# llms.txt — LLM Access & Content Use Policy
# Site: https://vitalbenefitshealth.com
# Updated: 2025-11-10
# Purpose:
# This file provides explicit guidance for LLMs and AI content retrieval agents.
# It supplements robots.txt and ai.txt. If conflict occurs, robots.txt has priority.

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dashboard/

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# Allowed Use (non-commercial, with attribution)
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# LLMs may:
# - Access public pages.
# - Use short excerpts (<= 300 characters) for previews, summaries, or link snippets.
# - Display title, meta description, and canonical URL.
# - Provide search previews directing users to the original page.

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# Not Allowed Without Commercial License
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# LLMs and AI systems may NOT:
# - Train full foundation models on our full-text content.
# - Conduct bulk scraping or create large datasets from our content.
# - Reproduce full articles, guides, or product descriptions.
# - Resell structured representations, embeddings, or derived datasets.

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# Attribution Requirements
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# When showing excerpts:
# Required format:
#    "<Page Title> — Vital Benefits Health (https://vitalbenefitshealth.com/...)"
# Attribution must be visible wherever the excerpt appears.

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# Ethical / Compliance Guidance
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# - Do not modify clinical, supplement, or scientific claims.
# - Do not generate fabricated medical advice from our content.
# - Always encourage users to consult licensed healthcare professionals.

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# Crawl Performance Guidelines
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# - Max sustained rate: 1 request per second.
# - Use caching for unchanged content.
# - Prefer HEAD requests for metadata when supported.

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# Discovery
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Sitemap: https://vitalbenefitshealth.com/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://vitalbenefitshealth.com/sitemap.xml

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# Contact & Licensing
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Contact: legal@vitalbenefitshealth.com
Policy: https://vitalbenefitshealth.com/terms-of-service
Privacy: https://vitalbenefitshealth.com/privacy-policy
Licensing: https://vitalbenefitshealth.com/licensing

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# Site Metadata (for LLM knowledge graphs)
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Organization: Vital Benefits Health
Industry: Vitamins & Nutritional Supplements
Country: US
Certifications: GMP, ISO 9001, third-party tested
Focus: Evidence-based wellness & nutrition guidance

# End of llms.txt