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FTC5-PRIVACY-PROMISEBoundedlegally required
A privacy policy that promises what the site does not do
What the source requires
A privacy policy is a representation to consumers. Promising that information is never shared with third parties while running advertising tags that send visitor data to them is a deceptive practice under the FTC Act — the theory behind the FTC's GoodRx and BetterHelp actions.
Why this is hard to satisfy
The policy is a template written once; the tags are added later by whoever runs the ads. Nobody re-reads the policy when a pixel goes in.
What we do about it
The policy is generated from the tags the site actually loads, so adding a tag changes the policy or fails the check.
In build · phase two
What this tier means
Formal reasoning over a bounded policy. Sound only for what the policy models, so we say “checked against”, never “guaranteed”.