General Terms and Conditions
Contents
- Scope and provider
- Description of services
- Conclusion of contract
- Prices and payment
- Term of paid listings
- Cancellation and deactivation
- Pro subscription (AI visibility monitoring)
- Customer obligations
- Limitation of liability
- AI visibility and ranking
- Right of withdrawal for consumers
- Changes to the service
- Data protection
- Final provisions
§ 1 Scope and provider
(1) These General Terms and Conditions (GTC) apply to all services of the directory service llmstxt.info, operated by:
Emanuele Fanizza
Hofsteder Straße 39 · 44791 Bochum, Germany
Email:
(hereinafter the “Provider”)
(2) The services of llmstxt.info are open to both businesses and organizations and private individuals. All customers are treated equally, regardless of whether they act commercially or privately.
(3) Conflicting or deviating terms of the customer are not recognized unless the Provider expressly agrees to their validity in writing.
§ 2 Description of services
(1) llmstxt.info operates a public directory of organizations that have implemented the llms.txt standard. The Provider enables organizations and their llms.txt files to be listed in this directory in order to improve discoverability by AI systems and language models.
(2) The following listing options are offered (details at /pricing/):
- Standard — inclusion in the public directory after editorial review within 48 hours; no tier badge, no dedicated listing page.
- Bronze — Bronze badge and prioritization above Standard entries; dedicated listing page; priority review within 24 hours; linking of LinkedIn and GitHub profiles.
- Silver — like Bronze, plus Silver badge and prioritization above Bronze entries; full entry with free text and context; same-day review; increased sitemap priority; linking of YouTube and Instagram profiles.
- Gold — like Silver, plus Gold badge and top placement in the directory; inclusion in
llms-full.txt(a machine-readable format we provide to AI systems); announcement post on X/Twitter upon activation; live llms.txt preview on the listing page; sitemap priority 1.0; linking of Facebook and Mastodon profiles; display of a custom business category as the primary category. - Platinum — like Gold, plus Platinum badge; guaranteed placement among the first three entries in the directory; inclusion in
llms.txt(a machine-readable file we provide to AI agents); home-page “Featured organizations” widget; monthly mention in the newsletter; direct editorial contact; linking of Discord and TikTok profiles. - Diamond — like Platinum, plus Diamond badge; top placement in the directory (rotated fairly among all active Diamond customers); preferred inclusion in
llms.txtandllms-full.txt; permanent home-page feature section with branding; newsletter feature article; dedicated account management; linking of a Slack invitation link and newsletter URL.
The respectively current prices are available exclusively at https://llmstxt.info/pricing/. The price list published there at the time the contract is concluded forms part of the contract.
(3) Customers from the Bronze tier upwards may specify a custom business category upon listing, which is shown in the profile in addition to the standard category. From the Gold tier, the custom category is shown as the primary label.
(4) The Provider monitors the availability of listed llms.txt files. If a file becomes permanently unreachable, the entry may be deactivated.
(5) The order of multiple Diamond entries in the directory rotates randomly on each page view, so that all Diamond customers receive statistically equivalent top exposure. There is no claim to a fixed rank 1 over other Diamond customers.
(6) There is no claim to particular positions in search-engine results or to citation by external AI systems (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini or similar). The positions described relate exclusively to the presentation within the llmstxt.info directory.
(7) AI Signal Kit (one-time €2.99, final price under § 19 UStG): an automatically generated, individual code and file kit (including structured data, Open Graph details, a robots.txt template, llms.txt/llms-full.txt) together with insertion instructions for the customer’s website. This is digital content provided immediately after receipt of payment; the right of withdrawal lapses once provision begins, provided the customer has expressly consented and confirmed their knowledge of the lapse (§ 356 (5) German Civil Code). The customer integrates the kit on their own website; no particular validation score or particular results in external AI systems are owed.
(8) Automatic feature on X (from the Gold tier): From the Gold tier, the customer’s entry is automatically featured on the Provider’s X profile (@llmstxtinfo) after successful activation. Scope and level of detail depend on the tier booked — from a brief mention to a more detailed feature. Only information from the public entry is published (in particular name, category and short description, and — if provided — the customer’s X handle as a mention). There is no claim to a particular reach, number of views or interactions, a fixed publication time or the permanent persistence of a post; publication depends on the availability and rules of the X platform. The Provider is entitled not to publish, to adjust, or to remove individual posts for objective reasons. The customer may object to the automatic feature already at the time of listing (opt-out) and warrants that they are entitled to provide the transmitted data and any X handle. Details on data processing are set out in our privacy policy.
§ 2.9 Community entries from public sources
In addition to self-listed (claimed) entries, the directory may contain community entries that the Provider creates on the basis of publicly available information. Such entries are marked as a “community entry” on the respective detail page, are limited to factual basic data (name/designation, publicly reachable address of the website or llms.txt, category), are not assigned to a paid tier and do not use any third-party brand assets (e.g. logos). They do not establish any business connection, recommendation or partnership between the Provider and the named third party.
Owners may at any time claim a community entry free of charge (manage/extend it) or have it removed via the “Remove entry” function on the detail page (notice and take-down). To protect against abusive removals, the specified email address receives a confirmation link; only after it is opened (proof of control over the domain’s mailbox) is the entry hidden. If the email domain does not match the entry’s domain, a prompt manual check is carried out. Details are governed by the privacy policy.
§ 3 Conclusion of contract
(1) The presentation of listing options on the website does not constitute a binding offer, but a non-binding invitation to order (invitatio ad offerendum).
(2) Free entries: The contract is concluded when the entry is activated by the Provider. The customer receives a confirmation by email, provided an email address was given.
(3) Paid entries: By selecting a paid tier and submitting the registration, the customer is forwarded to payment via the payment provider Stripe. By completing the payment, the customer submits a binding offer; the contract is concluded when the Provider confirms receipt of payment. The customer receives the confirmation and the invoice by email. The entry is activated after receipt of payment. Payment by bank transfer or PayPal is possible by individual arrangement; in that case the contract is concluded upon full payment and subsequent activation confirmation.
§ 4 Prices and payment
(1) The respectively valid prices are published at /pricing/. All prices apply without VAT pursuant to § 19 UStG (small-business rule).
(2) The fee is due for payment immediately upon conclusion of the contract. With Stripe, payment is made directly during the order process. If, exceptionally, payment by bank transfer is agreed, the amount is due within 14 days of invoicing.
(3) Accepted payment methods: credit and debit card and other payment types offered by Stripe via the payment provider Stripe; by individual arrangement also bank transfer (SEPA) or PayPal. Details on data processing during payment are in our privacy policy.
(4) In the event of late payment, the Provider is entitled to deactivate the entry until payment is received and to demand default interest at the statutory rate (§ 288 German Civil Code).
§ 5 Term of paid listings
(1) Paid entries are one-time payments with no automatic expiry date. The specific term and any renewal conditions are confirmed in writing on a case-by-case basis.
(2) Free (Standard) entries remain active indefinitely, as long as the listed llms.txt file is publicly reachable.
§ 6 Cancellation and deactivation
(1) The customer may request deletion of their entry at any time, informally by email to . Payments already made are generally not refunded upon early deactivation at the customer’s request, unless the Provider is responsible for the cause of the deactivation.
(2) The Provider is entitled to deactivate entries without prior notice if:
- the stored llms.txt file is permanently (more than 14 days) unreachable,
- the entry contains false, misleading or unlawful information,
- the entry impairs the operation of the directory or violates these GTC.
(3) In the case of culpable deactivation by the Provider (e.g. technical failure), the customer is granted a pro-rata credit upon request.
§ 6a Pro subscription (AI visibility monitoring)
(1) Service. The paid “Pro” subscription comprises ongoing, automated AI visibility monitoring: the Provider regularly checks the domain(s) specified by the customer across several AI systems and notifies the customer of changes in citation status. The specific scope (including check frequency, competitor tracking, multiple domains, history dashboard) is set out in the product description at llmstxt.info/monitoring. Monitoring is offered in the tiers Free (free of charge), Pro, Premium and API, which differ in number of domains, check frequency, competitor comparison, history/export and programmatic access (API); the scope booked results from the plan selection at order.
(2) Price & billing. The paid tiers cost: Pro €9.00/month or €79.00/year, Premium €29.00/month or €290.00/year, API €99.00/month or €990.00/year. The Free tier is permanently free. The Provider is a small business; pursuant to § 19 UStG no VAT is shown. The paid tiers are billed in advance via the payment provider Stripe; the amount falls due at the start of each billing period.
(3) Free trial. The subscription begins with a 14-day free trial. No payment is due during the trial. If not cancelled by the end of the trial, the subscription continues for a fee into the chosen term; the first charge occurs after the trial ends.
(4) Term & renewal. The minimum term is one month (for monthly billing) or one year (for annual billing). The subscription renews automatically for the respectively chosen term unless cancelled by the end of the term.
(5) Cancellation. The customer may cancel the subscription at any time to the end of the current term — conveniently online via the cancellation button at llmstxt.info/kuendigen (§ 312k German Civil Code) or informally by email to . Cancellation during the trial ends the subscription without any cost. Existing access remains usable until the end of the already-paid term.
(6) Right of withdrawal. Consumers have the right of withdrawal under § 10 of these GTC. Otherwise, the notes there on early commencement of performance apply accordingly. No guarantee of a particular AI citation or visibility is given (§ 9).
(7) Free tier. The free “Free” tier allows monitoring of one domain and viewing its GEO/visibility rating. It requires no payment, creates no payment obligation and can be ended at any time without notice. Automatic change alerts and the competitor comparison are reserved for the paid tiers.
(8) API access. The Premium and API tiers provide a personal API key for programmatic access (including domain rating, directory/discovery data, comparison). The key must be treated confidentially and not passed on to third parties; it is tied to a monthly call quota that is graduated by tier. The Provider may throttle or block access in the event of abusive use, exceeding the quota, or to maintain operational security. API access ends upon termination of the subscription or a switch to the Free tier.
§ 7 Customer obligations
(1) The customer undertakes to:
- enter only truthful and current information,
- keep the specified llms.txt URL permanently publicly accessible,
- notify the Provider of changes (in particular URL or organization name) without delay by email,
- not enter any content that violates applicable law, third-party rights or public morals.
(2) The customer ensures that they are entitled to represent the listed organization and the linked llms.txt file, and that the listed content does not infringe third-party rights.
(3) The customer indemnifies the Provider against all third-party claims arising from a culpable breach of these obligations.
(4) Customer reviews: If the customer submits a review (testimonial), it must reflect their own truthful experience; no consideration is granted for submitting reviews. The Provider reviews submitted reviews prior to any publication — there is no claim to publication — and is entitled to display approved reviews with the stated name or company name on the website. Reviews with unlawful, offensive, misleading or evidently irrelevant content may be rejected or removed. The customer may withdraw their consent to publication at any time with effect for the future (a message to is sufficient).
§ 8 Limitation of liability
(1) Claims for damages by the customer are excluded, unless otherwise stipulated below.
(2) This does not apply to damages resulting from injury to life, body or health, nor to damages based on an intentional or grossly negligent breach of duty by the Provider or its vicarious agents.
(3) In the case of slightly negligent breach of essential contractual obligations (cardinal obligations), the Provider is liable for the foreseeable damage typical of the contract, limited to the amount paid by the customer for the relevant service.
(4) The Provider gives no guarantee of a particular availability of the service. A temporary outage does not give rise to a claim for damages, provided the Provider is not responsible for it.
(5) The Provider assumes no liability for the content of linked external websites.
(6) Liability for the absence of citations by external AI systems is excluded, as these are beyond the Provider’s control.
§ 9 AI visibility and ranking
(1) The Provider takes all reasonable technical measures to make entries discoverable and parseable for AI systems. These include in particular:
- provision of machine-readable files (
llms.txt,llms-full.txt) according to the llms.txt standard; - structured data in Schema.org / JSON-LD format on each listing page, type-accurate by business category (e.g. Restaurant, SoftwareApplication, FinancialService);
- FAQ schema markup to optimize for AI-assisted search results (Google AI Overview, Bing Copilot);
- publication in
sitemap.xmlwith appropriate priority depending on tier; - regular technical updating of the file formats in line with the state of the art.
(2) The decision on placement, citation or recommendation in external AI systems — including, but not limited to, Google AI Overview, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Bing Copilot and comparable services — lies exclusively at the discretion of the respective system operators. The Provider has no influence whatsoever over:
- algorithms, weightings and ranking logic of these third-party services;
- training data, model updates and crawling cycles;
- the decision whether and how an entry appears in an AI answer;
- the correctness or completeness of information an AI system outputs about a customer.
(3) The Provider expressly gives no guarantee that:
- an entry will be crawled, processed or stored by an external AI system,
- an entry will be cited, named or recommended in the answers of an AI system,
- a particular frequency, time or form of AI mention will occur,
- the technical measures described will lead to a measurable improvement in AI visibility.
(4) Guaranteed placements — in particular the top-3 guarantee in the Platinum tier and the top rotation in the Diamond tier — relate exclusively to the internal presentation within the llmstxt.info directory and not to results in search engines or external AI services.
(5) The measures described in paragraph (1) constitute an obligation to use best efforts (duty of diligence) of the Provider, not an obligation to achieve a result. Customer claims for refund, reduction or damages due to absent or perceived-insufficient AI visibility are excluded, provided the Provider has fully rendered the technical measures under paragraph (1) and the cause lies in the conduct of external third parties.
(6) The Provider undertakes to inform customers transparently of material changes to the technical setup (e.g. new file standards, changed Schema.org types) and to adjust entries accordingly, insofar as this falls within the scope of the agreed service.
§ 10 Right of withdrawal for consumers
The services of llmstxt.info are open to both businesses and private individuals (consumers within the meaning of § 13 German Civil Code). The following withdrawal policy applies to consumers:
Withdrawal policy
Right of withdrawal: You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason. The withdrawal period is 14 days from the day the contract is concluded.
To exercise your right of withdrawal, you must inform us (Emanuele Fanizza, Hofsteder Straße 39, 44791 Bochum, Germany, email: ) by means of a clear statement (e.g. by email) of your decision to withdraw from this contract.
Withdrawal online: You may also exercise your right of withdrawal via our permanently available online withdrawal function at llmstxt.info/widerruf (linked in the footer). After you submit the withdrawal, we will promptly send you a confirmation of receipt on a durable medium (by email).
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient that you send your communication concerning the exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period expires.
Consequences of withdrawal: If you withdraw from this contract, we must repay all payments we have received from you promptly and at the latest within 14 days from the day on which we received notification of your withdrawal.
Lapse of the right of withdrawal for digital services: The right of withdrawal lapses in the case of a contract for the supply of digital content if the Provider has begun performance of the contract after the consumer expressly consented to the Provider beginning performance before the expiry of the withdrawal period and confirmed their knowledge that they lose their right of withdrawal by consenting to the commencement of performance (§ 356 (5) German Civil Code).
Model withdrawal form
(If you wish to withdraw from the contract, please complete this form and return it.)
To: Emanuele Fanizza, Hofsteder Straße 39, 44791 Bochum, Germany
Email:
I/we (*) hereby withdraw from the contract concluded by me/us (*) for the purchase of the following goods (*) / the provision of the following service (*):
Ordered on (*): ___________________________
Name of consumer(s): ___________________________
Address of consumer(s): ___________________________
Date: ___________________________
(*) Delete as appropriate.
§ 11 Changes to the service
(1) The Provider reserves the right to change the range of services and the prices for new contracts at any time. Existing paid entries are not affected by price increases.
(2) Material changes affecting existing paid entries are announced to the customer by email at least 30 days in advance. In this case the customer has a special right of cancellation.
(3) The Provider reserves the right to discontinue the service. For entries already paid for, a pro-rata refund is examined in the event of discontinuation.
§ 12 Data protection
For information on the processing of personal data, please see the privacy policy.
§ 13 Final provisions
(1) The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).
(2) For disputes arising from contracts with entrepreneurs, Bochum is the place of performance and jurisdiction.
(3) Should individual provisions of these GTC be or become invalid or unenforceable, the validity of the remaining provisions remains unaffected. The invalid provision is replaced by the statutory rule.
(4) Changes to these GTC are announced to the customer by email. If the customer does not object within 30 days of receipt of the notification, the amended GTC are deemed accepted.
As of: July 2026