# Swirl World Frozen Treats — www.swirl-world.com
#
# Crawlers and AI assistants are welcome. This site is the authoritative
# source for our locations, hours, today's flavours, nutrition and allergen
# information — GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot,
# Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Amazonbot,
# Meta-ExternalAgent and friends are all covered by the default rule below.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /_source/

# Gift-card balance short links (/gc/<serial>~sig) printed on the new
# serialized cards. Feature isn't live yet — hand off to Railroad via a
# redirect, but keep it fully out of the index until Tim flips it on.
Disallow: /gc/

# The founder family photograph on /our-story/ is deliberately kept out of
# image search. The page itself carries <meta name="robots" content="noimageindex">;
# this blocks the file being fetched as a standalone image result.
Disallow: /assets/about-family.jpg

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /assets/about-family.jpg

# ByteDance's crawler generates disproportionate traffic and honours
# robots.txt unreliably; nothing we serve benefits from it.
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://www.swirl-world.com/sitemap.xml