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terms of service

last updated: 2021-03-02


thank you for using our services. we try to come up with sensible rules to help you and everyone else make the best use of our work. "we" is the team working to create these services and, for legal purposes in this agreement, the company:
pixelcraft innovation GmbH.

we may update these terms of service in the future. you can track all changes on our public GitHub repository.

when you use our services, you are agreeing to the latest terms of service. these terms remain in effect, regardless of times where we may not exercise a specific provision in these terms.

if you violate any of these terms, we may terminate your account. we appreciate the trust you place in us to make sensible choices. we trust you to make sensible choices to not put us in a difficult position. in any case, we design our services so that you are given the means to limit your exposure: back up your data. we do our best to deserve your trust by being transparent in our work and open to feedback.

use restrictions

we want our services to contribute to a safer and kinder world. to that end we put restrictions on how you may use our services. we need to protect all our users and also ourselves. you should know better anyway, but engaging in any of the following activities on our services will earn you a ban when we learn of them:

  • compromising personal safety; doxing or bullying
  • compromising personal integrity; phishing or defrauding personal information
  • compromising information integrity; soliciting malware or spyware, nefarious hacking
  • compromising information sanity; spamming or cybersquatting
  • compromising slidenotes' legal integrity; breaking the law
  • infringing on intellectual property; going beyond the legally permissible use of the intellectual work of others
  • infringing on personal dignity; discriminatory propaganda or hate speech

report abuse

if you feel that we are missing a policy to ensure the safety of all our users, please get in touch. we want to make right by you. if you would like to report abuse, codified or not (yet) please alert us at abuse[at]slidenotes.io

accounts

you may register an account to gain access to advanced functionality of slidenotes. we only require an email address. for the time being we have created a separation of concerns between user accounts and payment: there is no payment option available on slidenotes. you can qualify for a pro tier account by supporting our work and by invitation.

terms governing account registration:

  1. your account must be registered by a human. we don't deal with bots.
  2. your account is responsible for all content submitted and all activity that occurs under your account. you decide how you share access.
  3. you are responsible for maintaining the security of your account. we practice mandatory encryption and we cannot access any data beyond account identifiers and note meta-data. we will not be liable for loss of access to encrypted data. take care of your passwords and backups.
  4. your account identifiers (email and username) and note metadata (titles, time stamps) are only used to provide access to your account. we do not sell your data.
  5. all account data is stored on virtual servers and backed up to multiple data stores on premise. we promise to keep the service online beyond the lifetime of slidenotes for as long as the servers keep running. the servers and web address are paid for two years in advance, counting from the date of these terms. we will notify you ahead of time, if the business is in peril of closing access.
  6. we have the right to terminate your account if you violate our trust and the restrictions we place on how to use our services.

services

we create web applications and services with a penchant for open source development. you can find details of the specific copyright licenses for the code we write in the public repository associated with a service. unless otherwise noted, all intellectual property is copyright to the company. especially the visual design elements, names and iconography are to be used solely at our discretion. if you want to include our work or our brand material in your own, please request permission.

terms governing our services:

  1. you use our services at your sole risk. we provide them "as is" and "as available" and do what we can to ensure uptime. we promise to keep the services online, even beyond their lifetime, for as long as the servers are paid for. we pay our service providers two years in advance and aim for at least one year of rolling headway.
  2. we reserve the right to change the architecture of our service itself and the policies and terms that govern it at any time. we may do this to provide a reliable business foundation for continued viability of the service and we try to make amends for legacy users where possible.
  3. we take your information sovereignty seriously. we apply the conditions outlined in our privacy policy to all the information you entrust to us.
  4. you expressly understand and agree that the company is not liable in any way to you or any third party for damages incurred in the use of or consequences of using our services, by you or by others.
  5. the services and the company, by residence, are subject to the laws of germany and EU regulations. you agree to the jurisdiction of a german court of law to resolve disputes.

if you have a question about any of our terms of service, please contact support[at]slidenotes.io