Setting partial consent sends full consent automatically

[rafal]

Hello,

So I am setting partial consent in my Android Kotlin application, setting consentManager.userConsentCategories, but it sends two requests: first with full consent, and later with what categories I have selected:

{
  //...
  "tealium_event": "grant_full_consent",
  "consent_categories": ["analytics", "affiliates", "display_ads", "search", "email", 
  "personalization", "social", "big_data", "misc", "cookiematch", "cdp", "mobile", 
  "engagement", "monitoring", "crm"],
  "policy": "gdpr",
  //...
}

And later there is a proper one:

{
	//...
	"tealium_event": "grant_partial_consent",
	"consent_categories": ["analytics"],
	"policy": "gdpr",
        //...
}

Is it necessary? Can I somehow get rid of this additional call?

Here is a code snippet I'm using:

    fun enableAnalytics(enable: Boolean) {
        Tealium[INSTANCE_KEY]?.consentManager?.run {
            userConsentCategories = if (enable) {
                setOf(ConsentCategory.ANALYTICS)
            } else {
//                userConsentStatus = ConsentStatus.NOT_CONSENTED - commented out for test purposes but it doesn't matter
                emptySet()
            }
        }
    }

I'm using 

com.tealium:kotlin-core:1.5.1

[shivam99787]

It seems that your application is first sending a "grant_full_consent" event before it sends the "grant_partial_consent" event with the categories you have selected. This behavior is not ideal, as it may lead to unnecessary data processing or incorrect consent management.

To resolve this issue, make sure you are only setting the consent categories that the user has agreed to, and avoid granting full consent beforehand. Here's how you can update consent preferences for partial consent with Tealium Consent Manager:

Kotlin

import com.tealium.consentmanager.ConsentManager
import com.tealium.consentmanager.UserConsentPreferences
import com.tealium.consentmanager.UserConsentStatus

// Get the instance of the Consent Manager
val consentManager = ConsentManager.getInstance(tealium)

// Define the list of consent categories that the user has agreed to
val userConsentCategories = listOf("analytics")

// Set the user consent status and categories
val userConsentPreferences = UserConsentPreferences(
UserConsentStatus.CONSENTED,
userConsentCategories
)

// Update the consent preferences in the Consent Manager
consentManager.userConsentPreferences = userConsentPreferences


By following this approach, you should be able to avoid the "grant_full_consent" event, and only send the "grant_partial_consent" event with the consent categories that the user has agreed to. Make sure that you are not calling any method that grants full consent before setting the user's partial consent preferences.

[rafal]

Thank you for your answer. Sorry, I should have shown my code as well:

    fun enableAnalytics(enable: Boolean) {
        Tealium[INSTANCE_KEY]?.consentManager?.run {
            userConsentCategories = if (enable) {
                setOf(ConsentCategory.ANALYTICS)
            } else {
//                userConsentStatus = ConsentStatus.NOT_CONSENTED - commented out for test purposes but it doesn't matter
                emptySet()
            }
        }
    }

I cannot access userConsentPreferences for some reason it is not available in Kotlin ConsentManager:
https://docs.tealium.com/platforms/android-kotlin/api/consent-manager/

Oh, now I see that the package has been changed for ConsentManager:

import com.tealium.core.consent.*

vs yours

import com.tealium.consentmanager.ConsentManager

I'm using 

com.tealium:kotlin-core:1.5.1

[rafal]

Thank you for your answer.
I cannot access userConsentPreferences for some reason it is not available in Kotlin ConsentManager:
https://docs.tealium.com/platforms/android-kotlin/api/consent-manager/

Oh, now I see that the package has been changed for ConsentManager:
import com.tealium.core.consent.*
vs yours
import com.tealium.consentmanager.ConsentManager

[shivam99787]

Is your error resolved?

[rafal]

Unfortunately not. The code snippet I have added in my posts here, was already there and it was producing those two consent requests already. And I couldn't use your code snippet since I can't access userConsentPreferences field of consentManager class. Also the imports looks a bit different than what I have (different version of Tealium library maybe? Mine is 1.5.1)

[shivam99787]

Let's try another approach. Instead of setting the userConsentCategories, you can try to update the consent preferences using the setUserConsentStatus() method. Here's an approach:

import com.tealium.consentmanager.UserConsentStatus

// Get the instance of the Consent Manager
val consentManager = tealium.consentManager

// Define the list of consent categories that the user has agreed to
val userConsentCategories = listOf("analytics")

// Set the user consent status and categories
consentManager.setUserConsentStatus( UserConsentStatus.CONSENTED, userConsentCategories )

Make sure you are not calling any method that grants full consent before setting the user's partial consent preferences using this approach.

[rafal]

Unfortunately I don't even have setUserConsentStatus() method. There is only userConsentStatus attribute of ConsentManager object to be set and it accepts only ConsentStatus type. And also I don't have have UserConsentStatus class and my ConsentManager is in package com.tealium.core.consent package

[shivam99787]

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