You get a limited, revocable, personal, fixed-term license to use the Software on a device you own or control
To use the Services you may need to install Surfshark's Software (mobile and desktop applications and other software, including updates and accompanying documentation). Surfshark grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, personal, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, non-assignable, fixed-term license to download, install and use one copy on a compatible device you own or control. No other right or license is granted. You may not build a product using similar ideas, features, functions or graphics of the Services or websites, or copy those ideas, features, functions or graphics. You also agree to obey the law and respect others' intellectual property rights when using the website or Services.
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“Software” means any mobile and desktop software applications and any other software (including any releases, updates, enhancements, or revisions) and any documentation that accompanies or is made available in connection with such software provided by us to you for your use of the Services
Subject to these Terms we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, personal, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, non-assignable, fixed-term license (the “License”) to download, install and use a copy of the Software on a compatible device that you own or control.
No other right or license, express or implied, of any kind is granted to you hereunder with respect to the Services and/or Software.
You shall not also build a product using similar ideas, features, functions, or graphics of the Service/Websites or copy any ideas, features, functions, or graphics of the Services/Websites.
you agree to obey the law and to respect the intellectual property rights of others
Qualifications & exceptions
The license is 'subject to these Terms'.
Apple App Store downloads have a narrower device description (see the Apple card).
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The length of the 'fixed-term' license is not stated in this section.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Apple App Store downloads: license limited to Apple devices you own or control, with family sharing allowed
For Software downloaded from Apple's App Store, the license is limited to use on Apple-branded devices you own or control, as allowed by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions. The exception is that other accounts associated with you may access and use the Software through family sharing or volume purchasing features.
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in respect to the Software that is downloaded from Apple, Inc. (“Apple”) App Store, the License is limited to the use of such Software on any Apple-branded devices that you own or control and as permitted by the Usage Rules set forth in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions
except that such Software may be accessed and used by other accounts associated with you via family sharing or volume purchasing features
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to Software downloaded from the Apple App Store.
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The Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions and their Usage Rules are not supplied with this document.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
The Software is licensed, not sold; Surfshark keeps all rights and you may not use its marks or lookalikes
The Software is licensed, not sold: you receive no title to or ownership of any copy, the Software, the Services or the websites, and no rights beyond those granted in Section 6. Surfshark and/or its licensors keep all right, title and interest in the Services, Software, websites and any portion of them, and all rights are reserved unless explicitly stated otherwise. You are forbidden from registering, adopting or otherwise using trademarks, trade names, symbols or signs that are identical or confusingly similar to trademarks owned by Surfshark and/or its affiliated companies.
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The Software, used pursuant to these Terms is licensed, not sold, and you receive no title to or ownership of any copy, or of the Software itself, or even more so of the Services and Websites.
You receive no rights to the Software other than those specifically granted in Section 6 of these Terms.
We and/or our licensors retain all right, title and interest in and to the Services, Software, Websites, and any portion thereof. All rights are reserved unless otherwise explicitly expressed.
You are forbidden from registration, adoption, or any other use of trademarks, trade names, symbols, or signs that are either identical or confusingly similar to any trademarks owned by Surfshark and/or its affiliated companies.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
You give Surfshark a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, uncompensated license to use any feedback you send
You grant Surfshark and/or its affiliated companies a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide license to use Feedback you communicate to them, without payment, without any obligation to report on the use, and without any other restriction. You also waive, or agree not to enforce, any rights that may exist now or in future in the Feedback, including moral rights. 'Feedback' means any recommendation, idea, proposal, suggestion, feedback, review or other input related to the Services, Software or websites.
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You hereby grant Surfshark and/or its affiliated companies a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide license to use Feedback (as defined below) you communicate to us without reimbursement or compensation, without any obligation to report on such use, and without any other restriction.
You waive (or agree not to enforce) any and all rights that may now or in future exist (including moral and equivalent rights) in Feedback.
(“Feedback” refers to any recommendation, idea, proposal, suggestion, feedback, review, or other input related to our Services, Software, Websites).
Qualifications & exceptions
'Feedback' is defined broadly and includes reviews and other input related to the Services, Software and websites.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You may not scrape, resell, reverse engineer or use the Services to compete with Surfshark, as Surfshark decides
Prohibited uses include web crawling, scraping, harvesting or similar activity that might negatively affect how the Services are rendered to other users; presenting the Service so that it appears to be made available by a third party; accessing the Service in bulk, scraping, redistributing, reselling or making the Services available to any third party in any way; transferring or using the Services except as expressly authorized by the Terms or by Surfshark; and copying, disassembling, reverse engineering, decompiling, modifying or altering any part of the Services. You also may not use any part of the Service in any manner that competes with Surfshark, and that is 'solely determined by Surfshark'.
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By using our Services, you shall not:
Use our Services for web crawling, scraping, harvesting or other similar
activities which might negatively affect rendering of our Services to other users;
Present the Service so that it appears to be made available by any third party,
access the Service in bulk, scrape, redistribute, resell or make the Services available to any third party in any way;
Transfer or use the Services except as expressly authorized under these Terms of
Service or by Surfshark, copy, disassemble, reverse engineer or decompile, modify or alter any part of the Services. You may not use any part of the Service in any manner that competes with Surfshark, as solely determined by Surfshark;
Qualifications & exceptions
The competing-use ban depends on Surfshark's sole determination.
The first scraping item is limited to activity that 'might negatively affect rendering of our Services to other users'; the later bulk-access/scrape/resell item has no such limit.
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The Terms do not say how Surfshark decides what 'competes' with it.
Content & IP Rights · Context
Third-party software included with the Services is supplied on its owners' terms
Surfshark may include computer software from third parties together with its Services. That software is provided with the permission of the relevant copyright holders or licensors and on their provided terms.
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We may, from time to time, include computer software supplied by third parties together with our Services. Such third parties’ computer software is provided with permission of the relevant copyright holders and/or licensors, and on their provided terms.
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The third parties' own terms are not supplied in this document.