16. A non-transitory machine-readable medium, encoding instructions that, when performed by one or more data processing apparatus, cause the one or more data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising: receiving, by a server of a document control system from a client system, the server comprising at least one processor and at least one memory device, a request to open an electronic document tethered to the document control system, wherein the document control system provides persistent document security for documents tethered to the document control system; in response to the request to open the electronic document, presenting a page of the electronic document to the client system; determining that the electronic document is being scrolled to a new page or that the page of the electronic document has been presented to the client system for more than a set amount of time; in response to the determination, presenting to the client system a consent query that requests consent to be audited for viewing the electronic document, wherein the consent is to be recorded by the document control system for the electronic document; receiving in response to the presented consent query, a consent indication with respect to a consent statement relating to being audited for viewing the electronic document; and sending information corresponding to the consent indication to the document control system, the consent indication information configured to be included with actions-taken information relating to the electronic document.
16. A non-transitory machine-readable medium, encoding instructions that, when performed by one or more data processing apparatus, cause the one or more data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising: receiving, by a server of a document control system from a client system, the server comprising at least one processor and at least one memory device, a request to open an electronic document tethered to the document control system, wherein the document control system provides persistent document security for documents tethered to the document control system; in response to the request to open the electronic document, presenting a page of the electronic document to the client system; determining that the electronic document is being scrolled to a new page or that the page of the electronic document has been presented to the client system for more than a set amount of time; in response to the determination, presenting to the client system a consent query that requests consent to be audited for viewing the electronic document, wherein the consent is to be recorded by the document control system for the electronic document; receiving in response to the presented consent query, a consent indication with respect to a consent statement relating to being audited for viewing the electronic document; and sending information corresponding to the consent indication to the document control system, the consent indication information configured to be included with actions-taken information relating to the electronic document. 19. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the operations further comprise altering, by the server of the document control system, one or more permissions associated with the electronic document in accordance with the consent indication information.