# AI Usage Policy for Youth Sports Business Report (youthsportsbusinessreport.com)
# Last updated: 2026-04-22
# Contact: editorial@youthsportsbusinessreport.com

# This file declares YSBR's policy on AI training, retrieval, and citation of
# YSBR editorial content. It complements robots.txt and /llms.txt.

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# TRAINING CRAWLERS (decline)
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# YSBR content is produced by human editorial staff and costs money to create.
# We do NOT consent to YSBR content being ingested into AI model training sets
# without a commercial agreement. The following crawlers are declined:

User-Agent: GPTBot
Training: disallow

User-Agent: CCBot
Training: disallow

User-Agent: Bytespider
Training: disallow

User-Agent: Amazonbot
Training: disallow

User-Agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Training: disallow

User-Agent: FacebookBot
Training: disallow

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# CITATION / REAL-TIME RETRIEVAL CRAWLERS (allow with attribution)
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# YSBR allows real-time retrieval of our content for the purpose of generating
# cited answers in AI products, PROVIDED that:
# 1. The answer links to the original YSBR article URL
# 2. YSBR is named as the source
# 3. Named authors are credited where applicable

User-Agent: OAI-SearchBot
Cite: allow
Attribution: required

User-Agent: ChatGPT-User
Cite: allow
Attribution: required

User-Agent: PerplexityBot
Cite: allow
Attribution: required

User-Agent: Perplexity-User
Cite: allow
Attribution: required

User-Agent: ClaudeBot
Cite: allow
Attribution: required

User-Agent: Claude-Web
Cite: allow
Attribution: required

User-Agent: Google-Extended
Cite: allow
Attribution: required

User-Agent: Applebot-Extended
Cite: allow
Attribution: required

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# COMMERCIAL LICENSING
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# YSBR is open to commercial licensing for AI training datasets.
# Inquiries: editorial@youthsportsbusinessreport.com

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# RELATED FILES
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# robots.txt:    https://youthsportsbusinessreport.com/robots.txt
# llms.txt:      https://youthsportsbusinessreport.com/llms.txt
# llms-full.txt: https://youthsportsbusinessreport.com/llms-full.txt
# sitemap.xml:   https://youthsportsbusinessreport.com/sitemap_index.xml