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| Yandex Desktop Software License Agreement |
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| We would like to draw your attention to the fact that this License |
| Agreement shall replace the license agreements governing the use of |
| respective computer programs listed in Section 1.1 of this License |
| Agreement starting from the date indicated in the termination notices |
| in the respective license agreements. Please do consider all references |
| to those license agreements governing the use of respective computer |
| programs as references to this License Agreement. |
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| This document is a translation of Yandex Desktop Software License |
| Agreement in English. In case of conflict between the Russian version |
| of Yandex Desktop Software License Agreement and this translation - |
| only the Russian version of Yandex Desktop Software License Agreement |
| is legally binding. The Russian version of Yandex Desktop Software |
| License Agreement can be found here: |
| http://legal.yandex.ru/desktop_software_agreement/?lang=ru. |
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| Before using any program, please read the following terms of license |
| agreement. Any use of a program by you means full and unconditional |
| acceptance of its terms. |
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| If you do not accept the terms of license agreement in full, you shall |
| not use it for any purpose. |
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| 1. General Provisions |
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| 1.1. This License Agreement (“License”) sets forth the terms and |
| conditions for the use of the following computer programs: |
| “Yandex.Disk”, “Yandex.Disk Command Line Interface”, “Yandex.Mail” for |
| Chromium, “Yandex.Weather” for Chromium, “Yandex.Traffic” for Chromium, |
| “Yandex.Search” for Chromium, “My VK page” for Chromium, “Visual |
| Bookmarks” for Internet Explorer, “Visual Bookmarks” for Mozilla |
| Firefox, “Visual Bookmarks” for Chromium, “Yandex.Translate” for |
| Chromium, “Yandex Elements” for Internet Explorer, “Yandex Elements” |
| for Mozilla Firefox, “Browsers manager” for Windows, “Yandex.Maps” for |
| Opera, “Yandex.Fotki” for Opera, “Yandex.Mail” for Opera, |
| “Yandex.Weather” for Opera, “VKontakte for express-panel” for Opera, |
| which are distributed separately as well as a part of a “Yandex |
| Elements” software package, (any of the above programs will hereinafter |
| be referred to as “Program” and all of them together as “Programs”) and |
| is concluded between any person using the Program (“User”) and YANDEX |
| LLC, 16 Lva Tolstogo St., Moscow 119021, Russia, which is the owner of |
| the exclusive rights in Programs (“Rights Holder”). |
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| 1.2. By copying any Program or Programs, installing any of them on your |
| PC or using any Program in any manner, the User expresses his/her full |
| and unconditional agreement to all the License terms and conditions. |
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| 1.3. The use of Programs is permitted only under the terms and |
| conditions of this License. If the User does not accept the terms and |
| conditions of the License in full, the User shall not use any Program |
| for any purpose. The use of Programs with violation (non-performance) |
| of any of the terms and conditions of this License shall be prohibited. |
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| 1.4. The use of Programs under this License for personal non-commercial |
| use is free of charge. The use of Programs on terms and in the manner |
| not provided for by this License is only possible on the basis of a |
| separate agreement with the Rights Holder. |
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| 1.5. This License and all relations connected with the use of a Program |
| or all Programs are subject to applicable law of the Russian Federation |
| and any claims or lawsuits arising out of this License or the use of a |
| Program or all Programs shall be filed and considered by the court at |
| the location of the Rights Holder. |
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| 1.6. The Rights Holder may provide the User with the translation of thi |
| s License from Russian into other languages, but in case of a conflict |
| between the terms of the License in Russian and its translation, only |
| Russian-language version of this License is valid. |
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| 2. Rights in Programs |
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| 2.1. The Rights Holder owns all exclusive rights in all Programs. |
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| 3. License |
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| 3.1. The Rights Holder provides the User with non-transferable right to |
| use Programs free of charge, under a simple (non-exclusive) license, in |
| countries around the world in the following manner: |
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| 3.1.1. To use Programs in accordance with their direct functional |
| purpose, in order to which copy and to install (execute) them on the |
| personal computer(s) of the User. The User is entitled to install |
| Programs on an unlimited number of personal computers. |
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| 3.1.2. To copy and to distribute Programs in an unmodified form and |
| solely for non-commercial purposes (free of charge). |
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| 4. Limitations |
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| 4.1. Except for use within the scope and by means directly stipulated |
| for by this License or the law of the Russian Federation, the User |
| shall not modify, decompile, disassemble, decrypt and perform other |
| actions with the object code of any Program, aimed at obtaining source |
| codes of any Program and/or information on the implementation of the |
| algorithms used in the Program, to create derivative works with the use |
| of the Program, as well as to fulfill (to allow to conduct) other use |
| of Programs, without the written consent from the Rights Holder. |
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| 4.2. The User shall not, without the written consent from the Rights |
| Holder, reproduce, distribute and make available to the public, any |
| Program and/or all Programs in any form and by any means, not directly |
| stipulated for by this License, including within the collections of |
| software products, with the offering of other programs, settings and |
| other products, regardless of purposes of such use. |
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| 4.3. Programs shall be used under the names given to them by the Rights |
| Holder. The User shall not change the name of Programs, to modify |
| and/or to remove the copyright notice or other references to the Rights |
| Holder. |
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| 5. Terms of Use of Specific Functions of Programs |
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| 5.1. The User is hereby notified and agrees that if automatic sending |
| of anonymous statistics of browser usage is enabled in Programs, the |
| Rights Holder will be anonymously (without reference to the User) and |
| automatically receiving the information, including the visited site, |
| viewed pages and downloaded files for the purposes of improving the |
| quality of the products and services provided to the User, until the |
| function is switched off. |
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| 5.2. The User is hereby notified and agrees that if using the function |
| “To the exact address” for the provision of the User with the hints of |
| corrected input errors, the Rights Holder is anonymously (without |
| reference to the User) reported in the automatic mode on the characters |
| entered in the address bar of the browser, until the function is |
| switched off. |
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| 5.3. Automatic translation of texts and web pages using the function |
| “Translation of pages” is conducted using own technologies of the |
| Rights Holder, and also the technologies of the partners of the Rights |
| Holder. In case of presence of the logo of PROMT LLC on the translation |
| result page of the Program, the translation is done using technologies |
| developed by PROMT ® (http://www.promt.ru). The logs of |
| translations will be anonymously (without reference to the User) sent |
| to the Rights Holder. |
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| 5.4. The User is hereby notified and agrees that, when using the |
| translation of words function, the translation is performed using the |
| technologies developed by PROMT ® (http://www.promt.ru). The logs |
| of translations will be anonymously (without reference to the User) |
| sent to the Rights Holder. |
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| 5.5. The User is hereby notified and agrees that when using the |
| “Location identification” function in the Program, IP address of the |
| User’s computer and the data on available Wi-Fi networks will be |
| anonymously (without reference to the User) sent to the automated |
| service of location identification of the Rights Holder. |
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| 5.6. The User is hereby notified and agrees that when enabling the |
| “Smart Line” function to offer the User search tips, the Rights Holder |
| is anonymously (without reference to the User) reported in the |
| automatic mode on the characters entered in the address bar of the |
| browser, text of the tip selected by the User and identifier of the |
| system, until the function is switched off. |
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| 5.7. The User is hereby notified and agrees that if the function |
| “Quotation Index” is enabled in the Program “Yandex Elements” for |
| Internet Explorer and/or in the Program “Yandex Elements” for Mozilla |
| Firefox, the Rights Holder will be anonymously (without reference to |
| the User) and automatically receiving the information on the visited |
| site and downloaded files for the purposes of determining the quotation |
| index of the site that is being viewed by the User, until the function |
| is switched off. |
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| 5.8. The User is hereby notified and agrees that if the function |
| “Feedback” is enabled in the Program “Yandex Elements” for Internet |
| Explorer and/or in the Program “Yandex Elements” for Mozilla Firefox, |
| the Rights Holder will be anonymously (without reference to the User) |
| and automatically receiving the information on the visited site and |
| downloaded files for the purposes of determining the number of comments |
| to the site that is being viewed by the User, until the function is |
| switched off. |
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| 5.9. The User at any time can refuse to transfer the data specified in |
| clauses 5.1 – 5.8 by switching off the corresponding features. |
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| 5.10. All data on the use of Programs transferred in accordance with |
| this License, shall be stored and processed in accordance with the |
| Privacy Policy (http://legal.yandex.ru/confidential/). |
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| 5.11. By using the widget of the service "Yandex.Music" User accepts |
| Terms and Conditions service Yandex.Music |
| (http://legal.yandex.ru/music_termsofuse/). |
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| 5.12. The “Text Only” function is based on the “Readability” program, |
| the exclusive right to which owned by the company “Arc90”, which |
| distributes the “Readability” program under the Apache 2.0 |
| (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) license. |
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| 5.13. The Program “Yandex Elements” for Internet Explorer uses the |
| Compact Language Detection library included in Chromium source code |
| (http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/cld/). |
| The specified software can be used on the terms available at: |
| http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/cld/LIC |
| ENSE. |
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| 5.14. The User is hereby notified and agrees that when installing the |
| Program “Yandex Elements” for Internet Explorer and/or the Program |
| “Yandex Elements” for Mozilla Firefox, additional components (buttons) |
| that are integrated with the popular social networks, e-mail services |
| and other instruments, will be automatically selected and installed, |
| while the selection is conducted completely automatically and no data |
| is transferred beyond the User’s computer. |
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| 6. Limitation of Liability under the License |
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| 6.1. Programs are provided on “as is” basis. The Rights Holder shall |
| provide no warranties regarding error-free and uninterrupted operation |
| of Programs, meeting the specific goals and expectations of the User, |
| and also shall provide no other warranties not directly stated in this |
| License. |
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| 6.2. To the maximum extent permitted by the current law, the Rights |
| Holder shall not be responsible for any direct or indirect consequences |
| of any use of or inability to use Programs and/or damage inflicted on |
| the User and/or third parties as a result of any use or non-use of |
| Programs, including possible errors or failures of Programs. |
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| 6.3. The User is hereby notified and agrees that while using Programs, |
| the Rights Holder obtains anonymously (without reference to the User) |
| in automatic mode the following information: the type of operating |
| system on the User’s computer, version and identifier of the Program, |
| usage statistics of Program’s features, as well as other technical |
| information. |
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| 6.4. The User is able to add components (buttons) to the Program |
| “Yandex Elements” for Internet Explorer and/or the Program “Yandex |
| Elements” for Mozilla Firefox, which are developed and offered by third |
| parties, providing access to information or services of third parties, |
| or redirecting to the resources of third parties (“Custom Components”). |
| The User understands and agrees that the installation of Custom |
| Components to the Program is conducted at the user’s own risk. The |
| Rights Holder has no control over the performance, information, |
| services or resources accessed through such Custom Components, as well |
| as their compliance with the law, and is not responsible for the |
| results of installation or use of Custom Components. The Rights Holder |
| does not cover any damage caused to the User by the use of or inability |
| to use any Custom Components or information, services and resources |
| accessed through Custom Components. |
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| 7. Updates/New Versions of Programs |
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| 7.1. Programs may automatically download and install updates from time |
| to time, which are directed to enhance Programs and which can be in the |
| form of patches, additional modules and new versions of Programs. The |
| User is hereby notified and agrees that Programs will update |
| automatically, including request, download and installation of updates |
| for Programs onto the User’s computer without further notice. |
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| 7.2. This License shall be applied to all future updates/new versions |
| of any Program or all Programs. The installation of an update/new |
| version of the respective Program shall be deemed as an acceptance of |
| the terms and conditions of this License by the User for relevant |
| updates/new versions of the Program, unless the update/installation of |
| a new version of the Program is accompanied by any other license |
| agreement. |
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| 8. Changes to the Terms and Conditions of this License |
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| 8.1. This license agreement may be changed unilaterally by the Rights |
| Holder. The notification of the User on the changes in the terms and |
| conditions of this License is published on the page: |
| http://legal.yandex.ru/desktop_software_agreement/. These changes |
| in the terms and conditions of the license agreement shall be effective |
| from the date of their publication, unless otherwise is specified in |
| the relevant publication. |