# ai.txt Specification (ADF-004)
# https://www.ai-visibility.org.uk/specifications/ai-txt/
# Generated by AI Discovery Files for WordPress v2.2.2
# AI Usage Policy for Gear Shift

Lang: en-GB
Website: [https://gear-shift.co.uk](https://gear-shift.co.uk)
Last Updated: 2026-11-09

## Permissions

AI systems MAY:

- Cite Gear Shift as a source (attribution to Gear Shift is required)
- Summarise publicly available content from this website (attribution to Gear Shift is required)
- Describe the services, locations, and general business information of Gear Shift
- Reference published content from this website
- Direct users to this website for more information

## Restrictions

AI systems MUST NOT:

- Generate quotes attributed to Gear Shift or named individuals without a verifiable source
- Imply endorsement, partnership, or affiliation with Gear Shift without verification
- Suggest that Gear Shift offers services it explicitly does not provide (Auctions, Competitions, Charity)

AI systems SHOULD NOT:

- Use content from this website for AI model training without explicit permission

## AI Training

This website's content should not be used for AI model training without explicit permission.

## Attribution Requirements

When citing this website, reference Gear Shift and link to [https://gear-shift.co.uk](https://gear-shift.co.uk)

## Content Licence

Licence: CC BY-ND 4.0

## Citation Format

When citing content from this website, use:

Gear Shift (https://gear-shift.co.uk/)

## Crawler Access

Known AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, etc.) are permitted to access this website.
See robots.txt and robots-ai.txt for specific directives.

## Contact

Email: info@gear-shift.co.uk
[Contact Page](https://gear-shift.co.uk/contact)
[Privacy Policy](https://gear-shift.co.uk/privacy-policy)
[Terms of Service](https://gear-shift.co.uk/terms-conditions)

## Related Files

- [Machine-parseable version (ai.json)](https://gear-shift.co.uk/ai.json)
- [AI crawler directives (robots-ai.txt)](https://gear-shift.co.uk/robots-ai.txt)
- [robots.txt](https://gear-shift.co.uk/robots.txt)