persons"
language: "en"
category: "Registration data and privacy"
updated: "2026-10-04T14:01:23Z"
canonical: "https://tldlog.com/glossary/legal-vs-natural-persons/"
translations:
  es: "https://tldlog.com/es/glosario/personas-juridicas-personas-fisicas/"
  de: "https://tldlog.com/de/glossar/juristische-natuerliche-personen/"
  fr: "https://tldlog.com/fr/glossaire/personnes-morales-personnes-physiques/"
  it: "https://tldlog.com/it/glossario/persone-giuridiche-persone-fisiche/"
  pt-BR: "https://tldlog.com/pt/glossario/pessoas-juridicas-pessoas-fisicas/"
  ru: "https://tldlog.com/ru/glossariy/yuridicheskie-fizicheskie-litsa/"
  zh-Hans: "https://tldlog.com/zh/cihui/faren-ziranren/"
---

# legal vs natural persons

A natural person is a human being, and a legal person is a company or other organization. The GDPR protects the personal data of people, not data about companies. ICANN policy lets gTLD registrars treat the two differently when publishing registration data, but does not oblige them to.

## related terms

- [GDPR](https://tldlog.com/glossary/gdpr/)
- [redaction](https://tldlog.com/glossary/redaction/)
- [Registrant Organization field](https://tldlog.com/glossary/registrant-organization/)
- [EPDP Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 2A](https://tldlog.com/glossary/epdp-phases/)
- [NIS2](https://tldlog.com/glossary/nis2/)