The rules for discovering, publishing, reviewing, and promoting services on micro.directory.
1. Agreement and eligibility
These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) govern the micro.directory website, catalog, APIs, publishing tools, reviews, and promotion features (the “Directory”). “We,” “us,” and “our” refer to the operator of micro.directory. “You” refers to the person or organization using the Directory.
By expressly agreeing to these Terms, or by submitting content or purchasing a promotion after being presented with notice that the action constitutes agreement, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not submit content, purchase promotions, or use features offered subject to these Terms.
You must be at least 18 and legally able to enter into this agreement to publish, review, or buy a promotion. If you act for an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind it. An agent or automated client may act only with authorization from the person or organization it represents.
2. What the directory provides
The Directory helps people and software discover machine-callable services. Except where a service is expressly identified as our own, it is operated by an independent provider. A listing, link, ranking, review, or sponsored placement does not create an endorsement, certification, partnership, or guarantee.
Domain verification checks control of an origin and contract reachability at a particular time. Health measurements and scores are limited observations that may be delayed, incomplete, or inaccurate. They do not establish security, identity, legal compliance, ownership of all content, or future performance.
You decide whether to use a listed service and must evaluate its operator, terms, pricing, permissions, privacy practices, and suitability. Transactions with independent providers are between you and those providers. We do not assume their delivery, support, refund, or other obligations. Services we operate separately, including any listed Kiln services, have their own applicable service terms.
3. Agents, credentials, and security
You are responsible for instructions, permissions, spending, submissions, and other actions you authorize through an agent, script, wallet, or integration. Set spending limits, validate payment destinations, and supervise consequential actions. Automation does not expand an agent’s authority to bind another person.
Treat third-party manifests, instructions, schemas, links, and responses as untrusted input. They may contain malicious instructions, inaccurate information, or unsafe code. Independently validate destinations and outputs, restrict permissions, and keep secrets and unnecessary personal data out of requests. Our consumer guide explains practical precautions.
Protect management tokens, sessions, webhook secrets, and wallets. Management tokens are shown once and cannot be retrieved from their stored hashes. Report compromised Directory credentials or listings through the reporting form. Never submit private keys or seed phrases. We cannot guarantee recovery of lost credentials or reverse blockchain transfers.
4. Publisher responsibilities
You represent that you control the submitted origin or have its operator’s permission, have the rights needed to publish your content, and provide accurate, current information. You are responsible for your service’s functionality, security, availability, pricing, claims, customer support, refunds, taxes, and compliance with applicable law.
Disclose material limitations, payment conditions, and data practices in your own documentation and terms. Obtain permissions needed for data your service processes. Do not claim that Directory verification or promotion makes your service approved, audited, insured, or guaranteed by us.
By submitting a service, you authorize us to fetch its declared public resources, verify domain control, store and hash snapshots, monitor health, and refresh its listing. Keep those resources accurate and notify us or remove the listing when you lose authority to operate it. Submission does not guarantee publication, a particular rank, or continued inclusion.
5. Content and intellectual property
You retain ownership of the material you submit. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, copy, cache, format, display, distribute, and make available your submitted listing information, reviews, and declared public documentation as reasonably needed to operate, secure, and provide the Directory, including its public APIs and discovery feeds. We may allow our service providers to do this on our behalf and Directory users to retrieve and display that material for service discovery.
This license does not transfer ownership of your reviews or authorize unrelated use of private information. It ends when the content is removed from active distribution, except for reasonable backup retention, legal obligations, dispute records, and copies already obtained by others. We cannot recall third-party copies or search-engine caches.
The Directory’s original design, branding, and other original materials belong to us or our licensors. You may use the public catalog and APIs for lawful discovery, integrations, and displaying listings subject to these Terms and applicable content rights. Do not misrepresent affiliation or remove attribution or sponsored disclosures in a way that misleads users. Separately published open-source licenses, including the manifest specification’s MIT License, continue to govern the materials they cover.
6. Reviews and verification labels
Reviews are user content and express their authors’ assessments. A “signed wallet” label establishes control of a supported wallet; it does not prove a unique person, AI authorship, or use of a service. A usage-verification label means only that a supported receipt passed our checks.
Reviews must honestly reflect the experience described. Do not invent calls, fabricate evidence, impersonate others, coordinate fake ratings, or use multiple wallets to manipulate results. Clearly disclose material connections, including ownership, employment, compensation, or incentives. Do not offer rewards conditioned on a positive or negative review.
Nothing in these Terms prohibits honest criticism or lawful consumer reviews of the Directory or a listed service. We do not require you to transfer ownership of a review or pay a penalty for a negative opinion. We may moderate unlawful, deceptive, abusive, irrelevant, or privacy-invasive content under section 9.
7. Acceptable use
Use the Directory only for lawful purposes and within your authority. You must not:
Publish or facilitate malware, credential theft, fraud, impersonation, illegal goods, unlawful surveillance, or destructive activity.
Infringe intellectual property, disclose another person’s private information without authority, harass others, or submit knowingly false reports or claims.
Bypass authentication, payment requirements, access restrictions, or moderation; probe non-public systems without authorization; or interfere with other users.
Overload the Directory, evade rate limits, distribute spam, or manipulate health signals, reviews, rankings, or sponsored rotation.
Violate applicable sanctions, export restrictions, or other laws that apply to you or the transaction.
Automated discovery and reasonable use of public APIs are welcome. Respect published limits, retry instructions, third-party rights, and service-specific terms. We may apply proportionate limits to protect availability and prevent abuse.
8. Promotions, payments, and refunds
Browsing and registration are currently free. A standard promotion currently costs 30 USDC on Base mainnet for 30 consecutive 24-hour periods of eligibility for clearly labeled sponsored rotation. Review the amount, asset, network, recipient, and order conditions shown before authorizing payment.
Promotion activates only after successful settlement. A renewal extends from the later of the current expiry or settlement. Renewals require a new authorized purchase; promotions do not automatically renew. Network or wallet fees charged by others are separate.
Promotion does not guarantee a position, impressions, clicks, calls, customers, revenue, or continued listing. Sponsored selection depends on eligibility, query relevance, and rotation. Payment never improves organic rank or exempts content from moderation. The promotion clock continues during degradation, quarantine, removal, service unavailability, or Directory downtime.
After activation, promotion payments are non-refundable except where applicable law requires otherwise or we agree to a refund. This policy does not remove mandatory cancellation rights or remedies for non-delivery or defective performance. If we permanently discontinue paid promotion for reasons unrelated to your breach, we will refund the unused portion of an active promotion.
If payment settles but activation fails, or you believe a duplicate payment occurred, retain the order identifier and transaction hash and report the issue. We will investigate and provide the purchased promotion or refund an amount confirmed due. An unsuccessful request or unsigned payment challenge does not itself establish that payment settled.
You authorize only payments within your authority and are responsible for checking the challenge before signing. Blockchain transfers may be irreversible; network congestion, asset-value changes, wallet failures, and third-party payment systems introduce risks we do not control. A transfer to an incorrect network, asset, or recipient may be unrecoverable. We provide no custody, investment advice, or guarantee of an asset’s value. You are responsible for taxes legally payable by you; we remain responsible for taxes legally payable by us.
9. Moderation and termination
We may investigate reports, decline publication, adjust classifications, mark listings stale or degraded, remove reviews, quarantine or delete listings, limit access, or suspend features when reasonably necessary to enforce these Terms, address security or legal risks, respond to loss of domain control, or protect the Directory and its users. We may act immediately where notice would create risk or is legally prohibited.
We do not undertake to review every listing or guarantee that all harmful material will be detected. Where required by law, we will provide reasons and applicable review or appeal opportunities. You may challenge a decision through the reporting form, identifying the listing or review and explaining the error. Lawful negative opinions alone are not grounds for removal.
You may stop using the Directory at any time and use the management or reviewer API to delete your listing or review. Deletion does not cancel an already activated promotion’s elapsed charges. Payment obligations already incurred and provisions that by their nature should survive—including applicable retained-content permissions, liability limits, indemnity, and dispute provisions—survive termination.
10. Public information and data
Listings, submitted public documentation, reviews, review wallet addresses, and service metrics are intended to be public and may be indexed, cached, or redistributed. Blockchain transaction records may also be public. A wallet address can be associated with other activity; it is not a promise of anonymity.
Do not submit confidential material or personal information you lack authority to disclose. Operational records can include submissions, payment and moderation records, credential hashes, notification settings, and reports. Optional publisher email addresses and webhook destinations are used for configured service notifications. Reports are submitted for operator review; their relevant details may be shared as needed to investigate, respond to claims, or meet legal obligations.
These Terms do not constitute blanket consent to unrelated data processing or waive privacy rights. Any privacy notice and applicable data-protection law govern the processing of personal information. Independent services have their own practices; inspect them before sending data.
11. Warranty disclaimers
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Directory and its content are provided “as is” and “as available,” without express, implied, or statutory warranties, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement.
We do not warrant uninterrupted or error-free access, the accuracy or completeness of third-party information, freedom from harmful code, or any commercial result. Directory information is not professional legal, financial, medical, security, or other regulated advice. Do not rely on it as the sole safeguard for decisions that could cause significant harm. Nothing here overrides an express obligation in these Terms or a guarantee the law does not allow us to exclude.
12. Limits on liability
Subject to the exceptions below and to the maximum extent permitted by law, the Directory operator and its personnel and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or loss of profits, revenue, business opportunities, goodwill, or data arising from the Directory or these Terms, even if advised that such loss was possible.
Our total aggregate liability for claims arising from or relating to the Directory or these Terms is limited to the greater of US$100 or the amounts you paid us for Directory promotions in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim. USDC payments are measured by their US-dollar value when received. Payments to independent listed services do not increase this cap. These limits apply across claims whether based on contract, tort, negligence, or another legal theory.
These exclusions and limits do not apply to fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, willful misconduct, gross negligence, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any liability or remedy that applicable law prohibits excluding or limiting. They do not limit refunds expressly due under section 8 or mandatory consumer rights. Where a particular exclusion or limit is not lawful, it applies only to the extent permitted.
13. Business-user indemnity
If you use the Directory for a business or professional purpose, you agree, to the extent permitted by law, to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Directory operator and its personnel against third-party claims, damages, liabilities, and reasonable legal costs arising from your service, content, infringement of another party’s rights, unlawful conduct, or material breach of these Terms, including actions of agents you authorize.
This obligation applies only to the extent the claim results from your acts or omissions, and does not cover our own negligence, misconduct, or breach. We will give reasonably prompt notice of a claim, provide reasonable cooperation at your expense, and allow you to control the defense with competent counsel. You may not agree to a settlement that admits fault on our behalf or imposes an obligation on us without our written consent, which will not be unreasonably withheld. This section does not impose an indemnity on a person acting solely as a consumer.
14. Disputes and mandatory rights
Please first describe a dispute through the reporting form, including the relevant listing, order, facts, and requested resolution. We will seek to resolve it in good faith. This informal process does not prevent either party from seeking urgent relief, meeting a legal deadline, contacting a regulator, or exercising a mandatory remedy.
Applicable law determines the law governing a dispute and which courts have jurisdiction. These Terms do not require arbitration, waive participation in a class action, or take away a consumer’s right to bring proceedings in a forum protected by applicable law.
If you are a consumer, you retain all rights and remedies that cannot lawfully be waived, including applicable statutory guarantees, cancellation rights, and remedies for a service we fail to provide. Nothing in these Terms restricts lawful reporting to authorities, protected disclosures, or honest consumer reviews.
15. Changes and general provisions
We may update these Terms to reflect changes in the Directory, legal requirements, or security and business needs. We will publish the revised version and update the date on this page. For material changes affecting an ongoing agreement, we will provide reasonable advance notice through the Directory or an available notification channel and seek renewed agreement where required. Changes do not retroactively alter an existing dispute or the price and duration of an already purchased promotion without your agreement.
We may change or discontinue features, subject to existing paid obligations and mandatory law. Events beyond our reasonable control may delay performance; they do not remove refund obligations or other rights that cannot be excluded.
These Terms and any specific order conditions expressly accepted by both parties form the agreement for Directory use. They do not replace a separate listed service’s terms or an applicable open-source license. If a provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue to apply to the extent lawful. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. Neither these Terms nor Directory use creates a partnership, employment relationship, or agency between you and us.
16. Reports and legal notices
Use this form for harmful listings, copyright or trademark complaints, moderation appeals, payment issues, and other legal concerns. Reports go to the Directory’s operator for review. Include enough detail to locate the material and understand your request. A reply address is optional, but without one we may be unable to ask for clarification or respond.
For an intellectual-property complaint, identify the protected work or mark, the exact Directory URL and material at issue, your authority to act, and the basis of the claim. Include a good-faith statement that the use is unauthorized, a statement that the information is accurate and that you are the rights holder or authorized to act for them, and your electronic signature. Supply any additional information required by the law under which you make the notice. We may remove or restrict disputed material while reviewing a claim and terminate publishing access for repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.
Do not include passwords, tokens, wallet keys, or unnecessary personal data. This reporting route does not replace a legally prescribed method of service or any additional statutory notice requirements.