This User Agreement is a legally binding document which defines terms and conditions that a User should comply with when using the portal “Education in Russian” of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Pushkin State Russian Language Institute” located at www.pushkininstitute.ru.

When getting registration and starting use of services of “Education in Russian” you agree to be bound by terms and conditions of this User Agreement in full, without any exemptions. If User disagrees with the terms and conditions he shall refrain from the use of the Portal “Education in Russian”.

1.1 The Portal “Education in Russian” was developed in order to unite the platform of the Russian language online teaching with the system of online advanced training for teachers of Russian and the system of popular online courses in Russian for people of different age groups who learn Russian and the social network for the Portal's users to communicate on topics related to the subject of their common interest.

1.2 The Portal “Education in Russian” provides the following services:

1.2.1 reporting on activities of “Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, the education system in the Russian Federation, news and events, related to studies of the Russian language;

1.2.2 online teaching of Russian for different user groups;

1.2.3 online advanced training for teachers of Russian;

1.2.4 assessing the level of proficiency in Russian for all interested people.

1.4 The Portal “Education in Russian” is located at www.pushkininstitute.ru.

1.5 The site at which the Portal “Education in Russian” is located is owned and administered by the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Pushkin State Russian Language Institute” (hereinafter referred to as the Institute), set up and operating under the law of the Russian Federation.

2.1 The subject of this User Agreement shall be the Institute's providing access to use the Portal and its services to any person willing to access the Portal “Education in Russian” through the Internet (hereafter referred to as the User) on terms and conditions specified by this User Agreement.

2.2 This User Agreement shall apply to all information, materials and services posted at the Portal “Education in Russian”, to their further modifications, to all information, materials and services that may be posted at the Portal “Education in Russian”, as well as to all actions of the User using information, materials and services posted at the Portal «Education in Russian” and materials and services that may be posted at the Portal “Education in Russian” in future.

2.2 Relations of the Institute and the User (hereinafter referred to at the Party, or the Parties) may be further regulated by additional documents of the Institute. Appliance of these documents does not null the operation of the User Agreement.

2.3 The Portal “Education in Russian” has a content, which may be accessed for a fee. Relations between the Institute and the User on providing paid content shall be regulated by a separate agreement to be concluded between the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Pushkin State Russian Language Institute” and the User.

2.4 The User Agreement may be amended or modified without any prior notice. A new version of the User Agreement shall come into effect as of the moment it is published on the Internet on the site mentioned in clause 1.4 of this User Agreement. Further use of the Portal “Education in Russian” after amendments to this User Agreement have been introduced means that the User agrees to these amendments and modifications. In case the User does not agree to comply with this User Agreement, they are obliged to discontinue using the services of the Portal “Education in Russian”.

3.1 In order to start using the services provided by the Portal “Education in Russian”, the User shall follow the registration procedure resulting in the User's obtaining a unique user account with the login and password to access the Portal 'Education in Russian”.

3.2 During registration the User shall provide true and complete information in the question fields of the registration form and keep it updated. In case the User provides untrue information or the Institute has grounds to believe the information provided by the User is untrue and/or incomplete, the Institute may at its own discretion block access to or delete the User's account and deny access to the Portal “Education in Russian” to the User.

3.3 The Institute reserves the right to demand from the User confirmation of the data submitted during registration and to request confirming documents, which failure to provide may be considered as giving untrue information and entail consequences stipulated by clause 3.2 of this User Agreement.

3.4 Personal data of the User from the User's account are stored and processed in compliance with the Personal Data Protection Regulation (Personal Information Policy) and Privacy Policy.

3.5 During registration the User shall choose the login (the unique symbolic name of the account) and the password to access the account. The Institute may prohibit use of certain logins and establish requirements to logins and passwords (length, allowed symbols, etc.).

3.6 The User may not pass their login and password to third parties and shall be solely responsible for protection and privacy of their login and password and all actions committed from his account at the Portal “Education in Russian”. All actions made from the User's account are considered as committed by the User with the exception of cases when the User, in accordance with the procedure stipulated by clause 3.7 of this User Agreement, notified the Institute of an unauthorized access to the User's account and/or of any violation (or suspicion of such) of the password protection.

3.7. The User shall immediately notify the Institute of an unauthorized access to the Portal “Education in Russian” from the User's account and/or of any violation (or suspicion of such) of the password protection. For security reasons the User shall personally sign out from the User's account (Sign out service) on completing sessions at the Portal “Education in Russian”. The Institute shall not be liable for loss or corruption of data or consequences of any kind that may result from violation of provisions specified in this part of the User Agreement.

3.8. The Institute may block access to or delete the User's account, prohibit access to certain services of the Portal from any account, as well as delete any materials without disclosing the reasons, including cases when the User violates provisions of this User Agreement or of other documents specified in this User Agreement.

3.9 Agreeing to the terms and conditions of this User Agreement, the User confirms that his personal computer meets the minimal system requirements and has one of the supported browsers installed (Internet Explorer above Version 10, Mozilla Firefox above Version 15, Google Chrome above Version 30 , Safari above Version 8) и Adobe flash player.

4.1 The Institute may at its own discretion post information, materials and services at the Portal “Education in Russian”, amend and delete information, materials and services placed at the Portal “Education in Russian”.

4.2 The Institute may without consent of the User modify the Portal “Education in Russian” in any way at its sole discretion, which includes changing the design of the Portal “Education in Russian” and its terms of service, offering new services and their discontinuing, as well as suspending access to the Portal in the process of the aforementioned works. In case access to the Portal “Education in Russian” and/or the services is to be shut down for a considerable period of time (over 6 hours), the Institute shall notify the User of this, where possible.

4.3 The institute may to circulate information messages to the User's email address with consent of the User.

4.4 The User shall get access to the Internet on his own and pay for the traffic.

4.5 The User shall guarantee the use the Portal for his personal nonprofit purposes.

4.6 The User shall be liable to third parties for his actions related to use of the Portal “Education in Russian”, which includes cases when these actions result in violations of rights and legal interests of third parties. The user is responsible for compliance with the law while using the Portal “Education in Russian”, including the norms of the international law.

5.1 While using the services of the Portal “Education in Russian”, the User may post materials he creates. By this the User retains intellectual rights on the materials created and is responsible for them, including for their compliance with the effective laws of the Russian Federation, the norms of the international law, and is liable to third parties, which includes violation of intellectual rights of the latter.

5.2 The user, with placing his materials on the site, provides other persons with non-exclusive right to use them within the Portal for personal non-profit purposes.

5.3 The Institute reserves the right to deny posting the User's materials, to remove materials violating the effective laws of the Russian Federation, the norms of the international law and the intellectual rights of third parties.

5.4 Using the services of the Portal “Education in Russian”, the User gains access to materials of teachers, other users and/or the third parties with an opportunity to use these materials. The Institute is not responsible for untrue or illegal materials posted by the users.

5.5 The Portal “Education in Russian” provides access through hypertext links to resources of other websites, in which case the Administrator is not responsible for information and materials placed at third-party websites. The Institute is not responsible and does not provide guarantees ofr access to third-party websites, their materials or use thereof.

5.6 A link to a third-party website, product, service or information placed at the Portal “Education in Russian” does not signify approval or recommendation of these websites, products or services. The User consents that the Institute is not responsible and has no obligations related to advertisement that may be posted at the Portal “Education in Russian”.

6.1 The User may not copy, download, store at any media, transfer or distribute any materials and information placed at the Portal “Education in Russian”. The user may not modify, or adapt materials and information placed at the Portal 'Education in Russian”.

6.2 The User may not copy, download, distribute services available at the Portal, unless such function is expressly provided by the Portal “Education in Russian” or a service thereof.

6.3 The User may not use the Portal “Education in Russian” for:

- posting and/or distributing, downloading, forwarding, transferring of the content in the absence of right to the actions in accord with the law or contract relations;

- placing and/or distributing, downloading, forwarding, transferring materials and information which are illegal, malicious and violate any rights of the third parties; which propagate violence, cruelty, hatred and (or) discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, sex, tongue, religion, social status; untrue information and (or) offense against particular individuals, organizations, authorities; contain elements (or propagate) pornography, child erotic, serve as advertising (or propagating) services of sexual character (including those disguised as some different services), explain the order of preparation, application or other uses of narcotic substances and substitutes thereof, explosives or other weapons, and in other cases prohibited by law;

- unauthorized collecting and storing personal data of other users of the Portal “Education in Russian”;

- placing and/or distributing advertising materials, spam, information on making money through the Internet, multilevel (network) marketing (MLM) to other users of the Portal through personal messages or in any other way through the Portal “Education in Russian”;

- downloading, forwarding, transferring or placing by any other means any materials containing viruses or other computer codes created to interfere with, destroy or limit functionality of any computer or telecommunication equipment and software, to obtain unsanctioned access; logins, passwords and other means to obtain unsanctioned access to payable resources in the Internet, as well for posting links to the aforementioned information;

- using information from the Portal “Education in Russian for commercial purposes, to absorb interest, or in any other illegal way;

- copying or using in any other way the software component of the Portal “Education in Russian”, including its design;

- posting at the Portal personal data of third parties without their consent;

- changing in any way the software component of the Portal “Education in Russian”, taking actions designed to change functional and operational characteristics of the Portal “Education in Russian”;

- violating rights and freedoms of other users of the Portal “Education in Russian”, of the third parties.

6.4 The User, while using the Portal Education in Russian”, may receive materials, although they are explicitly prohibited by the Portal Administrator, that may be considered as that of advertising, offensive or obscene kind, or otherwise violating the applicable law, right and/or interests of third parties.

Should this happen, or should rights and/or interests of the User pertaining to use of the Portal “Education in Russian” and/or its services be violated, including instances of illegal placing of materials by other users, the case should be reported in a written form to - support@pushkin.institute, with a detailed statement of violation and a hypertext link to the page of the Portal “Education in Russian” containing materials violating rights and/or interests of the User.

6.5 The User may not undermine operational capability of the Portal “Education in Russian” and its services.

6.6 The User may not disguise himself as another person or a representative of an organization and/or community without due rights, which includes misrepresenting as a staff member of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Pushkin State Russian Language Institute” and its regional centers, forum moderators, or applying any other forms and ways to illegally misrepresent as other persons in the Internet and to misinform users or the Institute as to one's authority, including properties and characteristics of subjects and objects.

6.7 The Institute reserves the right to delete any materials from the Portal “Education in Russian” or temporarily limit access to them at its sole discretion without giving reasons.

7.1 All objects available through the Portal “Education in Russian”, including design elements, texts, tutorial materials, graphic images, illustrations, videos, audios, software, databases, courses, etc. are objects of exclusive rights of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Pushkin Russian Language Institute”, other Rightsholders, information of whom is placed at related objects.

7.2 Use of all materials of the Portal “Education in Russian mentioned in Unit 7.1 of this User Agreement and any other components of the Portal “Education in Russian” shall be allowed only within the functionality provided by one or another service. No elements of the Portal “Education in Russian” or content placed at the Portal “Education in Russian” may not be used in any way without prior consent of the Institute, the Rightsholder.

7.3 Use of the Portal and its services, including any materials for personal non-commercial purposes shall be allowed, in case copyrights, related rights, name (or pseudonym) of the author/name of Rightsholder and the object in questions are preserved intact. Exception to this applies to cases expressly stated by the effective law.

7.4 The User shall be obliged to refer to the Portal “Education in Russian” when citing the Portal's materials.

8.1 The institute does not guarantee that the Portal “Education in Russian” contains no mistakes and holds no responsibility for direct and indirect losses, including non-receipt of a service in full, missed opportunity, information loss that occurred in the result of using the Portal “Education in Russian”, which includes possible mistakes and misprints as well as operational capability of the Internet.

8.2 The Institute does not guarantee that the Portal “Education in Russian” shall meet the User's requirements; that results achieved by using the Portal “Education in Russian” shall be accurate and reliable; that quality of any product, service, information, user materials obtained by using the Portal “Education in Russian” shall meet the User's expectations; the Institute does not guarantee operational compatibility of the Portal “Education in Russian” with the unique configuration of the User's software and hardware.

8.3 The User is solely responsible for possible consequences of using any materials and/or information available through the Portal's services, which includes damage caused to the User's computer or to third persons, loss of data and any other loss or damage.

8.4 Any losses which the User may suffer due to violation, deliberate or negligent, of any provision of this User Agreement, and due to unsanctioned access to communications of another User, shall not be indemnified by the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Pushkin Russian Language Institute”.

8.5 The Institute shall not be responsible for lags and failures occurred during operations with the Portal “Education in Russian” due to force-majeur, as well as for any failures in telecommunication, computer, electrical and any other related systems.

8.6 The Institute shall not be responsible for satisfactory functioning of the Portal “Education in Russian” in case the User does not have hardware and software required to use the Portal, and shall not be obliged to provide the User with such means.

8.7 The Institute shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, to the User due to possible or occurred losses or indirect damages related to any contents of the Portal, copyright registration, goods and services available at or received from external sites or resources or from the User's other contacts that the User may accumulate through information and links to external sources placed at the Portal “Education in Russian”.

9.1 In case terms and conditions of this User Agreement and/or requirements stipulated by laws of the Russian Federation are violated, the Institute shall reserve the right to completely block the User's account, to limit or stop providing services of the Portal “Education in Russian”.

9.2 The institute shall not be liable to the User or third parties for discontinued access to the Portal “Education in Russian” due to the User's violating any unit of this User Agreement or any other document related to the Portal's terms of use, or due to technical failure or problem.

10.1 This User Agreement is governed and construed in accordance with the law of the Russian Federation. All matters not addressed in this User Agreement shall be subjected to the law of the Russian Federation. All possible litigations resulting from relations governed by this User Agreement shall be resolved in accord with procedures established by the effective laws of the Russian Federation, in accord with the legal norms of the Russian law. Throughout the text of this User Agreement the term “law” shall be regarded as the law of the Russian Federation.

10.2 Should any clause of this User Agreement be found null and void, this shall not affect validity, applicability and binding power of all other provisions of this User Agreement.

10.3 Lack of action on the part of the Institute when the User violates provisions of this User Agreement does not constitute a waiver by the Institute of the right to subsequently take required actions to protect its interests and copyrights to the materials of the Portal “Education in Russian” protected by the law.