The policy must describe how opt-out preference signals are handled
The requirementstatement
The privacy policy must describe how it honours browser opt-out preference signals such as Global Privacy Control.
- Severityseverity
- MediumMEDIUMUsually survives review, but lowers your trust score or invites a manual look you would rather avoid.
- When it bitesphase
- Gates approvalapprovalGet this wrong and the brand or campaign is refused at registration.
- What is checkedobject
- privacy policy body
- Where it liveslayer
- Policy pagesPOLICY_PAGE
- How Ekas settles itdetectability
- AI · formAI_FORM
- A semantic question about what you wrote: whether a description matches a use case, whether a name looks like a filed entity. Judged by a model against written criteria.
- What the fix involvesfailureClass
- Fix the policyTERMINAL_POLICY
- The fix lives in your privacy policy or SMS terms. Ekas can generate the missing clauses.
- Who requires itauthorities
- CCPA
- When it appliesapplicabilityText
- Applies to every 10DLC registration.
Why this rule existsrationale
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.
How to fix itremediation
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.
A compliant exampleexample
We recognise the Global Privacy Control signal and treat it as a request to stop sharing your personal information.
Rules you will hit next
6 other rules read privacy policy body. Fixing one field to satisfy a single rule is how a resubmission trades one rejection for another, so read these before you change anything.
POL-050Privacy policy must state mobile opt-in data is not shared or soldBlockingBLOCKINGPOL-063A policy that says mobile opt-in data is shared is refused outrightBlockingBLOCKINGPOL-078A political brand is held to the same data-sharing banBlockingBLOCKINGPOL-079A charity policy must bar anyone but the charity from using subscriber dataBlockingBLOCKINGPOL-109A cart-reminder programme must say how abandonment is detectedBlockingBLOCKINGPOL-053The clause must say NOT SHARED, not merely "not sold"HighHIGH
POL-131 is one of 157 policy pages rules in the 915-rule 10DLC registry. Free to cite under CC BY 4.0.