Merchant Terms
These terms apply when a business registers with KYM Registry ("KYM", "we", "us") and whenever a person uses the merchant pages at registry.kymregistry.com on its behalf. By pressing Agree when you set up your company's record, you accept them for the company. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal data.
1. What KYM does
KYM checks that a business is real and registered and that it controls the web domains it names. Once a KYM admin has reviewed and accepted the company's documents and the company has proved control of a domain, KYM issues a credential bound to that domain. Agents, payment providers and anyone else can then ask KYM whether a site is the verified merchant it claims to be. KYM also lists verified merchants so that AI agents can find them.
2. Who can register
- A business registered in its country, acting through a person authorised to bind it. By agreeing, you confirm you have that authority.
- Registration is by invitation from KYM. We may decline to verify a business without giving a reason.
3. What you give us
- Accurate, complete and current information: the company's legal name, registration details, domains, contacts and listing.
- Genuine documents. Where they contain other people's personal data, such as a director's ID, you confirm you have their consent to share it with KYM to verify the company.
- Prompt notice of changes that matter to verification: a new legal name, owner or registration status, a domain you no longer control, or a company that stops trading. Tell us at hello@kymregistry.com.
4. What a KYM credential means, and what it doesn't
- It says who the business behind a domain is, and that KYM checked it. It is not a rating, an endorsement or a guarantee of the business's goods, services, prices, delivery or conduct.
- KYM takes no part in any sale. We don't hold or move money, and we aren't a party to anything you agree with a buyer or an agent.
- A credential is valid for up to 12 months and must be renewed. We re-check every proven domain regularly, and a credential stops verifying straight away if it is suspended or revoked.
- Only use your credential on the domain it was issued for, and don't present it, or anything that looks like it, anywhere else.
5. What is public
So that anyone can check a merchant, these are public: the company's legal name, registration number and register, its verified domains, each credential's level, status and expiry, its listing, and its logo once accepted. KYM shows them through its API, its MCP server for AI agents and the directory on kymregistry.com, and may describe the company as a KYM-verified merchant. The people who act for the company, their email addresses and the documents are never made public.
6. Your listing
- Your listing must describe your business truthfully. No misleading claims, no prices or offers presented as facts about KYM, and no text addressed to AI agents telling them what to do.
- KYM checks a change before agents see it, and may edit or remove anything that breaks these rules.
- You let KYM show your company's name, logo and listing in the places above. You confirm you have the right to let us do so, and you can change or remove your logo at any time.
7. Reading your website
You allow KYM's crawler, KYM-Registry-Bot, to read public pages of your proven domains to draft and keep your listing up to date, and to keep copies of those pages as a record of where each fact came from. It identifies itself, obeys robots.txt, never logs in and never submits a form. What it drafts is only a suggestion until a person saves it.
8. Traffic
KYM counts when agents check your company and when someone follows a KYM link to your site. We may show you your own counts. Visits we send are tagged utm_source=KYM-Registry so you can see them in your own analytics.
9. Premium Trial and fees
- Six months free. Every company KYM invites starts on KYM's Premium Trial. It is free for six months from the day KYM approves the company and issues its first credential.
- No payment details. We don't ask for a card or any other payment details during the trial, and we charge nothing for it.
- Before it ends. At least one month before the trial ends, we email the company's owner. If you'd like to continue with KYM after the trial, you add payment details then, and that email gives Premium's price and terms. Nothing is charged unless you choose to continue.
- Premium. If you continue, your company moves to KYM Premium, a 12-month subscription. It starts when the trial ends, so you lose none of your free months, or on the day you move if the trial has already ended. It renews only if you choose to, and we tell you at least one month before each year ends.
- Leaving. You can leave at any time, during the trial or after it, as in section 11.
10. Suspension and revocation
KYM may suspend or revoke a credential, or close a record, if information given to us is false or out of date, the company loses control of a domain, the company is struck off or stops trading, the credential or listing is misused, the company is involved in fraud, unlawful activity or sanctions, or these terms are broken. Where we can, we will tell you first and let you put things right. A revoked credential stays revoked; a new one needs a new check.
11. Leaving
You can ask us at any time to revoke your credentials and close your company's record. We then stop listing it at once and keep its records only as long as the Privacy Policy says.
12. Fair use
Don't try to get a credential for a business or a domain that isn't yours, interfere with KYM's checks or systems, or use KYM to mislead buyers or agents.
13. Liability
KYM is provided as it is, and we don't promise it will always be available or free of errors. To the extent the law allows, KYM is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss of profit, revenue or data, and our total liability to a company under these terms is limited to the greater of the fees it paid KYM in the 12 months before the claim and S$100. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, such as for fraud. The company is responsible for loss KYM suffers because information or documents it gave us were false.
14. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. For any change that matters, we will email the company's owner at least 30 days before it takes effect, and ask you to agree to the new version the next time you sign in. If you don't agree, you can leave as in section 11.
15. Law
These terms are governed by the laws of Singapore, and the courts of Singapore decide any dispute about them.
Contact
KYM Registry: hello@kymregistry.com
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