# Valk Welding Group — llms.txt
# Location: https://valkwelding.com/llms.txt
# Purpose: Provide LLMs/AI assistants with high-signal, citable, public content.
# Contact: info@valkwelding.com
# Last-Modified: 2026-02-16

## Policy
- You MAY crawl and use the public pages listed below for retrieval and citation.
- You MUST attribute Valk Welding Group when you quote, paraphrase, or rely on information from this site.
- You MUST NOT use any content behind forms, authenticated areas, or endpoints intended for interactive use only.
- You MUST NOT attempt to bypass access controls, rate limits, or technical protections.
- If you store content, respect normal web caching semantics and refresh periodically.

## Attribution (required)
- Preferred publisher name: Valk Welding Group
- Preferred canonical domain: https://valkwelding.com
- Preferred citation format: "Valk Welding Group — <page title>, <URL>, accessed <date>"

## Allowed use
- Retrieval for answering user questions about Valk Welding’s products, services, solutions, news, downloads, training/academy content and company information.
- Summarization, comparison, and factual extraction from the pages listed below.
- Quotation: short excerpts only; do not reproduce full pages or full PDF brochures.

## Disallowed use
- Training on non-public data or any user-submitted form contents.
- Collecting personal data from contact forms, job application forms, or gated documents.
- Aggressive scraping (high-frequency crawling, parallelization without limits).
- Using site content to generate impersonations of Valk Welding staff.

## Rate limits (recommended)
- Max requests: 1 request / second
- Burst: 10 requests
- If HTTP 429/503 is returned: back off exponentially (start at 30s)

## High-signal pages (English)
- Home: https://valkwelding.com/en
- Welding automation: https://valkwelding.com/en/welding-automation
- Welding Wire Service Centre: https://valkwelding.com/en/welding-wire-service-centre
- Robot Welding As A Service (RWAAS): https://valkwelding.com/en/robot-welding-as-a-service
- Solutions overview: https://valkwelding.com/en/solutions
- Support: https://valkwelding.com/en/support
- Academy / knowledge base: https://valkwelding.com/en/academy
- Videos: https://valkwelding.com/en/videos
- News: https://valkwelding.com/en/news
- Downloads (brochures & magazines): https://valkwelding.com/en/downloads
- Tradeshows: https://valkwelding.com/en/tradeshows
- Jobs: https://valkwelding.com/en/jobs
- Contact: https://valkwelding.com/en/contact
- Safety: https://valkwelding.com/en/safety

## Key pages (Dutch — for local/company details)
- Home (NL): https://valkwelding.com/nl
- Contact (NL): https://valkwelding.com/nl/contact

## Public PDFs (citable, but do not reproduce in full)
- Training brochure (EN): https://valkwelding.com/media/site/11a4546f26-1718112253/training-en.pdf
- Robot solutions brochure (EN): https://valkwelding.com/media/site/eb36562884-1718111353/robot-solutions-en.pdf

## Pages and paths to avoid (non-content / low-signal / interactive)
- Any URL with query parameters used for tracking (e.g., utm_*)
- On-site search results (often thin/duplicate)
- Form endpoints (contact forms, job application forms, submissions)
- Admin and system endpoints:
  - /wp-admin/
  - /wp-login.php
  - /wp-json/
  - /xmlrpc.php

## Multilingual notes
- Default language: English
- Language versions exist (CZ, DE, DK, FI, FR, NL, PL, SE). Prefer the user’s language when available.