License agreement

  1. GENERAL POSITIONS
    1. This license agreement (hereinafter - the "Agreement") is between the Licensor -«Useful Knowledge Resources development» (hereinafter - the "Administrator") and Licensee - the user of the Site https://ua.lawyer/ (hereinafter - the "User") (which are hereinafter together called - the "Parties" and each individually - "Party") in the form of a public contract (offer), the full text of which is available at: https://ua.lawyer/pages/terms-of-service
    2. According to the article 633 of the Civil Code of Ukraine, this Agreement is a public contract, and, if its terms are accepted (acceptance), the User is obliged to fulfill all the conditions stipulated by the Agreement.
    3. This Agreement is concluded between the Administrator and the User in a simplified manner, and it is the contract of adhesion within the meaning of Article 634 of the Civil Code of Ukraine.
    4. Acceptance (complete and unconditional acceptance) of this Agreement is the fact of use of the site and/or registration of the User on the site https://ua.lawyer/ (hereinafter - the "Site") in the manner prescribed by the User Agreement (hereinafter - the "Rules"), the full the text of which is posted at the following address: https://ua.lawyer/pages/terms-of-service
    5. If the User for any reason does not agree with the conditions stipulated by the Agreement, in whole or partially he is obliged to stop using of the Site, delete his account and leave it. If the User continues to use the Site, it means that he is familiar with this Agreement, fully understands its terms, accepts and undertakes all the conditions fully without any exceptions and / or limitations.
    6. According to this Agreement the Administrator gives the User rights to use intellectual property that belongs to the Administrator in the manner and under the conditions specified in the Agreement.
  1. TERMS USED IN THE AGREEMENT
    1. In this Agreement, the terms are used in the following meanings:
      1. "Site» (https://ua.lawyer/)) - an online resource, consisting of a set of software codes running on the ECM, and the information placed in them by the Administrator and / or Users. The site is located in the informational system, providing the access to such information at the Internet network address (domain name): https://ua.lawyer/) (including all levels of the specified domain as functioning at the date of acceptance by the User of this Agreement, run and introduced in operation programs for the entire period of its validity).
      2. "Administrator" - «Useful Knowledge Resources development», as well as its representatives and / or other entities or persons to whom the rights of the Administrator can be transmitted by the separate arrangements.
      3. "User" - an individual who under the current legislation of Ukraine on his own or through the legal representatives has the right to be a party to this Agreement and to implement the rights and obligations under the Agreement, as well as a physical-person - a private entrepreneur or a legal entity on behalf of whom the representative acts, whose powers are properly described.
      4. "Additional services" - the special status of the User, informative materials (publishing), VLs, and other program codes which are described in this Agreement and are executed on the ECM as a part of Programs and perform some additional features of the Site.
      5. "ECM" - electronic counting machines, including, but not only, personal computers, laptops, tablets, mobile phones, smart phones, other devices and technical equipments that can perform and execute the program codes.
      6. "Program" - is a set of data and instructions (program codes) presented in the objective form, running on the ECM, and in the result of the execution of which audio-visual displays are created and certain functions of the Site are performed which are responsible for the functioning of the whole site.
      7. "Application" - a program (program codes), or a set of programs (program codes) of the ECM, which is executed as the part of the Programs and visually presented to the User in a variety of interactive visual services that can be used by the User in the addition to the basic functionality of the Site. The right of using the application can be provided by the Administrator free or not free, under the terms of this Agreement.
      8. "Special status of the User" – is a kind of additional services - Lawyer, Advocate, Notary, Private enforcement agent, as well as others provided by the Agreement, which, in comparison with the usual status of the User, has additional rights and facilities provided by this Agreement.
      9. "Information materials" - a variety of Additional services -Publications and others provided by the Agreement, the legal status and conditions of the use of which are determined by this Agreement.
      10. "UKRD" - the program codes which are executed as a part of Programs on the Website, which serve as a universal standard unit of volume measurement of using rights of the certain additional services. The right of using UKRD is provided by the Administrator under the terms of this Agreement.
      11. "Lawyer" - the special status of the User - program codes which are executed as a part of the Programs on the Site that allow the User to create, edit and publish on the Site Information materials, determine the conditions of access of other Users to these materials, including the rules of changing into the UKRD as well as other opportunities provided by this Agreement.
      12. " Advocate " - the special status of the User - program codes which are executed as a part of the Programs on the Site that allow the User to create, edit and publish on the Site Information materials, determine the conditions of access of other Users to these materials, including the rules of changing into the UKRD as well as other opportunities provided by this Agreement.
      13. "Notary" - the special status of the User - program codes which are executed as a part of the Programs on the Site that allow the User to create, edit and publish on the Site Information materials, determine the conditions of access of other Users to these materials, including the rules of changing into the UKRD as well as other opportunities provided by this Agreement.
      14. "private enforcement agent " - the special status of the User - program codes which are executed as a part of the Programs on the Site that allow the User to create, edit and publish on the Site Information materials, determine the conditions of access of other Users to these materials, including the rules of changing into the UKRD as well as other opportunities provided by this Agreement.
      15. "Publication" - information materials - program codes that are executed as a part of the Programs on the Site which give the Publicator the opportunity of the creation, distribution and publication of the information on the Site for getting acquainted with it other Users, with the definition of the terms of such acquaintance, including the possibility of gaining access to this information with the opportunity of changing into UKRD.
    2. Other terms that are used in this Agreement are used within the meaning of the Rules.
  1. LEGAL RELATIONSHIPS OF PARTIES
    1. This Agreement defines conditions of granting the right of using the Programs by the User. This Agreement also applies to the relations connected with the rights and interests of the third parties who are not Users of the Site but whose rights and interests may be affected in the result of actions of the Site’s Users.
    2. The subject of this Agreement is to provide by the Administrator the right of using the Program by the User under a simple non-exclusive license. In addition to this Agreement, to the agreement between the Administrator and the User all special documents controlling the providing of certain functions and opportunities of the Site which are placed in the free access in the relevant Site’s sections on the Internet are included.
    3. The User is obliged to get acquainted with the conditions of the Agreement before to continue the use of the Site and to register on it.
    4. This Agreement can be changed and/or complemented by the Administrator in the one-sided order without some special notification. This Agreement is an open and public document. The current version of the Agreement is available on the Internet at: https://ua.lawyer/pages/terms-of-service Users are required regularly to check the conditions of the Agreement for the changes and / or additions. Continuation of using the Web-site by the User after the making alteration and/or additions in this Agreement means an acceptance and consent by the User with such changes and/or additions.
    5. The User in accordance with this Agreement has the right to:
      1. interact with other Users by using of the Programs.
      2. use Programs in accordance with their setting and functional possibilities.
      3. reproduce and use the Applications in accordance with their functional setting.
      4. use Additional services on the retribution terms, in the order prescribed by the Agreement.
  1. The User in accordance with this Agreement has not the right to:
    1. reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, distribute, trade or resell the right to use and / or the Programs themselves for any purpose, except when such actions are permitted under the terms of this Agreement.
    2. spread beyond the site for commercial or non-commercial purposes audiovisual and / or graphical displays, presented in the Program, as well as any elements of design or user’s interface, without the written permission of the Administrator or other relevant right holders to perform these actions.
    3. use the Programs in other ways not provided by this Agreement, and being beyond the ordinary process of the functioning of Programs.
  2. The right to use Programs and Applications, except for certain Additional Services and Applications under the Agreement, is provided by the Administrator to the User free of charge, under this Agreement, on the terms of a simple non-exclusive license from the date of registration of the User on the Site, or from the beginning of using the Site.
  3. The right of using the Programs is given by the administrator to the User for the term of this Agreement, if only the exhausting of the given volume of rights will not come earlier.
  4. Money paid to the Administrator by the User under this Agreement for the receiving of rights to use certain Additional Services and / or Applications, including on account of UKRD, is the licensed reward of Administrator under this Agreement.
  5. The User guarantees the Administrator that he has the right freely to dispose the funds selected by him for paying for the right to use Additional Services and / or Applications, without violating the laws of Ukraine and / or the law of any other country, the citizen of which the User is, and the rights of third parties. The Administrator does not carry the responsibility for a possible damage to the third persons and/or other Users, caused as a result of using by User of not belonging to him monetary resources.
  6. The exclusive right of distribution of Additional Services and Appendices, except for the cases which are directly provided by the Agreement, belongs to the Administrator.
  7. In case of disputable, not clear situations, or the direction to the User of any proposals from the third parties related to the payment of using Additional Services and/or Applications, or placements of such announcements and offers on the Internet, the User is obliged immediately to notify on it the Administrator.
  8. If it will be set by the Administrator, that the User gets the access to Additional services from the third parties, the Administrator has the right either to suspend, or to limit, or to stop the right of using the Programs by the User.
  9. In case if in the result of a technical mistake or failure of functioning of the Site or any of its elements, or conscious activities of the User he got the access to Additional Services without buying the right of using these services, in accordance with this Agreement, the User agrees immediately to report this fact to the Administrator and to pay the cost of using such Additional services, or independently to remove all consequences of their illegal use. Thus Administrator has the right independently, without notification of the User, to remove such consequences.

  10. RIGHTS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
    1. All Programs are objects of exclusive rights of the Administrator and other owners, all rights for these objects are protected.
    2. Except the cases established by the present Agreement, and also the current legislation of Ukraine, Programs can't be copied (reproduced), processed, widespread, published, downloaded, transferred, sold or otherwise used in whole or in part without the preliminary permission, except when the right holder clearly expressed his consent to the free use of Programs by any person.
    3. The use of the Programs by the User, the access to which is received only for personal non-commercial using, is allowed on condition of preservation of all signs of authorship or other notices of authorship, saving the author's name unchanged, preserving the program and / or its parts unchanged.
    4. Any use of Programs, except permitted in the present Agreement or in case of obviously expressed consent of the owner to such using, without preliminary written permission of owner, is strictly forbidden.
    5. If other is not explicitly established in the present Agreement, nothing in the Agreement can be considered as the transfer of exclusive rights to Programs and/or any of their parts.
  1. GENERAL ORDER OF USING THE PROGRAMS
    1. Each User receives the right to use Programs from the moment of registration on the Site, in the order provided by the present Agreement, Rules, and also other documents which regulate an order of using the Site.
    2. The User can use possibilities of Programs in the form and volume which is available by the functionality of the Site in each separate case.
    3. The administrator has the right to change functionality, and also technical capabilities of any Program unilaterally at any time. Thus, the User has the right to use Programs on the Site only in the form in which they are available during the concrete period of time.
    4. Independent changing or the requirement of changing of opportunities of Programs by the User is forbidden and it isn't considered by the Administrator.
    5. Each User from the moment of registration on the Site will automatically gain the access to his own personal page, which displays all the information related to the Site.
    6. For the convenience of using the Programs, as well as the information, the functionality of the Site may be divided into sections.
    7. If other is not displayed on the Site, the default user can use on the personal page the following sections of the Site:
      1. "Lawyers" - a section with separate subdivisions of Users with a special status: Lawyer, Advocate, Notary, Private enforcement agent, with the possibility of searching by specified parameters.
      2. "publications" - the section in which text messages, photos, videos, audio recordings are displayed which are placed by the Users from the list of "friends" on the personal pages.
      3. «A blog» - is a chapter which represent information about an user and his activities in the Site, using of addictional services and other functions of the Site.
      4. "messages" - the section that displays the incoming and outgoing message of the User by means of which the User has the opportunity to send the text message to other User of the Site and/or to receive the text message from other User.
      5. "events" - section, which displays a list of events created by other Users and / or Administrator with the ability of searching by the specified parameters and adding individual events to the selected lists of Users.
    8. All the functionality of the Site and Programs that are not specified in the Agreement are used in accordance with the general principles of this Agreement with the features in the order and manner in which they are available on the Site.
  1. THE ORDER OF USING ADDITIONAL SERVICES
    1. The usage of UKRD.
      1. From the moment of the registration on the Site the User can get the right to use UKRD.
      2. Acquired User’s UKRD are credited to his personal account, which starts up automatically at the time of registration of the User on the Website, and it is bound to his personal page.
      3. The acquisition of the right of using UKRD is carried out by the User in the order established by the Administrator in a special section of the site "Payments", which is located in the User's settings.
      4. The cost of one Vel is indicated on the Site at the time of the purchase. The size of the cost of one Vel can be changed unilaterally by the Administrator at any time without the prior notice of the User. Thus the cost of the before acquired UKRD remains unchanged.
      5. The Administrator has the right unilaterally at any time to establish and change the minimum and / or maximum amount of UKRD, which can be purchased by the customer at a time and / or for a certain fixed period of time.
      6. The moment of granting the right to use UKRD by the User is the moment of enrollment of the certain amount of UKRD into the User’s personal account on the Site.
      7. In the section "Payments" the User can find the information about purchases he has already done.
      8. Users can exchange UKRD for the right of getting the access to the Users’ informational materials (Publications) with the special status in the order provided by the functionality of the Site and under the conditions specified for the corresponding informational materials.
      9. The User can exchange UKRD for the right of using Applications which are available on the Site in the order and on the conditions defined by the Administrator or other legal owner and specified in the special section of the Site providing the opportunity of the exchanging UKRD for the right of using Applications.
      10. The User can exchange UKRD for the right of using other Additional Services which are available on the Site in the order and on the conditions defined by the Administrator or other legal owner and specified in the special section of the Site providing the opportunity of the exchanging UKRD for the right of using other Additional Services.
      11. The User is obliged to keep the documents confirming the payment of his rights to use UKRD for the entire time of using of the Website, and to provide such documents, as well as information about the circumstances of the User’s corresponding payment at the request of the Administrator.
  1. Use of the special status of the Users.
    1. The functionality of the Site provides the following special status of the Users: Lawyer, Advocate, Notary, Private enforcement agent.
    2. Each User from the moment of registration on the Site has the opportunity to receive the special status of Lawyer, Advocate, Notary, Private enforcement agent. For obtaining the corresponding status, the User may have to indicate additional information required for the receiving of the status, as well as to perform other actions provided by the functionality of the Site.
    3. The special status of the User works in parallel with the usual status. Each User with the special status has the opportunity to use all the functionality of the Site which is available to the ordinary User.
    4. The Administrator has the right to demand from the User the scanned copies of the identity documents, as well as documents confirming the User's authority to represent the interests of others. In the case of not providing the demanded documents by the User, the Administrator has the right to block the User’s possibility of using of the special status.
    5. The User with the special status has the right to establish informative materials in the form of Publications using the Site's functionality
    6. Users with the special status except the rights and duties determined by the present Agreement have the rights and responsibilities provided by the Rules and other documents for ordinary Users.
  1. The order of using of the Information materials.
    1. The functionality of the Site is provided by the following types of information materials: Publications.
    2. Публікація can be created by the Lawyer, Advocate, Notary, Private enforcement agent using the functionality of the Site.
    3. Users can access the Publication free of charge.
    4. Publications can consist of the text information, images, audio-and videos.
    5. Publications cannot contain links to other sites.
    6. All questions of creation of Publications, and also the access to them are carried out in the order provided by the present Agreement and the functionality of the Site.
  1. RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PARTIES. RESTRICTION OF THE RESPONSIBILITY
    1. The User uses Programs at his own risk. The use of Programs is carried out being able "as is".
    2. The Administrator is not responsible for any illegal actions of the Users or the third parties.
    3. The Administrator is not responsible for actions and / or remarks of the User published by means of using the Programs. The Administrator is not responsible for the behavior of Users when they use the Programs.
    4. The Administrator is not responsible for the loss by the User of the possibility of access to his account on the Site.
    5. The Administrator is not responsible for incomplete, inaccurate, incorrect indication by the User his data when using the Program.
    6. The Administrator doesn't exchange UKRD on cash or non-cash money or values and/or return the money paid by the User for buying UKRD.
    7. The Administrator doesn't make an exchange of one Additional service to other purchased by the User.
    8. The Administrator doesn't refund to the User the expenses connected with the acquisition of his rights of using Additional services including in the case of staying or the termination of the access to the Site, including in the case of violation of Rules by the User and/or the suspension or the termination of the present Agreement on any bases.
    9. The Administrator doesn't guarantee that Programs will meet subjective requirements and expectations of the User.
    10. The Administrator doesn't guarantee that the process of using Programs will proceed continuously, quickly, without technical failures, reliably and without errors.
    11. The Administrator does not guarantee that the results that may be obtained using the Program will be unmistakable.
    12. The Administrator doesn't guarantee that Programs will be available and can be used round the clock, in some particular time or during any period of time.
    13. The Administrator is not responsible for the occurrence of the direct and indirect damage to the User or other third parties caused by the use of Programs or inability to use the Program.
    14. The Administrator is not responsible for the occurrence of the direct and indirect damage to the User or other third parties caused by the unauthorized access of any third parties to the User's personal information, including the account of the User, the User's personal account on the Site.
    15. Under any circumstances the responsibility of the Administrator before the User is limited to the sum of 1 000 (one thousand) hryvnia.
    16. The Administrator isn't obliged to provide to the User any documents and other proofs showing violation of conditions of the present Agreement by the User as a result of which the User’s access to the Site is partially or completely refused.
    17. The User understands, accepts and agrees that Programs can provide various sound and/or video effects, and also information which under the certain circumstances can cause in people inclined to epileptic or other disorders of the nervous character, an aggravation of the specified conditions, and/or other problems with the health, and the User guarantees that he doesn't suffer from the specified frustration and has the opportunity fully to use Programs for the health reasons
  1. FINAL CLAUSES
    1. The user has the right to use Programs in the ways described in the present Agreement on the entire territory of Ukraine, and also territories of other Countries in which they are available within the usual process of functioning of the Site and their use isn't directly forbidden by standards of the current legislation.
    2. The present Agreement is regulated and interpreted according to the current legislation of Ukraine. The questions which aren't settled by the Agreement are settled according to the current legislation of Ukraine.
    3. If the User in accordance with the laws of his country is forbidden to use the Programs online or there are other legal restrictions, including age limits for such Programs, the user has no right to use the Programs. In that case the User independently takes responsibility for the use of Programs on the territory of his country and violation of the local legislation.
    4. The User has no right to use any components of the Program out of the Site without the preliminary written agreement of the Administrator.
    5. The User agrees and completely recognizes that all exclusive rights for the Programs belong to the Administrator or the third parties if other is not specified in the Agreement in an explicit form or on the Site.
    6. The User understands, accepts and agrees that any elements of Programs are protected by copyright. In spite of the fact that the User may use the Program while using the Site, such use of Programs isn't and can't be regarded under no circumstances as the transferring and/or a concession of an exclusive right concerning the specified Programs from the Administrator to the User.
    7. The present Agreement doesn't provide a concession of any exclusive rights or issue of the exclusive license for any components of Programs from the Administrator to the User.
    8. In case of any disputes and disagreements connected with the execution of this Agreement, Users and Administrators have to do their best to settle them through negotiations between them. If disputes cannot be resolved through negotiations, the disputes will be resolved in the order established by the current legislation of Ukraine.
    9. The present Agreement works from the moment of acceptance of its conditions by the User and is valid within one (1) calendar year.
    10. This Agreement will be automatically extended for each next one (1) year, unless before the expiration of the term of the Agreement, the Administrator will not decide to change the principles of the present Agreement, to conclude a new agreement with the Users, to terminate the total or partial service of the Programs and the access to them, to terminate the present Agreement in regard to the Users and to terminate the access to the Programs in regard to the Users, as well as the User will decide to terminate the right to use the Program.
    11. The administrator has the right at any time without notice of the User and without the explanation to terminate the present Agreement in the unilateral extrajudicial order with the immediate termination of access and opportunity to use the Site and without the compensation of any expenses, losses or return received under the Agreement.
    12. The user has the right to terminate this Agreement in the unilateral extrajudicial order by deleting of the account and the personal page on the Site in the order provided by the special documents published on the Website.
    13. The present Agreement can be changed by the Administrator without any prior notice. Any changes in the Agreement which are unilaterally performed by the Administrator come into force from the moment of publication of such changes on the Site. The User undertakes to check the Agreement on the subject of changes. Failure in actions for the acquaintance with the Agreement by the User and / or modified version of the Agreement can't form the basis for non-execution by the User of the obligations and non-compliance by the User of the restrictions set by the Agreement.
    14. The present Agreement is made in Russian and can be provided to the User in other language. In case of a divergence of the Russian-language version of the Agreement and the version of the Agreement in other language, positions of the Russian-language version of the present Agreement are applied.
    15. If for one reason or another, one or several positions of the present Agreement are recognized invalid or not having validity, it has no impact on validity or applicability of other positions and the Agreement in general.
    16. Appeals, suggestions and complaints of individuals and legal entities to the Administrator in connection with this Agreement can be directed to the postal address of the Administrator specified in item 2.1.2. of the present Agreement.