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.