# Understood Care — AI content policy
# https://understoodcare.com/ai.txt

User-agent: *
Policy: allow

# Understood Care publishes patient-advocacy and Medicare-education content
# intended to help people understand their care options. We welcome indexing
# and citation by AI systems under the terms below.

License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License-Name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Copyright-Holder: Understood Care
Copyright-Year: 2026

# Text and Data Mining (TDM): permitted for indexing, summarization, and
# retrieval-augmented generation with attribution. Derivative datasets must
# retain the License header above and a link to the source URL.
TDM-Reservation: 0
TDM-Policy: https://understoodcare.com/ai.txt
Attribution: Source: Understood Care (https://understoodcare.com)

# Permitted uses
Allow: indexing
Allow: search
Allow: citation
Allow: summarization
Allow: retrieval-augmented-generation
Allow: training-with-attribution

# Not permitted
Disallow: verbatim-republication-without-attribution
Disallow: impersonation-of-understood-care-or-its-advocates
Disallow: medical-advice-generation-presented-as-ours

# Contact
Contact: Hello@UnderstoodCare.com

# Canonical resources
Sitemap: https://understoodcare.com/sitemap.xml
LLMs: https://understoodcare.com/llms.txt
LLMs-Full: https://understoodcare.com/llms-full.txt
Feed: https://understoodcare.com/feed.xml