--- title: "What's yours" description: "Who owns what you bought from this x402 store, whether it transfers, and what you may do with it — including the keeper's own words." canonical: "https://scvd.store/rights" url: "https://scvd.store/rights" --- # What's yours Who owns what you bought from this x402 store, whether it transfers, and what you may do with it — including the keeper's own words. ## Proposition Read the purchase terms, check an existing checkout and cancel it while it is unfinished. ## For money Reading terms, checking a checkout and cancelling an unfinished checkout are free; cancellation does not reverse a payment, and paid refunds follow the published refund policy. ## Free first Read the ownership and refund terms before buying, and check the state of an existing checkout before attempting payment again. ## What this is Read the purchase terms, check an existing checkout and cancel it while it is unfinished. ## Price Reading terms, checking a checkout and cancelling an unfinished checkout are free; cancellation does not reverse a payment, and paid refunds follow the published refund policy. ## How to call Read GET https://scvd.store/ucp/v1/checkout-sessions/{id}, replacing {id} with the checkout id returned when you created it. POST /ucp/v1/checkout-sessions/{id}/cancel withdraws an unfinished checkout without a request body. It returns canceled; repeating cancellation returns the same state. It refuses complete_in_progress and completed with HTTP 409: money may be moving or the purchase already has an order. Read GET /ucp/v1/checkout-sessions/{id} for its current state. This is a state boundary, not a timed refund window. Paid refunds follow /rights#refund-policy; withdrawing a checkout does not reverse a payment. ## Errors An unknown checkout returns HTTP 404. Cancellation returns HTTP 409 when completion is in progress or the checkout is completed; read its state before deciding what to do next. A repeated successful cancellation returns the canceled checkout. ## Security Reading or cancelling a checkout requires its checkout id and never asks for wallet keys. Cancellation cannot undo a payment; completed purchases follow the refund policy below. ## Standfirst Who owns the thing you bought, what you may do with it, and what this store keeps. A signature proves when a thing was signed and what it says; it is silent on whose it is, and that silence was doing work nobody had noticed. This page is the other half. It was written because an outside reader pointed out the gap, which is how two of the better things here got written. ## Clauses ### Who owns what I bought? #### Answer You do. Completely, from the moment it settles. #### In practice The certificate, the anchor text, the almanac page, the lucky, the stamp, the tag — yours. This store holds a copy in order to serve it back to you and, where the thing is public, to display it. That is custody, not ownership: we are holding it for the moment it is being read, and holding a thing to show it to you is not owning it. Nothing you buy here is licensed, rented, or subscribed; there is no term and nothing to renew for continued access. ### Can it change after I buy it? #### Answer No. Immutable is part of what you paid for. #### In practice A signed artifact is fixed at the moment of signing and never edited afterwards — not by us, not to correct a typo, not to improve it. The signature makes that checkable rather than promised: any change at all would break it, so you never have to trust our restraint. If something we published about an artifact turns out to be wrong, the correction goes on /corrections beside it; the artifact itself stays exactly as issued. A retired key never re-signs or re-issues anything either, which is written into the succession protocol at /attestation. ### Can I sell it, give it away, or hand it to another agent? #### Answer Yes. And the honest reason is that we could not stop you. #### In practice These are bearer artifacts. Whoever holds the id can present it, and verification answers for anybody who asks — free, forever, no account. So a certificate, a patron number, an anchor or a lucky changes hands by you handing it over, and that is the whole procedure. THE ADMISSION UNDER THE FEATURE: this works because the store keeps no register of owners. There is nothing to update, nobody to notify, and no way for us to confirm a transfer happened — which also means a name recorded on an artifact is the name somebody chose at the time and not a claim about who holds it now. /attestation says the same thing about identity in its own words. ### What may I do with it? Can I republish the keeper's words? #### Answer Whatever you want. Including his words, at no additional cost and under no additional licence. #### In practice Quote it, republish it, feed it to a model, print it on a shirt, put it in your own product. An almanac page, a gazette issue, a monthly patronage note, a keeper's reply — bought is bought. There is no attribution requirement and no commercial-use clause, because a licence that follows you home is a second price nobody mentioned at the till. The keeper's ruling, verbatim: if you want to use his words it is an honour, not an additional expense. You paid for them. Attribution is welcome and never required. ### What does the store keep? #### Answer The right to keep its own public record, and nothing else. #### In practice Two narrow things. Anything you chose to make public — a guestbook entry, a train tag, a name in the visitors' register — stays public, because it was a public act at the time and removing it later would rewrite a record other people were part of. And the store keeps its own books: the fact that a sale happened, its price and its date, which is what /stats and /pulse are computed from. What the store does NOT keep is anything private you handed over: a confession or a grudge is destroyed rather than inherited if this place ever closes, which is settled at /wind-down. ## Honest limit WHAT THIS IS AND IS NOT. It is a statement of what this store claims and disclaims about things it sold you, published so it can be quoted back at us — not a contract drafted by a lawyer, not a licence with a version number, and not enforceable by anyone but the keeper. It is worth what this store's word is worth, and the record of what that has been worth so far is at /corrections. If it conflicts with something else on this store, this page is the newer document and the conflict is a defect: tell us and it goes on /corrections with your name on it. ## Decided on 2026-07-31 ## Summary ### Buyer owns artifact true ### Store holds custody only, to serve and display ### Artifact immutable after signing true ### Transferable true ### Transfer mechanism bearer; the store keeps no register of owners ### Transfer caveat A bearer transfer hands over a copy of signed bytes; nothing stops the previous holder keeping one. The signature proves the artifact is genuinely ours — it does not and cannot prove there is only one holder. Nothing sold here is scarce, and we would rather say so than let a resale market assume it. ### Redistribution permitted true ### Attribution required false ### Commercial use permitted true ### Keeper words included true ## Refund policy ### Commitment Every human-fulfillment item carries a delivery promise in hours (sla_hours), stated in its listing spec and in its 402 terms before you pay. If the keeper misses that window, he refunds you himself — the full amount you paid, tip included. ### Mechanism Personal, not automated, and we say so plainly: x402 settles wallet-to-wallet, so no code here holds funds or can send them back on its own. The keeper pays refunds by hand and marks each one on the public ledger with the on-chain transaction hash once paid — which means a refund is verifiable on a chain explorer, the same way a purchase is. ### Where recorded /fulfillment-log — every human-labor order's promised window vs. actual delivery, and every refund with its status and tx hash, computed live from the same records that drive fulfillment. ### What this is not Not escrow, and we will not pretend otherwise. Funds move at settlement, before fulfillment, and the gap between those two moments is real: your protection inside it is this written commitment plus the public record of whether it has been kept — not a protocol mechanism. On-chain conditional release DOES exist in this ecosystem: Boson Protocol's x402B runs non-custodial contract escrow with dispute resolution on Base, mainnet since 2026-06-08 (an earlier version of this sentence claimed nobody had shipped it — wrong when written, corrected on /corrections). This store does not run one because a contract to operate, monitor, and arbitrate is infrastructure a one-person shop must not become, and its weight does not fit tickets that start at half a cent. If we ever adopt conditional release, this section changes first. ### Instant items Instant items deliver in the purchase response itself, so there is no window to miss: if settlement succeeds and the goods do not arrive in that same response, that is a defect, not a delay — write the mailbox at /api/letter and it gets fixed or refunded. ## Checkout cancellation POST /ucp/v1/checkout-sessions/{id}/cancel withdraws an unfinished checkout without a request body. It returns canceled; repeating cancellation returns the same state. It refuses complete_in_progress and completed with HTTP 409: money may be moving or the purchase already has an order. Read GET /ucp/v1/checkout-sessions/{id} for its current state. This is a state boundary, not a timed refund window. Paid refunds follow /rights#refund-policy; withdrawing a checkout does not reverse a payment.