Posted: July 7, 2023
Effective: August 6, 2023
IMPORTANT: READ THIS END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (THIS "AGREEMENT" ) CAREFULLY.
IF YOU INSTALL OR USE ANY SOFTWARE PRODUCT THAT ACCOMPANIES OR IS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS CONTRACT, THIS CONTRACT WILL BECOME A LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND REALDEFENSE, LLC (d/b/a IOLO) ("IOLO") AS THE OWNER AND LICENSOR OF THE IOLO SOFTWARE.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS CONTRACT OR DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY THIS CONTRACT, DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THE IOLO SOFTWARE.
THIS CONTRACT APPLIES TO THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS: SYSTEM MECHANIC® ULTIMATE DEFENSE™, SYSTEM MECHANIC PROFESSIONAL®, SYSTEM MECHANIC®, SYSTEM CHECKUP™, PRIVACY GUARDIAN™, MALWARE KILLER™, BYEPASS™, SYSTEM MECHANIC® BUSINESS, SYSTEM SHIELD®, SEARCH AND RECOVER™, DRIVESCRUBBER®, SUPERANTISPYWARE, IOLOVPN, AND SAFESEARCH (collectively and individually referred to as "iolo Software").
FOR INFORMATION ABOUT IOLO'S REFUND POLICY, PLEASE CLICK HERE.
THIS CONTRACT REQUIRES THE BINDING ARBITRATION OF ANY AND ALL DISPUTES (OTHER THAN CERTAIN SPECIFIED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CLAIMS AND SMALL CLAIMS), AS STATED IN THE "RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES" IN PARAGRAPH 14 BELOW. YOU SHOULD READ THIS CONTRACT IN ITS ENTIRETY, INCLUDING PARAGRAPH 14.
THIS CONTRACT APPLIES TO YOU AND ANY AND ALL PERSONS THAT YOU PERMIT TO INSTALL OR USE THE IOLO SOFTWARE AS SET FORTH IN THIS CONTRACT BELOW.
These terms of service and license agreement (the "Agreement") are issued by RealDefense LLC, a Delaware limited liability corporation ("RealDefense") and governs your use of and access to its products and services, including:
In this Agreement, the above are referred to collectively as the "Products." These terms are provided in connection with the RealDefense Privacy Policy (the "Privacy Policy"), which can be found at https://www.realdefen.se/home/privacy-policy/.Please read this Agreement and the Privacy Policy carefully. By using the Products you agree to be bound by this Agreement and the Privacy Policy. If you are using the Products on behalf of your employer or another organization, you hereby agree to this Agreement on behalf of that employer or organization. Products include software and services that we own and operate directly, as well as software and services that we market or provide from or on behalf of third parties.
This Agreement may be updated periodically to account for changes to existing products, the introduction of new products, improvements, or features, or a change in the legal or regulatory framework regarding the Sites, Services, or Software. If there is a change to the Agreement, RealDefense agrees to provide notice of the revised Agreement, which may consist of a public notice on the Sites, no less than thirty days before it will become effective.
IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY REVISED AGREEMENT IN THE FUTURE, YOU MAY NOT USE ANY OF THE PRODUCTS, MUST STOP ALL USE IMMEDIATELY, AND TERMINATE ANY ACCOUNTS YOU MAY HAVE WITH REALDEFENSE.
By installing desktop software or mobile apps produced by RealDefense you acknowledge that the products may create and run scheduled tasks on your device. Scheduled tasks are enabled by default. You can disable most scheduled tasks at any time from within the product settings. If you wish to disable ALL scheduled tasks you need to uninstall the software completely. Payment is not required to disable, enable, or amend the scheduled tasks created by any one of the RealDefense Products.
Upon installation, RealDefense Products may set and run tasks or background processes on your computer that will auto-start upon reboot or restart of your computer's operating system. These tasks are required to check your installed software for available updates, validate your license information, monitor your computer for specific product-related items (such as privacy threats, malware infection attempts, etc.) and various other product-related tasks required for the products to operate. If you do not wish to grant the products that permission, please uninstall the products at your convenience or disable the ‘Launch at System Startup' option from within the product settings where applicable.
When installed, RealDefense Products may detect certain website and/or software communication attempts as malicious and block any outgoing or incoming communication between your computer and the specific website and/or IP address. This communication block is done for your safety. If you do not wish to grant the product(s) that permission, please uninstall the Product(s) at your convenience or disable the ‘Safe Browsing' feature from within the product settings where applicable. If you wish to visit/allow the blocked URL after all, please add the URL to the exclusion list of your security software.
UAC is a security feature of Windows which helps prevent unauthorized changes to the operating system by prompting the user for manual approval. Certain RealDefense Products may disable the UAC prompts relating only to those RealDefense Products. At any point you can uninstall the product if you feel this is an inconvenience to you
Please note that installing multiple security products and/or utilities with overlapping coverage on devices that are not designed for high performance is not recommended, nor needed.
We use commercially reasonable efforts to support and update our software so it is compatible with each new update and/or upgrade of related software, services, or operating systems that may affect or be affected by our product's behavior. From time to time, a new software patch or newly deployed version of such third party product may be released that is incompatible with our products. We cannot guarantee that our Products will work after installation of such incompatible products.
If you have downloaded any of the software products mentioned in this page, through a 3rd party bundled offer, where any RealDefense Product was included as a "software bundle", RealDefense software may be silently installed on your device, without an installation wizard, with your explicit consent and permission.
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You agree to allow RealDefense and its associated companies to contact you for marketing or other purposes using an automated telephone dialing system, an artificial or prerecorded voice message, and by email. Your assent to this Section of this Agreement is not a condition of purchasing any Products. You may revoke your consent at any time by contacting us to notify us of such revocation.