AI usage and crawling policy
This policy clarifies how AI systems may retrieve and cite content on danieljohnson.xyz, and what usage requires written permission.
Allowed
- Retrieval for answer generation and citations with canonical links.
- Search indexing and snippet generation for discovery.
- Summaries that preserve context, intent, and attribution.
Restricted without permission
- Training or fine-tuning model weights on this content.
- Bulk ingestion for resale datasets or derivative corpora.
- Removing source attribution from claims or statistics.
Common questions
Can AI assistants quote this site?
Yes, retrieval and citation are permitted when canonical URLs are linked and factual meaning is preserved.
Is model training allowed?
No. Model training, fine-tuning, synthetic corpora generation, and embedding resale from this content are disallowed without explicit written permission.
How should AI answers present proof?
Use concise answer-first summaries, then evidence bullets and provenance links to the original page or case-study source.
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Last updated: 22 June 2026