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Pochta.ru Free E-Mail Service User Agreement

This document gives the terms of use of the free e-mail service Pochta.ru. Any user of our service must first read this agreement and accept all its provisions. By clicking the "I Accept" button at the end of this document and completing the registration procedure you agree with all the provisions of this agreement and receive a User Account.

1. User Account.

In order to open a mailbox, a user must complete the registration procedure. Filling in the registration form, the user is obliged to provide accurate and up-to-date information. After that, a user chooses a name of his/her mailbox, a password and a reference question to be asked if the user forgets the password. The user is fully responsible for keeping his/her password and reference question secret as well as for any messages sent from his/her mailbox. It is not recommended to choose a simple password or reference question, because if any of them is decoded by a wrongdoer, this will result in user losing his/her mailbox and mailing addresses related to it, and it will be very hard to prove your ownership of your mailbox in this situation. A user must promptly inform the Administrator about any unauthorized use of his/her mailbox.

2. Confidentiality of Information.

The Administration of Pochta.ru guarantees confidentiality of information given by a user at the moment of registration. The Administration makes an obligation not to read or change the contents of a user's mailbox and not to give access to users' mailboxes to other persons in any situation, except for cases specified by law. The user understands and accepts that Pochta.ru is responsible only for the servers of Pochta.ru. The Administration bears no responsibility for the security and confidentiality of users' information on the Internet outside the servers of Pochta.ru. The Administration is obliged to work on technical solutions to protect users' information outside the servers of Pochta.ru and to implement these solutions on the servers of Pochta.ru.

3. Storage of Correspondence.

The maximum total space currently provided for each mailbox is 15Mb. If a mailbox is full, and a letter is sent to such a mailbox, the mailing program will report a temporary mistake, which will allow other servers to retry sending this mail when a user processes the contents of his/her mailbox. The user agrees that Pochta.ru will not be responsible for any failure to receive correspondence if the user's mailbox is full.

4. Liability For Failures In the Service.

The user understands and accepts that the Pochta.ru bears no responsibility for possible failures in the service, loss of correspondence, guarantees for delivery of mail and loss of the user's address.

5. Users' Conduct.

The user makes an obligation not to use the service of Pochta.ru for any actions violating international laws. The user makes an obligation not to use the resources of Pochta.ru for mass dissemination of unwanted correspondence for advertising or any other purpose (spam). In cases of violation of these provisions of this agreement, the Administration can make a decision to delete or freeze the user's account.

6. Deletion Of User's Account.

The Administration can terminate your access to the Pochta.ru free e-mail services any time without prior notice. Additionally, Pochta.ru will delete your address and all user data if a user does not use the service for 6 calendar months since the moment of last authorization in the system via the Web (HTTP and HTTP/SSL protocols) or from a mailing program (protocols POP3, IMAP-4, POP3/SSL, IMAP4/SSL). E-mail traffic arising from using the "Forward" option, or from new letters being sent to the user's address, or from the user sending new letters using the SMTP and SMTPS protocols do not prove that the user's account is active and does not cancel the countdown that starts at the moment of last authorization. A user whose account has been deleted can go through the registration procedure again.

7.Amendments to the User Agreement.

The Administration reserves the right to change the above-mentioned conditions and to inform users about such changes by placing a new version of this agreement on the Pochta.ru web- site. Any new version of the agreement comes into force beginning the moment of its publication on the site. If a user continues using the Pochta.ru service, it is assumed that this user has accepted the terms of the new version of the agreement. The Administration of Pochta.ru makes an obligation to publish any new version of the agreement in the "Pochta.ru News" section. A user is obliged to regularly view this section and to read a new version of the agreement as soon as an announcement is made.