---
title: "Content use and licensing"
description: "How public Hello Book Nerd text may be indexed, cited, reused and used for model training, and which material is excluded."
---

# Content use and licensing

Canonical URL: https://www.hellobooknerd.com/content-use/

Last modified: 2026-09-26

Original Hello Book Nerd editorial text is licensed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Photographs, logos, trademarks, reviewer quotations and third-party material are excluded.

Hello Book Nerd wants its published field notes to be easy to find, cite and
use. Search engines, assistants and model developers may crawl the public
reader site for search, live retrieval and model training, subject to the
rights below.

## Original editorial text

Unless a page says otherwise, original editorial text published by Hello Book
Nerd is licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
licence](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

That means you may copy, redistribute and adapt that text for any purpose,
including search indexing, summaries, retrieval-augmented answers and model
training, provided you give appropriate credit. Credit **Hello Book Nerd** and
link to the canonical page the material came from. Please indicate if you
changed the text.

BookScore results and factual place metadata may be indexed, cited and reused
with the same attribution. The licence applies to copyrightable original
editorial expression, not to facts themselves.

## What the licence does not include

Photographs, logos, trademarks, reviewer quotations and third-party material
are not offered under CC BY 4.0 unless a page expressly says they are. They
remain subject to their own rights. A licence for the surrounding article does
not grant a licence to reuse its photographs or quoted material.

## Public and operational pages

This policy covers the public reader site: the field guide, place pages, dated
reviews, the BookScore explanation, the About page and the style guide. The
private reviewer workflow on `survey.hellobooknerd.com` is for invited
reviewers, is excluded from public discovery and is not part of the licensed
editorial collection.

## Questions or corrections

Write to hello@hellobooknerd.com if you need a different form of permission,
want to report an attribution problem or believe material has been included in
error.

## Map data

Map data © [OpenStreetMap contributors](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright). The derived OpenStreetMap geometry files distributed with the Field Map are available under the [Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0](https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/). The map page links to the snapshot manifest, downloadable data files and their licence notice. This map data is separate from our CC BY 4.0 editorial text.

The atlas uses Natural Earth data, which is in the public domain.

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