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Do I have to offer the source of an AGPL (v3.0) licensed Web app even if I didn’t modify it?

The point of using the GNU Affero General Public License (Version 3) is that it allows "users who interact with the licensed software over a network to receive the source for that program" (FSF).

Section 13 of the AGPLv3.0 contains:

[…] if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version […]

It says "if you modify". Does this really mean that the source only has to be made available if it was modified (assuming that I don’t offer/distribute the application itself, i.e., its binary, at all)? Or am I missing something, maybe somewhere else in the license?

In other words:

  1. I install a Web application licensed under the AGPLv3.0 on my server.
  2. I don’t modify this application at all.
  3. I allow people to use it over the Web.

Do I have to offer the source code of this application?