SAYRIL LICENSE AGREEMENT
Program version 0.6.0. Revision of 10.11.2026.
Licensor (right holder): Kadurin Aleksandr Anatolevich, self-employed, INN 111603182707.
Email: sayril-info@mail.ru.
Website: https://sayril.ru
DEFINITIONS
“Agreement” means this license agreement between the Licensor and the Licensee.
“Licensor” means the citizen named at the beginning of the Agreement, to whom the exclusive right to the Program belongs. The party to the contract is determined by the Licensor's surname, first name, patronymic and INN (Taxpayer ID); the status, the tax regime and other details may change without a change of the party to the contract (clause 10.7).
“Licensee” means a User or an Organization that has concluded the Agreement with the Licensor.
“User” means an individual who has concluded the Agreement for themselves, including for using the Program in their own work: who has acquired Base or Pro or uses the Program in the trial period.
“Organization” means a legal entity or an individual entrepreneur that acquires Licenses for Seats (SAYRIL Corporate, SAYRIL Corporate Pro) for its activities.
“Organization Representative” means an individual who acts on behalf of the Organization on the Website.
“Organization Employee” means an employee or contractor of the Organization to whom it has provided a Seat. An Organization Employee is not a party to the Agreement.
“Third Parties” means persons who are not parties to the Agreement.
“Program” means the SAYRIL computer program (voice typing and related features: speech recognition and translation, transcription of audio and video files on the Device) in the version stated above (or, if the Licensor delivered to the Licensee a Copy of a different version, in that version), together with the documentation and the model and component files included in the distribution, including in the parts of the distribution that are provided as separate files, and also the Updates the Licensee has installed. The Russian text also gives the spelling of the name in Cyrillic script.
“Copy” means the files of the Program that the Licensee lawfully obtained from the Licensor or with the Licensor's consent (an installation file, an archive, a package or an image, archives with parts of the distribution) and the Program installed from them. All of this together makes up one Copy.
“Device” means one computer or one virtual machine. Several operating systems installed on one computer, other than in virtual machines, count as one Device.
“Website” means the Licensor's website stated at the beginning of the Agreement.
“Personal Account” means the section of the Website for the holder of a user account that shows the holder's Orders, Licenses, Devices and Activations.
“Order” means an order for a License placed in the Personal Account.
“License” means a simple (non-exclusive) license to the Program under the Agreement: Base, Pro, SAYRIL Corporate or SAYRIL Corporate Pro (clause 2.3).
“Seat” means the right of one Organization Employee to use the Program under an Organization License on no more than two Devices.
“Base” (SAYRIL Base) means a perpetual User License to the features named in clause 2.3 in all versions of the Program, including versions released after the day of purchase.
“Pro” (SAYRIL Pro) means a User License to the features of the Program named in clause 2.3, with continuous access to them during the paid period and a fee for each month: one calendar month is granted for each payment (clause 2.15).
“SAYRIL Corporate” means a perpetual Organization License for Seats (clause 2.3).
“SAYRIL Corporate Pro” means an Organization License for Seats for the paid period (clauses 2.3 and 2.15).
“Activation” means the permission, signed by the Licensor, for the Program to work under a License on a specific Device: an activation code or a license file (a file with the .srlic extension).
“Device Code” means a code in the form SRM-… that the Program calculates on the Device (clause 5.6) and by which the Activation for that Device is issued.
“Update” means a new version of the Program, of its component or of a part of the distribution that the Licensor provides for installation at no extra charge. Once installed, an Update becomes part of the Program. Installing an Update does not extend the License: which features work is determined by the License type, not by the version number of the Program.
“Corrective Update” means an Update that fixes critical errors, confirmed vulnerabilities or compatibility problems of the features included in the License.
“Maintenance Period” means the time during which the Licensor maintains the Program: until the end-of-maintenance date announced under clause 2.11.
“Place of Purchase” means the pages of the Website on which the Licensor offers Licenses and Orders are placed (the purchase page, the checkout page, the Personal Account); for Licenses acquired before sales began on the Website, the Place of Purchase is the place where they were acquired (clause 2.16).
“Offer” means the Licensor's public offer to conclude a license agreement, published on the Website.
“Refund Policy,” “Pro Subscription Terms,” “Recurring Payment Terms,” “Terms of Use of the Website and Personal Account” and “Personal Data Processing Policy” mean the Licensor's documents with these titles published on the Website.
“Consumer” means an individual who acquires or uses the Program, or intends to acquire it, solely for personal, family, household or other needs not related to business activity.
1. HOW THE AGREEMENT IS CONCLUDED
1.1. The Agreement is a license agreement granting a simple (non-exclusive) license to the Program and a contract of adhesion. A paid License can be acquired only on the Website: the Agreement is concluded together with the contract under the Offer by payment of the Order, that is, by acceptance of the Licensor's written proposal by conduct (Article 434(3) and Article 438(3) of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, hereinafter the Civil Code). For the trial period, the Agreement is concluded in a simplified manner: by starting to use the Program (Article 1286(5) of the Civil Code).
1.2. The Licensee accepts the Agreement by the first of the following actions:
(a) pays for the Order on the Website, having first marked consent to the Agreement and the Offer on the checkout page;
(b) in the installer selects “I accept the agreement” (or the equivalent item in the language of the installation) and continues the installation;
(c) launches the Program for the first time, where the Licensee obtained it without an installer; in that case the text of the Agreement is in the file LICENSE.txt next to the Program or in its package.
With that action the Agreement is deemed concluded in writing. Inaction does not count as consent. The day a paid License is acquired (purchased) is the day it is paid for.
1.3. A person who does not agree to the terms of the Agreement does not pay for the Order and does not install or launch the Program. If the terms of the contract (clause 10.5) were not available to the Licensee before payment and the Licensee does not agree to them, the Licensee may give up the License by telling the Licensor so within a reasonable time after gaining access to them and ceasing to use the Program under that License: the amount paid is refunded (clause 6.1(d)).
1.4. Only an individual who has reached the age of 18 may pay for a License and accept the Agreement: the User does so for themselves, and the Organization Representative on behalf of the Organization. By accepting the Agreement, this individual confirms that they have reached the age of 18.
1.5. User Licenses (Base, Pro) are personal: the User acquires them for themselves, including for use in their own work. An Organization acquires Licenses for Seats for its activities; the Agreement applies to it with the specifics stated in the Agreement and in the section “Specifics for Organizations” of the Offer, and consumer protection legislation does not apply to it. By placing an Order on behalf of an Organization, the Organization Representative confirms their authority. The actions of the Organization Representative and of Organization Employees under the Agreement are deemed actions of the Organization. An individual who in fact acquires a License for personal, family, household or other needs not related to business activity remains a Consumer, whatever the License is called and however many Seats they acquire. The Agreement does not permit acquiring Licenses for resale or other distribution.
2. THE LICENSE AND THE LIMITS OF USE
2.1. The exclusive right to the Program belongs to the Licensor. The Program contains components of other right holders, used under their licenses (section 4). The Copy is provided to the Licensee for use under a License: the exclusive right to the Program does not pass to the Licensee.
2.2. The Licensee may:
(a) record the Copy into the memory of the Device and install the Program (reproduction);
(b) launch the Program and use for their intended purpose the features included in its License (clause 2.3) and, during the trial period, the features available in the trial period; the User uses them for personal purposes and in their own work, and the Organization in its activities, under the Seats provided to Organization Employees;
(c) make one backup copy of the Copy: for archival purposes or to replace the Copy if it is lost, destroyed or has become unusable (Article 1280(1)(2) of the Civil Code);
(d) install Updates.
The Agreement permits no other uses of the Program.
2.3. License types and number of Devices. The License type and the list of features included in it are stated at the Place of Purchase before payment and in the Personal Account:
(a) Base is a perpetual User License that is valid in all versions of the Program, including versions released after the day of purchase. Base includes voice typing into the input field of the active window (text is not inserted into windows run as administrator and stays on the clipboard), “Dictate and send,” translation of speech and of selected text (with a compatible translation model installed), text cleanup, the dictation history, and the settings and auxiliary mechanisms without which these features do not work. Other features, including those that appear in versions released after the day of purchase, do not become available under Base (clause 2.11);
(b) Pro is a User License for the paid period: everything included in Base and also transcription of audio and video files, meeting recording and speaker separation, the dictionary (including a shared one), voice commands, text editing by the language model, program profiles, access for other programs on this Device, and also the features that the Licensor has included in Pro in versions of the Program released before the end of the paid period (clause 2.15);
(c) SAYRIL Corporate is a perpetual Organization License for Seats: the features and update terms as for Base, and also the dictionary (including a shared one) and recognition through a server on the local network; SAYRIL Corporate Pro is an Organization License for Seats for the paid period: the Pro features and recognition through a server on the local network. The number of Seats is stated in the Order.
All User Licenses of one Personal Account (Base and Pro) are valid on the same Devices: at any one time on no more than two Devices that the User uses, regardless of the number and combination of Licenses. Each Seat is valid on no more than two Devices of the Organization Employee to whom it has been provided; Seats are not combined with User Licenses.
The Program may be used on a Device for which a valid Activation has been issued and, during the trial period, also without one. On such a Device the Program may be used by the User and by members of the User's family who use that Device together with the User and, under a Seat, by the Organization Employee to whom it has been provided. A License does not give the right to make the Program available to several persons through remote access or a terminal server. Where the installed version of the Program has a speech recognition mode for other computers on the local network, the Program both on the Device that serves as the server and on each Device that sends audio to it must run under a valid Activation of a License that includes this feature or in the trial period; the Agreement does not permit sending audio to such a server from other programs.
The Program runs in those operating systems for which the Licensor has published a build of it; the License is valid in any of them at no extra charge. The Licensor does not undertake to release builds for other operating systems.
2.4. Transfer to another Device. A transfer means replacing one of the activated Devices with another: releasing the previous Device and issuing an Activation to the new one. The following are not transfers: an Activation of a Device while fewer than two Devices are activated under a User License; a repeated Activation of the same Device (for example, after reinstalling the Program or the operating system); issuing a lost Activation again; an Activation of another operating system of the same Device. A transfer replaces the Device for all User Licenses of one Personal Account at once (clause 2.3). A transfer is made:
(a) as a self-service transfer, only in the Personal Account and no more than once in 12 months (under a User License): at least 12 months must have passed since the day the first Activation, or the Activation obtained on the last self-service transfer, was issued; the Activation of the second Device and transfers through support do not change that day;
(b) through the Licensor's support (under a User License), at any time, including before the period in item (a) has passed, where the Device has broken down, has been lost or is under repair, where the Program no longer recognizes it after a repair, a replacement of parts or an update, or where the User has replaced the Device with another one and no longer uses the previous one under this License. The request states the license key or the license number, the Device Code of the new Device and which Device is being replaced. The Licensor may ask for confirmation that the request comes from the User themselves and may refuse a transfer where there are signs that the License has been passed to Third Parties contrary to section 3. The Activation is issued within the time stated in clause 2.5(c);
(c) under an Organization License: a Device within a Seat is replaced with another without a time limit, on a request of the Organization Representative to the Licensor's support and, where the Personal Account has that option, also there. The Licensor may refuse a replacement where there are signs that the Seat is used in turn by several Organization Employees or by Third Parties.
A Device is deemed released only after the Licensor's license server or the Licensor's support has confirmed the release; removing the Program from the Device does not release it. If a Device has been released without an Activation of another Device at the same time, the Activation of another Device in its place counts as a self-service transfer under item (a).
Having issued an Activation to the new Device, the Licensor revokes the Activations of the previous one (clause 2.12). By requesting a transfer, the Licensee confirms that the previous Device will no longer be used under this License. The Licensee may not use the Program on the previous Device under this License, even if it still works there (clause 2.12).
2.5. Activation and trial period. Without a valid Activation the Program does not record speech or insert text, except during the trial period. A new Device can be linked to the Personal Account only in the Personal Account; entering a license key in the Program does not link the Device and does not transfer the License to it. An Activation for a Device can be obtained by one of the methods available in the installed version of the Program:
(a) online: in the activation window, with the license key (in the form SR-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX) or after signing in to the Personal Account from the Program; the Program then obtains the Activation from the license server itself (clause 5.5), but only for a Device already linked to the Personal Account;
(b) in the Personal Account, including without the internet on this Device: the Licensee enters the Device Code shown in the activation window or uploads the request file prepared by the Program, obtains an activation code or a license file, and enters the code or opens the file in the activation window;
(c) through the Licensor's support, where methods (a) and (b) are not available: the Licensor sends a license file or an activation code no later than three business days after the day it receives a request with the Device Code.
An Activation is valid on one Device. It records the license number and the Activation number, the Device Code, the date of issue, the License types and the features included in them, the dates on which the paid period starts and ends (for Pro and SAYRIL Corporate Pro), and the name of the Licensee given in the Personal Account when the Order was placed (for an Organization License: the name of the Organization), shortened where necessary; the license number and the name are shown in the “About” window. After a replacement of Device parts the Program may not recognize the Device, and then a new Activation is needed: if the Licensor, on request, has recognized the Device as the same one, this is not a transfer (clause 2.4). If the Device Code contains no hardware information to which the Activation is bound (this happens in a virtual machine), the Activation is issued by the Licensor on request (method (c)). If the Program has read on the Device fewer than three of the five items of information from which the Device Code is calculated, an Activation cannot be issued for that Device by any method. The license key, the sign-in details of the Personal Account and the Activations are meant only for the Licensee and its Devices and, under an Organization License, also for Organization Employees within their Seats: the Licensee does not pass them on or publish them (section 3).
Trial period. Where in the operating system user account on the Device the Program has not yet been activated and that user account has not yet had a trial period, after its first launch the Program works without an Activation for 3 days (72 hours) on the terms of the Agreement, with the features available in the trial period. The trial period is given once per operating system user account on the Device: removing and reinstalling the Program, another version of it, signing in to the Personal Account and linking the Device to it do not give a new trial period and do not extend it. The period is counted by the Device's clock; if the clock has been set back by more than 24 hours or the information about the trial period is damaged, the trial period is deemed over. If the Program was installed with a license key or a license file, no trial period starts. The Program may be activated during the trial period as well.
2.6. Territory: all countries of the world. The Licensee is itself responsible for complying with the rules of the country where it uses the Program on the import and use of software, including the export and sanctions restrictions that apply to it. The Licensor does not guarantee that the Program, its components and models can be obtained, paid for and used in every country.
2.7. Term. Base and SAYRIL Corporate are valid for the whole term of the exclusive right to the Program. Pro and SAYRIL Corporate Pro are valid during the paid period (clause 2.15): after it ends the Program does not work under that License, while Base, if the User has it, remains valid in any version of the Program; if an Organization has SAYRIL Corporate, the scope of that License remains. Without a perpetual License, the Program then does not record speech or insert text, while the data created in the Program are not deleted. A break in using the Program, removing it from the Device, the end of the paid period of Pro and the end of the Maintenance Period do not terminate a perpetual License.
2.8. Fee. For a paid License the Licensee pays the price stated at the Place of Purchase when the Order is placed: for Base and SAYRIL Corporate, once, and for Pro and SAYRIL Corporate Pro, for each paid period. The price is stated in rubles and is paid on the Website, in the manner set by the Offer, before the License is granted. The price is final: the taxes on it are paid by the Licensor. Activations, issuing them again and transfers under clause 2.4 are included in the price. The trial period is free of charge. For each payment the Licensor sends the receipt required by law for its tax regime. Automatic charges are possible only after the Licensee's separate consent; without it Pro and SAYRIL Corporate Pro are renewed only by a new payment.
2.9. Granting the License. After payment is confirmed, the License appears in the Personal Account and a confirmation of the purchase is sent to the email address of the Personal Account. The Licensor grants the License no later than three calendar days after the day of payment. The Program installer and the parts of the distribution can be downloaded only from the Personal Account or at an address given in it; the package for Linux also receives Updates from the source that it adds (clause 5.5).
2.10. The Licensee does not submit reports to the Licensor on the use of the Program (Article 1237(1) of the Civil Code).
2.11. Updates and maintenance. The Program does not update itself: an Update is installed by the Licensee's action or according to the update settings of the operating system of the Device (clause 5.5). A build of the Program may contain features that are not included in the License: they do not work and may be shown in the Program with a note on how to obtain them. The Program shows no advertising of other goods and services.
Base and SAYRIL Corporate are valid in all versions of the Program, including versions released after the day of purchase: the Licensee may install any Updates and use in them the features of its License. Features that are not included in Base or SAYRIL Corporate under clause 2.3 do not become available under these Licenses in any version. Installing an Update does not reduce the License. During the Maintenance Period the Licensor provides Corrective Updates at no extra charge; they are released as part of the current version of the Program, and earlier versions are not fixed separately. The Licensor does not guarantee compatibility with future operating systems and hardware; this does not limit the rights of a Consumer in the case of defects of the Program.
Pro and SAYRIL Corporate Pro. During the paid period the Licensee may install the Updates released during that period and use their features.
Maintenance Period. The length of maintenance is not limited in advance: the Licensor maintains the Program until the end-of-maintenance date, which it announces on the Website before that date. The end of the Maintenance Period does not terminate perpetual Licenses and is not a ground for revoking Activations already issued: what stops is the release of Corrective Updates. In all other respects the Licensor is not obliged to release Updates unless otherwise follows from the law.
2.12. Revocation. The Licensor revokes Activations and the license key (revoked ones are no longer accepted) only in the following cases:
(a) on a transfer to another Device or the release of a Device (clause 2.4): the Activations of the previous Device;
(b) at the Licensee's request: the license key or the Activations that have become known to Third Parties; in that case the Licensor issues new ones for the Licensee's Devices and does not count this as a transfer;
(c) if the License has ended: on a refund (section 6), at the end of the paid period of Pro or SAYRIL Corporate Pro (only that License is revoked), or where the Licensor withdraws from the Agreement for non-payment of the fee, including where the payment was recalled or returned by the bank at the Licensee's demand (clause 8.2);
(d) if the Activation was obtained on the basis of knowingly false information about the License or the Device (for example, with another person's key or with a Device Code that does not belong to the Licensee's Device or has been forged), or if the license key, the sign-in details of the Personal Account or an Activation is used contrary to section 3: passed to Third Parties, published, used on a Device for which the Activation was not issued, or used together with circumvention of the Program's technical protection measures, other than circumvention permitted by clause 4.6.
A revocation under item (d) does not by itself end the Agreement: the Licensor informs the Licensee of the revocation and its reason. If a revocation turns out to have been made in error, the Licensor issues a new Activation, and this does not count as a transfer.
How revocation works. The license server stops accepting what has been revoked at once. The Program learns of a revocation when it receives a revocation list signed by the Licensor: with an Update that the Licensee has installed and, where the installed version of the Program can receive the revocation list over the network, also when the Licensee itself requests an Activation. Until the revocation list is received, the Program on the Device may keep working, and under Pro and SAYRIL Corporate Pro no longer than the end of the UTC day on which the period recorded in the Activation ends (clause 2.15). The fact that the Program works until the revocation list is received gives no right to use it: after a revocation the Licensee must stop using the Program under the revoked License or Activation on all Devices; use after a License has ended infringes the exclusive right (Article 1237(3) of the Civil Code). The revocation list contains only license and Activation numbers.
2.13. File check. The Program checks whether its files have been modified. If they have been modified, or extraneous program code files have been added to the Program's folder, the Program does not record speech or insert text and offers to reinstall it. Replacing a library under clause 4.2 is not a breach of the Agreement: the libraries named in clause 4.2 and the modules through which the Program uses them are in separate folders that the check does not cover (these folders are named in the instruction referred to in clause 4.2), and after they are replaced the Program keeps working, provided the new version is interface-compatible. This check does not cover the model files either: the Program and the installer compare them with the checksums of the files supplied and may not use a model whose files do not match them (the Licensee may modify its own copy of a model file under clause 4.8). The Program sends the results of the check to no one (clause 5.5).
2.14. All rights not expressly granted by the Agreement are reserved by the Licensor.
2.15. Pro and SAYRIL Corporate Pro. For each payment the License is granted for one calendar month (the paid period); there is no prepayment for several months. The month starts at the moment the License is issued after payment is confirmed and ends on the same date of the next month at the same time, Moscow time, or, if that month has no such date, on its last day; the following months are again counted from the original date. The moment of ending itself is not part of the paid period. The end date is recorded in the Activation in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), to the day, so the Program works until the end of the UTC day on which the paid period ends; the Licensee may use it during these hours at no extra charge, and they are not part of the paid period and do not affect the amount of a refund. Each paid period has its own Activation for each Device; an Activation for the next paid period obtained before that period starts is valid only from its start date. The Program works under this License without the internet until the end of the period recorded in the Activation, without interim checks. For the Program to learn of a renewal, it needs a new Activation (clause 5.5, the Pro Subscription Terms). When the period has ended, the Program does not work under this License, even without the internet; the data created in the Program remain on the Device (clause 2.7). The detailed terms are set by the Pro Subscription Terms. Automatic renewal is in effect only if the Licensor has enabled it on the Website and the Licensee has turned it on with a separate checkbox (the Recurring Payment Terms); it can be turned off at any time.
2.16. Licenses acquired earlier. If a License was acquired before sales began on the Website, its scope, updates period and other terms are determined by the revision of the Agreement and the terms that the Licensee accepted when acquiring it; accepting this revision when installing an Update does not worsen them.
3. RESTRICTIONS ON USE
Unless expressly permitted by the Agreement, by a rule of law that cannot be departed from by contract (including Article 1280(2) and (3) of the Civil Code) or by the licenses of the components of other right holders (section 4), the Licensee may not:
(a) distribute the Copy, the license key, the Activations or the sign-in details of the Personal Account: sell, rent or pass them to Third Parties, or make them publicly available (an Organization may pass them to Organization Employees for the Devices within their Seats);
(b) grant Third Parties the right to use the Program (a sublicense under Article 1238 of the Civil Code) or assign its rights under the Agreement without the Licensor's written consent; the use of the Program by an Organization Employee under a Seat is deemed use of the Program by the Organization itself within the License and is not a sublicense;
(c) circumvent or disable the Program's technical protection measures (Activation, the file check under clause 2.13 and the revocation list under clause 2.12) or otherwise make the Program work without a valid Activation beyond the trial period or make features that are not included in the License work, including by forging a Device Code, substituting the hardware information that the Program reads, or deleting or altering the information about the trial period in order to obtain it again (Article 1299 of the Civil Code), and also remove or alter copyright notices, the Licensor's name, the component license information or the text of the Agreement; as to the libraries named in clauses 4.2 and 4.5, the prohibition on circumventing technical protection measures applies subject to the exception established by clause 4.6;
(d) modify the Program, including modifying or substituting its files and adding extraneous program code files to its folder, adapting it to the Licensee's hardware and correcting errors in it (Article 1280(1)(1) of the Civil Code), decompile or disassemble it, reconstruct its source code or create other programs based on it;
(e) extract the Program's components (libraries, the recognition server, model files) and use them separately from the Program other than as permitted by the licenses of their right holders;
(f) use the Program to violate the law or the rights of Third Parties;
(g) give the Licensor knowingly false information in order to obtain an Activation or a transfer of a License (for example, state a Device Code that does not belong to the Licensee's Device).
Using the Program in a way permitted neither by the Agreement nor by law nor by a component's license, or after the Agreement has ended, infringes the exclusive right and entails the liability established by law (Article 1237(3) of the Civil Code).
4. COMPONENTS OF OTHER RIGHT HOLDERS
4.1. The Program includes libraries, a recognition server, a language model server, speech recognition, translation and speaker separation models, a language model for text editing and other components of other right holders. Their list, right holders and license texts are given in the file THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt and the licenses folder next to the Program (opened from the “About” window) and, for the parts of the distribution provided as separate archives, also inside each such archive, and the information about the authors, licenses and modifications of the models of the installed parts of the distribution is also shown in the “Models and their authors” window. The scope of the rights in a component and the restrictions on its use are determined by the license of that component, and to that extent the license prevails over the Agreement: the Agreement gives the Licensee no rights to a component beyond its license and does not limit the rights that its license gives; where a term of the Agreement on the scope of rights or on restrictions on use differs from a component's license, the license applies as to that component. The terms of a component's license on the governing law and on the court that hears disputes do not apply to the relations between the Licensee and the Licensor: clauses 10.1–10.3 apply to them; obligations that a component's license imposes on its distributor do not pass to the Licensee. The right holders of the components are not parties to the Agreement; the Licensor provides the components only as part of the Program and within the limits that their licenses allow.
4.2. Some libraries, including the graphics library and, in the build for Linux, also the keyboard libraries, are distributed under the GNU LGPL version 3 (certain libraries in the build for Linux under version 2.1). The Licensee may replace such a library with its own interface-compatible version, modify it as part of the Program and carry out the reverse engineering needed to debug such modifications and the replacement; the Agreement does not prohibit such replacement or reverse engineering: items (d) and (e) of section 3 do not apply to these actions, and item (c) applies subject to the exception established by clause 4.6. The terms of the Agreement do not limit the rights that the license of such a library gives and, as to that library, apply only to the extent they do not contradict its license. How to replace the graphics library, which files belong to it and how to check the replacement, and also in which folders the keyboard libraries are, is described in the instruction REPLACING-QT.en.txt (in Russian: REPLACING-QT.ru.txt) in the licenses folder, in the subfolder of the graphics library, next to the text of its license. The source code of these libraries is available at the links in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt and in that instruction.
4.3. Hardware vendors' libraries for graphics-card acceleration are included in the Program or in an Update for use only by the Program itself on Devices with that vendor's hardware. They are subject to their right holder's terms, including the export restrictions stated in its license, and as to them the Agreement operates consistently with those terms. The Licensee may not use them separately from the Program or as a stand-alone product, modify, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble them, pass them to Third Parties other than as part of the Copy in the cases permitted by item (a) of section 3, remove proprietary notices from them, bypass the protection mechanisms built into them or use them in a way that would subject them to an open source license, except where the law permits it regardless of the contract (in particular, Article 1280(2) and (3) of the Civil Code). The rights of their right holders are reserved.
4.4. The processor vendor's libraries for computation on the processor (the parallel computing runtime and the mathematical library, including one built into another library), listed in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt with that vendor's licenses, are included in the Program only in executable code and only as part of it. To the extent required by the license of these libraries, the Licensee may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble them, modify them or their operation, including during execution, or use them separately from the Program. This prohibition goes no further than the cases that the law permits regardless of the contract (Article 1280(2) and (3) of the Civil Code) and does not limit actions expressly permitted by the license of these libraries.
4.5. The compiler runtime libraries distributed under the GNU GPL version 3 with the GCC Runtime Library Exception (they are named in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt) are used in the Program under that license. The Agreement does not limit the rights that this license gives in respect of such libraries.
4.6. Technical measures and open source libraries. Item (c) of section 3 does not prohibit actions with the libraries named in clauses 4.2 and 4.5 that their license permits: the Licensor does not forbid circumvention of technical measures, including the file check under clause 2.13, to the extent the circumvention is needed to exercise the rights under the license of such a library in respect of the library itself, and does not treat these libraries as part of the Program's technical protection measures. The libraries named in clause 4.5 are in files covered by the file check under clause 2.13 (including built into other libraries), so after they are replaced or modified the check fails; the Licensor does not apply the prohibition on circumventing technical measures to such a modification. Neither this clause nor clause 4.2 permits making the Program work without a valid Activation, forging a Device Code, modifying or substituting other files of the Program, or using the named libraries to circumvent Activation or the revocation list.
4.7. Liability of the right holders of the components. The right holders of the components give the Licensee no warranties and are not liable to it for the components beyond what their licenses provide; the limitations and exclusions of liability established by a component's license in favor of its right holder apply in relation to the Licensee as well, to the extent permitted by law. The Licensor is liable to the Licensee for the operation of the Program as a whole under section 7. This clause does not limit the rights of a Consumer (clause 10.10).
4.8. The model files (for recognition, translation, speaker separation and the language model for text editing) are components of other right holders, not the Licensor's program code. They are distributed under the licenses listed in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt and in the archive of the part of the distribution in which the model was provided: the Licensee may copy, modify and distribute the model files under their licenses, and items (a), (d) and (e) of section 3 do not apply to the model files themselves (the prohibition on distributing the license key and the Activations remains). The model files are not technical protection measures of the Program, and the Licensor applies no such measures to them: the comparison under clause 2.13 only determines which model files the Program itself works with. The Licensee's modification of its own copy of a model file is not a breach of the Agreement. When distributing them, the Licensee keeps the information about the authors of the models, their licenses and the notices of modifications (for example, of a format conversion), as these licenses require.
5. DATA AND RESULTS
5.1. Microphone audio and, when meetings are recorded, also the audio the Device plays, the files chosen for transcription, the recognized and translated text, and the results of speaker separation and of text editing by the language model are processed on the Device. The Program does not send them to the Licensor. Information about how the Program is used is not sent to the Licensor; the Licensor receives only the information named in clause 5.6, and only in the cases named in clause 5.5.
5.2. Data storage. The dictation history, transcripts, meeting recordings, the log and the Program's settings are kept only on the Device; the Licensor has no access to them and cannot restore them. The Program passes the finished text to the active window, including through the clipboard; what happens to it next depends on that program and on the settings of the operating system. If the folder with the Program's files is synchronized with cloud storage, copies are uploaded there by the synchronization program under its own rules. The Licensee ensures the safekeeping, backup and deletion of these data.
5.3. Rights to the results. The rights to the results obtained with the Program (the recognized, translated and transcribed text, including text corrected by the language model) do not pass to the Licensor, and the Licensor claims no rights to them; where such rights arise, they belong to the Licensee or to Third Parties by law. The rights to someone else's text, to the speech of Third Parties and to someone else's works that are dictated, recorded, transcribed or translated with the Program remain with their right holders.
5.4. Speech and information of Third Parties. The Licensee decides what to dictate, what to record and whose speech to recognize. If the recording contains the speech of Third Parties, or the text contains information about Third Parties or information that is a secret protected by law, the Licensee must have a lawful basis for recording and processing it. Before recording a conversation or a meeting, the Licensee warns the participants and obtains their consent where it is required: unless the law expressly provides otherwise, the collection, storage, dissemination and use of any information about the private life of an individual without their consent are not permitted (Article 152.2 of the Civil Code), and violating the privacy of private life and the secrecy of telephone conversations and other communications may also entail criminal liability (Articles 137 and 138 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The Program is not intended for covert acquisition of information: it records a meeting only after the Licensee's command and shows that the recording is in progress; concealing the recording in breach of the participants' rights is prohibited (item (f) of section 3). A Licensee that processes personal data of Third Parties with the Program other than solely for personal and family needs, in particular an Organization, is the operator of that data and complies with the requirements of personal data legislation. The Licensor does not receive this information, does not control its use and does not process it on the Licensee's behalf. If the Licensee has opened access to the Program to other programs on the Device (clause 5.5), they process the text they receive under their own rules and may send it to their cloud services, including outside the Russian Federation; the Licensor does not receive this text and is not responsible for such transmission.
5.5. Internet and network. The Program does not need the internet to work: the models, the parts of the distribution and Updates are installed from files downloaded from the Website or otherwise received from the Licensor, and the Program checks the Activation on the Device without contacting the Licensor. The Program contacts the license server and sends it the information named in clause 5.6 when the Licensee itself starts online activation, the release of a Device or signing in to the Personal Account, where the installed version of the Program has such an option. Without the Licensee's action the Program contacts the license server only in two cases:
(a) if a license key has been passed to the installer (the /LICENSEKEY installation parameter), the Program, when started, tries to obtain an Activation with that key (the server issues it only for a Device already linked to the Personal Account) until it receives the server's answer;
(b) if a license key for Pro or SAYRIL Corporate Pro is saved in the Program and there is an internet connection, the Program requests the Activation of the next period already paid for: starting five days before the end of the current paid period and for 30 days after it ends, no more than once a day.
When installed, the Program's DEB package for Linux adds to the operating system of the Device a source of Updates on the Website. According to its settings, the operating system itself contacts the Website for the list of versions and offers to install an Update if one has been released. The Program sends nothing in this case; the server receives the network address and the type of the request, as with any access to the Website. The source is removed together with the Program; it can also be disabled in the settings of the operating system.
The buttons for buying, renewing and going to the Personal Account open the Website in the browser; the Program does not accept or keep payment data.
Where the installed version of the Program has a speech recognition mode for other computers on the local network or access for other programs on this Device (for example, assistant programs and AI agents), they are off until the Licensee itself turns them on. In the local network mode the audio of dictations and the recognized text are transmitted between Devices without encryption; the access token for these modes is kept in the Program's settings file in plain form. By turning these modes on, the Licensee decides which networks and programs to trust and ensures the protection and lawfulness of the transmission of information; a connected program may obtain the text of audio and video recordings on the Device that are accessible to the operating system user account under which the Program runs. Starting a recording through the access for other programs is not possible. The Agreement does not permit opening the access to programs on other computers, including through an intermediary.
5.6. Information on activation. The Program calculates the Device Code on the Device from one-way hashes of information about its hardware and operating system; this information itself does not leave the Device. In the cases named in clause 5.5 the Program sends the license server the license key or a confirmation of sign-in to the Personal Account, the Device Codes, the Activation number and the version of the Program and, when the Device is linked to the Personal Account, also the time the trial period started; the server also receives the network address from which the Program contacts it. If an Activation is obtained without the internet or through support, the Licensor receives what was entered in the Personal Account or sent to support. No audio, text or information about how the Program is used is transmitted in any of these cases.
5.7. Personal data. The Licensor processes the information of the Personal Account, of Orders, payments, Licenses, Devices, Activations and requests to conclude and perform the Agreement, for accounting and to protect the parties' rights, under the Personal Data Processing Policy published on the Website. The Licensor requests consent to processing that is not necessary to perform the Agreement separately.
6. REFUNDS
6.1. The amount paid is refunded in the cases provided by law and by other legal acts binding on the parties, in particular where:
(a) the License was not granted in time (clause 2.9) or an Activation was not issued in time under clause 2.5(c), and before receiving them the Licensee withdrew from the Agreement by telling the Licensor so (Article 310(2), Article 450.1(1) and the second paragraph of Article 453(4) of the Civil Code);
(b) on the day the License was granted the Program materially failed to match its description at the Place of Purchase (clause 7.3), and for that reason the Licensee withdrew from the Agreement, telling the Licensor what the mismatch is within a reasonable time after discovering it, but no later than two years after the day the License was granted (Article 310(2), Article 450.1(1) and the second paragraph of Article 453(4) of the Civil Code). A mismatch is material where, on the day the License was granted, the Program did not provide a feature named in the description and included in the License on a Device that meets the recommended specifications stated for that feature at the Place of Purchase; this item does not limit the choice of a Consumer in the case of other defects of the Program (item (c));
(c) the Licensee is a Consumer and has made a refund demand to which consumer protection legislation entitles the Licensee (the Law of the Russian Federation No. 2300-1 of 7 February 1992 “On Protection of Consumer Rights,” hereinafter the Consumer Protection Law, and the Unified Rules in the Field of Consumer Protection approved by Decree No. 6 of the Supreme State Council of the Union State of 6 December 2024, hereinafter the Unified Rules), to the extent the relevant rule applies to a license for a computer program (in particular, the right under Article 48 of the Unified Rules to withdraw from a digital product of proper quality within seven days, not counting the day of purchase, and, for a subscription, with a refund of the part of the fee proportional to the remaining part of the paid period);
(d) the terms of the contract were not available to the Licensee before payment, and the Licensee gave up the License under clause 1.3;
(e) the Licensor proposed to the Licensee that the Agreement be terminated under clause 7.8, and the Licensee agreed.
6.2. Beyond the cases named in clause 6.1, the Agreement provides for no refund of the amount paid. This does not limit the rights of a Consumer named in clause 6.1(c).
6.3. Withdrawal from Pro. Where a Consumer withdraws from a paid period of Pro under the right named in clause 6.1(c), the Licensor refunds the part of the fee proportional to the remaining part of the paid period, and refunds the fee for a period that has not yet started in full. The procedure for calculating that part is set by the Refund Policy.
6.4. To an Organization, to which consumer protection legislation does not apply (clause 1.5), money is refunded only in the cases provided for by civil legislation and in the case of an excess payment; early termination of the Agreement at its initiative and the settlements in that case are determined by a separate agreement of the parties.
6.5. The procedure for sending a demand, the calculation of the amount, the time limits and method of payment and the refund of an excess payment are governed by the Refund Policy.
6.6. When a refund demand is satisfied, the License or the paid period for which the money is refunded ends at the moment the demand was received, not on the day the money is credited, and the Licensor revokes the corresponding Activations (clause 2.12). The Licensee's other Licenses remain. If after the refund the Licensee has no valid License left, it removes the Program from all Devices and destroys the files of the Copy that it received and its backup copy. The Licensee may not use the Program under the ended License, even if it still works (clause 2.12).
6.7. The rights that consumer protection legislation gives to a Consumer are not limited by this section (clause 10.10).
7. QUALITY, WARRANTIES AND LIABILITY
7.1. Accuracy. Recognition, translation, speaker separation and text editing are performed automatically by models. A model may omit words or add words that were not in the speech, distort names, numbers, dates, amounts, names of medicines and dosages, and terms, and in translation it may change the meaning. Speaker separation may attribute a remark to another speaker. The language model that corrects text, including by the Licensee's instruction, may change its meaning, omit or add words and information. The Licensee checks the result before relying on it.
7.2. Purpose. The Program is a text input and transcription tool. It is not a medical device, does not replace a professional translator or stenographer and is not intended for situations where a recognition, translation or text editing error could cause harm to life, health or property (medical prescriptions, control of equipment and vehicles, contacting emergency services).
7.3. The Licensor warrants that it is entitled to grant the License on the terms of the Agreement and that, on the day the Copy is delivered, the Program provides the features named in the description of the Program at the Place of Purchase on a Device that meets the recommended specifications stated there for the feature concerned. No warranty period is set for the Program; a Consumer may make demands concerning defects of the Program within the periods established by consumer protection legislation. Speed and accuracy depend on the Device, the microphone, the language and the manner of speech and are not guaranteed. Measurement results published by the Licensor were obtained on specific hardware and do not mean that the same result will be achieved on the Licensee's Device. Otherwise, to the extent permitted by law, the Program is provided “as is”: the Licensor does not guarantee operation without errors or interruptions, compatibility with any hardware or software, including that released later, or fitness for a particular purpose of the Licensee, except a purpose that a Consumer told the Licensor about before payment.
7.4. Defects. The Licensee reports a defect of the Program to the Licensor (clause 10.4), attaching where possible the information from the “About” window and a description of what happened. In the case of defects of the Program a Consumer has the rights established by consumer protection legislation.
7.5. Limit of liability. The Licensor is liable for a breach of the Agreement where it is at fault; its liability is limited to actual damage of no more than the amount paid for the License to which the breach relates; lost profits are not compensated; during the trial period the Licensor is liable only for damage caused intentionally. None of these four terms applies:
(a) to liability for a willful breach (Article 401(4) of the Civil Code);
(b) to compensation for harm to life or health;
(c) to the demands of a Consumer, in every case where consumer protection legislation applies to the Agreement (Article 400(2) of the Civil Code, Article 16(2)(4) and (9) of the Consumer Protection Law).
7.6. Responsibility of the Licensee. The Licensee is responsible for what it dictates, records, transcribes and translates, for the instructions it gives the language model for text editing, for the choice of the programs to which it opens access to the Program (clause 5.5) and for the lawful use of the results. The Licensee ensures that the Agreement is observed by the persons to whom it gave access to the Program on its Device; an Organization answers for the actions of the Organization Representative and of Organization Employees as for its own. A Licensee that is not a Consumer (in particular, an Organization, and also a User who acquired or uses the Program for business activity) and has breached the Agreement compensates the Licensor for the resulting losses, including amounts recovered from the Licensor on the demands of Third Parties because of that breach and the reasonable costs of defending against those demands (Articles 15 and 393 of the Civil Code).
7.7. The Licensor is not responsible for the operation of the operating system, drivers, hardware or other programs. For the consequences of using the Program in breach of section 3 or contrary to clauses 7.1 and 7.2 the Licensor is not responsible to the extent they are caused by such use.
7.8. Rights of Third Parties to the Program. If a Third Party claims to the Licensee that the use of the Program under the Agreement infringes its rights, the Licensee informs the Licensor. The Licensor may, at its own expense, offer the Licensee an Update in which the infringement is removed and, if that is impossible, propose that the Agreement be terminated with a refund of the amount paid.
7.9. Transcription of files. To read an audio or video file for transcription, the Program uses the decoding means of the operating system and, on Linux, a decoding program installed by the Licensee; without them the Program transcribes only WAV files. The Licensor does not supply these means and programs and does not ensure their availability, operation or license terms. Which formats and means are needed for transcription is stated in the description of the Program.
8. TERMINATION OF THE AGREEMENT
8.1. The Licensee may stop using the Program and remove it at any time. This does not terminate the License (clause 2.7); money can be refunded in the cases and in the manner provided by section 6 and by law.
8.2. The Licensor may withdraw from the Agreement only in the cases provided by law, in particular under Article 1237(4) of the Civil Code: if the Licensee materially breached the obligation to pay the fee (including where the payment was recalled or returned by the bank at the Licensee's demand), the Licensor may send the Licensee a notice of withdrawal from the Agreement; the Agreement ends as to that License thirty days after the moment the Licensee received that notice unless the fee is paid within that time. In the case of another material breach of the Agreement by the Licensee, the Licensor may demand its termination in court (Article 450(2)(1) of the Civil Code) and protect the exclusive right by the means established by law. Closing the Personal Account or restricting access to it does not by itself terminate the License.
8.3. When a License ends, the Licensor revokes its key and Activations (clause 2.12), and the Licensee stops using the Program under that License and, if it has no other valid License left, removes the Program from all Devices and destroys the files of the Copy that it received and its backup copy. Obligations that arose before termination, clause 5.7 and sections 3, 4, 6, 7 and 10 continue to apply.
9. CHANGES TO THE TERMS
9.1. A License is governed by the revision of the Agreement that the Licensee accepted when acquiring it (clause 1.2); a revision is identified by the date in its heading. The Licensor keeps the information about the accepted revision together with the Order information. If the revision shown at the Place of Purchase at payment and the revision in the file LICENSE.txt next to the Program differ, the former applies. The terms accepted by the Licensee are not changed unilaterally.
9.2. The Licensor publishes a new revision of the Agreement on the Website and may show it in the installer of an Update. The new revision applies to Licenses acquired after its publication, including each period of Pro and SAYRIL Corporate Pro paid for by a new Order. A new revision applies to a License already acquired only if the Licensee has separately agreed to this: by selecting the item in the Personal Account, where the Licensor has offered such an item, or by a message under clause 10.4; on behalf of an Organization, consent is given by the Organization Representative. The License type, the list of features, the term and the number of Devices or Seats of a License already paid for are not changed by the consent. The selection of the item in the installer and the first launch of an Update do not change the terms of Licenses already acquired. Without consent the Licensee uses, under a License already acquired, any versions of the Program in which that License is valid, on the terms of the revision accepted. The Licensor may propose that certain terms of a new revision that are favorable to the Licensee be extended to Licenses already acquired; the Licensee accepts such a proposal by making use of such a term.
9.3. The description of how the Program works in sections 2 and 5 refers to the version stated at the beginning of the Agreement. After an Update is installed, the Program may work differently: the changes are stated in the description of the Update before its release and concern the Licensee only if the Licensee has installed that Update itself.
10. MISCELLANEOUS
10.1. Law. The Agreement is governed by the law of the Russian Federation.
10.2. Disputes. The Agreement imposes no mandatory pre-trial procedure on Consumers: a Consumer may apply to a court of their choice under Article 17(2) of the Consumer Protection Law, including at their own place of residence. Disputes with a Licensee that is not a Consumer (in particular, with an Organization and with a User who acquired or uses the Program for business activity) are heard, at the Licensor's place of residence on the day the claim is filed, by the court that has jurisdiction over the dispute under the law; this does not apply to disputes for which the law establishes exclusive jurisdiction.
10.3. If the Licensee is a Consumer and their place of residence is outside the Russian Federation, the choice of Russian law (clause 10.1) does not deprive them of the protection given by the mandatory rules of the law of the country of their place of residence, in the cases provided by Article 1212 of the Civil Code.
10.4. Notices. Demands, claims, notices and replies under the Agreement are sent by email: to the Licensor at the address stated at the beginning of the Agreement and on the Website; to the Licensee at the email address of the Personal Account or, where there is no Personal Account, at the address given at payment or from which the Licensee contacted the Licensor. If the Licensor's address changes, the new address is published on the Website; a change of address is not a change to the terms of the Agreement. A message is deemed delivered when it has reached the addressee, including where the addressee did not read it for reasons within their control (Article 165.1 of the Civil Code). This does not deprive the Licensee of the right to send a claim by another method provided by law.
10.5. What makes up the contract. The contract for a paid License is made up of the Agreement, the Offer and the Refund Policy, for Pro and SAYRIL Corporate Pro also the Pro Subscription Terms, and, where automatic renewal is turned on, also the Recurring Payment Terms (all in the revisions shown before payment), as well as the Order information shown at the Place of Purchase before payment: the License type and the list of features included in it, the price, the term (for Pro and SAYRIL Corporate Pro), the number of Devices (for an Organization License: the number of Seats, the price per Seat and the amount of the Order), the description of the Program and the recommended specifications of the Device. The Offer governs the procedure for concluding the contract, payment and granting the License, and the specifics for Organizations; the Refund Policy governs how money is refunded, the calculation of the amount and the payment; the Pro Subscription Terms govern the specifics of Pro and SAYRIL Corporate Pro; the Recurring Payment Terms govern automatic renewal; the Agreement governs the scope of rights, Activation, transfer of a License, Updates, components, data, warranties and liability. The Order information determines the agreed price, License type, list of features, term and number of Devices or Seats. On a matter that falls within the subject matter of one of these documents, that document applies. No term of the contract limits the rights of a Consumer established by law (clause 10.10). The use of the Website and the Personal Account is governed by the Terms of Use of the Website and Personal Account. Information about the Program from other sources does not form terms of the contract; this does not limit the Licensor's liability to a Consumer for inaccurate information about the Program.
10.6. Interpretation. The headings of sections and clauses are given for convenience. The words “including,” “in particular” and “for example” mean that a list is not exhaustive. The numbers of articles and paragraphs are given as in the wording of the laws and other acts in force on 10.11.2026. If a rule has changed its number, the corresponding rule applies. If any part of the terms is invalid, the rest remains in force.
10.7. Status of the Licensor and change of right holder. The Licensor's registration as an individual entrepreneur, the end of such registration, or a change of the tax regime or of other details does not change the party to the Agreement: the same citizen remains the Licensor. Licenses issued, Activations and accepted terms are kept in that case; only the details and the kind of receipt change. If the exclusive right to the Program passes to another person (for example, to a legal entity or to the Licensor's heirs), the Agreement remains in force (Article 1235(7) of the Civil Code); the rights and obligations of the Licensor that arise after the transfer are exercised by the new right holder.
10.8. If the Licensor does not exercise a right at once, that does not mean the Licensor has waived it.
10.9. Language. The Agreement is concluded in Russian, and the Russian text is the main one. The English text of the Agreement is given as a translation for convenience; in case of discrepancy the Russian text prevails.
10.10. Rights of a Consumer. The Agreement does not limit the rights that consumer protection legislation gives to a Consumer; a term of the Agreement that contradicts them does not apply to a Consumer.
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