Segment events without a context object or consent object or events that have an empty context or consent object do not impact consent preferences on the Profile.

However, if you send events with consent categories that are set up in your CMP but not included in your consent object (a consent category is "missing" from your consent object) or if you have consent categories for which you haven't yet collected consent preferences, Segment sets consent preferences for those categories to `false`.

This behavior includes:

- Segment setting a value of `false` on a Profile for all consent categories for which consent has never collected.

- Segment setting a value of `false` on a Profile for each consent category in any events with an empty `context.consent.categoryPreferences` object.

- Segment setting a value of `false` on a Profile for categories not addressed in an `context.consent.categoryPreferences` object.

- Segment setting Profiles that have consent categories which have never been collected to `false` during a Profile Merge. This might result in a [Profile level conflict](#profile-level-conflict).