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A preference is a choice a consumer has stated about how they are contacted, which an activation must honour. It is not consent, and not any other permission basis.

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• Email frequencyexemplarA consumer's stated choice about how often they may be emailed; an activation must honor it, and it is not consent.

Why it matters

What goes wrong without it, as the commitments that license this kind say it, each standing on its sources.

• Keep audience eligibility, preference and permission basis distinctThese answer three different questions — can this person be reached, how do they want to be reached, and are we permitted to reach them — and collapsing them is how an organisation comes to treat membership of a segment as a consent. Eligibility is an addressing fact, preference is a stated choice, and a permission basis is a condition with a purpose and a jurisdiction. Only the last has anything to say about whether an activation is allowed.
  Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Article 6 · Audience Taxonomy · Global Privacy Protocol · Data Privacy Vocabulary · Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Article 7: Conditions for consent · Consent Receipt Specification 1.1 · Transparency and Consent Framework v2.2 · RFC 8058: Signaling One-Click Functionality for List Email Headers
• An exemplar shows the shape a record takesA model with no instances cannot be evaluated, and a model with invented instances cannot be trusted. Treating an example as documentation of a concept rather than an assertion about the world resolves the bind: one marked exemplar shows what a record of the kind looks like, while the claim that any such record exists stays unmade.
  SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference · Toward Principles for the Design of Ontologies Used for Knowledge Sharing