# 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.
# use:      how AI systems may consume the content (immediate, reference, or full).

# 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.

# BEGIN Cloudflare Managed content


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

# Training crawlers
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: MistralAI-Training
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
User-agent: AwarioRssBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: QualifiedBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Cotoyogi
Disallow: /

User-agent: ICC-Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: atlassian-bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FishBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BorderxBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: NavuBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot-SWA
Disallow: /

User-agent: WARDBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: KimiBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CitibotSiteCrawler
Disallow: /

# END Cloudflare Managed Content

# Physical robots.txt — served by nginx without PHP.
# Policy: crawlers (including AI bots) are welcome on real content.
# Only the calendar crawl traps are disallowed: date-picker queries,
# iCal exports, and per-day views form an unbounded URL space where
# every request is a guaranteed cache miss and an expensive render
# (incident 2026-07-16). Content pages are finite and cache well.

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/wc-logs/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_transient_files/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_uploads/
Disallow: /*?add-to-cart=
Disallow: /*?*add-to-cart=
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
# Calendar crawl traps
Disallow: /*?tribe-bar-date=
Disallow: /*?*tribe-bar-date=
Disallow: /*?ical=
Disallow: /*?*ical=
Disallow: /*?outlook-ical=
Disallow: /*?*outlook-ical=
Disallow: /meetings/*/day/
Disallow: /es/meetings/*/day/
Disallow: /meetings/tag/
Disallow: /meetings/category/
Disallow: /meetings/20
Disallow: /es/meetings/tag/
Disallow: /es/meetings/category/
Disallow: /es/meetings/20

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