Managing Parental Consent on Behalf of Child Data Subjects

You can allow parental consent on behalf of child data subjects by configuring a Collection Point to accept a data subject identifier of your choice as a parent identifier. When this configuration is enabled, the respective parent and child identities are linked and grouped into a data subject group. You can manage these parent-child relationships on the Data Subject Groups screen.

Note:

Enabling parental consent on behalf of child data subjects is available for OneTrust Hosted Web Form and API type collection points only.

For more information on grouping parent and child data subject identifiers, see Managing Data Subject Groups.

Things to Know

When a Collection Point is created with parent-child relationships enabled:

  • All Double Opt-in (DOI) emails are sent to the Parent if the DOI setting is enabled and the Parent has an email identifier type.

  • If the Parent does not have email as the identifier type but the child does, the DOI email is sent to the child.

  • If neither the Parent nor the child has an email identifier type, no email is sent and the data subject's receipt is marked as Active.

  • If the identifier type of the Parent is email but an invalid email address is entered, then the transaction is created as Pending.

To enable parental consent on API Type Collection Points

  1. On the Universal Consent & Preference Management menu, select Interfaces > Collection Points. The Collection Point screen appears.

  2. In the Name column, click the link of the API type collection point for which you want to enable parental consent on behalf of child data subjects. The Details tab of the Collection Point Details screen appears.

  3. In the Configuration section, turn on the Enable Parent-child relationship on this collection point setting.


  4. The Parent Identifier field appears where you can select the data subject identifier you wish to use as a parent identifier.

  5. Click the Save button.

To enable parental consent on OneTrust Hosted Web Form Collection Points

  1. On the Universal Consent & Preference Management menu, select Interfaces > Collection Points. The Collection Point screen appears.

  2. In the Name column, click the link of the OneTrust Hosted Web Form collection point for which you want to enable parental consent on behalf of child data subjects. The Builder tab of the Collection Point Details screen appears.

  3. Turn on the Enable parental consent setting.


  4. Click the Save button.

To set up parental consent on a OneTrust Web Form Collection Point

  1. On the Universal Consent & Preference Management menu, select Interfaces > Collection Points. The Collection Points screen appears.

  2. In the Name column, click the link of the OneTrust Web Form collection point for which you want to set up parental consent on behalf of child data subjects. The Builder tab of the Collection Point Details screen appears.

  3. Verify that the Enable parental consent setting is enabled.
  4. Select the Add New button. The Add Form Field modal appears.


    Field
    Description
    Field Type

    Select Data Elements.

    Select Data Element

    Select the data element that you want to collect from the data subject interacting with the OneTrust Hosted Web Form.

    Note:

    If a data element has been designated as an identifier, the data element will appear as an option in this field. For more information, see Managing Data Elements.

    Select if used as identifierorSelect if used as parental additional identifier

    Select whether the data element can be used for parent identifiers.

    Note:

    These options appear only if two or more data elements are added to the Collection Point. These options will be unavailable if the data element cannot be used as a data subject identifier. You can configure what data element types can be used as identifiers on the Web Form using the Data Elements screen.

  5. Click the Save button.

To send all Preference Center notifications to a Parent Data Subject

You can allow parental consent on behalf of data subjects for notifications so that all Double Opt-in, reconfirmation, and preference update emails will be sent to the Parent Data Subject.

Note:

If this setting is enabled and the Double Opt-in (DOI) setting is also enabled, emails and update notifications are sent to the Parent identifier. If there are multiple Parents, then the update notifications are sent to all the Parents in that group.

Additionally, if the magic link is being used on a parental identifier, the Parent can update consent on behalf of any children in the Preference Center. Any activity of the Parent copying the magic link is logged under the user activity for that particular Data Subject.

  1. On the Universal Consent & Preference Management menu, select Interfaces > Preference Centers. The Preference Centers screen appears.

  2. In the Name column, click the link of the Preference Center you wish to enable email permissions for a parent data subject on. The Preference Center Details screen appears.

  3. Navigate to the Settings tab.
  4. In the Notifications section, enable the Send all notifications to Parent Data Subject setting.
  5. Click the Save button.