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End User License Agreement

Version 1, in force from ... 2026 · All legal documents

1. Parties, scope and order of precedence

This End User License Agreement (the "EULA") is concluded between SLIMARCH SOFTWARE S.R.L., a Romanian limited liability company having its registered office in Cluj-Napoca, ..., registered with the Trade Register under no. ..., EUID ..., fiscal identification code (CUI) ..., which may be contacted at office@slimarchiver.com ("Slimarch", "we" or "us") and the person who installs or uses the Slim Archiver software ("you") or, where the Software is installed or used on behalf of an organisation, that organisation, which is liable for the observance of this EULA by the persons who use the Software on its behalf.

This EULA governs the licence to use the Software in all its Editions, including the Free edition, and is supplemented by the Terms of Service, which govern the Website, the purchase of Licences through the Merchants of Record, updates, support, the rights of Consumers and the limits of our liability, by the Privacy Policy, which describes the personal data we process, by the Refund Policy and, for the Enterprise edition, by the Enterprise Terms.

In case of conflict, the Enterprise Terms prevail over this EULA in the relationship between Slimarch and the subscribing organisation, this EULA prevails over the Terms of Service as regards the licence to use the Software, and the licences of the third-party components prevail over this EULA for those components, in accordance with section 16.

2. Definitions

The capitalised terms used in this EULA and not defined below, such as Software, Website, Edition, Licence, Licence Key, Major Version, Activation, Archive, Self-Extracting Archive, Merchant of Record, Consumer, Business Customer and User Data, have the meaning given to them in the Terms of Service.

"Computer" means a physical computer or a virtual machine running the Microsoft Windows operating system, each virtual machine counting as a separate Computer.

"Licence File" means the file digitally signed by Slimarch which unlocks the features of the Enterprise edition and which contains the name of the organisation, the number of seats and the expiry date.

"Extraction Module" means the component of the Software which is incorporated in each Self-Extracting Archive and which allows that Archive to be opened without the Software being installed.

"Documentation" means the user guides, help pages and technical descriptions of the Software published on the Website or distributed with the Software.

3. Acceptance of the EULA

You accept this EULA by ticking the acceptance box and clicking the "I accept" button displayed by the installer before installation, and the Software cannot be installed without that acceptance, except in the cases provided in the third paragraph. Business Customers also accept expressly, in a separate window of the installer, the clauses referred to in section 25.

The installer or, where the acceptance is given when the Software is first started, the Software records on your Computer the version of the EULA accepted and the date of acceptance. When an update of the Software is accompanied by a new version of the EULA, the new version is displayed when the update is installed, and the update is installed only after it is accepted.

Where the Software is deployed by an organisation through automated deployment tools, without the windows of the installer being displayed, the organisation may accept this EULA, including the clauses referred to in section 25, by using the acceptance option of the installer described in the Documentation, which indicates the version of the EULA accepted and in relation to which the Documentation reproduces in full the clauses referred to in section 25. In that case, the acceptance, the version of the EULA, the date of the deployment and the text of the acceptance are recorded on each Computer, and the acceptance windows are not displayed to the users. A new version of the EULA must be accepted again through the same option, for the version concerned, or, failing that, by each user when the Software is first started after the update. Where the organisation does not use that option, the acceptance windows are displayed to each user when the Software is first started, and the Software can be used only after they have been accepted.

If you do not accept this EULA, or if any of its provisions is not clear to you, you must not install or use the Software, and you may ask us for clarifications at support@slimarchiver.com.

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.

5. Free edition

The Free edition may be downloaded and installed free of charge on any number of Computers that you own or control and may be used, for an unlimited period, for any lawful purpose, including commercial purposes, with the features designated as free on the pricing page of the Website.

You may not redistribute the installer of the Free edition from sources other than the Website or include it in other software packages without our prior written consent, so that users always obtain the original and unaltered version of the Software.

6. Pro edition

The Pro edition may be used on one Computer at a time, for an unlimited period, for the Major Version for which the Licence was purchased, including all releases within that Major Version, the Pro features being unlocked by the Activation of the Licence Key purchased from the Merchant of Record.

You may transfer the Pro Licence to another Computer at any time, by deactivating the Licence in the Software on the previous Computer or, where the previous Computer is no longer accessible, for example because it has been lost, stolen or has become inoperable, by asking our support to deactivate it, after which you may activate the Licence on the new one, in accordance with section 7 of the Terms of Service, provided that the Licence is not used on more than one Computer at the same time.

The Pro Licence is personal and may not be transferred to another person, shared, sold or otherwise made available to third parties without our prior written consent. A Pro Licence purchased by an organisation may be used by any of its personnel, on one Computer at a time.

7. Enterprise edition

The Enterprise edition may be used by the organisation which has subscribed to it, on the Computers owned or controlled by it and on those used by its personnel and by its contractors acting on its behalf, within the number of seats and for the duration set out in the Enterprise Terms and in the order accepted by the organisation, on the basis of the Licence File issued by Slimarch.

The Licence File is not technically limited to a number of Computers, so that the number of seats is a contractual limit, which the organisation undertakes to observe and which is verified in accordance with the Enterprise Terms. The Licence File and the manifest of the Outlook add-in may not be disclosed outside the organisation, and any modification of the Licence File invalidates it.

After the expiry of the Licence File, at the end of the subscription period and of the grace period provided in the Enterprise Terms, the Software continues to operate with the features of the Free edition, so that the organisation keeps access to all Archives it has created.

8. Archives and Self-Extracting Archives

The Archives you create with the Software belong to you or to the persons from whom you have obtained the User Data, and Slimarch acquires no right over them and has no access to them, since the Software processes them exclusively on your Computer. Archives in the .slim format can be opened with any Edition of the Software, including the Free edition, so that the expiry or revocation of a paid Licence never prevents you from accessing your Archives.

With the Pro and Enterprise editions you may create Self-Extracting Archives and distribute them, free of charge or for consideration, to any recipient, together with the Extraction Module incorporated in them, provided that you do not separate the Extraction Module from the Archive, do not modify it and do not remove the copyright and licence notices it contains, including the "Licences" information screen concerning the third-party components incorporated in it.

The recipients of a Self-Extracting Archive may use the Extraction Module only to extract that Archive, and the distribution of Self-Extracting Archives does not confer on them any licence to use the Software. You are solely responsible for the contents of the Archives you distribute, for informing the recipients of their nature and for the absence of malware, and you may not present the Archives you create as coming from Slimarch.

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.

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.

11. Activation and licence verification

The Pro edition requires the Activation of the Licence Key, during which the Software transmits to our licensing service, through an encrypted connection, the Licence Key and a hardware identifier calculated on your Computer as a one-way hash, from which the hardware details cannot be derived.

The Software subsequently checks the validity of the Licence periodically, transmitting only that identifier. If the Licence has been revoked, the Software continues to operate with the features of the Free edition, without affecting the Archives already created. A lack of Internet connection or an unavailability of the licensing service does not affect the use of the Pro features. If the Licence cannot be checked for 30 days, the Software asks you to connect to the Internet so that the check can be completed, in accordance with section 18 of the Terms of Service.

Enterprise Licence Files are digitally signed and are verified exclusively on the Computer, without any communication with Slimarch.

12. Data processed by the Software and privacy

The Software compresses, extracts, encrypts and, in the Enterprise edition, inspects files exclusively on your Computer, and does not send to Slimarch your files, their names or contents, your passwords or encryption keys, or data about your use of the Software, the Software containing no telemetry, analytics or crash-reporting functions.

The only data which the Software sends to Slimarch are the Licence Key and the hardware identifier, at Activation, and the hardware identifier, at licence checks and deactivation, which are processed in accordance with the Privacy Policy. The update check downloads a static file from the Website, which contains no personal data, our hosting provider processing only the technical data of the request.

The settings of the Software, the Licence File, the timestamps of the licence checks and the secrets you configure for optional integrations, which are stored encrypted in the Windows Credential Manager, remain on your Computer.

In the Enterprise edition, the audit log, the log of the data-loss prevention feature and the entries forwarded to the Windows Event Log or to the organisation's logging servers are kept on the Computer and in the systems of the organisation, and the data exchanged with services configured by you or by your organisation, such as cloud storage, password vaults or single sign-on through Microsoft Entra ID, travel directly between your Computer and those services, without passing through Slimarch.

For the data processed through these features, the controller is you or, where the Software is used within an organisation, the organisation, which is responsible for informing its personnel, for establishing the legal basis of the processing and for complying with the rules on the monitoring of employees, in accordance with the Enterprise Terms.

13. Your data, passwords and backups

You are solely responsible for the User Data you process with the Software, for having the rights necessary to process and transmit them and, where they include personal data of other persons, for complying with the legislation on the protection of personal data.

The Software is designed to preserve the integrity of the data it processes, but no software can rule out data loss caused by hardware failures, defective storage media, interruptions of the power supply, malware, incompatible third-party software, errors in the operating system or the actions of the user.

You are therefore responsible for keeping independent backup copies of important data, for checking the integrity of an Archive, using the test function of the Software, before deleting the original files, and for keeping the original files until you have confirmed that the Archive can be extracted.

The encryption of Archives uses passwords and keys which are known only to you and are not transmitted to Slimarch, so that Slimarch cannot recover, reset or bypass a password or key that has been lost or forgotten, and an encrypted Archive whose password or key has been lost cannot be opened by anyone, including by Slimarch.

14. Updates and support

Updates of the Software, including feature updates and security updates, are made available as described in section 8 of the Terms of Service, so that a Pro Licence covers all releases of its Major Version, and security updates for a previous Major Version are provided for at least 12 months after the release of the following Major Version. Updates are installed only with your consent and are governed by this EULA, unless they are accompanied by a new version of the EULA, in accordance with section 3.

Support is provided by e-mail and through the support form of the Website, in accordance with section 10 of the Terms of Service and, for the Enterprise edition, with the Enterprise Terms.

15. Intellectual property and trade marks

The Software, including its source code and object code, its compression engine, its algorithms and their implementation, its graphical interface, its Documentation and the specification of the .slim format, as well as all copies of them, are protected by copyright and by the rules on trade secrets, and all rights in them, other than the licence expressly granted by this EULA, are reserved by Slimarch and its licensors.

The names Slim Archiver, .slim and Slimarch and the associated logos and distinctive signs may not be used without our prior written consent, except to identify the Software truthfully, for example to indicate that a file is a Slim Archiver archive or that a product is compatible with it.

Section 16 of the Terms of Service, concerning the protection of the intellectual property, name and reputation of Slimarch, including the prohibition of defamatory or misleading statements and the treatment of feedback, applies to the use of the Software.

16. Third-party components

The Software incorporates components developed by third parties, including open-source libraries, Microsoft runtime components and the Microsoft WebView2 loader, RarLab's UnRAR library and fonts licensed under the SIL Open Font License, which remain the property of their authors and are provided under their own licences, whose texts are installed with the Software in the "licenses" folder and, for the components incorporated in Self-Extracting Archives, are reproduced in the "Licences" information screen of the Extraction Module.

To the extent that the licence of a component grants you rights broader than this EULA or imposes conditions on its use, that licence prevails for that component, and nothing in this EULA restricts the rights it grants you. You may not, however, extract the components in order to use them in breach of their licences, sell the fonts separately or use the UnRAR library to create RAR archives, the Software using that library exclusively to extract RAR archives.

The authors of the third-party components provide them without warranty and are not liable towards you in connection with the Software, the responsibility for the Software as a whole belonging to Slimarch, within the limits provided in section 19.

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.

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.

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.

20. Export control and sanctions

The Software contains encryption functions, and you undertake to comply with the export control and sanctions rules referred to in section 20 of the Terms of Service, declaring that you are not a person subject to restrictive measures and that you will not use, export or make the Software available in breach of those rules.

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.

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.

23. Assignment

You may not assign this EULA or the Licence to another person without our prior written consent. Slimarch may assign this EULA to a successor of its business or to an entity which takes over the Software, by notice published on the Website, without reducing the rights you have acquired.

24. Final provisions

This EULA, together with the documents referred to in section 1, constitutes the entire agreement between you and Slimarch concerning the licence to use the Software. If any provision of this EULA is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in force, and the invalid provision is replaced by a valid provision which comes as close as possible to its purpose. The failure or delay of Slimarch in exercising a right does not constitute a waiver of that right. This EULA is drafted in English, which is the language of the agreement.

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.