Consent Collection

Presents a consent agreement to the end user and records their acceptance, producing an auditable record of what was consented to and when. Use as a gate before any journey step that processes personal data. This page documents the Consent Collection module, including its variants, capabilities, and the result values it returns.

Capabilities

The module returns the following capabilities. True when the end user affirmatively accepted the consent agreement presented to them. False in every other case, including a timeout.

Detail	Description
Type	Boolean
Default	`isFalse`

How the consent step concluded - accepted, actively declined, timed out, or never presented.

Code	Label	Description
`ACCEPTED`	Accepted	The end user was presented with the agreement and explicitly accepted it.
`DECLINED`	Declined	The consent step was submitted but no explicit acceptance was recorded.
`TIMED_OUT`	Timed Out	The step timer fired before the end user submitted a response.
`NOT_PRESENTED`	Not Presented	The consent agreement was never rendered to the end user.

Default outcomes

The module is pre-configured with the following default outcomes, which can be used in evaluation and routing logic within the journey designer.

Outcome	Condition	Description
`Consent Given`	Consent Given isTrue	The end user was presented with the consent agreement and explicitly accepted it.
`Error`	—	The module couldn’t return a result.
`Consent Not Given`	default, when no conditions matched	The end user didn’t accept the consent agreement, whether they declined it, the step timed out, or the agreement was never presented.

Input payload

The following is a sample payload used to submit data to the Consent Collection module for processing.

JSON

{
  "context": {
    "subject": {
      "consent": [
        {
          "type": "explicit",
          "url": "https://www.gbgplc.com/legal/consent/identity-verification-v1",
          "terms": "I agree that GBG may process my personal data to verify my identity.",
          "effectiveDate": "2026-08-31T09:00:00Z"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Field	Required	Description
`Consent/url`	Yes	A link to the consent agreement presented to the end user, stored so the exact wording consented to can be retrieved later.
`Consent/terms`	No	The text of the consent agreement presented to the end user.
`Consent/effectiveDate`	No	The date and time the consent takes effect, in ISO 8601 format.

Sample response

The following is a sample response returned by the module.

JSON

{
  "response": {
    "advice": {
      "consentGiven": true,
      "consentStatus": "ACCEPTED"
    },
    "outcome": "Consent Given"
  }
}

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