Terms of Service

1. What this is, and what it is not

This website is an informational website about Tollgate, an open-source software project published by Sanjay Rohith, an individual based in India.

Read this part carefully, because it is the whole shape of the agreement:

• I do not operate a payment service. There is no hosted Tollgate gateway. Nothing you do passes through infrastructure I run.
• I never hold, receive, control, or transmit your funds. Tollgate is designed so that payments move directly from payer to payee by the payer's own cryptographic signature. I am not a custodian, escrow agent, exchange, broker, payment processor, or money transmitter, and I do not act as an intermediary in any transaction.
• I provide software, not a financial service. What you get is source code under a licence. What you do with it is yours.

By using this website you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the site.

2. The software is licensed separately

Tollgate's source code is released under the Apache License 2.0. That licence — not this page — governs your rights to use, modify and distribute the software, including its patent grant and its disclaimer of warranty.

These terms govern only your use of this website. Where the two overlap, the Apache License 2.0 controls the software.

3. Testnet only — no real value

The current release runs on Base Sepolia (chain 84532) with testnet USDC. Testnet tokens have no monetary value and are not exchangeable for anything.

Tollgate has not been audited, and its settlement path has never been exercised on a live public network. Anyone deploying it against mainnet or real funds does so entirely at their own risk and should commission a security audit first. The project's README lists its known limitations plainly; please read them.

4. No advice of any kind

Nothing on this website or in the repository is financial, investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. No fiduciary or advisory relationship is created by your reading it.

You are responsible for your own regulatory position. In India, stablecoins and similar assets are treated as Virtual Digital Assets, attracting tax under section 115BBH and TDS under section 194S, and entities that exchange, transfer, or safekeep them may be reporting entities under the PMLA required to register with FIU-IND. Other countries impose their own rules. If you run Tollgate in a way that touches real value — particularly if you hold funds for anyone else — those obligations attach to you, and you should take professional advice before you start.

5. Your responsibilities if you run Tollgate

Tollgate is infrastructure that handles money and secrets. If you deploy it:

• You operate it. Your keys, your servers, your database, your users' data.
• Keys are your problem. The settler key is a hot key in an environment variable by design, and the project says so. Production deployments want a KMS or a threshold signer.
• Read the stated boundaries. Documented limitations — including the deny-by-default egress network policy the application expects but does not itself enforce — are your responsibility to address in deployment.
• Do not enable the loopback escape hatch in production. TOLLGATE_ALLOW_LOOPBACK_UPSTREAM exists for local testing and disables an SSRF defence.
• Comply with the law wherever you and your users are.

6. Acceptable use of this website

Please do not attempt to gain unauthorised access to the site or its hosting, disrupt or overload it, use it for anything unlawful, or misrepresent the project as an offering of financial services.

7. No warranty

This website and the Tollgate software are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, or non-infringement.

I do not warrant that the site or the software will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or free of defects, or that the software is fit for any particular deployment. This mirrors the disclaimer in the Apache License 2.0.

8. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Sanjay Rohith shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, nor for any loss of funds, digital assets, private keys, profits, data, or business, arising out of or relating to this website or the Tollgate software — whether in contract, tort, or otherwise, and even if advised of the possibility.

In particular, I am not liable for losses arising from your use, deployment, or modification of the software, including smart-contract behaviour, key compromise, misconfiguration, third-party network or blockchain failure, or any bug in the code.

Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

9. Third-party links and services

This site links to third parties such as GitHub, block explorers and public RPC endpoints. I do not control them, do not endorse them, and am not responsible for their content, availability, or terms. Blockchain networks themselves are independent, permissionless systems that no one operates on your behalf.

10. Changes

These terms may change; the “last updated” date will reflect it. Material changes to the project's status — for example, if a hosted service is ever offered — will require terms that address that service specifically, and those will be published before any such service launches.

11. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of India, subject to any mandatory consumer-protection rights available to you where you live.

12. Contact

sanjayrohith1802@gmail.com

Tollgate is open-source software published under the Apache License 2.0. These terms are a good-faith starting point written for a non-commercial, non-custodial, testnet-only open-source project — they are not legal advice. Before offering any hosted service, handling real funds, or taking payment from anyone, have a qualified lawyer in your jurisdiction review them.