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4 Yandex Desktop Software License Agreement
6 We would like to draw your attention to the fact that this License
7 Agreement shall replace the license agreements governing the use of
8 respective computer programs listed in Section 1.1 of this License
9 Agreement starting from the date indicated in the termination notices
10 in the respective license agreements. Please do consider all references
11 to those license agreements governing the use of respective computer
12 programs as references to this License Agreement.
14 This document is a translation of Yandex Desktop Software License
15 Agreement in English. In case of conflict between the Russian version
16 of Yandex Desktop Software License Agreement and this translation -
17 only the Russian version of Yandex Desktop Software License Agreement
18 is legally binding. The Russian version of Yandex Desktop Software
19 License Agreement can be found here:
20 http://legal.yandex.ru/desktop_software_agreement/?lang=ru.
22 Before using any program, please read the following terms of license
23 agreement. Any use of a program by you means full and unconditional
24 acceptance of its terms.
26 If you do not accept the terms of license agreement in full, you shall
27 not use it for any purpose.
31 1.1. This License Agreement (“License”) sets forth the terms and
32 conditions for the use of the following computer programs:
33 “Yandex.Disk”, “Yandex.Disk Command Line Interface”, “Yandex.Mail” for
34 Chromium, “Yandex.Weather” for Chromium, “Yandex.Traffic” for Chromium,
35 “Yandex.Search” for Chromium, “My VK page” for Chromium, “Visual
36 Bookmarks” for Internet Explorer, “Visual Bookmarks” for Mozilla
37 Firefox, “Visual Bookmarks” for Chromium, “Yandex.Translate” for
38 Chromium, “Yandex Elements” for Internet Explorer, “Yandex Elements”
39 for Mozilla Firefox, “Browsers manager” for Windows, “Yandex.Maps” for
40 Opera, “Yandex.Fotki” for Opera, “Yandex.Mail” for Opera,
41 “Yandex.Weather” for Opera, “VKontakte for express-panel” for Opera,
42 which are distributed separately as well as a part of a “Yandex
43 Elements” software package, (any of the above programs will hereinafter
44 be referred to as “Program” and all of them together as “Programs”) and
45 is concluded between any person using the Program (“User”) and YANDEX
46 LLC, 16 Lva Tolstogo St., Moscow 119021, Russia, which is the owner of
47 the exclusive rights in Programs (“Rights Holder”).
49 1.2. By copying any Program or Programs, installing any of them on your
50 PC or using any Program in any manner, the User expresses his/her full
51 and unconditional agreement to all the License terms and conditions.
53 1.3. The use of Programs is permitted only under the terms and
54 conditions of this License. If the User does not accept the terms and
55 conditions of the License in full, the User shall not use any Program
56 for any purpose. The use of Programs with violation (non-performance)
57 of any of the terms and conditions of this License shall be prohibited.
59 1.4. The use of Programs under this License for personal non-commercial
60 use is free of charge. The use of Programs on terms and in the manner
61 not provided for by this License is only possible on the basis of a
62 separate agreement with the Rights Holder.
64 1.5. This License and all relations connected with the use of a Program
65 or all Programs are subject to applicable law of the Russian Federation
66 and any claims or lawsuits arising out of this License or the use of a
67 Program or all Programs shall be filed and considered by the court at
68 the location of the Rights Holder.
70 1.6. The Rights Holder may provide the User with the translation of thi
71 s License from Russian into other languages, but in case of a conflict
72 between the terms of the License in Russian and its translation, only
73 Russian-language version of this License is valid.
77 2.1. The Rights Holder owns all exclusive rights in all Programs.
81 3.1. The Rights Holder provides the User with non-transferable right to
82 use Programs free of charge, under a simple (non-exclusive) license, in
83 countries around the world in the following manner:
85 3.1.1. To use Programs in accordance with their direct functional
86 purpose, in order to which copy and to install (execute) them on the
87 personal computer(s) of the User. The User is entitled to install
88 Programs on an unlimited number of personal computers.
90 3.1.2. To copy and to distribute Programs in an unmodified form and
91 solely for non-commercial purposes (free of charge).
95 4.1. Except for use within the scope and by means directly stipulated
96 for by this License or the law of the Russian Federation, the User
97 shall not modify, decompile, disassemble, decrypt and perform other
98 actions with the object code of any Program, aimed at obtaining source
99 codes of any Program and/or information on the implementation of the
100 algorithms used in the Program, to create derivative works with the use
101 of the Program, as well as to fulfill (to allow to conduct) other use
102 of Programs, without the written consent from the Rights Holder.
104 4.2. The User shall not, without the written consent from the Rights
105 Holder, reproduce, distribute and make available to the public, any
106 Program and/or all Programs in any form and by any means, not directly
107 stipulated for by this License, including within the collections of
108 software products, with the offering of other programs, settings and
109 other products, regardless of purposes of such use.
111 4.3. Programs shall be used under the names given to them by the Rights
112 Holder. The User shall not change the name of Programs, to modify
113 and/or to remove the copyright notice or other references to the Rights
116 5. Terms of Use of Specific Functions of Programs
118 5.1. The User is hereby notified and agrees that if automatic sending
119 of anonymous statistics of browser usage is enabled in Programs, the
120 Rights Holder will be anonymously (without reference to the User) and
121 automatically receiving the information, including the visited site,
122 viewed pages and downloaded files for the purposes of improving the
123 quality of the products and services provided to the User, until the
124 function is switched off.
126 5.2. The User is hereby notified and agrees that if using the function
127 “To the exact address” for the provision of the User with the hints of
128 corrected input errors, the Rights Holder is anonymously (without
129 reference to the User) reported in the automatic mode on the characters
130 entered in the address bar of the browser, until the function is
133 5.3. Automatic translation of texts and web pages using the function
134 “Translation of pages” is conducted using own technologies of the
135 Rights Holder, and also the technologies of the partners of the Rights
136 Holder. In case of presence of the logo of PROMT LLC on the translation
137 result page of the Program, the translation is done using technologies
138 developed by PROMT ® (http://www.promt.ru). The logs of
139 translations will be anonymously (without reference to the User) sent
140 to the Rights Holder.
142 5.4. The User is hereby notified and agrees that, when using the
143 translation of words function, the translation is performed using the
144 technologies developed by PROMT ® (http://www.promt.ru). The logs
145 of translations will be anonymously (without reference to the User)
146 sent to the Rights Holder.
148 5.5. The User is hereby notified and agrees that when using the
149 “Location identification” function in the Program, IP address of the
150 User’s computer and the data on available Wi-Fi networks will be
151 anonymously (without reference to the User) sent to the automated
152 service of location identification of the Rights Holder.
154 5.6. The User is hereby notified and agrees that when enabling the
155 “Smart Line” function to offer the User search tips, the Rights Holder
156 is anonymously (without reference to the User) reported in the
157 automatic mode on the characters entered in the address bar of the
158 browser, text of the tip selected by the User and identifier of the
159 system, until the function is switched off.
161 5.7. The User is hereby notified and agrees that if the function
162 “Quotation Index” is enabled in the Program “Yandex Elements” for
163 Internet Explorer and/or in the Program “Yandex Elements” for Mozilla
164 Firefox, the Rights Holder will be anonymously (without reference to
165 the User) and automatically receiving the information on the visited
166 site and downloaded files for the purposes of determining the quotation
167 index of the site that is being viewed by the User, until the function
170 5.8. The User is hereby notified and agrees that if the function
171 “Feedback” is enabled in the Program “Yandex Elements” for Internet
172 Explorer and/or in the Program “Yandex Elements” for Mozilla Firefox,
173 the Rights Holder will be anonymously (without reference to the User)
174 and automatically receiving the information on the visited site and
175 downloaded files for the purposes of determining the number of comments
176 to the site that is being viewed by the User, until the function is
179 5.9. The User at any time can refuse to transfer the data specified in
180 clauses 5.1 – 5.8 by switching off the corresponding features.
182 5.10. All data on the use of Programs transferred in accordance with
183 this License, shall be stored and processed in accordance with the
184 Privacy Policy (http://legal.yandex.ru/confidential/).
186 5.11. By using the widget of the service "Yandex.Music" User accepts
187 Terms and Conditions service Yandex.Music
188 (http://legal.yandex.ru/music_termsofuse/).
190 5.12. The “Text Only” function is based on the “Readability” program,
191 the exclusive right to which owned by the company “Arc90”, which
192 distributes the “Readability” program under the Apache 2.0
193 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) license.
195 5.13. The Program “Yandex Elements” for Internet Explorer uses the
196 Compact Language Detection library included in Chromium source code
197 (http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/cld/).
198 The specified software can be used on the terms available at:
199 http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/cld/LIC
202 5.14. The User is hereby notified and agrees that when installing the
203 Program “Yandex Elements” for Internet Explorer and/or the Program
204 “Yandex Elements” for Mozilla Firefox, additional components (buttons)
205 that are integrated with the popular social networks, e-mail services
206 and other instruments, will be automatically selected and installed,
207 while the selection is conducted completely automatically and no data
208 is transferred beyond the User’s computer.
210 6. Limitation of Liability under the License
212 6.1. Programs are provided on “as is” basis. The Rights Holder shall
213 provide no warranties regarding error-free and uninterrupted operation
214 of Programs, meeting the specific goals and expectations of the User,
215 and also shall provide no other warranties not directly stated in this
218 6.2. To the maximum extent permitted by the current law, the Rights
219 Holder shall not be responsible for any direct or indirect consequences
220 of any use of or inability to use Programs and/or damage inflicted on
221 the User and/or third parties as a result of any use or non-use of
222 Programs, including possible errors or failures of Programs.
224 6.3. The User is hereby notified and agrees that while using Programs,
225 the Rights Holder obtains anonymously (without reference to the User)
226 in automatic mode the following information: the type of operating
227 system on the User’s computer, version and identifier of the Program,
228 usage statistics of Program’s features, as well as other technical
231 6.4. The User is able to add components (buttons) to the Program
232 “Yandex Elements” for Internet Explorer and/or the Program “Yandex
233 Elements” for Mozilla Firefox, which are developed and offered by third
234 parties, providing access to information or services of third parties,
235 or redirecting to the resources of third parties (“Custom Components”).
236 The User understands and agrees that the installation of Custom
237 Components to the Program is conducted at the user’s own risk. The
238 Rights Holder has no control over the performance, information,
239 services or resources accessed through such Custom Components, as well
240 as their compliance with the law, and is not responsible for the
241 results of installation or use of Custom Components. The Rights Holder
242 does not cover any damage caused to the User by the use of or inability
243 to use any Custom Components or information, services and resources
244 accessed through Custom Components.
246 7. Updates/New Versions of Programs
248 7.1. Programs may automatically download and install updates from time
249 to time, which are directed to enhance Programs and which can be in the
250 form of patches, additional modules and new versions of Programs. The
251 User is hereby notified and agrees that Programs will update
252 automatically, including request, download and installation of updates
253 for Programs onto the User’s computer without further notice.
255 7.2. This License shall be applied to all future updates/new versions
256 of any Program or all Programs. The installation of an update/new
257 version of the respective Program shall be deemed as an acceptance of
258 the terms and conditions of this License by the User for relevant
259 updates/new versions of the Program, unless the update/installation of
260 a new version of the Program is accompanied by any other license
263 8. Changes to the Terms and Conditions of this License
265 8.1. This license agreement may be changed unilaterally by the Rights
266 Holder. The notification of the User on the changes in the terms and
267 conditions of this License is published on the page:
268 http://legal.yandex.ru/desktop_software_agreement/. These changes
269 in the terms and conditions of the license agreement shall be effective
270 from the date of their publication, unless otherwise is specified in
271 the relevant publication.