{
  "id": "CON-DISC-TERMS-LINK",
  "slug": "con-disc-terms-link",
  "title": "A Terms of Service link must sit at the point of consent",
  "statement": "A link to the Terms of Service must be present beside the opt-in control, not only in the page footer.",
  "rationale": "The terms are where the full program description lives, and CTIA requires them to be reachable from the initial call to action rather than hunted for. A footer link at the bottom of a long checkout page is not, in practice, available at the moment of decision.",
  "layer": "CONSENT_FLOW",
  "layerSlug": "consent-flow",
  "object": "consent surface",
  "severity": "HIGH",
  "detectability": [
    "CRAWL",
    "VISION"
  ],
  "failureClass": "TERMINAL_WEBSITE",
  "authorities": [
    "CTIA",
    "TCR",
    "Twilio"
  ],
  "applicability": {
    "consentMethods": [
      "web_form",
      "checkout",
      "account_settings",
      "third_party",
      "chat",
      "social",
      "email"
    ]
  },
  "applicabilityText": "Applies when consent was collected by web form, checkout, account settings, third party, chat, social and email.",
  "universal": false,
  "remediation": "Add a Terms of Service hyperlink inside or immediately beneath the consent sentence, next to the checkbox. Keep the footer link as well — this is in addition to it, not instead of it.",
  "example": "By checking this box you agree to Acme Coffee's <a href=\"/terms\">Terms of Service</a> and <a href=\"/privacy\">Privacy Policy</a>.",
  "catalogIds": [
    "CON-091"
  ],
  "phase": "approval",
  "automated": true,
  "url": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/consent-flow/con-disc-terms-link/",
  "markdown": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/consent-flow/con-disc-terms-link.md",
  "registry": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/",
  "updated": "2026-07-25",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}