1. Definitions
1.1. Software means software including any Updates and related materials.
1.2. Rightholder (owner of all rights, whether exclusive or otherwise to the Software) means AO Kaspersky Lab, a company incorporated according to the laws of the Russian Federation.
1.3. Computer(s) means hardware, including personal computers, laptops, workstations, personal digital assistants, "smart phones", handheld devices, or other electronic devices for which the Software was designed where the Software will be installed and/or used.
1.4. End User (You/Your) means individual(s) installing or using the Software on their own behalf or who are legally using a copy of the Software; or, if the Software is being downloaded or installed on behalf of an organization, such as an employer, "You" further means the organization for which the Software is downloaded or installed and it is represented hereby that such organization has authorized the person accepting this agreement to do so on its behalf. For purposes, hereof the term "organization", without limitation, includes any partnership, limited liability company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, joint venture, labor organization, unincorporated organization, or governmental authority.
1.5. Partner(s) means organizations or individual(s) who distribute the Software based on an agreement and license with the Rightholder.
1.6. User Manual means user manual, administrator guide, reference book and related explanatory or other materials.
2. Grant of License
2.1. You are given a non-exclusive license to store, load, install, execute, and display (to "use") the free of charge Software in order to assist in protecting Your Computer on which the Software is installed, from threats described in the User Manual, according to all technical requirements described in the User Manual and according to the terms and conditions of this Agreement (the "License") and you accept this License.
2.2. The Licensee has the right to copy and distribute the software, to assign the right of use to a third party, and to use the software to restore the operability of third-party computers, including for commercial gain.
3. Activation and Term
3.1. The Software can be used free of charge and without time limit, upon your acceptance of this Agreement.
3.2. Without prejudice to any other remedy in law or in equity that the Rightholder may have, in the event of any breach by You of any of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Rightholder shall at any time without notice to You be entitled to terminate this License.
4. Technical Support
4.1. Technical support for the Software is available only for users of commercial products of the Rightholder.
4.2. Product consulting is available at https://community.kaspersky.com according to the rules of the Community.
4.3. Unassisted search for information related to Software is available at https://support.kaspersky.com/faq/search.
5. Limitations
5.1. You shall not emulate, clone, rent, lend, lease, sell, modify, decompile, or reverse-engineer the Software or disassemble or create derivative works based on the Software or any portion thereof with the sole exception of a non-waiverable right granted to You by applicable legislation, and you shall not otherwise reduce any part of the Software to human-readable form or transfer the licensed Software, or any subset of the licensed Software, nor permit any third party to do so, except to the extent the foregoing restriction is expressly prohibited by applicable law. Neither the Software’s binary code nor source may be used or reverse-engineered to re-create the program algorithm, which is proprietary. All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved by Rightholder and/or its suppliers, as applicable. Any such unauthorized use of the Software shall result in immediate and automatic termination of this Agreement and the License granted hereunder and may result in criminal and/or civil prosecution against You.
5.2. You shall not rent, lease or lend the Software to any third party.
5.3. You shall not use the Software in the creation of data or software used for detection, blocking or treating threats described in the User Manual.
5.4. The software may not be distributed for use with commercial software products that are not the legal property of AO Kaspersky Lab.
5.5. Violation of the intellectual rights to the Software shall result in civil, administrative or criminal liability in accordance with the law.
6. Limited Warranty and Disclaimer
6.1. The Rightholder guarantees that the Software will substantially perform according to the specifications and descriptions set forth in the User Manual provided however that such limited warranty shall not apply to the following: (w) Your Computer’s deficiencies and related infringement for which Rightholder’s expressly disclaims any warranty responsibility; (x) malfunctions, defects, or failures resulting from misuse; abuse; accident; neglect; improper installation, operation or maintenance; theft; vandalism; acts of God; acts of terrorism; power failures or surges; casualty; alteration, non-permitted modification, or repairs by any party other than Rightholder; or any other third parties’ or Your actions or causes beyond Rightholder’s reasonable control; (y) any defect not made known by You to Rightholder as soon as practical after the defect first appears; and (z) incompatibility caused by hardware and/or software components installed on Your Computer.
6.2. You acknowledge, accept and agree that no software is error-free and You are advised to back up the Computer with the frequency and reliability suitable for You.
6.3. The Rightholder does not provide any guarantee that the Software will work correctly in case of violations of the terms described in the User Manual or in this Agreement.
6.4. The Software is not intended to permanently protect the computer from threats. For an updated version of the Software, please visit the website of the Rightholder.
6.5. Disinfecting the computer in manual mode, as defined in the User Manual, may result in the loss of documents and disable the computer.
6.6. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE RIGHTHOLDER MAKES NO REPRESENTATION AND GIVES NO WARRANTY AS TO ITS USE OR PERFORMANCE. EXCEPT FOR ANY WARRANTY, CONDITION, REPRESENTATION OR TERM THE EXTENT TO WHICH CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED BY APPLICABLE LAW. THE RIGHTHOLDER AND ITS PARTNERS MAKE NO WARRANTY, CONDITION, REPRESENTATION, OR TERM (EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, WHETHER BY STATUTE, COMMON LAW, CUSTOM, USAGE OR OTHERWISE) AS TO ANY MATTER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD-PARTY RIGHTS, MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, INTEGRATION, OR APPLICABILITY FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOU ASSUME ALL FAULTS, AND THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO PERFORMANCE AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR SELECTING THE SOFTWARE TO ACHIEVE YOUR INTENDED RESULTS, AND FOR THE INSTALLATION OF, USE OF, AND RESULTS OBTAINED FROM THE SOFTWARE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING PROVISIONS, THE RIGHTHOLDER MAKES NO REPRESENTATION AND GIVES NO WARRANTY THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL BE ERROR-FREE OR FREE FROM INTERRUPTIONS OR OTHER FAILURES OR THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL MEET ANY OR ALL OF YOUR REQUIREMENTS WHETHER OR NOT DISCLOSED TO THE RIGHTHOLDER.
7. Exclusion and Limitation of Liability
7.1. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE RIGHTHOLDER OR ITS PARTNERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS OR CONFIDENTIAL OR OTHER INFORMATION, FOR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, FOR LOSS OF PRIVACY, FOR CORRUPTION, DAMAGE AND LOSS OF DATA OR PROGRAMS, FOR FAILURE TO MEET ANY DUTY INCLUDING ANY STATUTORY DUTY, DUTY OF GOOD FAITH OR DUTY OF REASONABLE CARE, FOR NEGLIGENCE, FOR ECONOMIC LOSS, AND FOR ANY OTHER PECUNIARY OR OTHER LOSS WHATSOEVER) ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE, THE PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SUPPORT OR OTHER SERVICES, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, AND RELATED CONTENT THROUGH THE SOFTWARE OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE SOFTWARE, OR OTHERWISE UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH ANY PROVISION OF THIS AGREEMENT, OR ARISING OUT OF ANY BREACH OF CONTRACT OR ANY TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, MISREPRESENTATION, ANY STRICT LIABILITY OBLIGATION OR DUTY), OR ANY BREACH OF STATUTORY DUTY, OR ANY BREACH OF WARRANTY OF THE RIGHTHOLDER OR ANY OF ITS PARTNERS, EVEN IF THE RIGHTHOLDER OR ANY PARTNER HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
YOU AGREE THAT IN THE EVENT THE RIGHTHOLDER AND/OR ITS PARTNERS ARE FOUND LIABLE, THE LIABILITY OF THE RIGHTHOLDER AND/OR ITS PARTNERS SHALL BE LIMITED BY THE COSTS OF THE SOFTWARE. IN NO CASE SHALL THE LIABILITY OF THE RIGHTHOLDER AND/OR ITS PARTNERS EXCEED THE FEES PAID FOR THE SOFTWARE TO THE RIGHTHOLDER OR THE PARTNER (AS MAY BE APPLICABLE).
NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT EXCLUDES OR LIMITS ANY CLAIM FOR DEATH AND PERSONAL INJURY. FURTHER IN THE EVENT ANY DISCLAIMER, EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION IN THIS AGREEMENT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED ACCORDING TO APPLICABLE LAW THEN ONLY SUCH DISCLAIMER, EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION SHALL NOT APPLY TO YOU AND YOU CONTINUE TO BE BOUND BY ALL THE REMAINING DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS.
8. GNU and Other Third-Party Licenses
8.1. The Software may include some software programs that are licensed (or sublicensed) to the user under the GNU General Public License (GPL) or other similar free software licenses which, among other rights, permit the user to copy, modify and redistribute certain programs, or portions thereof, and have access to the source code "Open-Source Software"). If such licenses require that for any software, which is distributed to someone in an executable binary format, that the source code also be made available to those users, then the source code should be made available by sending the request to source@kaspersky.com or the source code is supplied with the Software. If any Open-Source Software licenses require that the Rightholder provide rights to use, copy or modify an Open-Source Software program that are broader than the rights granted in this Agreement, then such rights shall take precedence over the rights and restrictions herein.
9. Intellectual Property Ownership
9.1. You agree that the Software and the authorship, systems, ideas, methods of operation, documentation and other information contained in the Software are proprietary intellectual property and/or the valuable trade secrets of the Rightholder or its partners and that the Rightholder and its partners, as applicable, are protected by civil and criminal law, and by the law of copyright, trade secret, trademark and patent of the Russian Federation, European Union and the United States, as well as other countries and international treaties. This Agreement does not grant You any rights to the intellectual property, including any Trademarks or Service Marks of the Rightholder and/or its partners ("Trademarks"). You may use the Trademarks only insofar as to identify printed output produced by the Software in accordance with accepted trademark practice, including identification of the Trademark owner’s name. Such use of any Trademark does not give you any rights of ownership in that Trademark. The Rightholder and/or its partners own and retain all right, title, and interest in and to the Software, including without limitation any error corrections, enhancements, updates or other modifications to the Software, whether made by the Rightholder or any third party, and all copyrights, patents, trade secret rights, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights therein. Your possession, installation or use of the Software does not transfer to you any title to the intellectual property in the Software, and you will not acquire any rights to the Software except as expressly set forth in this Agreement. All copies of the Software made hereunder must contain the same proprietary notices that appear on and in the Software. Except as stated herein, this Agreement does not grant you any intellectual property rights in the Software and you acknowledge that the License, as further defined herein, granted under this Agreement only provides you with a right of limited use under the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Rightholder reserves all rights not expressly granted to you in this Agreement.
9.2. You agree not to modify or alter the Software in any way. You may not remove or alter any copyright notices or other proprietary notices on any copies of the Software.
10. Governing Law
10.1. Except as provided in Section A Clauses 10.2 and 10.3 below, this Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance the laws specified below for the country or territory in which you obtained the Software, without reference to or application of conflicts of laws principles:
a. Russia. If you obtained the Software in Russia, the laws of the Russian Federation.
b. United States, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, and U.S. Virgin Islands. If you obtained the Software in the United States, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam or the U.S. Virgin Islands, the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA, provided, however, that the laws of the U.S. state where you live will govern claims under state consumer protection, unfair competition, or similar laws. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Rightholder and you expressly agree hereby to waive any right to a trial by jury.
c. Canada. If you obtained the Software in Canada, the laws of the Province of Ontario.
d. Mexico. If you obtained the Software in Mexico, the federal laws of the Republic of Mexico.
e. European Union (EU). If you obtained the Software in a member country of the EU, the laws of Germany.
f. Australia. If you obtained the Software in Australia, the laws of the State or Territory in which you obtained the license.
g. Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) and Macau SAR. If you obtained the Software in Hong Kong SAR or Macau SAR, the laws of Hong Kong SAR.
h. Taiwan. If you obtained the Software in Taiwan, the laws of Taiwan.
i. Japan. If you obtained the Software in Japan, the laws of Japan.
j. Any Other Country or Territory. If you choose to obtain the Software in another country, the substantive laws of the country where the purchase took place will be in effect.
10.2. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the mandatory laws or public policy of any country or territory in which this Agreement is enforced or construed prohibit the application of the law specified herein, then the laws of such country or territory shall instead apply to the extent required by such mandatory laws or public policy. Similarly, if you are an individual consumer, the provisions of Section A Clause 10.1 shall not affect any mandatory right you may have to take action in your country of residence under the laws of that country.
10.3. This Agreement shall not be governed by the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, the application of which is expressly excluded.
10.4. The End User is responsible for contacting only the Right Holder or their partners directly if having any problems with the product.
11. Period for Bringing Actions
11.1. No action, regardless of form, arising out of the transactions under this Agreement may be brought by either party hereto more than one (1) year after the cause of action has occurred, or was discovered to have occurred, except that an action for infringement of intellectual property rights may be brought within the maximum applicable statutory period.
12. Entire Agreement; Severability; No Waiver
12.1. This Agreement is the entire agreement between you and Rightholder and supersedes any other prior agreements, proposals, communications or advertising, oral or written, with respect to the Software or to the subject matter of this Agreement. You acknowledge that you have read this Agreement, understand it and agree to be bound by its terms. If any provision of this Agreement is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, void, or unenforceable for any reason, in whole or in part, such provision will be more narrowly construed so that it becomes legal and enforceable, and the entire Agreement will not fail on account thereof and the balance of the Agreement will continue in full force and effect to the maximum extent permitted by law or equity while preserving, to the fullest extent possible, its original intent. No waiver of any provision or condition herein shall be valid unless in writing and signed by you and an authorized representative of Rightholder provided that no waiver of any breach of any provisions of this Agreement will constitute a waiver of any prior, concurrent or subsequent breach. Rightholder’s failure to insist upon or enforce strict performance of any provision of this Agreement or any right shall not be construed as a waiver of any such provision or right.
13. Class Action Waiver and Binding Arbitration
13.1. If you reside in the United States, this Paragraph 13 applies to you. If a dispute, claim, or controversy of any kind with respect to any Kaspersky product, service, or any part of this agreement, arises between You and Kaspersky or You and a third-party affiliate of Kaspersky, and both parties couldn't resolve the dispute informally within a reasonable period of time, You and the other party agree to binding individual arbitration before the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA"), and not to sue in court in front of a judge or jury. Any proceedings, including but not limited to class action lawsuits, class-wide arbitrations, private attorney-general actions, the combining of individual actions without the consent of all parties, or any other legal procedure where someone acts in a representative capacity, are not permitted. By accepting this agreement, You agree not to begin or participate in any of the above mentioned class and multi-party proceedings, and any action pursued by You and remedy, if any awarded to You, must be on an individual basis, as provided in this paragraph. In the event of a binding individual arbitration proceeding between parties, a neutral arbitrator will decide and the arbitrator’s decision will be final except for a limited right of appeal under the FAA. If any conflict exists between this agreement and the rules of the AAA, this agreement shall govern.
13.2. Any dispute, claim, or controversy concerning Kaspersky's intellectual property rights, their enforcement, validity, etc., and any claim pertaining to any form of unauthorized use, including but not limited to theft and piracy, of any Kaspersky product or service are not subject to this arbitration clause.
14. Rightholder Contact Information
Should you have any questions concerning this Agreement, or if you desire to contact the Rightholder for any reason, please contact our Customer Service Department at:
AO Kaspersky Lab, 39A/3 Leningradskoe Shosse
Moscow, 125212 Russian Federation
Web site: https://www.kaspersky.com
SECTION B. CONDITIONS REGARDING DATA PROCESSING
Please read the conditions of the Section "Conditions regarding data processing". This Section describes data received from You and/or from Your Computer and the manner by which the Rightholder will process data for the performance of this License Agreement. If the Software is used within a legal entity or on the Computer used by several individuals, You must ensure that they have understood and accepted the conditions of the Section "Conditions regarding data processing" before they use the Software.
1. For the Rightholder and/or its Partners to fulfill their obligations under this License Agreement, the Rightholder needs to receive and process information described in Section B Paragraph 1 for the declared purposes. Such information may be considered personal according to applicable laws of certain countries.
· Providing You with the core functionality of the acquired Software.
The core functionality of the Software as described in the User Manual is to provide security during use of the Computer. To provide this core functionality, while You are using the Software the Rightholder has to receive from Your device and process information about the installed Software, the acquired license, the scanned objects, detected threats and infections on the Computer, information about the Computer and devices connected thereto, specifically:
- information about the Rightholder’s Software: its full version, identifier of software, type, locale language and operation state, version of the installed Software components and their operation state, information about the installed updates, the version of the protocol used to connect with the Rightholder’s services, unique identifier for the installation of the Software on the Computer;
- information about the software installed on the Computer: name of the software applications and software vendors, their operation state, registry keys and their values, information about files of the installed software components (checksums (MD5, SHA2-256, SHA1), name, path to the file on the Computer, size, version and the digital signature);
- information about scanned objects, detected objects and vulnerabilities: name of the object, size and its checksums (MD5, SHA2-256), the full path to the object on the Computer, code of the path template, file type code, file format identifier, executable file flag, the identifier of the scan task, flag of the reputation verification or file signature verification, name of the detected threat according to the Rightholder’s classification, the vulnerability ID in the database of vulnerabilities, the vulnerability danger class, identifiers for the anti-virus databases the Software used to make a decision, version, and type of the anti-virus database record, date and time of the most recent update of anti-virus databases installed on the computer;
- information about computer security scans: signs of automatic start-up and successful completion of scans, the scan progress icon, the type, the result of scan;
- information to determine the reputation of files and URL addresses: the checksum of the scanned file (MD5, SHA2-256), the normalized URL address at which the reputation is being requested, the connection’s protocol identifier and the number of the port being used;
- if a potentially malicious object is detected, information is provided about data in the processes’ memory: elements of the system object hierarchy (ObjectManager), data in UEFI BIOS memory, names of registry keys and their values;
- information about events in the systems logs: the event’s timestamp, the name of the log in which the event was found, type and category of the event, name of the event’s source and the event’s description;
- information about the last unsuccessful OS restart: the number of unsuccessful restarts since OS installation;
- information about hardware installed on the Computer: type, name, model name, firmware version, parameters of built-in and connected devices, unique identifier of the Computer with the installed Software;
- information about the versions of the operating system and installed updates, the word size, edition and parameters of the OS run mode, version and checksums (MD5, SHA2-256, SHA1) of the OS kernel file;
- information about the running applications and their modules: data about processes running on the system (process ID,PID), process name, information about the account the process was started from, the application and command that started the process, the sign of trusted program or process, the full path to the process's files, and the starting command line, level of the process’s integrity, a description of the product that the process belongs to (the name of the product and information about the publisher), as well as digital certificates being used and information needed to verify their authenticity or information about the absence of a file's digital signature), and information about the modules loaded into the processes (their names, sizes, types, creation dates, attributes, checksums (MD5, SHA2-256, SHA1), the paths to them on the Computer), PE file header information, names of packers (if the file was packed);
- information about network connections: version and checksums (MD5, SHA2-256, SHA1) of the file from which process that opened the port was started, the path to the process’s file and its digital signature, local and remote IP addresses, numbers of local and remote connection ports, connection state, timestamp of the port’s opening;
- trusted executable, suspicious executable, non-executable files or their parts;
- sectors involved in the process of booting the OS;
- portions of the Computer’s RAM;
- network traffic data packets;
- web pages and emails containing suspicious and malicious objects;
- description of the classes and instances of classes of the WMI repository;
- application activity reports.
Such application activity reports contain the following data about files and processes:
- the name, size and version of the file being sent, its description and checksums (MD5, SHA2-256, SHA1), file format identifier, the name of the file’s vendor, the product name to which the file belongs, full path on the Computer, template code of the file path, the creation and modification timestamps of the file;
- start and end date/time of the validity period of the certificate (if the file has a digital signature), the date and the time of the signature, the name of the issuer of the certificate, information about the certificate holder, the fingerprint, the certificate’s public key and appropriate algorithms, and the certificate’s serial number;
- the name of the account from which the process is running;
- checksums (MD5, SHA2-256, SHA1) of the name of the Computer on which the process is running;
- titles of the process windows;
- identifier for the anti-virus databases, name of the detected threat according to Rightholder’s classification;
- data about the installed license, its identifier, type and expiration date;
- local time of the Computer at the moment of the provision of information;
- names and paths of the files that were accessed by the process;
- names of registry keys and their values that were accessed by the process;
- URL and IP addresses that were accessed by the process;
- URL and IP addresses from which the running file was downloaded.
2. If You decide not to provide the information necessary for the Rightholder to perform its obligations under this License Agreement as indicated in the Section "Conditions regarding data processing", You do not agree to the conditions of this License Agreement. In this case, please discontinue installation and/or remove the Software.
3. When You provide Your data through the Software to the Rightholder, the Rightholder handles it according to its Privacy Policy, which describes, in particular, the manner by which the Rightholder protects Your data, where the Rightholder processes Your data, and your rights as the data subject. You can find and read its complete content at https://www.kaspersky.com/Products-and-Services-Privacy-Policy.
4. You accept and acknowledge that the Rightholder processes data under legal bases specified in Article 6 (1) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including contract and legitimate interest; therefore, in the event that your license expires, certain data already received may still be processed under legitimate interest for the purposes described in the Privacy Policy at https://www.kaspersky.com/Products-and-Services-Privacy-Policy, except where such legitimate interest is overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the User. If You wish to object to such data processing, You must inform us in the manner specified in the Privacy Policy. You acknowledge that when your license expires, the Rightholder will not receive new data from You.
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