Terms Of Service (ToS)

Last Updated: July 21, 2026

These Terms of Use ("Terms") constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity ("you," "your," or "Licensee") and PROTEKKT SOFTWARE d.o.o., a company incorporated under the laws of the Republic of Croatia, registered with the court registry of the Commercial Court under MBS: 081707259, OIB: 28968924128, having its registered office at Lomošćanska cesta 34D, 47300 Ogulin, Croatia ("Company," "we," "us," or "our"). These Terms govern your access to and use of our website located at https://protekkt.io (the "Website"), your account dashboard, and the remote cloud infrastructure utilized by our downloadable desktop, command-line (CLI), or graphical user interface applications (collectively, the "Service").

By creating an account, purchasing a subscription, or utilizing any component of the Service, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by all of these Terms. If you do not agree with all of these Terms, you are expressly prohibited from using the Service and must discontinue use immediately.

1. RELATIONSHIP TO THE END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (EULA)

Your use of our downloadable obfuscation software tools (the "Software") is simultaneously governed by a separate End-User License Agreement ("EULA") packaged with the Software. These Terms govern your financial transactions, account management, and your interactions with our online server infrastructure. The EULA governs your local installation and execution of the software files. In the event of an explicit conflict regarding local binary file restrictions, the EULA shall control; for all matters regarding billing, accounts, infrastructure protection, and liability, these Terms shall control.

2. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Unless otherwise indicated, the Website, the Service, all source code, databases, functionality, software architecture, remote server endpoints, design patterns, and text (collectively, the "Content") are owned or controlled by us, and are protected by copyright, trademark, and trade secret laws. We claim absolutely no ownership, right, or title over the source code, binaries, or applications that you subject to our obfuscation processes ("User Code"). All intellectual property rights, structural responsibilities, and runtime liabilities concerning your obfuscated output remain exclusively with you.

3. SUBSCRIPTION TERM, BILLING, AND COMMERCIAL RESTRICTIONS

  • Annual Term: All software licenses and service access plans are billed on an annual subscription basis ("Subscription Term"). The Subscription Term grants you access to the Service for exactly twelve (12) consecutive months from the date of purchase.
  • Refund Policy and Waiver of Withdrawal Right: Due to the digital nature of the software, you explicitly agree during the checkout process that your statutory 14-day right of withdrawal expires either fourteen (14) days from the date of purchase or immediately when you initiate the download or activation of the digital content for the first time, whichever occurs sooner. Once performance has begun or the period has lapsed, all sales are final and non-refundable. If the software fails to operate as intended due to a technical defect, we will make reasonable efforts to correct the issue within a commercial timeframe. Where a verified material defect cannot be remedied, statutory remedies or a prorated credit may be evaluated on a case-by-case basis in strict compliance with applicable regional consumer laws.
  • Prohibition of Third-Party License Sharing: Your annual subscription is tied exclusively to the Company's relationship with you as a singular corporate entity or individual. You shall not utilize the Service to obfuscate or protect software applications on behalf of your clients, subsidiaries, parent companies, or any external third parties. The ultimate legal owner of the software application being protected must purchase an independent subscription. If a subscription key is found protecting distinct applications belonging to multiple unlinked software publishers, the Company will immediately terminate the account without a refund.
  • Legacy Distribution Rights: For the avoidance of doubt, the expiration of an annual subscription plan restricts you solely from initiating new data transmissions and generating new protected software iterations via our infrastructure. It does not revoke your legal right to distribute, host, or sell existing binaries that were compiled and finalized while your subscription was active. All compiled outputs created during an active subscription term remain valid and lawful for distribution indefinitely, subject to your ongoing compliance with the anti-malware provisions herein.

4. STRATEGIC COMPETITIVE EXCLUSION

  • Competing Products Bar: You are expressly prohibited from purchasing, subscribing to, or utilizing the Software or Service if you, or the legal entity you represent, develop, market, distribute, or operate a competing product or commercial service specializing in software obfuscation, intermediate language virtualization, application security, license enforcement, anti-cracking, digital rights management (DRM), or anti-tampering utility development.
  • Prohibition of Competitive Use: You shall not utilize the Software or Service to protect, wrap, or obfuscate any software product that acts as a code obfuscator, application protector, anti-cracking tool, or license enforcement system. Any breach of this competitive exclusion constitutes an immediate, material violation of intellectual property rights and contract law, triggering instant cancellation of access, total forfeiture of fees, and legal remedies under Croatian commercial statutes.
  • Permitted Gaming and Anti-Cheat Clarification: For the avoidance of doubt, this restriction does not prohibit video game publishers, digital content providers, or independent anti-cheat software vendors from utilizing the Service to protect retail entertainment applications or cheating-countermeasure engines. These use cases are fully permitted provided that the primary commercial purpose of the application being protected is interactive entertainment or memory-integrity telemetry, and not the standalone distribution of software obfuscation or license enforcement utility tools.

5. ABSOLUTE PROHIBITION OF MALICIOUS OR ILLEGAL PAYLOADS

  • Permitted Applications Only: You are strictly prohibited from utilizing the Software or Service to obfuscate, hide, or protect software applications that contain malware, ransomware, spyware, trojans, rootkits, exploit payloads, or any code designed to violate regional privacy laws, execute unauthorized network access, or facilitate illegal activities ("Malicious Payloads").
  • Immediate Punitive Termination: If the Company, at its sole discretion, determines that an application carrying a Watermark (as defined in Section 7) assigned to your license contains a Malicious Payload or is being used in an illegal manner:
    1. Your 1-year product license shall be terminated immediately and permanently.
    2. Your access to our remote cloud infrastructure shall be permanently revoked, rendering your local Software completely inoperable.
    3. You shall forfeit the remainder of your annual subscription fee, and no refunds, credits, or proration shall be issued under any circumstances.
  • Legal Cooperation: The Company reserves the right to deliver your account details, registration information, and corresponding Watermark identifiers directly to law enforcement authorities or security researchers investigating the malicious software campaign.

6. SOURCE CODE PRIVACY AND AGNOSTIC REMOTE DATA GENERATION

  • Exclusive Local Application Analysis: The structural analysis, control-flow mapping, and comprehensive obfuscation of your User Code are performed on your machines. Unprotected binaries are never transmitted or exposed to our remote servers.
  • Agnostic Data Generation and Integration: To enforce your 1-year license validity, the local Software queries our remote infrastructure using generic, isolated structural tokens (such as basic operator identifiers). In response, our server generates and returns abstract, synthetic algorithmic implementations, mathematical primitives, or layout schemas ("Licensing Data"). The local Software embeds this Licensing Data into the final output binary to complete assembly. The Software cannot finalize a protected file without retrieving these independent, server-generated functional components.

7. BINARY WATERMARKING AND DETECTION DISCLOSURES

  • Watermark Injection: You acknowledge and agree that the Software injects a unique, non-functional, cryptographically randomized digital signature ("Watermark") into every output binary or script it protects. This Watermark is specific to your license key and distinct customer identity, allowing the Company to mathematically identify which license was used to protect a given application.
  • Default Signature Confidentiality: The Licensor actively protects the operational privacy of our customers and does not publicly share or distribute the unique file signatures, cryptographic patterns, or structural indicators of applications safely protected under our licenses.
  • Conditional Disclosure for Malware Mitigation: In the express event that any protected binary carrying a Watermark assigned to your license is verified by the Company to contain a Malicious Payload (in violation of Section 5), the Company reserves the unilateral right, without prior notice or liability, to instantly create, distribute, and make entirely public any "detection rules," YARA rules, file hashes, structural patterns, or cryptographic signatures required to identify, detect, and intercept any and all files protected under your license key. This defensive footprint data may be delivered directly to automated cybersecurity vendors, operating system developers, anti-virus repositories, and global threat intelligence platforms to systematically flag and neutralize all outputs generated under the non-compliant subscription.

8. INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION AND ACCEPTABLE USE

Our Service relies on secure communication between your locally installed Software and our remote, undocumented server infrastructure. To maintain the integrity, stability, and security of our platform, you must strictly adhere to the following rules:

  • Prohibited Loop Activity: You shall not wrap, embed, or script the Software inside an infinite loop, continuous polling sequence, or high-frequency automated execution chain. Software execution must be tied to discrete, standard development milestones (e.g., human-triggered local builds, manual command execution, or standard CI/CD pipeline commits).
  • Reverse Engineering the Infrastructure: You are strictly prohibited from intercepting, sniffing, decrypting, or analyzing network traffic passing between the local Software and our remote servers, and you shall not attempt to document, exploit, or directly query our undocumented backend infrastructure endpoints outside of the intended, native execution of the Software.

9. COMPANY REMEDIES FOR NETWORK ABUSE

We do not enforce a rigid, static numerical limit on standard development builds; however, whether a software installation's data transmission frequency constitutes server abuse shall be determined solely at our discretion. If our servers detect an unnatural, automated, or high-frequency stream of data transmissions originating from your license or software installation (indicative of a loop script or automated spamming), the Company reserves the right to take any of the following actions immediately, without notice, and without liability:

  1. Administrative Throttling: We may unilaterally slow down the response times and processing velocity of data transmissions coming from your specific software clients.
  2. Traffic Blocking: We may temporarily or permanently block data transmissions originating from your network node or corporate IP address.
  3. License Suspension: We may temporarily freeze or deactivate your license credentials to protect our systems.

Effect of Infrastructure Protection: If your access is slowed down, blocked, or suspended due to a violation of Section 8, it shall not constitute a breach of our 1-year service commitment, nor shall it entitle you to a refund, a license extension, or compensation for delayed development pipelines.

10. NO WARRANTY AND AS-IS SERVICE

THE SERVICE AND ALL INTERLOCKING OPERATIONS ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS-IS" BASIS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY THE CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT AND THE CIVIL OBLIGATIONS ACT (ZAKON O OBVEZNIM ODNOSIMA) OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICE AND YOUR USE THEREOF. WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT OBFUSCATED OUTPUT CODE GENERATED IN CONJUNCTION WITH OUR REMOTELY HOSTED TRANSFORMATIONS WILL FUNCTION WITHOUT PERFORMANCE ARTIFACTS IN EVERY RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT.

11. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY THE CROATIAN CIVIL OBLIGATIONS ACT, IN NO EVENT WILL THE COMPANY, ITS DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT, LOSS OF DATA, BUILD PIPELINE FREEZES, RUNTIME APP CRASHES, OR OTHER DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE TOTAL AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO US DURING THE TWELVE (12) MONTH SUBSCRIPTION TERM IN WHICH THE LIABILITY ARISES.

12. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

These Terms and your use of the Service are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Croatia, without regard to conflict of law principles. Any legal action or dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms shall be brought exclusively before the competent court in Croatia, specifically the Commercial Court in Zagreb (Trgovački sud u Zagrebu).

13. MISCELLANEOUS

These Terms, along with the EULA and our Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us. If any provision or part of a provision of these Terms is determined to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable under Croatian law, that provision is deemed severable and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.