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# Checking Consent Preferences at Activation

Learn more about how to verify your consent preferences when using the Activation functionality of Data 360.

When activating an audience, this process publishes a segment to be found in a Salesforce cloud or external system.

We suggest checking for consent before using this data in any marketing platform.

#### See Also

- [_Salesforce Help_: Create a Marketing Cloud Activation Target](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=data.c360_a_create_marketing_cloud_activation_target.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "To publish segments and batch data model objects (DMO) to Marketing Cloud Engagement business units, create an activation target in Data 360.")
- [_Salesforce Help_: Create a Cloud File Storage Activation Target](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=data.c360_a_create_cloud_file_storage_activation_target.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Create an activation target in Data 360 to publish segments and batch data model objects (DMOs) to external file storage activation platforms like Amazon S3, SFTP, Google Cloud Storage (GCS), or Microsoft Azure blob storage.")