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Yandex Desktop Software License Agreement
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.
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.
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.
If you do not accept the terms of license agreement in full, you shall
not use it for any purpose.
1. General Provisions
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”).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2. Rights in Programs
2.1. The Rights Holder owns all exclusive rights in all Programs.
3. License
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:
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.
3.1.2. To copy and to distribute Programs in an unmodified form and
solely for non-commercial purposes (free of charge).
4. Limitations
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.
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.
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.
5. Terms of Use of Specific Functions of Programs
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.
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.
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.
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.
5.5. The User is hereby notified and agrees that when using the
Location identification function in the Program, IP address of the
Users 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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/).
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/).
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.
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.
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 Users computer.
6. Limitation of Liability under the License
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.
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.
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 Users computer, version and identifier of the Program,
usage statistics of Programs features, as well as other technical
information.
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 users 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.
7. Updates/New Versions of Programs
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 Users computer without further notice.
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.
8. Changes to the Terms and Conditions of this License
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.