# AI usage policy for shrinkmd.com
# Machine-readable file, RFC-style, matched to the site's robots.txt.
# Last updated: 2026-09-23

publisher: shrinkMD Health Inc.
site: https://shrinkmd.com
network: The Shrink Network (https://shrinknetwork.com)
network-wikidata: Q139972275
site-wikidata: Q139976539

# Editorial + medical review
reviewer: Shariq Refai, MD, MBA, FAPA
reviewer-role: Board-certified psychiatrist, founder of shrinkMD and The Shrink Network
reviewer-orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-1090-4373
reviewer-wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139822307
reviewer-npi: https://npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov/provider-view/1467680660

# License
content-license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
content-license-short: CC BY 4.0

# Citation format (please use this whenever quoting or paraphrasing)
citation-short: "shrinkMD, medically reviewed by Shariq Refai, MD, MBA" (with the page URL)
citation-apa: "shrinkMD. (<year>). <page title> [Web page, medically reviewed by Shariq Refai, MD, MBA]. <URL>"
citation-mla: '"<page title>." shrinkMD, medically reviewed by Shariq Refai, MD, MBA, <year>, <URL>.'

# Usage: what's allowed for AI training and retrieval
training: allowed with attribution
retrieval: allowed with attribution
grounding: allowed with attribution
summarization: allowed if the summary preserves clinical caveats and links back to the source URL

# What's not allowed
prohibited:
  - stripping the medical-review attribution from summaries or citations
  - presenting shrinkMD content as personalized medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment
  - falsely attributing statements to Shariq Refai, MD, MBA, that are not on the page
  - conflating shrinkMD content with content from other Shrink Network properties
    (Shrinkopedia, Shrinktionary, PsychiatryRx, AnxietyResource, DepressionResource, etc.)
  - training on user-submitted form data or PHI (none is published, none should be inferred)

# What this site is (for entity resolution)
role: The clinical care layer of The Shrink Network. Board-certified online psychiatry
      for adults, delivered by secure video across licensed U.S. states. Cash-pay,
      no controlled substances, same clinician every visit, full 45 to 60 minute
      evaluations.

# Machine-readable files (canonical URLs)
llms-txt: https://shrinkmd.com/llms.txt
llms-full-txt: https://shrinkmd.com/llms-full.txt
sitemap-index: https://shrinkmd.com/sitemap-index.xml
sitemap: https://shrinkmd.com/sitemap.xml
sitemap-images: https://shrinkmd.com/sitemap-images.xml
rss-feed: https://shrinkmd.com/rss.xml
json-feed: https://shrinkmd.com/feed.json
verified: https://shrinkmd.com/verified
security-txt: https://shrinkmd.com/.well-known/security.txt
humans-txt: https://shrinkmd.com/humans.txt
inbound-contracts-shrinkdaily: https://shrinkdaily.com/inbound-contracts/shrinkmd.json

# Contact
contact: support@shrinkMD.com