Legal
Terms of Service
Last updated 21 August 2026.
Draft — legal entity not yet registered. These pages describe how the service actually behaves today and are published in that spirit. The operating entity, its registered address and its VAT details will be stated here once the company is incorporated. Until then this service is operated by an individual and no charges are made.
1 · What this service does
X-Protocols publishes structured business data on behalf of the business that submits it, and serves that data to software agents through a machine-readable interface. It is a publishing and retrieval system. It does not sell, broker or fulfil anything, and it does not act on your behalf in any transaction.
2 · You are the publisher, and you are accountable for what you publish
Everything you submit is published as your assertion, cryptographically signed and attributed to your verified domain. You confirm that:
- you are authorised to publish on behalf of the business named in your account;
- the facts you publish are accurate at the time you publish them, and you will correct or withdraw them when they stop being accurate;
- you will not publish anything unlawful, misleading, or belonging to someone else.
Because records carry your signature, an inaccurate record is your statement, not ours. We do not review records for accuracy and we make no representation about them.
3 · Verification is required, and it can be withdrawn
Data is only published once your authority to publish for the business has been proven. There is more than one way to prove it: control of the domain, shown by publishing a DNS TXT record, is one; evidence a person at X-Protocols reviewed — an official register entry, a document identifying the owner, a code delivered to the published address — is another, and reaches the same verified state. A business with no domain of its own is not excluded. Whichever proof was accepted is stated on the public page, and a page never claims a domain was verified when it was not. Proofs are re-checked periodically. If a proof lapses and nothing else supports publication, publication stops. Records may also be withdrawn through the revocation feed, which is public — a consumer who cached a record can learn it was withdrawn.
4 · What we do not promise
We do not promise, and no statement anywhere on this site should be read as promising, that any
AI system, search engine, assistant or crawler will read, use, cite, rank or recommend your data.
No one can control what third-party systems do. What we provide is publication in a standard,
verifiable, machine-readable form, and an honest refusal — not_covered — when a
question is not answerable from what you published.
The service is provided as-is, without warranty of availability, fitness for a particular purpose, or uninterrupted operation.
5 · Acceptable use
Do not use the service to publish data about a business you do not represent, to attempt to access another publisher's data, to probe or attack the infrastructure, or to exceed the request limits of your plan by technical means. We may suspend an account that does, and we will say why.
6 · Availability, plans and payment
Plan limits are shown on the pricing page and enforced in software. No payment processor is currently connected and no charges are made. If that changes, existing publishers will be told before any charge, and these terms will be updated with the commercial terms in the same change. When charging does start, a payment is final for the period it covers and cancelling stops the next charge rather than reversing the last one — the full rule, including the cases we always return, is the Refund Policy.
7 · Ending the relationship
You can stop publishing at any time by removing your records or your DNS verification record; publication stops on the next re-check either way. Ask us at support@x-protocols.com to delete an account and its data and we will do so. Note that anything already published was public, and public data may have been cached or copied by third parties we do not control — deletion here cannot reach those copies.
8 · Liability
To the extent permitted by law, our liability for any claim arising from the service is limited to the amount you have paid for it — which, while no payment processor is connected, is nothing. We are not liable for decisions taken by third-party AI systems based on data you published.
9 · Accessibility
We want this service to be usable by as many people as reasonably possible, including people who use a screen reader, navigate by keyboard, need larger text, or rely on reduced-motion, high-contrast or other assistive settings.
Accessibility is something we consider as we build, not a pass we do at the end. In practice that means: every form control has a label bound to it, every page can be worked through with a keyboard alone, focus is always visible, headings describe the structure of the page rather than its styling, errors are announced rather than only coloured, and the interface honours your system''s reduced-motion setting.
We are not claiming a certification. We have not been independently audited and we do not claim conformance to a particular WCAG level. Saying otherwise would be easy and would be worth nothing to you.
If you hit something you cannot use, please tell us — a description of what you were trying to do and what got in the way is enough, and you do not need to know the technical name for it. We will look into it, tell you what we find, and fix what we reasonably can. Contact details are in section 11.
10 · Changes
We will update these terms as the service changes, and the "last updated" date above will change with them. Material changes will be sent to the email address on your account.
11 · Contact
See also the Privacy Policy, which describes exactly what is stored and for how long.