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Terms of Service

Of the Slim Archiver software and of the slimarchiver.com website

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

1. Who we are and what these Terms cover

The Slim Archiver software and the website slimarchiver.com, together with its sub-domains, its download pages, its documentation and its support form (jointly, the "Website"), are owned and operated by 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 (hereinafter "Slimarch", "we", "us" or "our").

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") form a legally binding agreement concluded at a distance, by electronic means, between Slimarch and every person who visits the Website, downloads, installs or uses the Software or purchases a Licence for it, and they govern the use of the Website, the Editions in which the Software is offered, the purchase of paid Licences through the Merchants of Record, Activation, updates, support, the rights of Consumers, the protection of the intellectual property of Slimarch, the responsibility of users for their data and the limits of the liability of Slimarch.

The Terms are supplemented by the End User License Agreement (the "EULA"), which governs the licence to use the Software and which you accept in the installer, by the Privacy Policy, by the Refund Policy and, for organisations that subscribe to the Enterprise edition, by the Enterprise Terms, all of which are available on the Website and form an integral part of the agreement between you and Slimarch. Where the EULA, the Refund Policy or the Enterprise Terms contain a provision that differs from these Terms, the specific provision prevails for the matter it regulates.

2. Definitions

For the purposes of these Terms, the capitalized terms below have the following meaning, in the singular and in the plural.

"Software" means the Slim Archiver application for the Microsoft Windows operating system, including its graphical interface, its command-line tool, its Windows Explorer integration, its compression engine, its self-extracting modules, its updates, its documentation and, for the Enterprise edition, the Outlook add-in made available by Slimarch, as well as any copy of them.

"Edition" means each of the versions in which the Software is offered, namely the Free edition, available free of charge, the Pro edition, available for a one-time price, and the Enterprise edition, available to organizations by subscription, each with the features described on the pricing page of the Website at the date of the purchase or download.

"Licence" means the non-exclusive right to use the Software granted by Slimarch under the EULA and, for the Enterprise edition, under the Enterprise Terms, and "Licence Key" means the code issued at the purchase of a Pro Licence, which unlocks the Pro features after Activation.

"Major Version" means a series of releases of the Software identified by the same leading version number, so that all releases numbered 1.x form Major Version 1 and release 2.0 begins Major Version 2.

"Activation" means the binding of a Pro Licence to one computer, by means of a hardware identifier calculated on that computer as a one-way hash and transmitted to the licensing service of Slimarch together with the Licence Key, as described in the Privacy Policy.

"Archive" means any file created with the Software, including .slim archives, archives in other formats and self-extracting archives, and "Self-Extracting Archive" means an executable Archive which incorporates the extraction module of the Software and can be opened without the Software being installed.

"Merchant of Record" means the reseller which sells the Licence to you in its own name and on its own account, collects the price and the applicable taxes, issues the invoice or receipt and handles payments, refunds and chargebacks, namely Lemon Squeezy for the Pro edition and Paddle.com Market Limited for the Enterprise edition, as well as any other reseller indicated on the Website at the time of the purchase.

"Consumer" means a natural person who acts for purposes outside his or her trade, business, craft or profession, and "Business Customer" means any natural or legal person who downloads, purchases or uses the Software for purposes related to a trade, business, craft or profession, including companies, authorized natural persons, public institutions and other organizations, as well as the natural persons who use the Software on their behalf.

"User Data" means the files, folders, Archives, passwords, keys and any other data which you process with the Software, which remain under your exclusive control and to which Slimarch has no access.

3. Nature of the Software and role of Slimarch and of the Merchants of Record

The Software is a desktop application for compressing, archiving, extracting and encrypting files and folders, which runs exclusively on computers using the Microsoft Windows operating system, in the versions indicated on the Website, and which is not available for other operating systems, for mobile devices or as an online service. All compression, extraction, encryption and, in the Enterprise edition, content-inspection operations are performed on your own computer, without your files, their contents, their names, your passwords or your keys being transmitted to Slimarch, the Software containing no telemetry, analytics or crash-reporting functions.

Slimarch is the author, directly or indirectly, developer and licensor of the Software and grants you the right to use it, but it does not sell paid Licences directly. Paid Licences are sold by the Merchants of Record, which act as sellers towards you, so that the contract for the purchase of the Licence, including the price, the payment, the invoicing, the taxes, the refunds and the chargebacks, is concluded between you and the Merchant of Record under its own buyer terms, while the right to use the Software is granted to you by Slimarch under the EULA. Slimarch is responsible towards you for the Software, its conformity, its updates and its support, and the Merchant of Record is responsible towards you for the purchase transaction.

The Website is intended to present the Software, to allow it to be downloaded, to provide its documentation and to receive support requests, and it does not allow the creation of user accounts or the storage of User Data on the infrastructure of Slimarch.

4. Acceptance of the Terms and eligibility

You accept these Terms by downloading the Software from the Website, by completing a purchase at the checkout of the Merchant of Record or by ticking the box through which you declare that you have read and accept them, and you accept the EULA by clicking the acceptance button displayed by the installer before installation, without which the Software cannot be installed. Where the Software is deployed by an organisation without the installer windows being displayed, the EULA is accepted in accordance with section 3 of the EULA, either by the organisation, through the acceptance option of the installer, or by each user, when the Software is first started.

If you do not agree with these Terms or with the EULA, or if any of their provisions is not clear to you, you must not download, install or use the Software, and you may ask us for clarifications at support@slimarchiver.com before doing so.

Certain clauses which may be considered unusual within the meaning of art. 1203 of the Romanian Civil Code, namely those on the limitation of liability, on suspension and termination, on the amendment of the Terms and on the competent court, together with the clauses of the EULA referred to in section 25 of the EULA, are presented to Business Customers separately, in the installer or when the Software is first started, or are accepted by the organisation through the acceptance option of the installer, and produce effects in relation to them only if they are accepted expressly.

The Website and the Software may be used, and Licences may be purchased, only by persons who have reached the age of 18 years and have full legal capacity. A person who accepts these Terms on behalf of an organisation declares and guarantees that he or she is duly authorised to bind that organization, in which case the organization is the party to these Terms and is liable for their observance by the persons who use the Software on its behalf.

5. The Editions of the Software

The Free edition may be downloaded and used free of charge, for an unlimited period, on any number of computers, for any lawful purpose, including commercial purposes, with the features designated as free on the pricing page, which include compression, extraction, encryption of contents and of file names.

The Pro edition adds the features designated as Pro on the pricing page, such as Self-Extracting Archives and multi-volume archives, and is licensed for one computer at a time, for an unlimited period, for the Major Version purchased, including all releases within that Major Version.

The Enterprise edition is available only to organizations, on the basis of a subscription for a minimum number of seats, for a period of one or of three years, and adds the features designated as Enterprise, such as central policy administration, data-loss prevention, audit logging, log forwarding, single sign-on, cloud storage, password vaults, smart-card encryption and the Outlook add-in, under the Enterprise Terms, which regulate the number of seats, the price, renewal and the use of the Software on the organization's computers.

We describe on the Website only features that exist in the Software as distributed. We may improve, modify, add or discontinue features in future releases, in order to improve the Software, to adapt it to technical or legal developments or for security reasons, without reducing, for the Major Version you have purchased or for the subscription period you have paid for, the essential features of the Edition you have purchased.

6. Purchase of Licences, prices and invoicing

You may purchase a Pro Licence on the Website, through the checkout of Lemon Squeezy, which collects the price, adds the value added tax or the sales tax applicable in your country, issues the receipt or invoice and sends you the Licence Key by e-mail.

Enterprise subscriptions are concluded on the basis of a quote agreed with Slimarch and are invoiced by Paddle.com Market Limited, in accordance with the Enterprise Terms.

The prices are those displayed on the Website and at checkout at the time of the order, in the currency indicated there, and the final price, including taxes, is displayed by the Merchant of Record before you confirm the order.

Slimarch may offer, from time to time, introductory or promotional prices, discounts, bundles or free upgrades to a following Major Version, under the conditions published on the pricing page for the period of the offer, without such offers creating any right for purchases made outside that period or obliging Slimarch to repeat them.

Slimarch does not receive or store your payment card details or your bank details, which are processed exclusively by the Merchant of Record and by its payment providers, under their own terms and policies. In case of a manifest error in the displayed price, Slimarch and the Merchant of Record may refuse or cancel the order, refunding any amount paid.

7. Activation, use on one computer and change of computer

The Pro Licence is activated automatically when you enter the Licence Key in the Software, which transmits to our licensing service the Licence Key and the hardware identifier of your computer. The Software subsequently checks the validity of the Licence periodically, transmitting only the hardware identifier, and if the Licence has been revoked, the Software continues to operate with the features of the Free edition, without affecting the Archives already created. If the Licence cannot be checked, the Pro features remain available, and after 30 days without a successful check the Software asks you to connect to the Internet.

A Pro Licence may be used on one computer at a time. If you replace, repair or reinstall your computer, you may transfer the Licence to another computer at any time and as many times as necessary, 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, provided that the transfer is not used to circumvent the limit of one computer at a time. Slimarch may refuse or limit transfers that are manifestly abusive, such as repeated transfers between several computers used alternately, and may ask you for reasonable information about the reason for the transfer before carrying it out.

The Licence Key is personal and must be kept confidential. You may not share it, publish it, sell it, transfer it to another person or use it on more computers than permitted, except with our prior written consent, and the Licence Key of a Licence that has been refunded, whose payment has been reversed or which has been used in breach of these Terms may be revoked, in accordance with section 21.

8. Updates and maintenance of Major Versions

A Pro Licence for a Major Version entitles you, free of charge, to all releases of that Major Version, including feature updates, corrections and security updates, for the entire period during which that Major Version is maintained.

A following Major Version is a separate product, available for a separate price, unless the pricing page provides otherwise for the period of a specific offer, and your Licence for the previous Major Version remains valid for an unlimited period.

If you purchase a Pro Licence within the 90 days immediately preceding the release of a following Major Version, your Licence is upgraded to that Major Version free of charge, automatically, without any action on your part.

After the release of a following Major Version, we will continue to provide security updates for the previous Major Version for at least 12 months from the date of that release, after which the previous Major Version may continue to be used without further updates.

For Consumers, this commitment is without prejudice to the obligation to supply the updates necessary to keep the Software in conformity during the period that the Consumer may reasonably expect, in accordance with Government Emergency Ordinance no. 141/2021 and Directive (EU) 2019/770.

The Software checks for updates by downloading a static file from the Website, which contains no personal data, and notifies you when a new release is available, the installation of updates being decided by you. If you do not install, within a reasonable time, an update that we have made available and that is necessary to keep the Software in conformity or secure, Slimarch is not liable for any lack of conformity or damage that results solely from the absence of that update, provided that we have informed you of its availability and of the consequences of not installing it.

9. Rights of Consumers

The Software is digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium, so that, in accordance with art. 16 letter m) of Government Emergency Ordinance no. 34/2014 and art. 16 letter m) of Directive 2011/83/EU, the statutory right of withdrawal from the distance contract does not apply once the supply has begun, namely once the Licence Key has been delivered to you, provided that you have given your prior express consent to the immediate supply and have acknowledged that you thereby lose your right of withdrawal, which you do at the checkout of the Merchant of Record, which confirms them in the order confirmation.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, Slimarch offers every purchaser of a Pro Licence, whether a Consumer or a Business Customer, on a voluntary and commercial basis, the possibility of requesting a full refund of the price paid within 14 days of the purchase, without giving any reason, in accordance with the Refund Policy, the request being handled by Lemon Squeezy as seller.

This voluntary refund does not constitute a statutory right of withdrawal, may be amended or withdrawn by Slimarch for future purchases by amending the Refund Policy and applies only to Pro Licences, Enterprise subscriptions being governed by the Enterprise Terms.

As a Consumer, you also benefit from the legal guarantee of conformity of digital content provided by Government Emergency Ordinance no. 141/2021, which entitles you, where the Software does not correspond to its description, to the features presented on the Website or to the requirements of the law, to have it brought into conformity, free of charge and within a reasonable time, or, if this is not possible or is not done, to a proportionate price reduction or to the termination of the contract and the refund of the price, under the conditions provided by law.

You may report any lack of conformity to support@slimarchiver.com, describing the problem and the version of the Software used.

Nothing in these Terms, in the EULA or in any other document of Slimarch limits or excludes the rights which the mandatory law of your country of habitual residence grants you as a Consumer, and any clause which would have such an effect does not apply to you.

10. Support

We provide support by e-mail at support@slimarchiver.com and through the support form of the Website, in English, on business days, within a reasonable time, without a guaranteed response time for the Free and Pro editions, the response times applicable to the Enterprise edition being set out in the Enterprise Terms.

Support covers the installation, Activation, transfer of Licences and use of the Software in accordance with its documentation, as well as the reporting of errors, which we analyse and, where they are confirmed, correct in subsequent releases. Support does not include the recovery of Archives whose password or key has been lost, which is technically impossible by design, the recovery of data lost through hardware failures, malware or the actions of the user, the configuration of third-party systems or services, or training.

11. Rules of use and prohibited conduct

You may use the Website and the Software only for lawful purposes, in good faith and in accordance with these Terms, with the EULA and with the applicable legislation, and you are solely responsible for the manner in which you use them and for the User Data you process with them.

You may not use the Software or the Website to create, store, encrypt, conceal or transmit content whose possession or transmission is unlawful, including content infringing the rights of third parties, child sexual abuse material or data obtained unlawfully, to conceal the proceeds or evidence of an offence, to obstruct the lawful activity of the authorities, to create or distribute malware, including through Self-Extracting Archives or through Archives designed to exhaust the resources of the recipient's computer, or to impersonate Slimarch or other persons in Archives or communications.

You may not circumvent, disable, tamper with or attempt to circumvent the licensing, Activation or licence-file verification mechanisms of the Software, use unauthorised Licence Keys or tools intended to generate or bypass them, interfere with the operation of the Website or of the licensing service, overload them, test their vulnerabilities without our written consent, attempt to obtain unauthorised access to them, extract their content by automated means beyond normal browsing, or use the support form to send unsolicited commercial messages or automated requests.

If you discover a security vulnerability in the Software or in the Website, we ask you to report it to us confidentially at security@slimarchiver.com and to give us a reasonable time to correct it before disclosing it, without exploiting it beyond what is strictly necessary to demonstrate it.

12. Your data, Archives and passwords

The User Data and the Archives you create belong to you or to the persons from whom you have obtained them, and Slimarch acquires no right over them and has no access to them, since the Software processes them exclusively on your computer.

You are therefore solely responsible for the lawfulness of the User Data, 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. You are solely responsible for choosing strong passwords, for keeping them safe and for the consequences of their loss or disclosure.

13. Self-Extracting Archives and distribution of 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 that the Software incorporates 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 notices 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.

14. Enterprise edition

The Enterprise edition is governed by the Enterprise Terms, which regulate, between Slimarch and the subscribing organisation, the order, the price, the invoicing, the renewal, the number of seats, the verification of compliance with that number, support, the hosted components, the processing of data through the data-loss prevention feature and the specific limits of liability, these Terms applying to the Enterprise edition only to the extent that the Enterprise Terms do not provide otherwise.

15. Personal data

Slimarch processes personal data as controller, to the limited extent described in the Privacy Policy, which explains what data we receive in connection with the Website, support, Activation and the Enterprise edition, for what purposes and on what legal bases we process it, to whom it is disclosed, to which countries it is transferred, for how long it is kept and how you may exercise your rights. The User Data processed by the Software on your computer are not processed by Slimarch.

16. Intellectual property, name and reputation of Slimarch

The Software, including its source code and object code, its compression engine, its architecture, its algorithms and their implementation, its graphical interface, its texts, icons and graphic elements, its documentation, the specification of the .slim archive format, the Website and its content, as well as the names Slim Archiver and Slimarch and any other trade marks, whether registered or applied for, logos and distinctive signs of Slimarch, are protected by the legislation on copyright, trade marks and trade secrets and belong to Slimarch or to its licensors.

The EULA grants you only a non-exclusive right of use, any right not expressly granted being reserved to Slimarch, and the purchase of a Licence does not transfer to you any right of ownership over the Software or over any copy of it.

Except to the extent expressly permitted by the EULA or by mandatory law, you may not copy, modify, translate, adapt, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer the Software, create derivative works from it, extract or reuse its components separately, distribute, sell, rent, lend or sublicense it, remove or alter the copyright notices, trade marks or licence notices it contains, or use the Software or its components to develop a competing product.

The specification of the .slim format is kept confidential as a trade secret of Slimarch.

Nothing in these Terms prevents the lawful user of the Software from performing the acts that the law expressly allows and that cannot be excluded by contract, including the observation, study and testing of the functioning of the Software in order to determine the ideas and principles underlying it and the decompilation indispensable to obtain the information necessary for the interoperability of an independently created program, under the conditions and within the limits laid down by Law no. 8/1996 and Directive 2009/24/EC, the information obtained in this way being usable only for that purpose.

You may not use the names Slim Archiver, .slim or Slimarch, the other trade marks, logos and distinctive signs of Slimarch, or signs similar to them which are likely to create confusion, as part of a business name, of a domain name, of the name of a product or service, of an account on social networks or of an advertising campaign, nor present yourself as a representative, reseller or partner of Slimarch or suggest that Slimarch endorses your products or services, without the prior written consent of Slimarch.

You may, however, refer truthfully to the Software by its name, for example to indicate that a file is a Slim Archiver archive or that your product is compatible with it.

You shall refrain from distributing modified, repackaged or unofficial versions of the Software and from offering the Software for download from sources other than the Website without our consent, since such versions may contain malware and harm the users and the reputation of Slimarch.

You shall also refrain from any conduct likely to harm the name, image, reputation or goodwill of Slimarch, of the Software or of its partners, including from making or disseminating, on the Internet, on social networks, on forums, in reviews or by any other means of communication, statements which are defamatory, insulting or denigrating, from disseminating false or misleading information about the Software, its security, its features or its licensing, from publishing fake reviews or reviews obtained in exchange for advantages, from attributing to the Software the effects of malware or of Archives created by other persons, and from organizing or encouraging coordinated actions intended to discredit Slimarch or the Software.

This obligation does not prevent you from expressing honest opinions and good-faith criticism based on your own experience, from reporting errors or vulnerabilities in accordance with section 11, or from addressing complaints to Slimarch and to the competent authorities, and any person who considers that a statement made by Slimarch affects him or her may ask us for its rectification.

If you send Slimarch suggestions, ideas or feedback concerning the Software, you grant Slimarch, free of charge and for the entire duration of the protection of the rights, the non-exclusive right to use them in order to develop and improve the Software, without any obligation of remuneration or attribution.

The breach of this section entitles Slimarch to revoke the Licence, to request the cessation of the infringement and the transfer of the domain names or accounts which incorporate its distinctive signs, and to claim compensation for the entire damage suffered, including the costs incurred for establishing the infringement, in addition to the other remedies provided by law, including those provided by Law no. 8/1996, Law no. 84/1998 and Law no. 11/2019.

17. Third-party components and services

The Software is developed by Slimarch but, like most software, it also incorporates components developed by third parties, which Slimarch uses under the licences granted by their authors and which are distributed together with the Software. These components include open-source libraries used by the compression engine and by the desktop application, such as Zstandard, the LZMA SDK, xxHash, libsodium, Electron and the JavaScript packages listed in the documentation, the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime files and the Microsoft WebView2 loader, RarLab's UnRAR library, used to extract RAR archives, and the fonts used in the interface, licensed under the SIL Open Font License.

Each of these components remains the property of its author and is provided under its own licence, which may be a permissive open-source licence, such as the MIT, BSD, ISC or Apache 2.0 licences, a dedication to the public domain, the redistribution terms of Microsoft, the freeware licence of the UnRAR library or the SIL Open Font License. None of the components distributed with the Software is licensed under a licence which would require Slimarch to publish the source code of the Software or to license the Software under the same terms.

The list of components, with their versions and the full texts of their licences, is installed with the Software in the "licenses" folder of the installation directory and is available on request at support@slimarchiver.com, and the notices concerning the components incorporated in Self-Extracting Archives, namely the WebView2 loader and the fonts, are reproduced in the "Licences" information screen of the extraction module, so that they reach every recipient of such an Archive.

The use of each component is governed by its own licence to the extent that that licence grants you rights broader than the EULA or imposes conditions on its use, and nothing in these Terms or in the EULA restricts the rights that such a licence grants you in relation to that component. You may not, however, extract the components from the Software in order to use them separately in a manner which would breach their licences or the EULA, sell the fonts separately, use the UnRAR library to create RAR archives or to re-create the RAR compression algorithm, or remove the copyright and licence notices of the components.

The authors of the third-party components provide them without warranty and are not liable towards you in connection with the Software, the responsibility towards you for the Software as a whole, including its third-party components, belonging to Slimarch within the limits provided in section 19. The Software does not create RAR archives, the UnRAR library being used exclusively for extraction.

The integrations of the Software with services chosen by you or by your organisation, such as cloud storage, password vaults, single sign-on or log forwarding, connect your computer directly to those services, under your account and their terms, without passing through Slimarch, which is not responsible for the availability, security or terms of those services.

18. Availability of the Website and of the licensing service

Slimarch makes reasonable efforts to keep the Website and the licensing service available and functional, but it does not guarantee that they will be available without interruption or errors, given that they may be temporarily unavailable due to maintenance, updates, technical incidents, failures of the services of third parties such as the hosting provider or the Merchants of Record, cyberattacks or other causes beyond its reasonable control.

The temporary unavailability of the licensing service does not affect the use of the Software on a computer on which the Licence has already been activated, the Software continuing to operate with the Pro features, and does not affect in any way the Free features or the opening of Archives already created.

If Slimarch definitively ceases the operation of the licensing service, it will make available, before that date, an update or another means which allows the Pro features to be used without online validation on the computers on which the Licence is activated, so that the perpetual nature of the Pro Licence is preserved.

19. Liability and limitation of liability

Slimarch is liable for the conformity of the Software with its description and with these Terms, for the supply of the updates provided in section 8, for the operation of the licensing service in accordance with section 18 and for the processing of personal data carried out by it as controller, in accordance with the Privacy Policy, under the conditions provided by these Terms and by the applicable legislation.

Slimarch is not liable for the User Data and for the Archives you create, including their contents, their lawfulness and their loss, for the loss of data that you could have avoided by keeping backup copies or by checking the integrity of Archives, for the impossibility of opening Archives whose password or key has been lost, for the use of the Software in breach of these Terms or of its documentation, for the consequences of not installing updates that have been made available, for the operation of the operating system, of the hardware or of third-party software on your computer, for the services of third parties integrated with the Software, for the purchase transaction concluded with the Merchant of Record, or for temporary interruptions of the Website or of the licensing service caused by maintenance, failures of the services of third parties or other causes beyond its reasonable control, except where the law provides otherwise.

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.

The liability of Slimarch towards a Business Customer, for all claims arising from or in connection with these Terms, the EULA and the use of the Software, whatever their legal ground, is limited to direct, certain and foreseeable damage caused by the breach of its obligations, Slimarch not being liable for lost profits, loss of business, loss of opportunity, loss of reputation, loss of data, costs of procuring substitute software or indirect or consequential damage, and the total amount of such liability for all the events occurring within a period of twelve months shall not exceed the amount paid for the Licence concerned in that period or, for the Free edition, the sum of 100 euros.

If you are a Consumer, Slimarch is liable in accordance with the law, without prejudice to your rights under the legal guarantee of conformity, and, in accordance with art. 1533 of the Romanian Civil Code, is not liable for damage that was not foreseeable at the time the contract was concluded. The refunds owed in accordance with the Refund Policy or with the legal guarantee of conformity are not subject to any limitation, since they constitute the restitution of amounts paid and not compensation for damage.

The limitations and exclusions provided for in this section do not apply in the case of damage caused intentionally or through gross negligence, in accordance with art. 1355 of the Romanian Civil Code, of damage resulting from death, bodily injury or damage to health, of the rights which data subjects hold under Regulation (EU) 2016/679, or in other cases in which the law does not allow liability to be limited, and they do not affect the rights which Consumers hold under mandatory legal provisions, which they may exercise in full.

You are liable towards Slimarch for the damage caused by the breach of these Terms or of the EULA, including by the breach of sections 11, 13 and 16, 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.

Since the limitation of liability provided for in this section is a clause which may be considered unusual within the meaning of art. 1203 of the Romanian Civil Code, it is presented to Business Customers separately, in the installer, and produces effects in relation to them only if it is accepted expressly. If you do not agree with this clause or it is not clear to you, you must not install the Software.

20. Export control and sanctions

The Software contains encryption functions and may be subject to the export control and sanctions rules of the European Union, of the United States and of other states. You declare that you are not a person, and that you do not act on behalf of a person, subject to restrictive measures adopted by the European Union, the United Nations or the United States, and you undertake not to use, export, re-export or make the Software available in breach of those rules, including to such persons or in territories subject to comprehensive sanctions.

The Merchants of Record may refuse orders from such persons or territories, and Slimarch may revoke a Licence obtained in breach of this section.

21. Duration, suspension and termination

The agreement between you and Slimarch is concluded for an indefinite period and remains in force for as long as you use the Software or hold a Licence. You may terminate it at any time, without notice and without giving reasons, by uninstalling the Software and ceasing to use the Website, without affecting the obligations that have become due before that date, and the Pro Licence remains valid for an unlimited period, even if you stop using it, so that you may reinstall and reactivate the Software at any time.

Slimarch may suspend a Licence, as a temporary and proportionate measure, by blocking its validation by the licensing service or by refusing its Activation or transfer to another computer, for the time strictly necessary to verify a well-founded suspicion of breach, where the Licence Key appears to be used simultaneously on several computers, published or offered for sale, generated or obtained by circumventing the licensing mechanisms, obtained through fraudulent payment or with stolen payment data, or used in connection with the creation or distribution of malware or of unlawful content, as well as where a competent authority so requests. Slimarch informs you of the suspension and of its reasons by e-mail, at the address associated with the order, and gives you the possibility of providing explanations within 14 days, after which it either lifts the suspension or revokes the Licence.

Slimarch may terminate the agreement and revoke the Licence, by written notice sent to the e-mail address associated with the order, in case of a serious or repeated breach of these Terms or of the EULA, in particular in the cases listed in the preceding paragraph which are confirmed after verification, the breach of the restrictions in section 16, the breach of section 20 on export control and sanctions, or the use of the Software in a manner that endangers the security of other persons, as well as where the Merchant of Record informs us that the price has been refunded or that the payment has been reversed through a chargeback. Where the breach can be remedied, the termination takes effect only if the breach is not remedied within 14 days of the notice, in accordance with art. 1552 of the Romanian Civil Code, and where the breach cannot be remedied or is fraudulent, the termination takes effect on the date of the notice.

After the revocation of a Pro Licence, the Software continues to operate with the features of the Free edition, without affecting the Archives already created, which you may continue to open and extract, except where the breach concerns the Free edition itself, in which case you must uninstall the Software.

The revocation of a Licence for breach does not give rise to any refund of the price, without prejudice to the right of Slimarch to claim compensation for the damage suffered, and Slimarch may refuse to grant a new Licence to a person whose Licence has been revoked for fraud.

Slimarch may also decide to stop distributing the Software or an Edition, or to stop offering new Licences, by notice published on the Website at least 90 days in advance, without affecting the Licences already purchased, which remain valid in accordance with these Terms, and in that case section 18 applies to the licensing service.

The provisions of these Terms which by their nature are intended to survive the termination of the agreement, including those concerning intellectual property, liability, the indemnification of Slimarch, applicable law and dispute resolution, survive termination.

22. Amendment of the Terms

Slimarch may amend these Terms for valid reasons, such as changes to the Software or to its Editions, changes to the legislation or to the case-law, the requirements of the competent authorities or of the Merchants of Record, or security reasons, by publishing the new version on the Website, with the date from which it applies, and, where the amendments are material and we have your contact details, by informing you by e-mail at least 30 days before they take effect, except where a shorter period is imposed by law or the amendments are required to address an imminent security risk.

The amendments apply only for the future and do not reduce the rights you have acquired under a Licence purchased before they take effect, including the perpetual nature of the Pro Licence for the Major Version purchased and the updates provided for it. If you do not agree with the amendments, you may stop using the Website and the Software, and the continued use of the Software after the date on which the amendments take effect constitutes their acceptance.

23. Force majeure

Neither party is liable for the failure to perform, or for the delay in performing, its obligations where such failure or delay is caused by an event of force majeure or by a fortuitous event within the meaning of art. 1351 of the Romanian Civil Code, including natural disasters, wars, cyberattacks on a large scale, measures of the authorities or the prolonged unavailability of the services of the hosting providers or of the Merchants of Record for reasons beyond its control, provided that it informs the other party as soon as possible and takes reasonable measures to limit the consequences.

24. Communications

Communications between you and Slimarch are made in English, by e-mail, at the addresses published on the Website, namely support@slimarchiver.com for support, sales@slimarchiver.com for sales, privacy@slimarchiver.com for personal data and security@slimarchiver.com for the reporting of security vulnerabilities, or through the support form, and we send our communications to the e-mail address associated with your order or from which you have contacted us. Electronic communications have the same value as written communications and are deemed received on the business day following their sending, unless the sender receives a notice that they could not be delivered.

25. Applicable law and dispute resolution

These Terms, the EULA and any non-contractual obligation arising from or in connection with them are governed by Romanian law. If you are a Consumer, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection afforded by the mandatory provisions of the law of your country of habitual residence, in accordance with art. 6 of Regulation (EC) No 593/2008, and you may bring proceedings before the courts of the country in which you are domiciled or before the Romanian courts, while Slimarch may bring proceedings against you only before the courts of the country in which you are domiciled, in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012.

We invite you to contact us first at support@slimarchiver.com, so that we may try to resolve any dispute amicably within 30 days. Disputes with Business Customers which are not resolved amicably are settled by the competent courts of the place where Slimarch has its registered office. A Consumer resident in Romania may also address the National Authority for Consumer Protection (ANPC), including through the alternative dispute resolution procedure, before or instead of bringing a claim before the courts.

26. Final provisions

These Terms, together with the documents referred to in section 1, constitute the entire agreement between you and Slimarch concerning their subject matter and replace any prior communication or agreement on that subject, without prejudice to the buyer terms of the Merchant of Record, which govern the purchase transaction.

If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in force, and the invalid provision is replaced by a valid provision that 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. You may not assign your rights and obligations under these Terms without our consent, while Slimarch may assign them to a successor of its business or to an entity that takes over the Software, by notice published on the Website, without reducing your rights.

These Terms are drafted in English, which is the language of the agreement.