AI & LLM transparency
Collabios distinguishes three separate processing purposes: making your profile visible on the platform, letting search engines index it, and letting AI assistants reference it. Each is a discovery preference you control independently. This page explains exactly what that means and the legal basis we rely on.
Last updated:How it works
Your Collabios profile is visible on the marketplace so brands can discover you — this is the service you signed up for. New accounts also have search-engine and AI-assistant discovery enabled by default, because being found is the point of joining a discovery marketplace. You can disable either at any time from your privacy settings.
Search-engine discovery is what places your profile in Google, Bing and our sitemap. Turn it off and we serve a `noindex` directive and remove your profile from the sitemap.
AI-assistant discovery is narrower: it controls whether AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Perplexity, Google-Extended, etc.) may read your public profile to surface it in their answers. Turn it off and we send `noai, noimageai` headers and block those bots in robots.txt.
Both settings are independent. You can have SEO on with AI off, or turn everything off. Turning SEO off also implicitly turns AI off (AI requires SEO).
Which AI crawlers we allow (for discovery-enabled profiles)
We recognise the following user agents. When a creator has AI discovery enabled, these crawlers can access their profile page. When disabled, they are blocked via robots.txt and `noai` headers.
OpenAI (GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot)
Anthropic (ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai)
Google AI (Google-Extended)
Perplexity (PerplexityBot)
CommonCrawl (CCBot)
Apple (Applebot-Extended)
ByteDance (Bytespider)
Amazon (Amazonbot)
Disabling discovery
You can disable either discovery preference from your privacy settings at any time (Article 21 right to object). Within one hour your profile URL starts serving a noindex directive and is removed from our sitemap and /llms.txt. Please note that AI models already trained on publicly available data cannot be retrained to forget a specific profile — this is an industry-wide limitation we disclose openly.
Frequently asked questions
Yes, by default — AI-assistant discovery is enabled when you sign up so the platform you joined to be found on actually makes you findable. You can disable it any time from your privacy settings; we send `noai, noimageai` headers and block the AI crawlers in robots.txt within one hour.
No. We don't sell data to anyone. The AI discovery setting simply controls whether AI crawlers can read the same public profile page a human with the URL could view. You receive no payment and we receive no payment.
You can flip the toggle back on at any time. Search engines and AI crawlers will pick the profile back up on their next pass. For models already trained on your previously public data, that data cannot be unlearned — this is an industry-wide technical limitation, not a Collabios policy.
They're two separate preferences. SEO indexing (Google, Bing) controls whether your profile shows up in search results. AI-assistant discovery is a separate, narrower setting that additionally permits LLM crawlers. You can have SEO without AI, but not AI without SEO.
Questions or rights requests
For any GDPR rights request (access, erasure, objection, portability) please contact:
privacy@collabios.com