I m p o r t a n t – please read carefully before installing

In case you bought your SLV product in Germany, Switzerland, Austria of in Liechtenstein the following licence contract is valid.

Schweißtechnische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt Duisburg
(In the following text also called SLV Duisburg)

Software Licence Contract

Following are the contract conditions for using the SLV-software by you, the final consumer (also called licensee).

Therefore, read the following text completely and carefully.

If you do not agree on the contract conditions you are not allowed to continue using the program.


Contract Conditions

1. Subject to the contract

Subject to the contract is the computer program on the CD-ROM, the program description and the operating instruction as well as other written material. Later on it will also be defined as software.

SLV Duisburg informs that according to the technical standing it is not possible to program computer software without any mistakes in all kinds of use and combination.

Therefore, only software is subject to the contract which is basically to use in the sense of the program description and the operating instruction.

2. Extend of use

For the duration of this contract SLV Duisburg grants you the simple, not excludable and personal right (later on defined as “license”) to only use the included copy of the SLV software on one computer at one place.
As licensee you are enabled to transfer the software, saved on a CD-ROM, from one to another computer under the condition that it is any time only played on one single computer.

A further use is not allowed.

3. Special restriction

The licensee is not allowed to,

a) Transfer or, in any form, give the software including all pictures, animations, videos etc. or the corresponding written material to a third person, without a previous agreement in writing from SLV Duisburg.
b) Transfer the software via a net or a data transfer channel from one computer to another.
c) Change, translate, redevelop, decompilate or to disassembly the software without any previous agreement in writing from SLV Duisburg.
d) Develop writings on the basis of the software or copy the written material.
e) Translate, change or develop writings on the basis of the written material.

4. Rights

By purchasing the product you only receive the property of the corporal CD-ROM on which the software is programmed. A reception of rights of the software itself is not connected to the purchase. SLV-Duisburg especially keeps the rights of launching, copying and using the software.

5. Copying

The software and the included written material are copywritten.

The program is via a code clearly registered on your name.

If the software does not have a copy protection you have the right to make one copy as reserve but only for security purposes. On the copy you must indicate the copy write annotation of SLV Duisburg. A, in the software indicated, copywrite record as well as your registered number must not be deleted.

It is explicitly forbidden to totally or partly copy the written material in the original or amended version mixed or included with/in other software or to copy it in a different form.

6. Transfer and rights to use

The right of using the software can only be transferred to a third person with the previous agreement of SLV Duisburg and only under condition of this contract.

Giving as a present, renting and loaning of this software is explicitly forbidden.

7. Contract duration

The contract is valid for a certain time. It is independent on the duration of the correspondence course.

If one condition of the contract is not fulfilled the licensee’s right to make use of the software will be taken away without cancelling the contract. In this case the licensee if obliged to destroy the original CD-ROM including all copies made of the software as well as amended versions and the written material.

8. Indemnification by breach of contract

The SLV Duisburg informs that you are responsible for all damages based on breach of copywrite which occur for SLV Duisburg as a result of a breach of contract.

9. Changes and updates

SLV Duisburg is not allowed to update the software at will.

10. guarantee and responsibility of SLV Duisburg

a) SLV Duisburg guarantees the original licensee that the time of transfer of the CD ROM on which the software is copied and the hardware included with the software are under normal working conditions and at normal maintenance of material without any mistakes.
b) In the case that the CD-ROM or the included hardware is faulty the purchaser can demand a substitute delivery in-between the following six months. He has to give back the CD-ROM including the hardware as well as the reserve copy and the written material and a copy of the bill/receipt to the SLV Duisburg or the shop where he purchased the product.
c) If a mistake is not corrected by a substitute delivery in-between the period mentioned in 10 b, the purchaser can demand reductions of the purchase price or cancel the contract.
d) In accordance to the reasons mentioned in 1. SLV Duisburg does not accept any responsibility for the freedom of errors of the software. SLV Duisburg does especially not accept any responsibility that the software meets the request and purpose of the purchaser or that it works in combination with other programs chosen by the user. The responsibility for the right choice and the consequences of using the software as well as the expected and achieved results are at the purchaser. 
The same is also valid for the written material which accompanies the software. Is the software not to use in the sense of 1. the purchaser has the right to cancel the contract. SLV Duisburg has the same right if the production of usable software with appropriate effort is not in the sense of 1.
e) SLV Duisburg is not responsible for any damage; only if the damage has been caused on purpose or culpable negligence on the part of SLV Duisburg. For traders the responsibility for culpable negligence is excluded. 
Responsibility due to a possibly assured characteristics by SLV Duisburg remains untouched.

11. In the case the licensee is trader it will made use of the German law for the contract.

12. For all rights and obligations resulting from the contract, Duisburg is place of performance and juristiction for both parties.


If you have any question about your SLV license contract or you would like to contact SLV Duisburg, please write to:

Schweißtechnische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt Duisburg, Niederlassung der GSI mbH
Bismarkstraße 85 
Postfach 101 262
D-47012 Duisburg,

Phone: interior : 02 03/3 78 10 , exterior: 00 4 92 03/3 78 10,
Fax:	interior: 02 03/3 78 12 28, exterior: 00 4 92 03/ 3 78 12 28