---
title: "Get an identity"
method: GET
path: "/v1/compliance/identities/{identity_id}"
tags: ["compliance"]
---

# Get an identity

`GET /v1/compliance/identities/{identity_id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://us1.platform.bird.com`
- URL: `https://us1.platform.bird.com/v1/compliance/identities/{identity_id}`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - API key in cookie `bird_session`

Returns one of this workspace's parties, with the business details it holds.

## Headers

- `X-Workspace-Id` string
- `X-Organization-Id` string

## Response `200`

The identity.

- ComplianceIdentity: A party you register on behalf of: your own business, or one of your clients. Reusing an identity across registrations is what stops you retyping the same business details for every country, and lets a fact reviewed once stand for the registrations that follow.
  - `id` string, required
  - `name` string, required: What you call this party. Yours to choose; it is never sent to a carrier.
  - `answers` object, required: The business details this party has supplied, keyed by requirement. Filled in for you: a single-value detail lands here the moment you file it on one of your registrations, so the next one prefills it rather than asking again. Only requirements a country marks as being about the party appear; anything about a specific sender is asked fresh each time.
  - `created_at` string, date-time, required
  - `updated_at` string, date-time, required

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request
- `401`: Authentication required
- `403`: Insufficient permissions
- `404`: Resource not found
- `422`: The request has invalid field values, violates a business rule, or carries a query parameter the endpoint does not declare. Field validation errors use `type: validation_error` and include the affected fields in `details`. Business-rule errors identify the failed rule in `type`.
- `429`: Rate limit exceeded
- `500`: Internal server error

## Changes

- **2026-10-20** `a1977645a499`: 1 info
  - endpoint added
- **2026-10-20** `6cec81ac4862`: 1 breaking
  - api path removed without deprecation
- **2026-10-20** `3e2a50466454`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/messagebird/apis/bird-api/changes/v1/compliance/identities/:identity_id/get.md)

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