Terms of Membership in the Yandex Cloud Boost Loyalty Program for software and digital product developers

  1. The Yandex Cloud Boost Loyalty Program (the “Program”) has been developed by Iron Hive doo Beograd (“Yandex”) and is intended to attract and retain on the Yandex Cloud Platform companies (https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/billing/qa/all#countries) that develop software and digital products (the “Solutions”).

  2. Membership in the Program is available only to Customers who have registered a business account on the Yandex Cloud Platform and meet the criteria specified in the Terms of Membership and on the Website at: https://yandex.cloud/en/cloud-boost (the “Member”).

  3. A Customer who qualifies for the Program shall be entitled to submit an application for membership in the Program (the “Application”). The Application is submitted through the Yandex Website and is reviewed by the Yandex team within seven (7) calendar days. Based on the results of the review of the Application, Yandex, at its sole discretion, but in accordance with the criteria for the Selection of Members (Supplement No. 1) and the principles of good faith and non-discrimination, decides whether to assign the Customer the status of a program member (“Program Member”) or to refuse to assign the said status. Information about the decision made by Yandex is sent to the Customer’s e-mail address specified when submitting the Application via the Yandex Website or when registering on the Yandex Cloud Platform.

  4. Program Members have a choice of the privileges listed in paragraphs 5 and 6 of the Program. The Customer may apply under paragraph 3 only for one set of privileges: as described in paragraph 5 or 6. The privileges listed in paragraph 7 of the Program are available to all Program Members.

  5. Grant. The Program Member is provided with a Grant — up to 600 USD. The Grant validity period: up to one hundred and eighty (180) calendar days. The Grant consists of two parts:
    5.1. 240 USD: the amount that may be spent to pay for the following Services: Compute Cloud, VPC, Object Storage, Network Load Balancer, Marketplace, Monitoring, DataSphere, SpeechKit, Translate, Vision, Foundation Models;
    5.2. 360 USD: the amount may be spent by the Program Member to pay for other Services* of the Platform, except for those listed in paragraph 5.1.

  6. Extended Grant. The Program Member is provided with an extended Grant — up to 2500 USD. The Grant validity period: up to sixty (60) calendar days. The Grant consists of two parts:
    6.1. 700 USD: the amount that may be spent to pay for the following Services: Compute Cloud, VPC, Object Storage, Network Load Balancer, Marketplace, Monitoring, DataSphere, SpeechKit, Translate, Vision, Foundation Models.
    6.2. 1800 USD: the amount may be spent by the Program Member to pay for other Services* of the Platform, except for those listed in paragraph 6.1. and Yandex Cloud Interconnect.
    6.3. In addition to the Extended Grant, the Program allows the Member to receive an additional Grant of up to 10 000 USD:
    6.3.1. 2500 USD: the amount that may be spent to pay for Infrastructure Services (Compute Cloud, VPC, Object Storage, Network Load Balancer, Marketplace, Monitoring, DataSphere, SpeechKit, Translate, Vision, Foundation Models) and
    6.3.2. 7500 USD: the amount that may be spent to pay for other Services* of the Platform, except for those listed in paragraph 6.1. and Yandex Cloud Interconnect, for a period of 2 (two) months from the date of their provision.
    6.4. The terms and conditions for the issue of an additional Grant:
    6.4.1. during the first two months of the Trial Period, the Program Member made full use of the Extended Grant of 2500 USD and both components were utilized,
    6.4.2. successful completion of an additional interview of the Program Member with the Program Manager and/or Platform Architect regarding business needs, as well as the results of testing the Services and plans for the development and implementation of the Services. An interview is defined as successful in the following cases, but not limited to:
    — the average monthly cost of services consumption exceeds the amount of the provided grant by more than 30%,
    — in the next 6 months it is planned to implement the solution on the Program Member’s site,
    — testing of the Services within the framework of the provided grant was not enough to demonstrate effectiveness for its further use on a paid basis,
    — additional settings of the Services are required, completion of the integration of the Services into the solution and/or on the Program Member’s site,
    — there is a need and opportunity to improve the quality characteristics of the Services (including parameters of virtual machines, etc.),
    — implementation of the business case for implementing the solution on the Program Member’s site requires additional capacity,
    — it is planned to develop the solution through the use of the Services.
    6.5. In addition to the Extended Grant, the Program Member is provided with free technical support of the Business level for a period of sixty (60) days from the date the Customer becomes a Member of the Program. After 60 days of becoming a Member of the Program, free Basic level support will be provided to the Member concerned. The questions and problems with which the Member may contact Yandex Technical Support Team, as well as the response time, are listed on the page located at: https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/support/overview
    6.6. If within two (2) months from the status assignment the Program Member has switched to paid consumption, such Member receives a 20% discount on the tariffs of the following Services: Yandex Managed Service for ClickHouse®, Yandex Data Proc, Yandex Managed Service for MySQL®, Yandex Managed Service for Kubernetes®, Yandex Managed Service for MongoDB, Yandex Managed Service for Elasticsearch, Yandex Managed Service for Gitlab®, Yandex Managed Service for Redis, Yandex Cloud Functions, Yandex IoT Core, Yandex Managed Service for PostgreSQL, Yandex Key Management Service, Yandex Managed Service for Greenplum®, Yandex Managed Service for Apache Kafka®, Yandex Serverless Containers, Yandex Container Registry, Yandex Application Load Balancer, Yandex Managed Service for YDB, Yandex Data Streams, Yandex Message Queue for a period of six (6) months.
    6.7. Consultations provided by architects or engineers of the Yandex Cloud Platform.
    6.7.1. The Program Member is entitled to one (1) hour of consultations per month from an architect or engineer of the Yandex Cloud Platform concerning the construction of a cloud architecture. Format of the consultation: online via videoconferencing (Skype/Zoom/Telegram, etc.) The date and time of the consultation are set by agreement between the Program Member and a representative of the Yandex team.
    6.7.2. The Program Member receives the right to participate in regular group consultation sessions (from 1 to 15 persons). Format of the consultation: online via videoconferencing (Skype/Zoom/Telegram, etc.) The date and time are set by Yandex and are communicated to the Program Member by a representative of the Yandex team.

  7. The Program Member receives the right to access the closed testing of new Services of the Yandex Cloud Platform in Preview mode. Methods of connecting the Program Member to a closed testing are determined by Yandex and are communicated to the Member by a representative of the Yandex team.

  8. The full list of privileges granted under the Program is available to New Members only.

  9. A new Member is deemed to be:
    9.1. А Member who owns a Business account and is connected to the Yandex Cloud Platform for the first time.
    9.2. A person who has not used the services of the Platform (paid or trial period) during three hundred and sixty (360) calendar days prior to submitting the application.
    A Customer of the Yandex Cloud Platform who does not fall under the description in paragraph 9 may become a member of the Program and receive access to all privileges, except for those described in paragraph 6.

  10. Yandex has the right to at any time deprive the Program Member of status in the event of a violation by the Member of the obligations established by the Agreement for the use of Yandex Cloud Platform Services, as well as in the event of a violation of the terms of this Program and/or detection of dishonest actions aimed at deceiving Yandex or other Program Members, abuse of rights granted to the Program Member. Yandex shall notify the Program Member of termination of status by sending a notice to the Program Member’s email specified at the time of registering an account on the Yandex Cloud Platform. The Program Member status is deemed as terminated from the moment a respective notice is sent, no less than ten (10) calendar days before the Member is deprived of the Program Member status.

  11. Yandex may, by its decision, at any time terminate the Program or change its terms by sending at least ten (10) calendar days in advance a notice to the Program Member’s email address specified when registering an account on the Yandex Cloud Platform.

  12. Restrictions:
    12.1. All information provided as part of an individual and/or group consultation for the Program Member is advisory in nature and non-binding. Yandex shall not be liable for any loss and/or damage caused by the actions/omission of the Program Member resulting from the use or non-use of the information and/or advice received.
    12.2. Membership in the program is not available to government entities that comply with specific procurement, sourcing, and benefit regulations.
    12.3. The Program Member independently determines the restrictions established by the applicable law for the placement of data for working with Yandex Services.
    12.4. If the Program Member processes personal data of end users or other identifiable persons while using Yandex Services, the Program Member is responsible for ensuing legality of such personal data processing, which may imply collection of appropriate consents, as well as for the due awareness of data subjects of such processing.
    12.5. The Member confirms that he has read and agrees with the selection criteria in Supplement 1, and in case of detection of non-compliance with any criteria, the Member undertakes to notify Yandex at the address: cloud-boost@yandex-team.ru

Capitalized terms used herein, unless the text expressly requires otherwise, have the meanings ascribed to them in the offer posted at: https://yandex.com/legal/cloud_customer_agreement

 The list of Services can be found at: https://yandex.cloud/en/services

Supplement No. 1. Selection criteria for Members

  1. Your company develops and sells digital products or software is part of your product/service for the market. However, the exclusive rights to the software belong to you and are not licensed to you by a third-party developer.
  2. Your company is a commercial organization.
  3. Your company is not an educational or government agency, or a marketing/digital agency. Compliance with the criterion is determined based on the data provided, such as: type of legal entity, status of the founders and general director, as well as information from open sources (website, questionnaire, presentation, etc.) and interviews.
  4. Your company is not involved in cryptocurrency mining.
  5. Your company has not previously participated in the Yandex Cloud Boost program.
  6. Your company is a new Yandex Cloud customer. Your company has registered a business account in Yandex Cloud.
  7. Your company has no employment or other connections with government officials. “Public officials” include: a) civil servants (as defined in the country of jurisdiction of the legal entity); b) members of boards of directors, officials, directors of government and state companies; с) officials or representatives of public international organizations (such as the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization); d) officials of political parties; (e) members of royal and ruling families.
  8. Your company, employees, directors and/or founders do not have a conflict of interest in relation to Iron Hive doo Beograd and/or any Yandex company that you did not disclose to Yandex when submitting the Application. The term “conflict of interest” means the following situations: a) the Customer, directors, founders or employees of the Customer are close relatives of employees of Iron Hive doo Beograd or any of the employees of Yandex companies who make decisions within the framework of the Program implementation, or who have information that may give an advantage to the Customer under the Program; b) The Customer, directors, founders or employees of the Customer, or their close relatives, are full- or part-time employees of a Yandex company, or provide any services to Yandex companies and/or employees of Yandex companies who make decisions within the framework of the Program implementation, or who have information that may give an advantage to the Customer under the Program; с) the Customer, directors, founders or employees of the Customer are directors of Yandex suppliers and/or partners or have significant influence on them; d) the Customer, director, founder or employees of the Customer, or their close relatives have significant influence on Yandex; e) Yandex, including directors or employees, or their close relatives have significant influence on the Customer; f) Yandex companies, and/or employees of the Yandex group making decisions within the framework of the Program implementation, or possessing information that may give an advantage to the Customer within the framework of the Program provide any services to the Customer, his employees, directors and/or founders; g) The Customer is in the process of negotiating agreements with Yandex (except for negotiations on membership in the Program).
    For the purposes of this clause: (i) “directors, employees of the Customer” mean executive, non-executive, managing directors or persons who are managers of the Customer’s company or its business units (for example, financial director, member of the board or supervisory board, etc.), as well as employees making decisions as part of concluding or executing an agreement with Yandex; (ii) close relatives mean family members or persons who can potentially influence the decisions of an employee or director in transactions involving a party to the agreement, including children (including adopted children, stepchildren), parents (including step parents), spouses (including those in a civil marriage), brothers and sisters (including step-brothers and step-sisters), parents of spouses, brothers and sisters of spouses, close friends or other persons who have family or close relationships and/or manage a household with an employee or director of a party to the agreement; (iii) significant influence means the right to participate in decisions regarding the financial and operating policies of the organization, and membership in the board of directors or similar body, ownership of shares or interests that give 10% or more voting rights, any other economic interest that may influence decisions, are deemed as significant influence.
  9. Your company, its employees and/or founders are not affiliated with any Yandex group company: “Affiliates” mean: a) companies that directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, manage companies of the Yandex group of companies, are managed by the Yandex group or are under joint control of the Yandex group (excluding subsidiaries directly or indirectly entirely owned by the Yandex group); b) unconsolidated entities in which the Yandex Group has significant influence or which have significant influence over the Yandex Group; с) individuals who directly or indirectly own blocks of shares with voting rights in the Yandex group, which enable them to exercise significant influence on the Yandex group, and close relatives of any such person; d) senior management of the Yandex group, defined as persons having authority and responsibility for planning, directing and controlling the activities of the group, including directors and senior management of the group, as well as close relatives of such persons; and e) companies in which a significant shareholding with voting rights is owned directly or indirectly by any person specified in paragraphs. с) or d) above, or over which such person can exercise significant influence, including any companies owned by directors of the Yandex group companies or shareholders owning 10% or more of the voting shares of the group, and any companies in which a representative of the group’s senior management works.