Terms of Use

These Terms are an agreement between you and Sargent Interactive LLC ("Sargent Interactive", "we", "us"), which operates Farm Sim Game. They cover this website, gsm.farmsimgame.com (the "Site"), and the FS Game Server Manager app for Windows, its installer and its updates (the "App"). By using the Site, or by installing or using the App, you agree to these Terms. If you don't agree, don't use them.

Our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy and the GIANTS Software and trademarks page are part of these Terms. Farm Sim Game's other services (FarmSimGame.com, the Farm Sim Game Discord bot and app, ModBarn, FarmLink) have their own Terms and Conditions.

1. Who can use the App

You must be at least 13 years old, and old enough to agree to these Terms where you live. If you are under 18, a parent or guardian has to agree to them for you. If you install the App for a company, club or community, you confirm you're allowed to accept these Terms for it.

2. Your license to the App

We give you a free, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to download, install and use the App to run and manage your own Farming Simulator dedicated servers, on as many PCs as you like, for as long as you follow these Terms.

You may not:

• sell, rent, lease or charge for the App, or bundle it with something you sell;
• publish or share modified copies of the App, or pass off the App or a copy of it as your own;
• offer the App, or copies of it, for download anywhere other than this Site (link here instead);
• remove or change its copyright notices, legal notices or the notice that it isn't affiliated with GIANTS Software;
• reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble it, except where the law allows that despite this restriction;
• use it to break the law or anyone else's rights, or to get around a game's activation, licensing or copy protection.

Running the App for servers you host for other people, including a paid hosting service, is fine. Selling the App itself is not.

The App, the Site and their design, text, code and graphics belong to Sargent Interactive. The App includes open-source software that is licensed to you under its own license, not these Terms; see open-source licenses.

3. Game licenses and GIANTS' rules

The App is an independent tool. It is not made by, endorsed by or affiliated with GIANTS Software GmbH. It doesn't include Farming Simulator, a game key, DLCs or the dedicated server software; you get those from GIANTS. We follow GIANTS Software's terms and rules, and you must too. In particular:

• You need your own legitimate copy of Farming Simulator for the PC the servers run on, bought from GIANTS or an authorised seller.
• Each dedicated server needs its own game license. Don't use a key on more servers or players than GIANTS allows. Don't play on a key one of your servers uses.
• DLCs need their own license for each server that uses them.
• When you move a server's activation to a new profile (the import option "Bring the GIANTS activation along"), stop using the old profile. Moving it must never leave two servers running on one activation.
• Don't share, sell, generate or crack keys, and don't use pirated copies of the game, its DLCs or mods.
• Follow the GIANTS End User License Agreement and terms of use, the ModHub terms, and the license each mod author gives their mods. Mods must stay free, as GIANTS' rules require.

The App never gets around activation, licensing or copy protection. It opens the official GIANTS activation window and DLC installers so you can enter your own keys. Read more on the GIANTS Software and trademarks page.

4. Your servers and your players

You run your servers; we don't. You are responsible for:

• what your servers, web admin pages, SFTP logins and Discord bot are used for, and by whom;
• the information about your players and admins that your servers, the App and your bot keep (player names, IP addresses in SFTP logs, Discord user names and IDs), and for following the privacy laws that apply to you as the person running them;
• the security of the PC the App runs on, the Windows accounts and passwords you give it, your router and firewall settings, and who you give SFTP logins and Discord permissions to;
• keeping backups of your savegames, mods and settings. Stop and Restart end the server immediately; anything not saved is lost.

The App runs with administrator rights because it needs them to manage Windows scheduled tasks, user accounts and processes. Only install it on a PC you are allowed to change.

5. Updates

The App checks this Site for new versions and tells you when one is out. It never installs one until you click Install, and you can turn the check off. Each update is covered by these Terms (or the version of them that comes with it). We don't promise to keep making updates or to keep older versions working, and we may stop offering the App at any time.

6. Other companies' services

The App and the Site work with services run by others: GIANTS Software (the game, activation, DLC installers and the dedicated server), Microsoft Windows, Discord (if you set up the bot), Cloudflare (which hosts the Site and downloads), and the public IP lookup services listed in the Privacy Policy. Their own terms and privacy policies apply when you use them, and we aren't responsible for them. If GIANTS changes the game or its server software, parts of the App may stop working until we update it.

7. Partner links

Links to buy Farming Simulator and its DLCs on this Site and in the App are GIANTS partner links with our code FSGAME. When you buy through them, we may receive a commission from GIANTS. It costs you nothing extra, and the purchase is between you and GIANTS under GIANTS' terms. We don't handle payments, keys or refunds for those purchases.

8. Disclaimers

The App and the Site are provided "as is" and "as available", free of charge. To the extent the law allows, we make no warranties of any kind, express or implied, including that they are fit for a particular purpose, uninterrupted, error-free, or compatible with every version of the game, Windows or your PC; or that the information on the Site (including guides about ports, mods, DLCs and keys) is complete or up to date.

Nothing in these Terms limits rights you have under consumer protection laws that can't be waived.

9. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, Sargent Interactive is not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for lost data, savegames, mods, profits, players or server time, arising from your use of the App or the Site, or from not being able to use them.

To the extent the law allows, our total liability for any claim about the App or the Site is limited to US $50.

These limits don't apply to liability that can't be limited by law, such as for fraud, gross negligence, or death or personal injury caused by negligence.

10. Your responsibility

If someone makes a claim against Sargent Interactive because of how you used the App, what ran on your servers, or because you broke these Terms, GIANTS' terms or the law, you agree to cover our reasonable costs of that claim, to the extent the law allows.

11. Ending these Terms

You can stop using the App at any time by uninstalling it. Your license ends automatically if you seriously break these Terms; you must then uninstall the App. Sections 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 13 and 14 keep applying after that.

12. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. The date at the top shows the latest version. For a material change, we'll say so on this Site at least 30 days before it takes effect. If you keep using the App or the Site after a change takes effect, the new Terms apply; if you don't agree, stop using them.

13. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Alabama, United States, without regard to its conflict of law rules.

If you have a problem, contact us first at terms@sargentinteractive.com and give us 30 days to try to resolve it. Any dispute that isn't resolved will be decided by the state or federal courts located in Alabama, and you and we agree to their jurisdiction. Either of us may instead bring an individual claim in a small claims court that has jurisdiction.

If you live in the EU, the UK, or another country whose consumer laws give you the right to bring a claim in your own country or under your own country's laws, nothing in this section removes that right.

14. General

These Terms, with the pages named at the top, are the whole agreement between you and us about the App and the Site. If any part is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. If we don't enforce a part, we haven't waived it. We may transfer these Terms to a company that takes over the App; your rights under them stay the same. You may not transfer them without our permission.

15. Contact

Sargent Interactive LLC, PO Box 65, Toney, AL 35773, USA
terms@sargentinteractive.com