legal notice
Legal notice.
tools402 is an experimental, pre-commercial HTTP 402 marketplace operated by an independent developer. No corporate entity has been incorporated around it yet. This page is a placeholder while we evaluate product-market fit; a full Terms / Privacy / DPA will be published when the marketplace transitions to commercial operations.
What this service does
tools402 routes paid HTTP requests from autonomous agents (and human-built clients) to first-party and community-published endpoints (— community sellers live from /v1/_seller/count — we don't seed fake listings), settled in USDC on Base, Polygon and Solana. The wire protocol is x402, an open standard published by Coinbase. The full live catalog is public at /v1/_meta.
What we collect
The minimum required to operate the marketplace: wallet addresses (for transaction attribution), endpoint metadata published by sellers (slug, upstream URL, price, mode), and on-chain transaction hashes. No PII, no email at signup, no KYC. IP addresses are logged for security purposes only and discarded within 30 days. Request and response bodies pass through in transit and are not persisted.
Payments are on-chain and final
USDC settlement happens on-chain via the buyer's wallet. Buyers pay recipient wallet 0xD6E8aF2F65B4C9ACC7BF14A3096056e89E312878 directly per call. There is no off-chain refund mechanism by design. Disputes are resolved by examining the on-chain ledger — every transaction is auditable on Basescan, Polygonscan or Solscan.
Forbidden uses
You may not use tools402 endpoints, or publish endpoints on tools402, that process CSAM or other illegal content, knowingly help bypass sanctions (OFAC, EU, UN), perform malware distribution, credential stuffing or DoS, or scrape websites in violation of their ToS or robots.txt. We react to reports and remove listings accordingly. We do not pre-moderate.
Liability
tools402 is provided "as is" during this experimental phase. We do not warrant the suitability of any endpoint for any particular purpose. No SLA is offered while the marketplace remains pre-commercial.
Contact
For legal correspondence, GDPR / data-subject requests, takedown notices, or any operator question, write to hello@tools402.dev. We aim to respond within 5 business days.
A full Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Data Processing Agreement will be published when the marketplace transitions from experimental to commercial operations and a corporate entity is incorporated. Until then, this notice describes our actual practices and the contact email above is the canonical channel for any legal request.