Terms of Use

Who provides this, and what it is

Toolvore is run by KCF LLC, 4110 San Joaquin Plaza, Newport Beach, California 92660, USA — a project of the Kindness Community Foundation. We and us mean KCF LLC throughout. If you do not accept these terms, there is no account to close and no subscription to cancel — you close the tab.

The service is 163 small tools that each do one job — convert a file, format some code, look up a domain. 131 of them run entirely inside your browser, which is the fact most of what follows depends on. It is not a storage service, a backup, a hosting platform or a professional service, and nothing here should be read as offering one.

It is free, and it is provided as is

There is no charge, and no trial that becomes one. In exchange, the tools come as they are, without warranty of any kind: no promise that a tool is free of defects, available when you need it, or fit for your purpose. We test them and fix what we find, which is a commitment of effort rather than of outcome.

That applies to output as much as to uptime. A conversion can lose something you cared about, a lookup can return a stale record, and the AI tools can state a wrong thing in a confident voice. Nothing produced here is legal, financial, medical, tax or security advice. Check anything that matters, and keep the original of any file you put through a tool.

Acceptable use

The rules are short because the service gives you very little to misuse. You agree not to:

The REST and WebSocket testers send requests to any endpoint you name, and you are responsible for having permission to send them. Pointing them at somebody else’s system to probe it is your act rather than ours, and it is the kind of use that gets an address blocked here.

• use the tools to break the law, or to infringe anyone else’s rights
• process content you have no right to process
• disrupt, overload, attack or defeat the security of the service
• place unreasonable automated load on the parts that run on a server
• resell or redistribute the AI features as though they were your own

The AI tools, and what happens if you automate against them

17 of the tools send your text to Anthropic’s API to be answered, and every one of those requests costs us money on a card — which is the whole reason this section exists. A single message can run to 40,000 characters and we forward up to 60,000 characters of conversation with it, so a loop left running overnight is not a small bill.

If you script against the AI endpoints we will rate-limit you, then block you, and if the spend gets away from us we will switch the AI tools off for everyone until it is under control. The rest of the site is unaffected when that happens, because it does not depend on us paying anyone. Human use, however heavy, is welcome.

Rate limits, and why a free service has them

The AI endpoint allows 6 requests a minute from one address, and 120 a minute across a server instance. Over either, it returns a 429 with a retry-after header rather than dropping you silently. Somebody reading answers and typing follow-ups never gets near six in a minute; a script gets there in a second.

Being straight about what that is worth: the counters live in the memory of whichever server instance handled your request, and our host runs several and recycles them, so it is a speed bump against casual abuse rather than an exact quota — and deliberately not the only control.

Your content stays yours

We claim no licence, no ownership and no right to use anything you work with here. For 129 of the tools that costs us nothing to say, because your file never arrives — it is read by the page, worked on in your browser’s memory, and handed back. One more, the image OCR tool, fetches its recognition engine from a public code CDN the first time you use it, and never your image. With no upload there is no licence to grant and nothing for us to store, lose or be asked to hand over.

For the tools that do transmit, the intent is identical: we do not store what passes through and it stays yours. What is ours stays ours — the site name, design and original code belong to KCF LLC, and several tools use open-source components under their own licences. Nothing here grants you rights in our branding.

The parts that leave your browser, and whose terms apply there

15 tools pass your input through our server to somebody else, because the information only exists there — a domain’s WHOIS record, a currency rate, a country’s public holidays. The privacy page names every one, what it sends and where it goes. Once your input reaches one of them, that service’s own terms and privacy policy govern it, and we can neither bind them on your behalf nor promise how they behave.

Two are worth calling out. The URL shortener hands your full URL to TinyURL or is.gd, permanently, on a short public address anyone could guess — that is the service rather than a side effect, so do not shorten a link that is private only because nobody has found it. The AI tools send your text to Anthropic, where we are an ordinary commercial API customer with no zero-retention arrangement negotiated. Keep passwords, keys and other people’s personal details out of both.

What these terms do not contain

Most terms pages spend their length on accounts, subscriptions, refunds, suspension of your profile and the licence you grant by posting content. None of that is here, because none of it exists — no sign-in, no plan, no payment method on file, no profile to suspend, and nothing you can publish through us for anybody else to see.

There is no deletion request process either, which is a better outcome than a form: for the browser tools there is nothing to delete, because your file never reached us. The one exception is small enough to state in full. If you typed an email address into the box that offers to tell you when new tools are added, we hold that address and the tool you were using. Ask us and it goes.

What we are responsible for, and what we are not

To the fullest extent the law allows, KCF LLC is not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for any loss arising from your use of the service or your inability to use it, including loss that follows from relying on a tool’s output.

In plainer words: if a conversion mangles a file the night before a deadline, if a lookup returns something out of date and you act on it, or if the AI invents a fact you then repeat, the loss falls on you. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranties to be disclaimed or certain liabilities excluded; where that is true where you live, those parts do not apply and the rest still stands.

The service may change or stop

This is a free experiment run by a foundation project, and describing it as more permanent than that would be an overpromise. Tools may be added, changed or removed; one you rely on may behave differently next month, or not be there at all. The site may go offline, with or without notice.

There is no uptime commitment, no support response time, and no migration path we owe you if something is retired. The upside of holding nothing is that a shutdown takes nothing with it — your files were never here. Where one of these tools has become part of something that matters, keep a way of doing that job that does not depend on us.

Governing law, and how these terms change

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Where consumer law where you live gives you rights that cannot be waived, they are unaffected by anything on this page.

When we change these terms we edit this page and change the date at the foot of it. There is no notification list for it and no archive of earlier versions — there is one page, and it says what is true now, so the date is worth a glance if you are returning. Continuing to use the service after a change means you accept the revised terms. Questions go to contact@kindnesscommunityfoundation.com or +1 (949) 996-3051.