Legal

Accepting the EULA for silent deployments

An organisation that installs Slim Archiver without the installer’s windows, for example through Microsoft Intune, SCCM or a Group Policy script, can accept the End User License Agreement for its computers with the installer option /ACCEPTEULA (EULA, section 3).

How to use it

"Slim Archiver Setup 1.0.0.exe" /S /allusers /ACCEPTEULA=1

The number is the version of the EULA contained in the installer (now 1). If it is another number, or missing, nothing is installed and the installer ends with exit code 3.
On each computer the installer records the version accepted, the date of the deployment and the acceptance text below in HKLM\Software\Slim Archiver\Legal; the acceptance windows are then not shown to the users.
Without the option, a silent installation still installs, and each user sees the acceptance window the first time Slim Archiver starts. Until a user or the organisation has accepted, the command-line tool slimarch.exe stops archive commands with exit code 20.
When an update comes with a new version of the EULA, the new version must be accepted again with the option for that version, or each user accepts it at the next start.
The option applies to silent installations; in an installation with windows, the windows are shown.

Acceptance text

By running the installer with the /ACCEPTEULA option for the version indicated, the organisation accepts, on its own behalf and on behalf of its users, that version of the End User License Agreement and the Terms of Service of Slim Archiver, available at slimarchiver.com/legal, expressly accepts, in accordance with art. 1203 of the Romanian Civil Code, the clauses listed in section 25 of the EULA and reproduced on this page, and declares that the person who runs the deployment is authorised to act on its behalf.

Clauses expressly accepted (EULA, section 25)

In accordance with art. 1203 of the Romanian Civil Code, the organisation expressly accepts the following clauses of the EULA, reproduced in full from version 1:

EULA 25. Express acceptance

By ticking the separate box displayed by the installer or when the Software is first started, or, in the case of organisations, by using the acceptance option of the installer provided for in section 3, Business Customers declare that they have read and expressly accept the clauses on the restrictions on use (sections 4, 9 and 10), on the absence of warranties (section 17), on their liability and the limitation of the liability of Slimarch (sections 18 and 19), on suspension and termination (section 21) and on the competent court (section 22), in accordance with art. 1203 of the Romanian Civil Code.

EULA 4. Licence grant

The Software is licensed, not sold. Subject to your compliance with this EULA, Slimarch grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable licence to install and use the Software, in object code form, on Computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, in accordance with the Documentation and within the limits of the Edition you have obtained, as set out in sections 5 to 7.

The licence includes the right to make the copies of the Software necessary for its installation and use, as well as one backup copy of the installer, and the right to use the command-line tool and the Windows Explorer integration of the Software within the same limits, including in scripts and automated processes run by you on your own Computers.

The licence does not include the right to make the Software or its features available to third parties as a hosted or online service, to integrate the Software or its compression engine in other products distributed to third parties, or to use it on behalf of third parties as a service provider, except with the prior written consent of Slimarch.

EULA 9. Restrictions

Except to the extent expressly permitted by this EULA or by mandatory law, you may not copy the Software other than as provided in section 4, distribute, sell, rent, lease, lend, sublicense or otherwise make the Software, a Licence Key or a Licence File available to third parties, or modify, translate, adapt or create derivative works of the Software.

You may not decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer the Software or attempt to derive its source code or the specification of the .slim format, except as provided in section 10, nor extract its components, including its compression engine, in order to use them separately.

You may not circumvent, disable, tamper with or attempt to circumvent the licensing, Activation or Licence File verification mechanisms of the Software, use Licence Keys or Licence Files which have not been issued to you by Slimarch or by the Merchant of Record, or use tools intended to generate or bypass them.

You may not remove, alter or conceal the copyright notices, trade marks, licence notices or the notices concerning third-party components contained in the Software or in the Extraction Module, and you may not distribute modified, repackaged or unofficial versions of the Software.

You may not use the Software in breach of section 11 of the Terms of Service, in particular to create, encrypt, conceal or distribute unlawful content or malware, or in breach of the export control and sanctions rules referred to in section 20.

EULA 10. Acts permitted by law

Nothing in this EULA limits the acts which the lawful user of the Software is entitled to perform under Law no. 8/1996 and Directive 2009/24/EC and which cannot be excluded by contract, namely the observation, study and testing of the functioning of the Software in order to determine the ideas and principles underlying any of its elements, while performing the acts of loading, displaying, running or storing it which you are entitled to perform, and the decompilation of the Software where this is indispensable to obtain the information necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created program with other programs.

The information obtained in this way may be used only to achieve that interoperability, may not be communicated to third parties except where necessary for that purpose, and may not be used to develop, produce or market a program substantially similar in its expression to the Software or for any other act which infringes the copyright of Slimarch. The specification of the .slim format remains confidential, and the acts permitted by law do not give you the right to publish it.

EULA 17. Warranties

If you are a Consumer, you benefit from the legal guarantee of conformity of digital content provided by Government Emergency Ordinance no. 141/2021 and by the law of your country of habitual residence, which this EULA does not limit, in accordance with section 9 of the Terms of Service.

If you are a Business Customer, and to the extent permitted by law, the Software is provided "as is" and "as available", without any express or implied warranty as to its fitness for a particular purpose, its merchantability or its uninterrupted or error-free operation, except as provided in the Enterprise Terms for the Enterprise edition.

EULA 18. Your liability

You are liable towards Slimarch for the damage caused by the breach of this EULA, in particular of sections 8, 9 and 15, and you shall indemnify Slimarch for any claims of third parties, fines, costs and reasonable legal fees arising from such a breach, including from the distribution of Archives containing unlawful content or malware, under the conditions of the law.

EULA 19. Limitation of liability of Slimarch

The liability of Slimarch under this EULA is governed by section 19 of the Terms of Service, which applies accordingly, so that, in relation to Business Customers, Slimarch is liable only for direct, certain and foreseeable damage, is not liable for lost profits, loss of business, loss of data or indirect damage, and its total liability for all events occurring within a period of twelve months is limited to the amount paid for the Licence concerned in that period, or to 100 euros for the Free edition, while in relation to Consumers it is liable in accordance with the law and is not liable for damage which was not foreseeable at the time the contract was concluded.

These limitations do not apply to damage caused intentionally or through gross negligence, in accordance with art. 1355 of the Romanian Civil Code, to damage resulting from death, bodily injury or damage to health, to the rights of data subjects under Regulation (EU) 2016/679, or to any other liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law.

EULA 21. Duration, suspension and termination

This EULA takes effect upon acceptance and remains in force for as long as you use the Software. The Pro Licence is granted for an unlimited period, and the Enterprise Licence for the duration provided in the Enterprise Terms. You may terminate this EULA at any time by uninstalling the Software.

Slimarch may suspend or revoke a Licence, and may terminate this EULA, in the cases and under the procedure provided in section 21 of the Terms of Service, including in case of a serious or repeated breach of sections 6, 7, 9 or 20, after prior notice and, where the breach can be remedied, after a period of 14 days in which it is not remedied.

After the revocation of a paid Licence, the Software continues to operate with the features of the Free edition, without affecting the Archives already created, except where the breach concerns the Free edition itself, in which case you must stop using the Software and uninstall it.

The provisions on Archives, restrictions, intellectual property, liability, applicable law and any other provisions which by their nature are intended to survive termination survive it.

EULA 22. Applicable law and disputes

This EULA is governed by Romanian law and by section 25 of the Terms of Service, which applies accordingly, so that Consumers keep the protection of the mandatory law and the jurisdiction of the courts of their country of habitual residence, while disputes with Business Customers which are not resolved amicably are settled by the competent courts of the place where Slimarch has its registered office.