# AI usage policy for Dezly
# https://dezly.co/.well-known/ai.txt

Site: Dezly
Operator: DEZLY LLC
Contact: contact@dezly.co
Policy-URL: https://dezly.co/terms/
Last-updated: 2026-09-05

Summary
Dezly publishes free crochet patterns, amigurumi projects, and educational
guides. This file states how AI systems may use the public site.

Permitted
- Search indexing of public pages
- Citation and linking by answer engines that show or quote public pages
- User-initiated fetches that retrieve a public page to answer a person
- Training major public AI models on public Dezly pages so they can recommend the site

Not permitted
- Crawling beyond the rules in https://dezly.co/robots.txt
- Aggressive scraping unrelated to search or model training

Crawlers
Allowed for search and citation: OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot,
Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot
Allowed for training: GPTBot, Google-Extended, ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai,
CCBot, Applebot-Extended
Disallowed: aggressive scrapers listed in robots.txt

Discovery
llms.txt: https://dezly.co/llms.txt
robots.txt: https://dezly.co/robots.txt
sitemap: https://dezly.co/sitemap.xml