Terms of Use of Yango

1. General Provisions

1.1. These Terms (hereinafter referred to as the Terms) constitute an offer of Yango (hereinafter referred to as Company) to an Internet user (hereinafter referred to as the User) to use Yango service (hereinafter referred to as the Service) in Ethiopia. The list of the companies, representing Yango on the respective territory in Ethiopia are available at:https://yango.com/legal/ethiopia_fr_partners.

1.2. The use of the Service by the User is governed by these Terms.

1.3. By starting to use the Service / its certain functions, the User is deemed to have accepted these Terms, in full, without any reservations and exceptions. If the User disagrees with any provisions of the Terms the User may not use the Service.

1.4. Company may, at any time without notice to the User, amend provisions hereof. The current version hereof is available at: https://yango.com/legal/yango_termsofuse. The User bears a risk of failure to review a new version of the Terms and other Service Regulatory Documents. Any continued use of the Service after the Terms or Regulatory Documents have been changed will qualify as the acceptance of the new version.

1.5. The User shall stop using the Service, if he or she disagrees with any amendments to these Terms made as prescribed by cl. 1.4 hereof.

1.6. The Service enables the User to place information, free of charge, on the User’s potential demand for passenger and baggage transportation services or other services, including delivery services (if available in the country via Services) of available transportation providers, look through offers of organizations providing services in the said fields, and search for such offers using parameters set by the User. All currently available functions of the Service along with any developments and/or newly added functions are subject to these Terms.

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT COMPANY DOES NOT PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES OR FUNCTION AS A CARRIER AND THAT ALL SUCH TRANSPORTATION SERVICES ARE PROVIDED BY THIRD PARTY – TRANSPORTATION PROVIDERS, WHO ARE NOT EMPLOYED BY COMPANY OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES. THE RELATIONS BETWEEN YOU AND TRANSPORTATION PROVIDERS ON THE ACQUISITION OF SERVICES ARE REGULATED BY RELEVANT AGREEMENTS BETWEEN YOU AND TRANSPORTATION PROVIDER, COMPANY IS NOT THE PARTY OF THESE AGREEMENTS.

1.7. Depending on the User’s region, any or all functions of the Service can be inaccessible or limited. Functions are deemed to be inaccessible (limited) for the User from a certain region, if such User is unable to use them explicitly. It is prohibited to apply any technical and software-based methods to circumvent these limitations. Provisions hereof governing functions of the Service inaccessible (limited) for the User will apply until such functions become explicitly accessible for the User. Information on the accessibility of functions of the Service in a certain region shall be provided to the User upon his or her request sent to the Company.

1.8. For the avoidance of doubt, the Company does not provide passenger and baggage transportation services or other services, including delivery services, and help desk services.

1.9. All conversations the User holds with the support team and drivers of transportation providers - partners of the Service can be recorded to control quality and improve services. Audio recording in the car is used only in exceptional cases of threats, conflicts or danger is a driver using the conflict (or SOS) button (in case such option is available in the region) subject to both user and driver receiving a voice notification on the beginning of the recording.

1.10. By using the Service, the User consents to receive promotional messages including emails and messages. The User may unsubscribe from promotional messages by using relevant functions of the Service or following instructions specified in a promotional message received.

2. Use of the Service. Certain Functions of the Service

2.1. The Service is provided to the User for personal non-commercial use, free of charge

2.2. Information on passenger and baggage transportation services or other services (hereinafter referred to as the Information) is provided by third parties (partners)- transportation providers. For more information about the services offered (including Wi-Fi access point availability in the cabin, in-cabin photo / video surveillance by the Company's partner, and other information), the User may contact the partners of the Service - transportation providers or provide their contact details through the functions of the Service for the partners of the Service to independently contact the User and provide their with information about the services offered.

2.3. The Company shall not be held liable for the content and/or relevance of information provided by the partners of the Service - transportation providers, including information on the cost and current availability of the transportation providers’ benefits. The User shall independently (without the participation of the Company) discuss the acquisition of services with the transportation providers in accordance with the partners’ rules on the provision of services. The Company shall not be held liable for financial and any other transactions effected by the User and the transportation providers and for any consequences of the acquisition of the transportation providers’ services by the User.

2.4. The User may access functions of rating the services of the Service partners - transportation providers and commenting / leaving feedback on the Service and/or services of the transportation providers. Users ratings and feedback are posted on the Service website and can be available on third-party websites. The Company reserves the right to refuse to post any ratings / feedback and delete / block, at any time, any rating / feedback the User posted, at own discretion and without giving any reason. Through the functionality of the Service, the User may also access the aggregated information about the ratings made by the Driver, which is calculated based on the average of the last 40 rides’ ratings. Additional information about the functionality is available via the link - https://yango.com/am_et/lp/index

2.5. The Company reserves the right, at own discretion, to limit user access to the Service (or to certain functions of the Service, if technologically feasible) using the User's account or block the User’s entire account upon multiple violations hereof or take any other measures against the User to respect legislative requirements or third-party rights and legitimate interests.

2.6. The price of a given trip indicated in the service may change depending on actual time and distance of the ride, as well as due to stops during the ride at the passenger's request, the destination being changed after the start of the ride, multiplier applied due to Rush Hour pricing, or in other cases specified in the Terms of Use, When demand for transportation or other services is higher (including days before holidays, days of mass events and other cases), tariffs of the Service partners can be raised. The Company informs of higher tariffs by posting the relevant notice on the Service website https://yango.com or otherwise as the Company thinks fit, inter alia, by sending an information message to the User’s mobile phone number or via mobile application.

2.7. Passenger and baggage transportation services as per tariffs available in the Service are rendered by different types of vehicles. Vehicles are ranked automatically based on vehicle performance data provided by the partners of the Service.

2.8. If the Service supports ordering rides in advance (hereinafter, "pre-ordered rides") in certain Service tariffs, the order will be available for the Service partner to confirm near the time specified by the User in the order (no earlier than 30 minutes before the pre-ordered ride is scheduled to start). The cost of the pre-ordered ride will be calculated and indicated in the Service when the ride is ordered. The price may change in circumstances listed on the Service website https://yango.com.

2.9. The User authorizes the Company to process personal information (including personal details) of the User of Service (Yango), to transfer personal information of the User to Company’s partners (transportation providers), including to carry out cross-border transfer and to process personal information for Company’s partners to provide services to the User in the Service under the terms and for the purposes determined in the Privacy Policy available at: https://yango.com/legal/yango_privacy_notice.

2.10. In the circumstances when there is no Vehicles available in a User’s location (as specified in the Request), the User may be offered to order a Vehicle from a more distant location for a fee (the ‘Paid Arrival Offer’). The User may accept or decline the Paid Arrival Offer at his or her discretion. If the User accepts the Paid Arrival Offer, the price of the Paid Arrival Offer will be added to the Transfer Fee and will be calculated based on (1) the distance between the relevant Vehicle’s actual location and the User’s location, and (2) the time required for such Vehicle to arrive from its actual location to the User’s location.

3. Terms and restrictions of marketing benefits and campaigns

3.1. Terms and restrictions presented in connection with advertisements and campaigns of Yango are always applied to such advertisements and campaigns. Additionally, to each advertisement or campaign are applied the terms and restrictions concerning it, including the Rules of Referral program for Users, presented in address https://yango.com/legal/et.

4. Governing law and dispute resolution

4.1. These Terms of Use of Yango arising out of or in connection with these Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with law of Ethiopia.

4.2. Any disputes arising out or in connection with these Terms of Use of Yango shall be decided by the competent court in Ethiopia.

5. Customer Service

5.1. If you have any questions about the Service, please email support@yango.com.

5.2. By handling Users’ complaints concerning the quality of passenger and baggage transportation services provided by the transportation providers, Yango is not undertaking any responsibility other than making recommendations to the transportation providers. Transportation providers freely decide to apply or not such recommendation solely by their own discretion.

6. Details of the Company

Details of the CompanyThe details of the companies, representing Yango on the respective territory in Ethiopia are available at:https://yango.com/legal/ethiopia_fr_partners.

Date of publication: 11.03.2025

This document has been published upon the request and on behalf of the companies, listed above.

Previous version of the document: https://yango.com/legal/yango_termsofuse/12092023