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
