{
  "id": "POL-246",
  "slug": "pol-246",
  "title": "Export must carry a visible not-legal-advice disclaimer",
  "statement": "A generated policy or terms document must be exported with a visible disclaimer that it is not legal advice and should be reviewed by counsel.",
  "rationale": "A document that arrives formatted and complete reads as advice whether or not it was meant as such, and the businesses most likely to rely on it are the ones least able to absorb the consequences of it being wrong. Every vendor in this space carries the disclaimer, which is a fair indication of what happens without it.",
  "layer": "POLICY_PAGE",
  "layerSlug": "policy-page",
  "object": "document export",
  "severity": "HIGH",
  "detectability": [
    "HUMAN"
  ],
  "failureClass": "TERMINAL_EVIDENCE",
  "authorities": [
    "TCR"
  ],
  "applicabilityText": "Applies to every 10DLC registration.",
  "universal": true,
  "remediation": "Show the disclaimer where the document is exported, not buried in a terms page nobody opens. Done when the person pressing export has read that it is not legal advice.",
  "notes": "A product obligation with no registration surface: nothing in a submission records what the export screen said. The user has to treat any generated document as a starting draft and have it reviewed, particularly the dispute-resolution clauses POL-214 flags.",
  "phase": "approval",
  "automated": false,
  "attestation": {
    "question": "Did the person exporting this document see, and read, that it is not legal advice?",
    "howToCheck": [
      "Show the disclaimer where the export happens, not buried in a terms page nobody opens.",
      "Treat the output as a starting draft and route it for review — the dispute-resolution clauses first."
    ],
    "failureLooksLike": "A document that arrives formatted and complete reads as advice whether or not it was meant as such, and the businesses most likely to rely on it are the least able to absorb it being wrong."
  },
  "url": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/policy-page/pol-246/",
  "markdown": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/policy-page/pol-246.md",
  "registry": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/",
  "updated": "2026-07-25",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}