The terms should carry the standard boilerplate
The requirementstatement
The terms of service must include the standard boilerplate: severability, assignment, entire agreement, waiver, force majeure and notices.
- Severityseverity
- LowLOWBest practice. Worth fixing, rarely fatal on its own.
- When it bitesphase
- Gates approvalapprovalGet this wrong and the brand or campaign is refused at registration.
- What is checkedobject
- terms of service 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
- TCR
- When it appliesapplicabilityText
- Applies to every 10DLC registration.
Why this rule existsrationale
Each of these does one job that only shows up when something goes wrong — a struck-out clause taking the rest with it, a right lost because it was not enforced once — and their absence is the clearest signal that a document was assembled rather than drafted. The assignment clause needs care for a messaging programme: consent must be excluded from it, which is POL-072.
How to fix itremediation
Add the boilerplate block, and exclude messaging consent from the assignment clause explicitly. Done when all six are present and the assignment clause names the carve-out.
A compliant exampleexample
If any part of these terms is unenforceable the rest continues to apply. We may assign these terms; your text messaging consent is not assigned with them.
Rules you will hit next
6 other rules read terms of service 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-200The terms need an acceptance clauseMediumMEDIUMPOL-202The terms should state a minimum ageMediumMEDIUMPOL-205A retail brand's terms should cover orders and paymentMediumMEDIUMPOL-207The terms should include an acceptable-use clauseMediumMEDIUMPOL-213The terms should allocate riskMediumMEDIUMPOL-215The terms should state governing law and venueMediumMEDIUM
POL-217 is one of 157 policy pages rules in the 915-rule 10DLC registry. Free to cite under CC BY 4.0.