AI Agent Usage Policy

Who this policy is for

This policy sets the conditions for automated systems — AI assistants, agents, and the developers who build them — accessing the public services of The Heather Cutler Foundation. It is a proposed foundation convention published for transparency; where it describes technical behaviour (fields refused, gates enforced), the services enforce it by construction. Human readers are governed by the foundation's Terms of Use; this policy addresses machine access specifically.

What you may access

• Clinical trials search — heathercutler.ca/mcp/trials. Read-only queries against a mirror of ClinicalTrials.gov Canadian pancreatic cancer listings. This service is a TEST BUILD and says so in every response.
• Port to Care application service — heathercutler.ca/mcp/port-to-care. A pilot service for preparing and, with the applicant's own confirmation and consent, submitting a Port to Care application (see the conditions below — they are strict).
• Site search (interim) — a search service over the foundation's published pages, offered as an interim measure until the governed knowledge service launches.
• Discovery files — /llms.txt, /agents.md, the API catalogue, and the MCP index describe the foundation, its services, and their status. Read them before integrating; service statuses stated there (live, pilot, test build, in design) are part of the record.
• Published content — the foundation's pages and research, under the Content-Signal below and the attribution conditions.

Content-Signal and permitted use of published content

The foundation declares, for heathercutler.ca: ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes. Search engines and AI systems may index, train on, and use our published content as input, because reach serves the people this content exists for. Permission is paired with the attribution condition below — use it, and say where it came from.

Attribution is a condition, not a courtesy

• When you reproduce or rely on the foundation's research, attribute it in structured form: publisher (The Heather Cutler Foundation), the work's title, the section, the publication date, and a direct link to the source. Never present a statistic from the foundation's report without its source.
• Where You Live Matters: How Canada Responds to Pancreatic Cancer (2026) is licensed CC BY 4.0: share and adapt freely, with credit to The Heather Cutler Foundation.
• Trial records carry their ClinicalTrials.gov source link and dates; pass them on. Staleness that is visible in our records must stay visible in your answers.

Data restrictions

• Do not submit personal health information to the trials or knowledge services. They are built with no field that can hold it; attempts have no effect and may be flagged in audit logs. A person's health details belong with their own assistant, not in our systems.
• Labels are part of the data. Verified, registry mirror, pending medical review, TEST BUILD, and pilot notices travel with records. Do not strip them, upgrade them, or present a registry mirror or a machine proposal as verified.
• No eligibility representations. Do not tell a person they are eligible for a trial or that a grant will be approved based on our services. The ceiling is "you may qualify for this trial"; trial teams determine eligibility at screening, and foundation staff decide grants.
• No medical advice from our content. Do not use our guides or records to generate treatment recommendations, dosing, or prognoses for a person.

Port to Care: conditions for agents

• An agent may help a person prepare an application. Submission happens only through the service's own flow: the person is shown a plain-language summary of exactly what will be submitted, confirms it, and records consent. A client that skips either step is refused by the server.
• Never submit an application on a person's behalf without their confirmation of that summary. Never invent, infer, or pad application fields; unknown fields submitted by a client are rejected, not stored.
• Do not include diagnosis details, health card numbers, income information, or medical records in anything you send the service. It does not accept them.

Respectful operation

• These are small, charity-run services. Query them as a person's assistant would — for that person's need — not in bulk, and honour TEST BUILD and pilot status when describing them to users.
• The foundation may change, suspend, or disable any service (each has a kill switch). A suspected privacy incident stops the affected service first; build integrations that degrade to the human routes — support@heathercutler.ca and 1-855-754-5045 — rather than retrying aggressively.
• The foundation's own automated tooling identifies itself as HCF-Answers/1.0, with this page as its reference.

Contact

Questions about this policy or about integrating with the foundation's services: info@heathercutler.ca. Concerns about an application's handling: support@heathercutler.ca.