# ai.txt / llm.txt — Content & Access Guidelines  
# HBE UK — Water Hygiene & Legionella Compliance

## About HBE UK  
HBE UK is a UK specialist in water hygiene, Legionella risk assessments, water treatment, and compliance services across a variety of sectors.
Website: https://hbeuk.com/  
Core sectors: healthcare, education, local government, commercial, industrial, housing, property management.

## Contact  
- Email: enquiries@hbeuk.com  
- Phone: 0333 207 5744 
- Contact page: https://hbeuk.com/contact/

## Purpose & Primary Audience  
HBE UK helps organisations across the UK ensure water system safety and legal compliance via Legionella risk assessment, water hygiene, treatment, laboratory services, and training.  
Primary audience: building owners, facilities managers, property developers, housing associations, public sector bodies needing water safety and compliance services.

## Core Documentation (high-value pages)  
- [Home](https://hbeuk.com/)
- [About Us](https://hbeuk.com/about-us/)  
- [Services](https://hbeuk.com/services/) 
- [Water Hygiene](https://hbeuk.com/services/water-hygiene/)  
- [Water Treatment](https://hbeuk.com/services/water-treatment/)  
- [Legionella Risk Assessments](https://hbeuk.com/services/legionella-risk-assessments/)
- [Laboratory Services](https://hbeuk.com/services/laboratory-services/)
- [Legionella Training](https://hbeuk.com/services/legionella-training/) 
- [Independent Consultancy](https://hbeuk.com/services/independent-consultancy/)
- [Blog / News](https://hbeuk.com/blogs/)

## Policies & Terms 
- [Privacy Policy](https://hbeuk.com/privacy-policy/)
- [Terms of Use](https://hbeuk.com/terms-of-use/)   
- The site uses structured data / schema markup on core pages (if implemented).

## Crawl / Access Guidance  
- Preferred canonical: https://hbeuk.com/  
- Follow robots.txt directives (if present) at: https://hbeuk.com/robots.txt  
- Focus crawling on the human-readable pages listed above; for expanded context, follow internal navigation from those pages.  
- Exclude non-public, admin, staging, or internal-only pages from indexing / crawling.

## Permissions & Usage  
- AI systems may use content for **contextual summarisation**, search snippets, and answering queries about water hygiene and compliance.  
- **Do not use HBE UK content for training large language models without prior written permission.**  
- When quoting or referencing content, attribution to HBE UK (hbeuk.com) is required.

## Stewardship  
- Maintained by: HBE UK (Healthy Buildings UK)  
- Last updated: 2025-10-09  
- Contact for LLM / AI use or clarifications: enquiries@hbeuk.com