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1. We allow you to download our proprietary software (including any updates to the software that we may make available from time to time) from the Site (our "Software") or obtain the Software from our users for the purposes of cataloguing and managing your Academic Papers.

2. By proceeding to download and install our Software (or any updates to the Software that we may make available from time to time), you agree to the terms of this EULA and these Terms of Use and your use of such Software (including any updates) will be in accordance with this EULA and these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to these, we are unwilling to license our Software to you. In this case, you may not download or install our Software and you must discontinue the downloading or installation process.

3. If you choose to download and install our Software and connect it to a Mendeley Web account by entering your account details, our Software collects (even while you are offline) certain data which is uploaded to our servers when you synchronize your Software and Mendeley Web account. We collect data relating to your:

3.1. Academic Papers such as the author name, title and keywords for the purpose of assisting in the:
cataloguing of your and other user's Academic Papers;
indexing of academic articles and materials;
searching of the indexed academic articles and materials;
improving the document recognition process for all users;
3.2. reading, cataloguing and accessing your Academic Papers for the purpose of:
generating recommendations for you including articles that you may be interested in reading and these recommendations are displayed in your private account;
preparing individualized statistical information which will only be made available to you via your private account; and
generating anonymous aggregate statistical information regarding all users' interests, habits and reading patterns. This statistical data does not contain any personally identifiable information and is made available to registered users on an anonymous and aggregated basis.
Please see our privacy policy for more information on how we collect and use your personal data.

4. You may (at your option) use our Software to make a regular back-up copy of your Academic Papers to our servers so that you can access your Academic Papers using the Internet and you hereby grant to us a limited licence to upload, copy, store, use, modify, display and reproduce your Academic Papers for the sole purpose of providing the Mendeley service to you.

5. We hereby grant to you a non-exclusive, personal, non-transferable licence to use or distribute to other users our Software in accordance with this EULA and Terms of Use.

6. You may:

6.1. download, install and use the Software for the purposes of cataloguing and managing your Academic Papers;
6.2. distribute our Software so that other users may install and use the Software for the purposes of cataloguing and managing their Academic Papers;
6.3. make a copy of our Software for back-up purposes;

7. Except as we permit in this EULA or as permitted by any local law, you undertake:

7.1. not to copy our Software except where such copying is incidental to normal use of our Software, or where it is necessary for the purpose of back-up or operational security;
7.2. to use our Software in accordance with the EULA and the Terms of Use;
7.3. not to rent, lease, sub-license, loan, translate, merge, adapt, vary or modify our Software (though you may contact us at office [at] mendeley [dot] com to obtain a written permission from us to do so);
7.4. not to make alterations to, or modifications of, the whole or any part of our Software, nor permit our Software or any part of it to be combined with, or become incorporated in, any other programs (though you may contact us at office [at] mendeley [dot] com to obtain a written permission from us to do so);
7.5. not to disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer or create derivative works based on the whole or any part of our Software nor attempt to do any such thing except to the extent that (by virtue of section 296A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988) such actions cannot be prohibited;
7.6. to not remove or alter our (or our licensor's) copyright notice on our Software;
7.7. not to provide or otherwise make available the Software in whole or in part.

8. You acknowledge that all copyright and other intellectual property rights in our Software belong to us and (as the case may be) our licensors, and you have no rights in or to our Software other than the right to use the Software in accordance with the terms of this EULA.