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As participants are required when creating resources, contributors are allowed to create participants but they can only edit the participants that they have created. They are not allowed to edit all participants. Admins are allowed to edit any participant in the system. This allows, say, a contributor from Company A to create a participant record for someone who works at Company B and then an admin from Company B can ensure that the details for that participant are kept correct.
If a participant has an email address, and that email address matches the email address of a logged-in user, that user will also be able to manage their own participant details.
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The only mandatory fields are the person’s first and last name.
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