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# Adding a Consent Field

The Consent category stores the user's consent information as per the privacy policy. Perform the following steps to add a Consent category:

<Steps>
  <Step>
    Enter a Catalogue Field. As you type, suggestions based on the existing Catalogue Fields appear. You can choose a suggested Catalogue Field or click **+Add Catalogue Field** to add a new field.
  </Step>

  <Step>
    Map the Catalogue Field to its corresponding Source Field. Same as the above behaviour, you can choose a suggested Source Field or click **+Add a new Source Field** to add a new field.
  </Step>

  <Step>
    Enter a description for easy identification.
  </Step>

  <Step>
    Choose **String** as the Data Type. Consent only stores Yes or No type of value. Therefore, the only Data Type allowed is **String.**
  </Step>

  <Step>
    Choose **Consent** as the **Category**.
  </Step>

  <Step>
    Choose one of the following **Regulations**:

    * [**GDPR**](https://gdpr-info.eu/) – General Data Protection Regulation
    * [**CCPA**](https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa) – California Consumer Privacy Act
    * **Others** – If your organisation follows any other regulation apart from the above-mentioned options
  </Step>

  <Step>
    As per advanced settings, define the **TTL** for consent. **Forever** is the default value. You can choose the number of **Days** for TTL as per your requirement. A consent purpose maintains a timestamp property that gets updated every time a state is communicated. This is used to determine how long the value can be retained based on the TTL value.
  </Step>

  <Step>
    Save the changes.

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