AI Usage & Data Protection Policy (Global Jurisdiction)

POLYFONIK is an independent publisher of music, fashion, art and culture. We prohibit the unauthorised use of our content for artificial intelligence systems, machine learning, automated data collection and related technologies. This policy forms part of our Terms of Use and applies to all visitors and automated systems accessing this website.

POLYFONIK AI Usage Policy

Effective Date: 7 July 2026

Artificial Intelligence Usage Policy

POLYFONIK (“we”, “our”, “us”) is committed to protecting the originality, integrity and commercial value of the content published on this website.

This Artificial Intelligence Usage Policy applies to all visitors, organisations, automated systems, bots, crawlers, software agents and artificial intelligence systems that access or interact with polyfonik.com.

By accessing this website, you agree to comply with this policy.

Ownership

Unless otherwise stated, all content published on this website—including but not limited to:

• Editorial articles
• Music reviews
• Interviews
• Photography
• Artwork
• Graphic design
• Branding
• Logos
• Videos
• Audio recordings
• DJ mixes
• Event listings
• Databases
• Metadata
• Layouts
• HTML
• CSS
• Source code
• Written copy
• Product descriptions
• Campaign material
• Social media content
• Original creative works

is owned by POLYFONIK or its respective creators and is protected under applicable copyright, intellectual property and related laws.

No AI Licence

POLYFONIK grants no licence, whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise, permitting any person or entity to use any content from this website for the purpose of developing, improving, evaluating or operating artificial intelligence systems.

Any rights not expressly granted are reserved.

Prohibited Uses

Without our prior written consent, you may not use any content from this website to:

• Train machine learning models
• Train large language models (LLMs)
• Train generative AI systems
• Fine-tune foundation models
• Create embeddings
• Populate vector databases
• Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems
• Generate synthetic datasets
• Benchmark AI systems
• Evaluate AI models
• Develop recommendation engines
• Build knowledge graphs
• Develop autonomous agents
• Generate derivative datasets
• Create image-generation models
• Create music-generation models
• Create video-generation models
• Generate voice models
• Develop multimodal AI systems
• Create search indexes intended for AI products
• Perform automated semantic analysis
• Extract metadata at scale
• Scrape content using automated tools
• Crawl the website for AI-related purposes
• Archive content for future AI development
• Reproduce our editorial content inside AI products
• Redistribute our content through AI-powered services

Automated Collection

The use of automated systems including:

• AI crawlers
• Web scrapers
• Data miners
• Bots
• Autonomous agents
• Headless browsers
• Large-scale harvesting software
• Dataset collection tools

is prohibited where the purpose is AI development, machine learning, data aggregation or commercial exploitation.

Reasonable crawling by recognised search engines for standard indexing purposes is permitted unless otherwise restricted.

Images, Photography and Artwork

All images published on POLYFONIK are protected.

No photograph, illustration, artwork, logo, design, graphic or visual asset may be:

• downloaded for AI datasets;
• used for image generation;
• analysed for computer vision training;
• incorporated into diffusion models;
• reproduced in image synthesis systems;
• used to generate derivative works through AI technologies.

Audio and Music

All music, recordings, mixes, podcasts, interviews and audio assets published on this website are protected.

They may not be used to:

• train music generation systems;
• create voice synthesis;
• clone performers;
• generate stems;
• recreate performances;
• imitate artistic style using machine learning.

Editorial Content

Our articles, interviews, reviews and written content represent significant editorial investment.

No editorial content may be copied, summarised, embedded, transformed or incorporated into AI systems without written permission.

Metadata

The collection or reuse of:

• titles;
• descriptions;
• artist information;
• event data;
• taxonomies;
• keywords;
• structured data;
• schema markup;
• editorial metadata;

for AI training or commercial datasets is prohibited.

Commercial AI

Commercial organisations may not use any content from this website for:

• AI products;
• SaaS platforms;
• foundation models;
• enterprise AI tools;
• internal AI systems;
• commercial research;
• automated assistants;
• knowledge bases;
• customer support systems;
• AI search products;

without an executed written licence from POLYFONIK.

Research

Academic research requiring access to our content must obtain prior written approval.

Non-commercial research does not create permission to train AI systems.

Robots and Machine-Readable Directives

POLYFONIK may publish machine-readable instructions including, but not limited to:

• robots.txt
• llms.txt
• HTTP headers
• metadata directives
• AI crawler exclusion protocols

These directives form part of this policy and must be respected.

Ignoring such directives may constitute unauthorised access.

Copyright Reservation

POLYFONIK expressly reserves all copyright, database rights, neighbouring rights and other intellectual property rights.

We expressly opt out of any text and data mining exceptions or similar statutory provisions to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

Enforcement

POLYFONIK reserves the right to:

• block access;
• restrict IP addresses;
• revoke permissions;
• issue cease-and-desist notices;
• seek injunctive relief;
• pursue damages;
• enforce copyright;
• pursue contractual remedies;
• report unauthorised use where appropriate.

Future Technologies

This policy applies to existing and future technologies, whether or not specifically described, that use automated systems to analyse, reproduce, transform or generate content using material obtained from this website.

Permission Requests

If you wish to use POLYFONIK content for research, licensing, syndication or any AI-related purpose, please contact us before using any material.

Permission must be granted in writing.

Changes

POLYFONIK may update this Artificial Intelligence Usage Policy at any time without prior notice.

Continued use of this website constitutes acceptance of the most recent version of this policy.

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