This page is for manufacturers, retailers, bloggers, associations, and authors whose content — web pages as well as documents — may appear in the answers provided by the Boondocker AI assistant. We want to explain, with full transparency, how we use your content and the respect that guides every decision we make.
Respect for creators’ work
The manuals, guides, spec sheets, brochures, and articles you publish represent real work. Our assistant doesn’t exist to replace that work—it exists to help RV and camping enthusiasts find the right information and trace it back to you. Your content remains yours: our role is to make it easier to discover, never to take it from you.
How we do it
We crawl and index publicly accessible content. Our crawler acts with restraint: it respects delays between requests so as not to overload your servers, and it focuses on documents and pages that are useful to the RV and camping community.
Allowing this indexing works in your favour. Every time your content is used to answer a question, it’s cited and linked back to its source. You gain visibility with an audience already interested in your field, you receive qualified traffic, and the link to your site strengthens your online presence. Being indexed by us means being recommended.
The text on your pages is extracted, split into passages, and converted into mathematical representations (vectors) that let the assistant retrieve the relevant information when answering a question. These text passages are stored in our database; the original HTML, images, and layout are not.
Citations and a link to the source, always
This approach is our fundamental difference from general-purpose AI. Most assistants absorb web content and answer without ever saying where the information came from. We do the opposite: every answer comes with its sources, including a direct link to the original site. Users are invited to visit you to verify and dig deeper. Traceability is at the core of our operations, out of respect for you and the reliability of the information.
Pages aren’t viewable on our site. They stay on your website, and that’s where users are directed.
When a page disappears, we remove it
If you take down a page or URL at the source, we also remove it from our index. You remain in control of what you publish.
A grace period protects you from false alarms. Before any permanent removal, we allow a delay (45 days): a page that’s temporarily unreachable due to an error or technical glitch won’t be deleted if it’s later fixed on your end.
During this period, if we’ve detected that the page is missing, the assistant will still provide the link while noting that it may be invalid. After 45 days, that web page will no longer be referenced.
When a document disappears
Documents we’ve indexed — manuals, spec sheets, and guides in PDF form, for example — remain in our database even if they disappear from your site. We can then continue to provide that information, always attributing it to you, so that a useful maintenance guide or safety instruction isn’t lost to users.
You have the final word. At the simple request of the rights holder, we remove these documents from our database.
Your requests are welcome
Want to have a document removed, correct an attribution, report an error, or exclude your domain entirely from our indexing? Write to us at [email protected].
Our commitment, in brief
- We only index publicly accessible content.
- We always cite our sources and link back to your site.
- We respect your servers by spacing out our requests.
- We track your page removals, with a grace period against technical glitches.
- We remove any document stored in our database on request.
- We quickly correct any erroneous attribution.