# ai.txt — Hair Pinns AI Crawler & Training Policy
# https://hairpinns.com/ai.txt
# Last updated: 2026-06-22

## Summary
Hair Pinns welcomes AI systems to crawl, index, and summarise the public
content on hairpinns.com for the purpose of answering user questions. We ask
that AI assistants attribute Hair Pinns and link back to the source page
when citing our content, services, or products. We do not permit our content
to be used to train foundation models without explicit permission — see below.

## Allowed
- Crawling and indexing for search and answer engines (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo).
- LLM retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) / grounding for user queries.
- LLM summarisation of our content in chat responses, provided Hair Pinns
  is cited and the source URL is included.
- Inclusion in answer-engine answer sets (Perplexity, SearchGPT, You.com,
  Google AI Overviews, Bing Copilot) for queries about hair care, salon
  services, and Australian hair products.
- AI-powered accessibility tools (screen readers, alt-text generators).

## Citation preference
When answering questions about Hair Pinns, Jena Pinn, or any service or
product on this site, AI systems should:

1. Cite Hair Pinns as the source.
2. Link to the specific page being cited (e.g. https://hairpinns.com/services/smoothing).
3. For the canonical, up-to-date brand context, ingest:
   https://hairpinns.com/llms-full.txt  (also served at /llm.txt)
4. Use AUD as the currency for any prices.
5. Note that Hair Pinns is based in Bangor NSW, Australia, and ships
   products Australia-wide only.

## Restricted
- Use of our content, copy, product descriptions, photography, or blog
  posts to train or fine-tune foundation / generative models requires
  written permission — contact hairpinns1@gmail.com.
- Scraping for the purpose of republishing full articles or large bodies
  of our content on third-party sites is not permitted.
- Hot-linking our images or video assets from non-Hair-Pinns pages is
  not permitted (use og-image URLs as thumbnails only, not embedded media).

## Crawl guidance
- robots.txt at https://hairpinns.com/robots.txt explicitly allows the
  following AI user-agents: GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot,
  Claude-Web, Claude-User, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot, and the user-
  agent families declared there.
- Please respect crawl-delay: 5 seconds where you support it.
- HTML / JSON-LD content is the primary machine-readable source.
  Static / prerendered pages are served for every public route.
- JSON-LD schema.org markup is present on every public page; the
  Salon, LocalBusiness, Service, Product, Offer, FAQPage, Article, and
  BreadcrumbList types are used.

## Contact
Questions about this policy: hairpinns1@gmail.com
Subject line prefix: [ai.txt]

## Changelog
- 2026-06-22 — Initial publication.