Privacy agreement

What is «privacy»?

Privacy commitments apply to all information, which can be obtained by Yandex about its user during his/her activity with Yandex websites (services) and which may be in principle associated with such specific user. This agreement also applies to Yandex partner sites.

Receiving and using personal information

Yandex receives your personal information once you register as Yandex user or use some of our services or products, when you are logged on to Yandex websites and use our partners' services.

When you register with Yandex, we need your full name and some additional (optional) details. These may be necessary to restore your access if you forget your password.

Yandex will receive and log technical information from your browser automatically: IP, cookies and destination page address.

We will also require your e-mail to quickly and safely restore your password or to enable Yandex administration to contact you in case of emergency (for example, before deleting your account due to non-usage). Yandex will never use this e-mail address for sending any e-mails unless you intentionally subscribe.

All information received by Yandex will be used for the only purpose: make our services ultimately easy-to-use and valuable for our users.

Usage and disclosure of personal information

Yandex will never sell or disclose personal user information to any person.

Yandex is entitled to provide personal user information to third parties only subject to the following:

• You expressed your desire that such information be disclosed;
• This is necessary for you to be able to use the product or service you want;
• This is required by Russian or international law and/or authorities provided that process at law is followed;
• You are in breach of our End-user agreement or End-user agreement of one of Yandex partner projects.

Cookies

Yandex may save cookies on user's PC and use them at a later time.

Yandex provides access to cookies of Yandex projects to some companies, partners and advertising service. In this case, this document will not apply to usage of cookies by such companies, which is governed by the company itself.

Meanwhile, Yandex guarantees that no advertising service will be able to access cookies used by Yandex for our projects.

Updating and deleting information and user preferences

Yandex enables users to update their personal information or preferences at any time.

User can delete his/her personal data using «Remove registration» or «Modify personal data» options in Yandex Passport.

Security

Access to personal information of Yandex user and his/her preferences is password-protected.

Amending Privacy agreement

Yandex may amend this Privacy agreement. If material changes take place, Yandex will notify its users thereof.

Questions and comments

Shall you have any comments or questions regarding this Privacy agreement, please, let us know by contacting Yandex User Support Service.

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