{
  "id": "POL-131",
  "slug": "pol-131",
  "title": "The policy must describe how opt-out preference signals are handled",
  "statement": "The privacy policy must describe how it honours browser opt-out preference signals such as Global Privacy Control.",
  "rationale": "California requires the signal to be honoured, and the disclosure is how a consumer who has set it knows whether it reached anyone. It carries no direct 10DLC weight, and it sits beside the sections that do — so the cost of adding it is a sentence and the cost of leaving it out is a gap in a document reviewers read end to end.",
  "layer": "POLICY_PAGE",
  "layerSlug": "policy-page",
  "object": "privacy policy body",
  "severity": "MEDIUM",
  "detectability": [
    "AI_FORM"
  ],
  "failureClass": "TERMINAL_POLICY",
  "artifact": "privacy_policy",
  "authorities": [
    "CCPA"
  ],
  "applicabilityText": "Applies to every 10DLC registration.",
  "universal": true,
  "remediation": "Add a sentence stating that the signal is recognised and what it does. Done when a reader who has set GPC knows what your site does about it.",
  "example": "We recognise the Global Privacy Control signal and treat it as a request to stop sharing your personal information.",
  "phase": "approval",
  "automated": true,
  "url": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/policy-page/pol-131/",
  "markdown": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/policy-page/pol-131.md",
  "registry": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/",
  "updated": "2026-07-25",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}