Terms of Use of Yango Maps

1. General Provisions

1.1. MLU Africa B.V. (hereinafter referred to as MLU Africa) invites an Internet user (hereinafter referred to as the "User") to use Yango Maps service (hereinafter referred to as the "Service").

1.2. 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 of the provisions of the said documents, the User may not use the Service.

1.3. The current version of the Terms is always available at: at: https://yango.com/legal/yangomaps_termsofuse. MLU Africa may amend these Terms at any time without notice to the User. Revised Terms shall come into effect once posted online at the specified URL, unless otherwise stipulated in revised Terms.

1.4. If MLU Africa has made any amendments to these Terms according to the procedure specified in Clause 1.3 hereof, and the User disagrees with these amendments, the User shall stop using the Service.

1.5. The Service enables the User to gain free access to updated mapping and other reference information. All currently available functions of the Service along with any developments and/or newly added options are subject to these Terms.

1.6. By using the Service, the User consents to receiving informational notices necessary for service provision and essential updates. The User may unsubscribe from the notices, including but not limited to advertising messages, by using relevant functions of the Service or following instructions specified in a 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.

2.2. The Service functionally enables the User to add, at his or her choice and discretion, user information, including signs, marks, inscriptions, messages, etc. (hereinafter referred to as the "User Objects") on the maps. Insertion of the User Objects does not modify source data and is only acceptable to ensure service usability. The User may create, store and make freely available online links to the User Objects. Other users of the Service may also distribute links to the User Objects.

2.3. The User shall fully and solely bear all risks and responsibility for choosing the location of the User Objects, compliance with the laws, the contents, integrity, accuracy and reliability of descriptions of added User Objects. MLU Africa shall bear no responsibility for the designation and description of any User Object, shall not confirm or disprove the legislative compliance, accuracy and reliability of the description of any User Object. MLU Africa reserves the right, without notice and at its discretion, to delete any User Object or a set of User Objects, if the information in its description conflicts with applicable laws, contains abusive language, and in other cases when the designation and/or the description of the User Objects and/or the distribution of a link to the User Objects violates these Terms, and to protect interests of MLU Africa, service users, and other third parties.

2.4. The Service functionally enables the User to automatically plot routes on the maps showing an optional route from the point of departure to the destination indicated by the User (hereinafter referred to as the "Route"). The routing does not modify source data and is only acceptable to make the Service convenient for the User.

The user shall independently and entirely bear all risks and responsibility for choosing the Route and following the chosen Route. MLU Africa does not guarantee the correctness, optimality, relevance and/or compliance of the Routes with traffic rules and shall not be responsible for the User's choice of the Route and the consequences of following it. The User shall take all measures of care and caution before choosing any Route and during its use.

2.5. The service may contain information about the current level of traffic congestion, a short-term forecast of congestion, as well as information about the average traffic congestion during the day.

The information available about traffic congestion is based on an analysis of anonymized data and shall be for reference only.

The color display of the road congestion level used in the Service shall not be an indication of the status of the road, the possibility of its free use, actual functioning and passability, and shall be only an indicator of an approximate degree of its congestion in the current period of time (green stands for “open”, yellow for “medium congestion”, and red for “high congestion”).

2.8. The Service uses items of intellectual property copyrighted to relevant right holders and information provided by its holders.

3. Use of information on organizations

3.1. The Service functionally enables the User to place, view and search information on organizations located at addresses displayed in the Service, including addresses, names, contact details, opening hours, services rendered / goods sold and user feedback (hereinafter referred to as the "Information on Organizations").

3.2. The Service may contain information on organizations provided by partners of the Service, information placed by the administration of the Service, and information placed by Users as specified in cl. 3.5–3.7 hereof.

MLU Africa reserves the right (but not the obligation) to request at any time that the accuracy of information placed in the Service and/or the way a person exercising the right of managing an organization card in the Service relates to the organization’s activities be confirmed.

3.3. Information specified in the Service is for reference only. MLU Africa shall not be held liable for the accuracy, relevance and reliability of Information on Organizations and for the conformity of specified prices to prices valid at the time the User contacted an organization to buy goods / obtain services. MLU Africa takes no part in legal relations established between the User and an organization and shall not be held liable for the quality of goods it sells / services it renders.

3.4. Information found in the Service can be viewed and edited by other Users of the Service (except for feedback on organizations). MLU Africa shall not be held liable for changes Users made and for the use of Information on Organizations by third parties.

3.5. MLU Africa may, without informing the User and giving any reasons, not accept Information on Organizations for placement or at any time remove or change Information on Organizations at own discretion.

3.6. The Service enables Users to post feedback on organizations. Feedback should express the User's value judgment of goods/services and (or) credibly describe actual circumstances that made him or her address an organization. MLU Africa shall not be held liable for the reliability, relevance, and accuracy of information in feedback. If a representative of an organization files a complaint, feedback can be deleted from the Service, if it violates feedback rules.

The Feedback may be deleted and/or not admitted for publication by the Service as a result of the moderation procedure or upon receiving the claim from a third party regarding non-compliance of the Feedback with the Service rules. If a negative decision is taken after the Feedback goes through the moderation procedure or the claim is acknowledged to be justified, the Feedback may be not admitted/limited for publication in the Service.

The User accepts that the feedback on organizations left by him and grades that he has put may be published and used by MLU Africa within the Service and other MLU Africa services. In so doing, the User’s feedback on organization is published and used “as it is” retaining the author’s grammar and punctuation and indicating the name under which the feedback was published and the account image (avatar).

3.7. The User, who has placed Information on Organizations in the Service, shall fully and independently bear all risks and responsibility for the content of the information he or she provided, its legislative compliance, integrity, accuracy and reliability. MLU Africa shall not be held liable for the User placing (inter alia, in bad faith) Information on Organizations that is false, irrelevant, infringing third-party rights and legitimate interests and neither confirms nor disproves the legislative compliance, accuracy and reliability of Information on Organizations.

4. Miscellaneous

4.1. The User authorizes MLU Africa to process personal information of the User, to transfer personal information of the User to MLU Africa’s partners. When the User turns to the Service, their personal information is transmitted to be processed under the terms and for the purposes determined in the Privacy Policy available at: (https://yango.com/legal/yangomaps_privacy).

4.2. MLU Africa does not guarantee the safety of information presented in the Service in any volume and/or for any period of time, including in the event of a change of data in connection with the development or change of the Service.

4.3. The Service information may be used by MLU Africa in other MLU Africa services and applications, as well as in advertising or marketing materials posted on MLU Africa resources on the Internet to attract the attention of other users to the content of the Service, to the Service in general, or to other MLU Africa applications and services, goods, works and services of third parties, both with the indication of the author of the information (as the name of the author, the name (pseudonym) of the User which he/she indicated when logged in or in the settings of his/her data in the corresponding section of the Service will be indicated), and without it, without the need for a special permission from the User and without payment of royalties, with the right of MLU Africa to grant the rights to use information to third parties for use in the specified advertising or marketing materials. In this case, the User acknowledges and agrees that MLU Africa is not obliged to review the information posted by the Users in the Service. If the User is not entitled to grant MLU Africa the right to use any information in this way, he/she shall refrain from posting such information.

4.4. MLU Africa reserves the right, at its own discretion, to restrict the User’s access to the Service (or to certain functions of the Service, if technologically possible) using his or her account, or to fully block the User’s account in case of repeated violations of these Terms, or to take other measures against the User to ensure that legislative requirements are met or third-party rights and legitimate interests are respected.

4.5. When using the Service, the User can report of inaccurate data placed in the Service (incorrect name, map positioning, irrelevant data, objects that need to be removed) giving relevant details in a special contact form of the Service. When sending a message, the User consents to publish the message form he or she completed. The User undertakes not to specify any information qualified by applicable laws as sensitive information, including own personal details, personal details of third parties and information prohibited for distribution.

4.6. Any information used in the Service is intended for personal non-commercial use only. In this respect, it is prohibited to copy, reproduce, process, distribute, make available to the public (publish) in the Internet, use the data in any way in the media and/or for commercial purposes without the right holder’s prior written permission, except as expressly stipulated by the functionality of the Service, these Terms, terms of use of other MLU Africa services.

4.7. The information provided in the Service shall be for reference only. MLU Africa does not guarantee that the Service, the quality of any product, service, information obtained using the Service, meets/will meet the User's requirements, and that the functions of the Service will be provided on a continuous basis, in a prompt manner, reliably and without errors.

MLU Africa does not guarantee the accuracy, relevance, completeness, or reliability of information that can be obtained via the Service. The information of the Service shall not be intended to be used for any purpose or in any capacity (for example, to establish and/or confirm any facts, as evidence in making legally significant decisions, to provide information and make accurate calculations, research, obtaining exact coordinates and information about official names, determining a position regarding the status of objects or territories, etc.).

5. Information on Right Holders and Data Owners:

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

6. Details of MLU Africa

MLU Africa B.V. (RSIN: NL859916121B01)

Private Limited Liability Company

Schiphol Boulevard 291, 1118 BH Schiphol, the Netherlands

tel.: +31(0)202402740

fax: +31(0)202402741

e-mail: app-maps@yango.com

Publication date: December 1, 2022