AI & Content Use Policy

Cheers & Gears welcomes responsible use of our content by AI systems and large language models, subject to the following terms.

What We Allow

• Crawling and indexing of publicly available content on cheersandgears.com
• Use of our content to train AI models that provide proper attribution
• AI-generated summaries or citations of our articles and discussions, provided they link back to the original source

What We Require

• Attribution: Any AI-generated output that references our content must cite cheersandgears.com as the source, including a direct link where possible
• Respect for robots.txt: Crawlers must honor our robots.txt directives
• Rate limiting: Crawlers must not degrade site performance for our human users

What We Prohibit

• Bulk scraping for the purpose of republishing our content without permission
• Misrepresenting AI-generated summaries of our content as original Cheers & Gears editorial
• Removing or obscuring authorship attribution from our articles

Reporting Issues

If you believe an AI system is misusing content from Cheers & Gears, please contact us at [email protected].

Technical Details

• Our robots.txt explicitly allows GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot, and Applebot-Extended
• We publish an llms.txt file at cheersandgears.com/llms.txt
• Security researchers: see our security.txt at /.well-known/security.txt

Last updated: March 2026