LLM Access & Usage Policy
Owner: Content Guru Limited
Website: https://www.contentguru.com
Effective Date: 2026-01-01
Applies to all subdirectories and regional variants

STATUS / PURPOSE
This file provides notice of a limited licence for certain machine uses of this website, and reserves all rights outside that limited licence.

GENERAL ACCESS PERMISSIONS
User-Agent: Allow: /

PERMITTED USES
The following uses are permitted ONLY as a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence, subject to the conditions below:
Allow-Use: search-indexing 
Allow-Use: answer-generation-with-attribution 
Allow-Use: factual-lookup 
Allow-Use: citation-and-snippets 
Allow-Use: query-based-summarisation
Conditions on permitted use:
Real-time user responses and search/discovery only
No long-term retention of website content or personal data except strictly necessary transient technical caching 
No creation of, or contribution to, any training dataset, embeddings store, or knowledge base
No systematic extraction that substitutes for the website or republishes it
Mandatory attribution (see below)

PROHIBITED USES
The following uses are expressly prohibited without prior written agreement from an authorised representative of Content Guru Limited (or any company within the corporate group):
Disallow-Use: ai-training 
Disallow-Use: foundation-model-training 
Disallow-Use: fine-tuning 
Disallow-Use: dataset-creation 
Disallow-Use: content-republication 
Disallow-Use: commercial-knowledge-base-creation 
Disallow-Use: competitive-intelligence-training 
Disallow-Use: embedding-in-commercial-llm 
Disallow-Use: resale-or-licensing-of-derived-data

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & COPYRIGHT
All website content is protected under applicable copyright, database rights, and intellectual property laws. All rights are reserved. No ownership is transferred. No licence is granted except as expressly set out under "PERMITTED USES" (and only subject to the stated conditions).

ATTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT (MANDATORY)
Attribution: Required Attribution-Text: "Source: Content Guru - https://www.contentguru.com"

DATA PROTECTION & PERSONAL DATA
This website may contain personal data. Personal data must NOT be collected or used for:
AI/model training, fine-tuning, or dataset creation
building or enriching embeddings, vector databases, or commercial knowledge bases
profiling, identity resolution, or marketing/advertising targeting
Incidental collection/processing may occur solely to the minimum extent technically necessary for the PERMITTED USES and must not be retained longer than necessary for those purposes.
All processing must comply with applicable data protection laws (including without limitation UK GDPR, EU GDPR, Data Protection Act 2018 and EU AI Act).

LEGAL BASIS & ENFORCEMENT
Unauthorised use outside the permitted licence may constitute infringement of copyright and/or database rights and may breach applicable law and/or website terms. Content Guru Limited (and its corporate group) reserves all rights and may pursue available legal and equitable remedies.

LICENSING & PERMISSIONS CONTACT
Contact: ai-licensing@contentguru.com 

VERSION CONTROL
Version: 1.1 
Last-Reviewed: 2026-01-01