{
  "id": "POL-068",
  "slug": "pol-068",
  "title": "An override sentence should say the SMS clause prevails",
  "statement": "The policy should state explicitly that the SMS non-sharing clause prevails over any other sharing language in the document.",
  "rationale": "Large policies are edited by several people over years, and no amount of care stops a future section from contradicting the messaging clause. An override sentence is what makes the document survive that — it decides the contradiction in advance, in the brand's favour, instead of leaving a reviewer to decide it against them.",
  "layer": "POLICY_PAGE",
  "layerSlug": "policy-page",
  "object": "privacy policy SMS section",
  "severity": "HIGH",
  "detectability": [
    "CRAWL"
  ],
  "failureClass": "TERMINAL_POLICY",
  "artifact": "privacy_policy",
  "authorities": [
    "TCR"
  ],
  "codes": [
    {
      "provider": "Bandwidth",
      "code": "7103",
      "remediable": true
    }
  ],
  "applicabilityText": "Applies to every 10DLC registration.",
  "universal": true,
  "remediation": "Add one sentence to the messaging section saying it controls wherever the rest of the document says otherwise. Done when the policy answers the question \"which clause wins?\" without anyone having to interpret it.",
  "example": "Where anything else in this policy appears to permit sharing of personal information, this section controls for mobile numbers, text messaging opt-in data and consent.",
  "notes": "Sourced from the research's own generation-validation table rather than from a published carrier rule: it is the mitigation for POL-064, POL-066 and POL-069 rather than an independent requirement, which is why it is graded HIGH and worded as an expectation.",
  "phase": "approval",
  "automated": true,
  "url": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/policy-page/pol-068/",
  "markdown": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/policy-page/pol-068.md",
  "registry": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/",
  "updated": "2026-07-25",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}