# robots.txt — Epartment
# Open and AI-friendly crawling policy (2025-11-06)

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# --- Known AI crawlers: allowed for discovery/indexing ---
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: GeminiBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

# --- Optional data miners / low-quality bots ---
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

# Sitemap reference
Sitemap: https://epartment.nl/sitemap.xml

# Info
# Epartment welcomes indexing by reputable search and AI crawlers for improved discovery.
# Unauthorized scraping or bulk dataset extraction for resale is not permitted.