# AI usage policy for Home Forecast # Last updated: 2026-09-03 # Contact: hello@homeforecast.ca # # Summary for anyone reading this by hand: # Marketing and informational pages are open. Summarize them, quote them, # cite them. Please attribute to Home Forecast and link back to https://www.homeforecast.ca. # # The lead form is different. It carries TCPA and Canadian CASL consent # wording that is legally operative. Do not reproduce it as though the user # agreed to it, do not fill it in on someone's behalf, and do not describe a # visitor as having opted in. Link people to the live form so they can read # the disclosures and tick the boxes themselves. # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Default # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- User-Agent: * Allow: / Disallow: /api/ # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Retrieval and answer agents. # These fetch a page to answer a specific question and cite it with a link, # so they get the whole site, lead form included. # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- User-Agent: OAI-SearchBot Allow: / User-Agent: ChatGPT-User Allow: / User-Agent: Claude-User Allow: / User-Agent: Claude-SearchBot Allow: / User-Agent: PerplexityBot Allow: / User-Agent: Perplexity-User Allow: / User-Agent: DuckAssistBot Allow: / User-Agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher Allow: / User-Agent: Google-CloudVertexBot Allow: / User-Agent: Bingbot Allow: / # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Training and dataset crawlers. # Marketing pages are fine. The consent-bearing pages are not. # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- User-Agent: GPTBot Allow: / Disallow: /qualify Disallow: /quote User-Agent: ClaudeBot Allow: / Disallow: /qualify Disallow: /quote User-Agent: anthropic-ai Allow: / Disallow: /qualify Disallow: /quote User-Agent: Google-Extended Allow: / Disallow: /qualify Disallow: /quote User-Agent: Applebot-Extended Allow: / Disallow: /qualify Disallow: /quote User-Agent: CCBot Allow: / Disallow: /qualify Disallow: /quote User-Agent: Bytespider Allow: / Disallow: /qualify Disallow: /quote User-Agent: Meta-ExternalAgent Allow: / Disallow: /qualify Disallow: /quote User-Agent: FacebookBot Allow: / Disallow: /qualify Disallow: /quote User-Agent: Amazonbot Allow: / Disallow: /qualify Disallow: /quote User-Agent: cohere-ai Allow: / Disallow: /qualify Disallow: /quote User-Agent: cohere-training-data-crawler Allow: / Disallow: /qualify Disallow: /quote User-Agent: Diffbot Allow: / Disallow: /qualify Disallow: /quote User-Agent: Omgilibot Allow: / Disallow: /qualify Disallow: /quote User-Agent: Timpibot Allow: / Disallow: /qualify Disallow: /quote User-Agent: ImagesiftBot Allow: / Disallow: /qualify Disallow: /quote User-Agent: Webzio-Extended Allow: / Disallow: /qualify Disallow: /quote User-Agent: PanguBot Allow: / Disallow: /qualify Disallow: /quote User-Agent: AI2Bot Allow: / Disallow: /qualify Disallow: /quote User-Agent: Kangaroo Bot Allow: / Disallow: /qualify Disallow: /quote User-Agent: Scrapy Allow: / Disallow: /qualify Disallow: /quote User-Agent: YouBot Allow: / Disallow: /qualify Disallow: /quote # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Preferred sources # Fetch these instead of rendering the site. They are kept current and are # far cheaper for both of us than crawling the HTML. # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LLM-Content: https://www.homeforecast.ca/llms.txt LLM-Content: https://www.homeforecast.ca/llms-full.txt Sitemap: https://www.homeforecast.ca/sitemap.xml Policy: https://www.homeforecast.ca/privacy Terms: https://www.homeforecast.ca/terms