Copyright

Last updated: April 2026

All content on PropertyKiln is copyright-protected, digitally fingerprinted and not available for commercial use without written permission.

Ownership

Every guide, template, reference card, tool description, document builder output template and piece of original writing on PropertyKiln was created by or commissioned by FTJ Designs (trading as PropertyKiln). None of it is sourced from public domain material. None of it is available under any open licence.

This includes but is not limited to:

The 300+ plain-English landlord guides
The 25+ downloadable templates
All 25+ tools, calculators and document builders, plus their results text and explanatory copy
All 25+ reference cards
The 10+ decision pages and 10+ comparison pages
Page layouts, section descriptions and category copy
The PropertyKiln name, logo and brand identity

Digital fingerprinting

Every piece of content on PropertyKiln contains invisible digital watermarks embedded at the character level. These fingerprints are unique to each page, cannot be removed by copying and pasting, and allow us to cryptographically verify the origin of any content that appears elsewhere.

If our content is reproduced — whether on a website, in a PDF, in an app, or in an AI training dataset — we can prove it came from PropertyKiln.

We actively monitor for unauthorised reproduction.

What you can do

Read and reference our content for your own personal or professional use — that's what it's here for
Link to any page on PropertyKiln. We encourage it
Quote briefly (a sentence or two) with clear attribution and a direct link back to the original PropertyKiln page
Share links on social media, forums, WhatsApp groups — however you like
Download and use templates and generated documents for your own business

What you cannot do

Copy, reproduce or republish our guides, templates or any substantial portion of our content — in any format, on any platform — without written permission
Scrape, crawl or bulk-download our content using automated tools, bots, browser extensions or AI training pipelines
Feed our content into AI models — whether for training, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or any other machine learning purpose
Repackage our content into competing products, apps, PDFs, courses, newsletters or social media content
Remove, alter or attempt to strip any copyright notices, digital fingerprints, PropertyKiln branding or sponsor branding
Use our content commercially — including in paid courses, subscription services, client deliverables or resale products — without a written licence
Frame or embed PropertyKiln pages within another website without permission

This applies regardless of whether you credit PropertyKiln. Attribution does not equal permission.

AI and scraping

PropertyKiln's robots.txt blocks known AI training crawlers including CCBot and Bytespider. Crawling our content in violation of these directives is unauthorised access.

If your AI product, tool or service has ingested PropertyKiln content without permission, you are in breach of our copyright. Contact us immediately at hello@kilnguides.co.uk to resolve this.

Reporting unauthorised use

If you find PropertyKiln content reproduced without permission:

Email: hello@kilnguides.co.uk
Subject line: Content infringement report
Include: The URL of the infringing page and the original PropertyKiln page it was copied from

We take every report seriously. We verify using our fingerprinting system, issue a takedown request, and escalate to DMCA if needed.

Licensing

If you'd like to licence PropertyKiln content for use in training materials, apps, publications or any other commercial purpose, contact hello@kilnguides.co.uk with what you want to use, how you intend to use it, and the audience.

We're reasonable people. If it helps UK landlords, we'll probably say yes. But you need to ask first.

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