All content on Winsome Planet — including articles, photographs, metadata, and structured data — is the intellectual property of Winsome Planet and is protected by copyright law.
1. Permitted Crawling
The following automated access is permitted:
- Search engine crawlers (Googlebot, Bingbot, etc.) following the rules in our robots.txt.
- Accessibility tools and screen readers.
- Personal, non-commercial archiving for individual use.
2. Prohibited Activities
The following are strictly prohibited without prior written permission:
- Scraping content for training AI or machine learning models.
- Bulk downloading of articles, images, or metadata.
- Reproducing content on other websites, aggregators, or databases.
- Using scraped content for commercial purposes.
- Circumventing rate limits or technical access controls.
3. AI Training Opt-Out
Winsome Planet explicitly opts out of having its content used to train artificial intelligence systems, large language models, or any automated content generation tools. This applies to all content including text, images, metadata, and structured data.
4. Enforcement
Violations of this policy may result in IP blocking, legal action under copyright law, and/or a complaint to the relevant data protection authority. We reserve the right to take action against abusive automated access.
5. Requesting Access
If you have a legitimate research or archival need to access content programmatically, please contact us to discuss.
Compliance Note: This policy protects against unauthorised data mining as per **EU Copyright Directive 2019/790**, specifically regarding the right of content owners to opt-out of data mining for AI training purposes.