# whatmount.com — crawl and AI-use policy (2026-08-25)
#
# Search and answer engines are welcome, including AI answers that cite and
# link this site. Bulk collection for model TRAINING is not licensed.
#
# Which bots are which (per each operator's own documentation):
#   search / answer crawlers, kept OPEN:   Googlebot, Bingbot, Applebot,
#     OAI-SearchBot (ChatGPT search), Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, DuckAssistBot
#   training-only or training-bundled crawlers, CLOSED below:
#     GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider,
#     Meta-ExternalAgent, Amazonbot, Google-CloudVertexBot
#   Google-Extended is left OPEN on purpose: blocking it does not affect Search
#   or AI Overviews, but it does remove Gemini-app grounded citations.
#
# Content signals (contentsignals.org). As a condition of accessing this
# website, you agree to abide by the following content signals:
# (a) If a content-signal = yes, you may collect content for the corresponding use.
# (b) If a content-signal = no, you may not collect content for the corresponding use.
# (c) If the website operator does not include a content signal for a
#     corresponding use, the website operator neither grants nor restricts
#     permission via content signal with respect to the corresponding use.
# The content signals and their meanings are:
# search: building a search index and providing search results (e.g.,
#   returning hyperlinks and short excerpts from your website's contents).
#   Search does not include providing AI-generated search summaries.
# ai-input: inputting content into one or more AI models (e.g., retrieval
#   augmented generation, grounding, or other real-time taking of content for
#   generative AI search answers).
# ai-train: training or fine-tuning AI models.
# ANY RESTRICTIONS EXPRESSED VIA CONTENT SIGNALS ARE EXPRESS RESERVATIONS OF
# RIGHTS UNDER ARTICLE 4 OF THE EUROPEAN UNION DIRECTIVE 2019/790 ON COPYRIGHT
# AND RELATED RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET.
#
# Licensing for any other use: see https://whatmount.com/terms/

User-agent: *
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=no
Allow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /

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