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AesirX Features: Consent Categories

Why Consent Categories Matters

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Consent is often treated as a single decision, which hides how users respond to individual tracking categories. When outcomes are collapsed into one opt-in rate, it becomes difficult to understand whether users are comfortable with certain categories while rejecting others, or how those patterns change over time.

Consent Categories addresses this by breaking consent behavior down at category level. Instead of focusing on overall consent, Consent Status Per Category shows how each category, such as Analytics, Advertising, Functional, or Custom, is accepted or rejected as recorded by the CMP. This provides a clear snapshot of category-level outcomes.

Accepted Consents Per Category and Rejected Consents Per Category add a time dimension, showing when categories are accepted or rejected across the selected date range. Together, these views reveal how category responses evolve rather than presenting consent as a static result.

From a technical perspective, the data reflects recorded consent states per category, not inferred intent or user profiling. This makes it suitable for reporting, review, and comparison across sites or configurations. Over time, Consent Categories helps teams replace assumptions with observable patterns when reviewing category performance and consent design.

Trusted by Organizations Across Industries

Built for organizations where data protection meets performance

Agencies

Agencies

Compare category behavior across multiple client setups .

E‑commerce & Retail

E‑commerce & Retail

Identify categories affecting data availability.

Financial Services

Financial Services

Review category responses without user profiling.

Publishing & Media

Publishing & Media

Understand selective consent at scale.

Public Sector & Education

Public Sector & Education

Support transparent consent reporting needs.

Healthcare

Healthcare

Observe category trends without sensitive data exposure.

Legal Services

Legal Services

Reference structured category-level consent outcomes.

Travel & Hospitality

Travel & Hospitality

Compare consent patterns across markets.

How it works

Breaks consent behavior down by category and shows changes over time

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Analyses category outcomes

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Separates consent states

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Aggregates time-based trends

Within AesirX CMP, Consent Categories captures how users respond to each consent category at the point of interaction and reflects those recorded states in category-level reports over time.

When users interact with the consent banner, each category choice is recorded as a consent state based on what is accepted or rejected at that moment.

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Recorded consent states are grouped by category to show overall acceptance and rejection outcomes, allowing categories to be compared side by side.

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Time-based charts display when categories are accepted or rejected, making it possible to review how category-level consent behavior changes across selected periods.

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Light Bulb ImageReview category trends alongside banner wording to understand how consent choices are reflected in reporting.

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Available On

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Aesirx Consent Management Platform

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Compare the Difference

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Instead of this...

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Do this with AesirX

IconConsent outcomes collapse into a single opt-in rate
IconEach category shows its own consent outcome
IconCategory-level behavior is hidden from reports
IconAcceptance and rejection are visible per category
IconPartial consent lacks clear explanation
IconPartial consent becomes easier to interpret
IconData loss is blamed on tools or tracking issues
IconReporting reflects recorded category behavior
IconCategory changes rely on assumptions
IconCategory decisions use observable patterns

Category-level insight replaces guesswork

Proof That It Works

1Trust Checklist

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2Release Highlights

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AesirX CMP for WordPress v1.8.0

AesirX CMP for WordPress v1.8.0 adds advanced consent analytics, exportable insights, and 8 new languages – giving WordPress users deeper control and legal readiness.

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People Also Ask

Consent Categories in AesirX CMP shows how each tracking category is accepted or rejected, presenting category-level consent outcomes rather than a single overall consent result.

While Consent Behavior Metrics focuses on overall consent states, Consent Categories breaks those states down by category to show where users accept or reject specific types of tracking.

No. Consent Categories aggregates consent outcomes by category without identifying users or linking decisions across sessions.

Yes. Consent Categories makes partial consent easier to interpret by showing which categories are accepted and which are rejected within the same consent interaction.

Consent Categories supports reporting by providing structured, category-level consent outcomes that can be reviewed over time and compared across configurations. These outcomes can be referenced or exported as part of consent documentation, helping teams explain category-specific behavior using recorded data rather than assumptions.