«Yandex.Bar» Software License Agreement

Please, read the terms of the following License Agreement carefully prior to using this software. By using this software you completely and unconditionally accept the terms of the License Agreement.

If you do not agree with the terms of the following License Agreement, do not use the software for whatever purposes.

1. General provisions

1.1. This License Agreement (the «License») sets forth the terms and conditions of use for the «Yandex.Bar» software, versions for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox (the «Software»), and is entered into by and between any person using Software (the «User»), and YANDEX, LLC, 16 Lva Tolstogo st., Moscow, 119021, Russia, which is the sole owner of the exclusive rights in and to the Software (the «Rightholder»).

1.2. By copying and installing the Software on the personal computer, the User expresses the full and unconditional agreement to all the terms and conditions of this License.

1.3. The Software may be used under the terms and conditions of this License only. If the User does not accept the terms and conditions of this License in full, the User shall not be entitled to use the Software for whatever purposes. Any use of the Software not expressly permitted by this License or in breach of any terms and conditions of this License is prohibited.

1.4. A personal non-commercial use of the Software hereunder is free of charge. Use of the Software under the terms and by means not described in this License shall be allowed only subject to a separate agreement with the Rightholder.

1.5. This License and all the relationships related to the use of the Software shall be governed by the law of the Russian Federation and any claim or action arising from this License or use of the Software shall be brought and settled in the competent court located where the Rightholder resides.

1.6. The Rightholder may provide the User with a translation of this License from English into other foreign languages, however, in case of any conflict or discrepancy between the terms and conditions of the License in English and its translation, only English version of the License shall be valid.

2. Software Rights

2.1. The Rightholder owns all right, title and interest, including copyright and all exclusive rights, in and to the Software.

3. License

3.1. The Rightholder hereby grants the User a worldwide, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-assignable, non-sublicensable and royalty-free license to use the Software throughout the world by the following means:

3.1.1. To use the Software in accordance with its functionality by copying and installing (reproducing) it on the User's personal computer(s). The User shall be entitled to install the Software on an unlimited number of personal computers. During installation on a personal computer each Software copy shall be assigned a unique number which shall be automatically communicated to the Rightholder.

3.1.2. To reproduce and to distribute this Software for non-commercial purposes (free of charge).

4. Limitations

4.1. Except when and if, and only to the extent expressly permitted by this License or by the applicable law of Russian Federation, the User shall not be entitled to modify, decompile, disassemble, decrypt or perform other activities with the object code of this Software with the purpose of obtaining information on how algorithms used in this Software are implemented, to create derivative works based upon the Software, and otherwise use, or authorize other persons to do so, the Software without a prior written consent of the Rightholder.

4.2. The User shall not be entitled to reproduce and to distribute the Software for commercial purposes (for a payment), including as a part of software product collections without a prior written consent of the Rightholder.

4.3. The Software shall be used under the following name: «Yandex.Bar». The User shall not be entitled to modify and/or remove the Software name, to change and/or remove any copyright notice or other notices of the Rightholder.

5. Usage terms for particular Software features

5.1. The User hereby acknowledges and agrees, that when using the «Social Index» feature of the Software to define the number of references on Facebook and Twitter to the site visited by the User and until the feature is disabled, the Rightholder shall automatically receive anonymous (without reference to the User) information about the website visited and files downloaded.

5.2. The User hereby acknowledges and agrees, that when using the «Address bar corrector» feature to suggest corrections or errors in a website address and until the feature is disabled, the Rightholder shall automatically receive anonymous (without reference to the User) information about characters entered in the address bar of the browser.

5.3. The User hereby acknowledges and agrees, that when using the «Words translation» feature of the Software, the words shall be transmitted for translation to the Rightholder on an unidentified basis (with no reference to the User). In case translation is being performed from Russian to English or vice versa; from Russian to French or vice versa; from Russian to Spanish or vice versa; from Russian to German or vice versa, such a translation is being performed by technologies developed by the company PROMT ® (http://www.promt.ru).

5.4. The User can, at any time, stop the transfer of information outlined in points 5.1 – 5.3, by disabling the relevant feature in the settings menu of the Software.

5.5. All information on the Software usage, transferred in accordance with this License, shall be stored and processed in accordance with the Privacy Policy (https://yandex.com/legal/confidential).

5.6. The «Text only» feature of the Software is based on the «Readability» software the exclusive right in which is owned by the «Arc90» Company, which distributes the «Readability» software under Apache 2.0 license (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).

6. License Limitation of Liability

6.1. The software is provided hereunder on “as is” basis. Except as explicitly set forth in this License, the Rightholder gives no warranty of any kind, including, but not limited to, for error-free and failure-free work of the Software, fitness of the Software for purposes or expectations of the User.

6.2. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Rightholder shall not be liable to the User or any other third party for any direct or indirect consequences of any use or failure to use of the Software and any damages caused to the User and/or third parties as a result of any use or failure to use the Software, including as result of possible Software errors of failures.

6.3. The User hereby acknowledges and agrees, that when using the Software, the Rightholder shall be automatically communicated the following unidentified (with no reference to the User) information: the type of the operation system of the User’s personal computer, the version and identifier of the Software, statistics of use of the Software features, and other technical information.

6.4. The User may add components (buttons) to the Software, which are developed and offered for installation by third parties and which give access to information or services of third parties, or which enable a transfer to the resources of third parties (the “User buttons”). The User acknowledges and agrees, that the User buttons are installed in the Software at the User’s sole risk. The Rightholder does not monitor the functionality or content of the services or resources accessed through the User buttons or their compliance with legislation, and shall bear no liability for the results of installation or use of the User buttons. The Rightholder shall not be liable or compensate the User for any loss whatsoever caused by the use or impossibility to use any User buttons or information, services and resources accessed through the User buttons.

7. Updates/new versions of the Software

7.1. The User hereby expressly agrees and acknowledges that for the purpose of improving performance, stability and functionality of the Software, it may be updated and upgraded at any time at the Rightholder’s sole discretion. This License shall cover all future updates/new versions of the Software.

8. Modifications in the terms and conditions of this License

8.1. This License Agreement can be modified by the Rightholder unilaterally. The notification of the User on modifications made to this License shall be published at https://yandex.com/legal/bar_agreement_int. The specified modifications to the terms and conditions of the License Agreement shall come to force upon their publication, unless otherwise set out in the relevant publication.