Yandex.Navigator Mobile Program License Agreement

Please carefully read the following terms and conditions of the license agreement before using this program.

Any use of the program implies full and unconditional acceptance of the terms and conditions of this license agreement.

If you do not accept the license agreement in full, you may not use the program for any purpose.

1. General Provisions

1.1. This License Agreement (“the License”) sets the conditions for the use of the Yandex Navigator program ("the Program") for mobile devices and is made between any person using the Program (“the User”) and the company Yandex (as referred in User Agreement for Yandex Services), the owner of the exclusive right to the Program (“the Right Holder”).

1.2. By copying, installing it on his/her device or otherwise using the Program, the User expresses their full and unconditional agreement with all terms of the License and the License is deemed to be concluded.

1.3. The Program may only be used under the terms of this License. If the User does not fully accept the License terms and conditions, they may not use the Program for any purpose. Using the Program in violation (non-fulfillment) of any of the terms hereof is prohibited.

1.4. The User’s use of the Program on the terms of this License for personal non-commercial purposes is free of charge. Use of the Software on the terms and conditions and in a manner not covered by this License requires a separate agreement with the Right Holder.

1.5. When using the program, the User agrees that the following documents, the terms of which are fully applicable to the use of the Program, shall be an integral part of this License:

These documents (including any part thereof) may be unilaterally amended by the Right Holder without any prior notice. Revised versions of the documents shall take effect on the date of publication, unless otherwise stated in the new versions .

1.6. This License and all relationships connected with the use of the Program shall be subject to the law of habitual residence of the Right Holder. Any claims or lawsuits arising out of this License or use of the Program shall be submitted and reviewed by the court at the location of the Right Holder.

1.7. The Right Holder may provide to Users a translation of this License from English into other languages. However, in case of any conflict between the terms of the License in English and its translation, the Russian version of this License shall prevail and have legal effect.

1.8. The functions of the Program can be restricted, subject to the operation system of User’s device.

1.9. All or some functions of the Service can be unavailable or limited depending on the User’s region. Functions are deemed to be unavailable (limited) for the User from a certain region, if the User cannot use them explicitly. It is prohibited to use any technical and software-based methods to circumvent these limitations.

2. Rights to the Program

2.1. The Right Holder is the exclusive owner of the rights to the program.

3. License

3.1. The Right Holder shall free of charge and under a simple (non-exclusive) license grant to the User a non-transferable right to use the Program in all countries of the world in the following ways:

3.1.1. To use the Program as intended and to this end produce and install (run) it on a mobile device(s) of the User. The User may install the Program on an unlimited number of mobile devices.

3.1.2. To run and distribute the Program for non-commercial purposes (free of charge).

4. Restrictions

4.1. Except as expressly provided for in this License or the applicable laws, the User may not modify, decompile, disassemble, decrypt or perform other actions with the object code of the Program in order to gather information on the algorithms implemented in the Program, or create derivative works with the use of the Program, or to otherwise use (or authorize a third party to use) the Program, its components, map materials, other images and data stored by the Program on the User’s device, without a written consent.

4.2. The User may not run or distribute the Program for commercial purposes (including for a fee), including as part of a collection of software products without a written consent.

4.3. The User may not distribute the Program in a manner other than in which they received it, without a written consent.

4.4. The Program shall be used (including distributed) under the name of "Yandex Navigator". The User may not modify and/or delete the Program's name, the copyright mark (copyright notice) or other references to the Right Holder.

4.5. If the User launches Program with a plotted route or with indication of other parameters by using the functionality of third-party programs or performs a search by specifying site coordinates more than seven times a day or, if this limit has been exceeded systematically, more than three times a day, the Right Holder reserves a right to restrict the use of the Program functions for a 24-hour period beginning from the moment restrictions are imposed. A relevant warning will be displayed on the User's screen, explaining the functionality restriction and the reasons thereof. The User shall address the Right Holder to remove such restrictions including through the relevant Program function.

5. Terms of Use of Individual Functions of the Program

5.1. Certain functions of the Program require an active Internet connection. The User shall receive and pay at his/her discretion for such access in accordance with the terms and rates of his/her service or Internet access provider.

5.2. Cartographic materials, traffic (traffic congestion) database, traffic accident and road repair data along with intellectual property accessed through the Program (hereinafter referred to as "the Data") belong to the Right Holder and/or their owners specified in Clause 9 hereof. These materials are exclusively for the User's personal, non-commercial use, within the Program's functionality. When using the Data, the User shall comply with this License, as well as with all terms and conditions as set by the Yandex Maps Service Terms of Use (“the Terms”). Any recovery, copying, running, processing, dissemination, placement of the Data in the public domain (publication) on the Internet, any use of the Data in the mass media and/or for commercial purposes and any other use not expressly permitted by this License or the Terms shall be prohibited, unless a prior written consent of the Right Holder.

5.3. The User is hereby notified of and agrees that the Program will transmit to the Right Holder depersonalized data of the User’s location and traffic characteristics received from a GPS device, or on the User’s approximate location determined by an active cell of the communications service provider. This data is used to gather statistical information on the traffic status in order to provide User with the use of the Program and to perform the obligations under this License.

5.4. All of the User's personal information and any other data related to the use of the Program transmitted in accordance with this License will be stored and processed in accordance with the Privacy Policy (https://yandex.com.tr/legal/confidential).

5.5. The Program provides the following functions to the User:

  • Automatic route making on the maps indicating an optional route from the point of departure to the point of destination as may be specified by the User (“the Route/Routes”). In making the Route, the User may receive information on the length of the Route, the estimated time of travel as well as other characteristics of the Route;
  • Automatic Route calculation and the provision of the results thereof in any graphical and/or text form, performed subject to a) the current location of the object; b) the information on changes in speed or travel time of any Route section with respect to the values contained in the original data; c) the information on deviations from the calculated Route and so on;
  • Voice guidance along the Route, including, but not limited to, voice messages regarding the direction of travel along the Route, geographical names of the objects in the area, deviations from the calculated Route, changes in the speed or time of passing any part of the Route;
  • Storing trip statistics in the User’s Personal Account, subject to the User’s authorization in the Program through its account in Yandex services;
  • Use voice activation and search, inter alia, via voice assistant option, to make voice-activated queries, obtain an outline of the Route, its features, and other traffic moves. Voice-activated responses, including those received via voice assistant option, are generated automatically by indexing publicly available information and using Program data. The voice assistant’s responses unrelated to queries (in conversation mode) are generated automatically. Therefore, the Right Holder is not liable for the accuracy, relevance, and correctness of information the User obtained via this option;
  • Searching objects on the map with this search - depending on the User’s region - being implemented using Yandex search engine and the automatic display of search results on the map in the Program.

The User shall independently and fully bear all risks and responsibility for choosing and following the Routes. The Right Holder does not guarantee the Route's accuracy, optimality, relevance and/or the compliance of the Route with the traffic regulations and shall not be responsible for the User’s Routes decisions.

5.6. The Program provides to the User an option to independently and at their own choice add user data, including signs, tags, text labels, messages, etc., on the maps (“the User Objects”). Application of the User Objects does not modify the original data and are for the User's convenience only.

The User shall independently and fully bear all risks and responsibility for the selection of the location of User Objects, legal compliance, content, completeness, correctness and accuracy of the description of User Objects. The Right Holder shall have no responsibility for the designation and description of any User Objects and does not confirm nor deny whether it complies with the law or is accurate. The Right Holder shall reserve the right, without notice and at its sole discretion, to delete any User Object or a set of User Objects, if its description violates the applicable laws, contains profanity, as well as in other cases when the designation and/or description of a User Object and/or dissemination of links to User Objects violates the License, the terms of use of other Right Holder’s services or the documents referred to in cl. 1.5 of this License. This also applies to protect the interests of the Right Holder, the users of the Right Holder’s service and those of other third parties. The Right Holder does not guarantee the safety of data on any User Objects in any volume and/or during any term, including in case of Program/Data/Yandex Maps updates.

5.7. The Android, iOS Program versions are based in part on The Independent JPEG Group’s JPEG software created by the Independent JPEG Group.

5.8. As part of the use of the Program, the User may have access to the functionality of viewing offers from partners (gas stations), finding gas stations/complexes, ordering fuel or other goods/services, and using other functions provided by Yandex Zapravki LLC under the Terms of Use of the "Yandex Zapravki" Service (https://yandex.ru/legal/zapravki_termsofuse/), which fully apply to the use of the corresponding functional capabilities in the Program by the User.

Information about fuel or other goods/services is provided by partners (gas stations). For more detailed information about the offered fuel or goods/services, the User can contact the partners (gas stations) directly.

When placing an order, the User makes a contract with the partners (gas stations) regarding the purchase of fuel or goods/services. All rights and obligations under the contract(s) concluded with the user arise directly with the partner (gas station). Yandex is not a party to the contracts concluded by users with partners (gas stations) when using the functional capabilities of the Program.

Yandex is not responsible for the content or relevance of information provided by partners (gas stations) about fuel or goods/services, including information about the cost of fuel or goods/services and the availability of fuel or goods/services at a specific point in time. Yandex is not responsible for financial and any other transactions performed by the User and partners (gas stations), as well as for the quality of fuel or goods/services and any consequences of the User's purchase of fuel or goods/services.

6. Responsibility under License

6.1. The Program (including the Data) is provided “as is”. The Right Holder does not guarantee the error-free and uninterrupted performance of the Program or its components and/or functions, fitness of the Program for particular purposes and the User’s expectations, reliability, accuracy, completeness and timeliness of the Data and provides no other warranties not expressly mentioned herein.

6.2. The Right Holder shall not be liable for any direct or indirect consequences of any use or inability to use the Program (including the Data) and/or damage caused by the User and/or third parties as a result of any use, non-use or inability to use the Program (including the Data) or its individual components and/or functions, including due to possible errors or failures in the Program, except as expressly provided by law.

6.3. All issues and claims related to the use/inability to use the Program or Data and a possible violation of law and/or the rights of third parties by the Program or Data shall be submitted through the feedback form at to https://yandex.com.tr/support/m-maps/tr/troubleshooting.

7. Updates/New Versions of the Software and third-party software

7.1. This License shall apply to all future updates/new versions of the Program. By installing the update/new version of the Program, the User accepts the terms of this License applicable to the respective updates/new versions of the Program, if the installation of the upgrade/new version of the Program is not supported by other license agreement.

8. Changes in the Terms of This License

8.1. This License Agreement may be changed by the Right Holder unilaterally. A notice to the User of the changes in the terms of this License shall be published on the page https://yandex.com.tr/legal/navigator_mobile_agreement. These changes in the terms of the License Agreement shall come into effect on the date of publication, unless otherwise specified in the respective publication.

9. Details of Right Holders and Holders of Information:

The list of the right holders and the owners of the information being used can be found at: https://yandex.com.tr/legal/right_holders.

Publication date: 29.01.2025