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# Collect consent

> Have a client sign a treatment consent on your device, and record their privacy consents.

export const WhoCanDoThis = ({permission, feature, plan, devices}) => {
  const rows = [];
  if (permission) rows.push(["Who can do this", `Owners, and anyone with the ${permission} permission`]);
  if (feature) rows.push(["Feature", `${feature}, turned on in Settings, Business, Features`]);
  if (plan) rows.push(["Plan", `${plan} and above`]);
  if (devices) rows.push(["Works on", devices]);
  if (!rows.length) return null;
  return <Info>
      {rows.map(([label, value]) => <span key={label} style={{
    display: "block"
  }}>
          <strong>{label}:</strong> {value}
        </span>)}
    </Info>;
};

<WhoCanDoThis permission="Manage client charts" devices="computer and tablet" />

There are two kinds of consent. A treatment consent is a form the client signs for a visit. Privacy consents record whether the client agrees to health records, clinical photos and photos in marketing.

## Before you start

* Build the consent as a form, then mark it as a consent: open it in **Forms**, select **When it's asked**, set **Type** to **Consent**, and select **Save**. **Type** shows once charting is on. See [Create an intake form](/business/forms/create-a-form).
* Publish the form. Only published consent forms can be signed.
* Set up your signing PIN. You need it to take your device back from the client.

## Have a client sign a treatment consent

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the entry">
    Open the client's chart entry and go to **Consents**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose the consent">
    Select **Sign on this device**, then the consent form.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Hand the device to the client">
    The client reads the form, answers it, signs in the box and selects **Send answers**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Take the device back">
    Select **Hand back** and enter your six-digit **Signing PIN**, then **Unlock**.
  </Step>
</Steps>

The consent shows under **Consents** as **Signed**, with the time. Select **View** to read it. While the client has the device, it stays on the form until a team member enters their PIN.

## Record privacy consents

On the client's profile, open the **Chart** tab. **Privacy consents** lists **Health records**, **Clinical photos** and **Photos in marketing**, each with its status, such as **Not asked** or **Agreed**. Select the menu beside one, then:

* **Get consent** to hand the device to the client on your Privacy consent form.
* **Record paper consent** when the client signed on paper. Check that you've seen it, then select **Record consent**.
* **Withdraw** when the client takes back their consent.

## Good to know

* Privacy consents are asked only when **Ask clients for privacy consent** is on in **Settings**, **Charting**. See [Get started with charting](/business/charts/charting-basics).
* Without consent to clinical photos, new photos can't be added. Without consent to health records, the entry says so and you can still chart.
* Withdrawing keeps everything already in the record. Withdrawn clinical photos consent stops new photos. Withdrawn marketing consent means their photos can't be used in marketing.
* Only people with the **View medical information** permission can read a signed consent's answers.

## Related articles

* [Add before and after photos](/business/charts/chart-photos)
* [Write a chart entry](/business/charts/write-a-chart-entry)
* [Create an intake form](/business/forms/create-a-form)


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