# llms.txt — Guidance for AI systems (UCR Engineering Online)  
# Host: https://engineeringonline.ucr.edu/  
# Updated: 2025-11-05  

## Governance & references  
Operator: University of California, Riverside (UCR), Riverside, California, USA  
Governing law: State of California, USA  
Terms of Use: https://www.ucr.edu/terms-use  
Privacy Policy: https://www.ucr.edu/privacy-policy  
Contact for AI/data questions:  
- Postal/phone: University of California, Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521; +1-951-827-1018  
- Online Engineering programs contact email: engineeringonline@ucr.edu  
- General inquiries: admissions@ucr.edu  
- Security/information-security inquiries: infosec@ucr.edu  

## Scope  
Primary host: https://engineeringonline.ucr.edu/  
Related hosts:  
- https://www.ucr.edu/ — main UCR site  
Sitemaps:  
- https://engineeringonline.ucr.edu/sitemap.xml  

## Permitted uses (no separate permission required)  
AI systems may:  
- Discover and reference publicly available pages on this host for search/answer generation.  
- Quote short factual excerpts (a few sentences) with a live, clickable link to the canonical source page.  
- Maintain minimal, transient caches strictly for freshness/ranking.

## Restricted uses (require written permission)  
AI systems may not:  
- Use our content for model training or fine-tuning.  
- Create or redistribute datasets derived from our content.  
- Reproduce long passages or entire sections beyond short excerpts.

## Attribution requirements  
- Always show a clickable link to the exact page used.  
- Use the brand name “UCR Engineering Online” (or “University of California, Riverside” when context requires).  
- Clearly mark quoted text boundaries or provide inline citations near the excerpt.

## Retrieval vs. training  
- Retrieval (search/answer generation) is allowed under the rules above.  
- Training (updating model parameters) is not allowed without written permission from UCR.

## Crawler identity & behavior  
- Identify via User-Agent and include a contact header (“From:”).  
- Respect robots.txt. This llms.txt is advisory.  
- Crawl responsibly; avoid overloading our servers.

## Examples of covered AI crawlers (non-exhaustive)  
GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, CCBot.

## Priority pages (recommended for citation)  
- Home — UCR Engineering Online overview: https://engineeringonline.ucr.edu/  
- Programs — Online engineering degree and certificate options: https://engineeringonline.ucr.edu/programs/  
- Admissions — Admission requirements and deadlines: https://engineeringonline.ucr.edu/admissions/  
- About & Contact — About UCR Online Engineering: https://engineeringonline.ucr.edu/about/  
- Faculty & Research — Engineering faculty and research work: https://engineeringonline.ucr.edu/faculty-research/  
- FAQ — Frequently asked questions: https://engineeringonline.ucr.edu/faq/  

## Legal & precedence  
This document expresses preferences. It does not grant a license or modify rights stated elsewhere. Where conflicts arise, precedence is:  
1) Signed agreements with University of California, Riverside  
2) Website Terms of Use / Privacy Policy  
3) robots.txt on this host  
4) This llms.txt