END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR ARCHIVEHIVE 1.X

Steeltype LLC. Version 2.0, effective 2026-09-01.

This copy of ArchiveHive, including the ArchiveHive desktop application, the
archivehive-cli command-line program, and accompanying documentation
(together, the "Software Product"), is licensed and not sold. This Software
Product is protected by copyright laws and treaties, as well as laws and
treaties related to other forms of intellectual property. Steeltype LLC or its
subsidiaries, affiliates, and suppliers (collectively, "Licensor") own
intellectual property rights in the Software Product. The Licensee's ("you" or
"your") license to download, use, copy, or change the Software Product is
subject to these rights and to all the terms and conditions of this End User
License Agreement ("Agreement").

1. Acceptance. YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT
BY SELECTING THE "ACCEPT" OPTION AND DOWNLOADING THE SOFTWARE PRODUCT OR BY
INSTALLING, USING, OR COPYING THE SOFTWARE PRODUCT. YOU MUST AGREE TO ALL OF
THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT BEFORE YOU WILL BE ALLOWED TO DOWNLOAD THE
SOFTWARE PRODUCT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT,
YOU MUST SELECT "DECLINE" AND YOU MUST NOT INSTALL, USE, OR COPY THE SOFTWARE
PRODUCT.

2. License Grant. Each license is granted to one named individual (the
"Licensed User"). The Licensed User may install and use the Software Product
on any number of computers that the Licensed User personally uses. A license
may not be shared with, transferred to, or used by any other individual, and
may not be pooled or floated among several people. If you are a business or
other entity, you must obtain one license for each individual who uses the
Software Product; the Commercial license is the license for that use. You may
keep archival copies of the installation files for reinstallation.

3. Version Scope and Term. A license covers the major version of the Software
Product purchased (for example, all 1.x releases) and every update the
Licensor releases within that major version. The license is perpetual for that
major version and does not expire or require renewal. A later major version is
a separate product that may require a separate license.

4. License Administration and Continuity. The Software Product does not
require an internet connection, an account, an activation server, or periodic
re-validation in order to function, and the Licensor will not remotely disable
it. License keys are validated locally. The Software Product will not disable
itself, delete data, or render archives inaccessible as a result of a
licensing check. Regardless of the state or validity of any license, the
Software Product's read-only functions, including verifying, inspecting,
mounting, extracting, and repairing existing archives, remain available to
you; the Licensor will not gate the recovery of your data behind a license
check.

5. Restrictions on Transfer. Without first obtaining the express written
consent of the Licensor, you may not assign your rights and obligations under
this Agreement, or redistribute, encumber, sell, rent, lease, sublicense, or
otherwise transfer your rights to the Software Product.

6. Restrictions on Use. You may not permit the use of the Software Product by
any individual other than the Licensed User, or by more individuals than the
number of licenses you hold. Installing the Software Product on a computer
that several people use is permitted only if each of those people holds a
license. You may not host or offer the Software Product as a service to third
parties, or use it to provide commercial data recovery, forensic, or imaging
services to third parties, except under a separate written commercial services
license from the Licensor; and you may not circumvent, disable, or interfere
with any license, integrity, or security mechanism of the Software Product.

You may not decompile, "reverse-engineer", disassemble, or otherwise attempt
to derive the source code for the Software Product.

7. Restrictions on Alteration. You may not modify the Software Product or
create any derivative work of the Software Product or its accompanying
documentation. Derivative works include but are not limited to translations.
You may not alter any files or libraries in any portion of the Software
Product.

8. Restrictions on Copying. You may not copy any part of the Software Product
except to the extent that licensed use inherently demands the creation of a
temporary copy stored in computer memory and not permanently affixed on a
storage medium. You may keep archival copies of the installation files for
reinstallation.

9. Your Data and Archives. The Licensor claims no ownership of any drive
image, archive, manifest, checksum, catalog, or other output you create with
the Software Product, or of any data on any storage device you image; those
remain yours. The archive format written by the Software Product is composed
of published, openly specified components, and nothing in this Agreement
prevents you from reading, verifying, or recovering your archives with other
software.

10. Third-Party Components. The Software Product incorporates third-party
components, including the Zstandard compression library and the ParPar
Galois-field routines, which are licensed to you under their own terms found
in the "licenses" directory that accompanies the Software Product; those terms
govern those components. Versions of the Software Product released before
1.0.0 were distributed with the par2cmdline-turbo utility under the GNU
General Public License, version 2; nothing in this Agreement limits any right
that license granted you for a copy you received with an earlier version.

11. Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability. UNLESS OTHERWISE
EXPLICITLY AGREED TO IN WRITING BY THE LICENSOR, THE LICENSOR MAKES NO OTHER
WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN FACT OR IN LAW, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT OR IN THE LIMITED WARRANTY
DOCUMENTS PROVIDED WITH THE SOFTWARE PRODUCT.

The Licensor makes no warranty that the Software Product will meet your
requirements or operate under your specific conditions of use. The Software
Product is an archival imaging tool. It is not a data recovery service, and
the Licensor does not provide data recovery, forensic, or other professional
services under this Agreement. The Licensor does not warrant that any drive,
partition, file, or byte can be read, imaged, verified, repaired, or
recovered, or that any archive will remain readable over any period of time.
Storage hardware fails, and failing hardware may degrade further or fail
completely during any read operation, including operations performed by the
Software Product; you accept that risk. The Licensor makes no warranty that
operation of the Software Product will be secure, error-free, or free from
interruption. YOU MUST DETERMINE WHETHER THE SOFTWARE PRODUCT SUFFICIENTLY
MEETS YOUR REQUIREMENTS FOR SECURITY AND UNINTERRUPTABILITY. YOU BEAR SOLE
RESPONSIBILITY AND ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY LOSS INCURRED DUE TO THE FAILURE OF
THE SOFTWARE PRODUCT TO MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS. THE LICENSOR WILL NOT, UNDER
ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR THE LOSS OF DATA ON ANY
COMPUTER OR INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICE.

12. Your Responsibilities. You are solely responsible for independently
verifying that every archive you create is complete and recoverable, for
keeping an adequate number of independent copies of irreplaceable data, for
correctly identifying the source drive and the destination before beginning
any operation, and for retaining original storage devices and data until you
have independently confirmed that a resulting archive is complete and
recoverable. You are solely responsible for having lawful authority to access
every storage device you use the Software Product on.

13. High Risk Activities. The Software Product is not designed, manufactured,
tested, or intended for use in any environment requiring fail-safe
performance, including the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft
navigation or communication, air traffic control, life support, weapons
systems, medical devices, or any activity in which failure of the Software
Product could lead to death, personal injury, or severe physical or
environmental damage, and you may not use it for any such activity. The
Licensor expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for such use.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL THE LICENSOR, ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES
OR AGENTS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PARTY FOR INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL,
SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND (INCLUDING
LOST REVENUES OR PROFITS OR LOSS OF BUSINESS) RESULTING FROM THIS AGREEMENT,
OR FROM THE FURNISHING, PERFORMANCE, INSTALLATION, OR USE OF THE SOFTWARE
PRODUCT, WHETHER DUE TO A BREACH OF CONTRACT, BREACH OF WARRANTY, OR THE
NEGLIGENCE OF THE LICENSOR OR ANY OTHER PARTY, EVEN IF THE LICENSOR IS ADVISED
BEFOREHAND OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. TO THE EXTENT THAT THE
APPLICABLE JURISDICTION LIMITS THE LICENSOR'S ABILITY TO DISCLAIM ANY IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, THIS DISCLAIMER SHALL BE EFFECTIVE TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT
PERMITTED.

THE LICENSOR'S TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS
AGREEMENT OR THE SOFTWARE PRODUCT SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF THE AMOUNT
YOU PAID FOR THE LICENSE GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM AND FIFTY UNITED STATES
DOLLARS (USD 50). THESE LIMITS DO NOT APPLY WHERE APPLICABLE LAW DOES NOT
ALLOW THEM.

14. Consumer Rights. Some jurisdictions give consumers statutory rights that
cannot be excluded or limited by agreement, including rights under the
consumer laws of the European Union, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
Nothing in this Agreement excludes, restricts, or modifies any such right.
Where a term of this Agreement conflicts with a mandatory consumer right, that
right prevails and the remainder of this Agreement continues to apply.

15. Limitation of Remedies and Damages. Your remedy for a breach of this
Agreement or of any warranty included in this Agreement is the correction or
replacement of the Software Product. Selection of whether to correct or
replace shall be solely at the discretion of the Licensor. The Licensor
reserves the right to substitute a functionally equivalent copy of the
Software Product as a replacement. If the Licensor is unable to provide a
replacement or substitute Software Product or corrections to the Software
Product, your sole alternate remedy shall be a refund of the purchase price
for the Software Product, issued through Stripe, the merchant of record, to
the payment method used at purchase.

16. Refunds. The Licensor will refund any license in full within thirty (30)
days of purchase, for any reason, and will not ask you for one. Request a
refund by emailing support@steeltype.io from the address you used at checkout,
or by replying to your license email. On refund, your license ends and you
must stop using the licensed functions and delete the license file. Because a
license file works offline by design, a copy you have already installed may
continue to function; ending use after a refund is therefore your obligation
under this Agreement rather than something the Licensor enforces technically.
The read-only functions described under License Administration and Continuity
remain available to you regardless.

The warranty period is thirty (30) days from the date of purchase. Any claim
must be made within the warranty period. All warranties cover only defects
arising under normal use and do not include malfunctions or failures resulting
from misuse, abuse, neglect, alteration, problems with electrical power, acts
of nature, unusual temperatures or humidity, improper installation, or damage
determined by the Licensor to have been caused by you. All limited warranties
on the Software Product are granted only to you and are non-transferable. You
agree to indemnify and hold the Licensor harmless from all claims, judgments,
liabilities, expenses, or costs arising from your breach of this Agreement
and/or acts or omissions.

17. No Alternative Dispute Resolution. The parties acknowledge and agree that
they have considered and intentionally decided not to include any alternative
dispute resolution ("ADR") procedures, such as mediation or arbitration, in
this Agreement. Any disputes, controversies, or claims arising out of or
relating to this Agreement will be resolved exclusively through litigation in
the state and federal courts located in the State of Indiana, and neither
party is required to engage in any ADR procedures prior to initiating legal
proceedings. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, EACH PARTY WAIVES ANY
RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY, AND ANY CLAIM MUST BE BROUGHT IN AN INDIVIDUAL
CAPACITY AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR
REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. Any claim arising out of or relating to this
Agreement must be brought within one (1) year after it arose, except where a
longer period is required by law. Where mandatory law gives a consumer the
right to bring proceedings in the courts of their country of residence, or to
rely on the law of that country, this section does not remove that right.

18. Term and Termination. This Agreement is effective until terminated. It
terminates automatically if you materially breach it. On termination you must
stop using the Software Product and destroy all copies in your possession,
except that termination does not affect your ownership of, access to, or
rights in any archive you created while licensed, and the Licensor has no
technical means to render your existing archives inaccessible. The sections on
restrictions, your data and archives, third-party components, warranties, your
responsibilities, liability, remedies, dispute resolution, and governing law
survive termination.

19. Export Control and Sanctions. You may not use, export, re-export, or
transfer the Software Product except as permitted by the laws of the United
States and of the jurisdiction in which you obtained it, including the U.S.
Export Administration Regulations and the sanctions programmes administered by
the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control. You represent that you are not
located in, and are not a national or resident of, any country or territory
subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions, and that you do not appear on any
U.S. government restricted-party list.

20. United States Government End Users. The Software Product is "commercial
computer software" and its documentation is "commercial computer software
documentation" as those terms are used in 48 C.F.R. 12.212 and 48 C.F.R.
227.7202. United States Government end users acquire only the rights set out
in this Agreement.

21. Severability. If any provision of this Agreement shall be held to be
invalid, illegal, or unenforceable for any reason, the remaining provisions
shall continue to be valid and enforceable. If a court finds that any
provision of this Agreement is invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, but that by
limiting such provision, it will become valid, legal, and enforceable, then
such provision shall be deemed to be written, construed, and enforced as so
limited.

22. Entire Agreement. This Agreement contains the entire agreement of the
parties with respect to the subject matter contained herein. No other
promises, warranties, representations, agreements, or understandings, whether
oral or written, exist concerning this subject matter. This Agreement
supersedes any previous or simultaneous oral or written promises, warranties,
representations, agreements, or conditions between the parties.

23. Waiver. The failure of either party to enforce any provision of this
Agreement shall not be construed as a waiver or limitation of that party's
right to subsequently enforce and compel strict compliance with every
provision of this Agreement.

24. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of Indiana.

25. Attorneys' Fees. If a legal suit, action, or proceeding, including
arbitration, is brought by any party to enforce or to interpret any provision
of this Agreement, the prevailing party will be entitled to recover, in
addition to any other damages awarded, all costs associated with conducting
the suit, action, proceeding, or arbitration and reasonable attorneys' fees.

26. Changes to this Agreement. The Licensor may change this Agreement for
future releases and future purchases. The version distributed with the release
you install governs your use of that release, and the version in effect when
you purchased governs that purchase; the Licensor will not change the terms of
a license you have already bought. Each release ships the Agreement that
applies to it as EULA.txt, and the current version is also published at
https://archivehive.app/eula.txt.

27. Assignment. You may not assign this Agreement except with the Licensor's
written consent, as stated under Restrictions on Transfer; the Licensor may
assign it as part of a merger, reorganisation, or sale of the relevant
business.

28. Notices and Contact. Notices to the Licensor must be sent to Steeltype
LLC, Indianapolis, Indiana, at support@steeltype.io or at the contact address
published at https://steeltype.io.

Copyright (c) 2026 Steeltype LLC. All rights reserved. ArchiveHive is a
trademark of Steeltype LLC.
