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CT005 – Legal Text Consistency

Overview

Looks for legal-related markup: disclosures, terms and conditions, privacy policy, legal consistency indicators. Score built from presence.

Probability that AI systems use this signal: Crawlers and generative AI pipelines consume structured and visible page signals for training and inference. Assessment-specific signals (e.g. schema, canonicals, trust cues) affect how likely a page is indexed and surfaced. The probability that this assessment's signal influences AI behavior is high when the page is in a product or compliance context.

Impact on geo compliance: Passing this assessment supports geo compliance by ensuring machine-readable and visible content meet standards that reduce the risk of wrong locale, pricing, or trust in AI-generated answers. Failing can lead to non-compliant or misleading surfacing.

What We Check

  • **_extract_legal_text_information:** legal_disclosures (legal-disclosure|disclaimer|legal-notice, data-legal-disclosure); terms_conditions (terms|conditions|terms-conditions, data-terms); privacy_policy (privacy|privacy-policy|data-protection, data-privacy); legal_consistency (legal-consistency|legal-standard|legal-compliance, data-legal-consistency).
  • **Scoring:** disclosures +30, terms +25, privacy +25, consistency +20. **PASSED** if >= 60. details as dict. On exception: ERROR.

Pass / Fail and Score

  • **PASSED** if score >= 60. Score built from legal_disclosures (+30), terms_conditions (+25), privacy_policy (+25), legal_consistency (+20). Max 100. On exception: ERROR.

How to Fix When It Fails

  • Add required legal disclosures; provide terms and conditions; add privacy policy; ensure legal text consistency across pages.

Common Issues

  • No legal sections or data attributes detected.

Dependencies

None.

How to Verify

  • Add expected classes or data attributes; link to terms/privacy.

Additional Resources

  • Provide visible links to Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy; ensure they are reachable and match the page locale.
  • GDPR (EU): transparency, lawful basis, and privacy notices; CCPA (California): disclosure and opt-out rights. Legal consistency (e.g. legal-consistency, data-legal-* patterns) helps signal compliance to crawlers and users.