Can protections or policies be created without having to ask permission from the administrator?

Yes. SealPath is designed to relieve the administrator of managing confidential information. If you want to share sensitive information with an associate, you can create a work group yourself and protect the documents which you and your partner exchange. You do not need to contact the administrator to enable a protection and give the associate access, or exchange public passwords with that person. SealPath is a simple way to reinforce the secure exchange of information, increasing the organization’s efficiency.

You can see how to delegate the management of protections to other users here.