Terms of Service

1. Services

Slidebase provides presentation and deck design services, including the build of a brand-specific design system and slide library (the “Design System”) and the ongoing production of presentations from it. The specific scope of each engagement is set out on our website, in your order, or in a written quote.

2. Engagement, setup & plans

Every engagement begins with a one-time setup that produces your Design System. Whether a setup fee applies, and its amount, depends on the plan you choose, as published on our website or stated in your quote. After setup, work is billed according to your plan's monthly slide allowance; slides beyond the allowance are billed at your plan's per-slide rate with your next invoice.

Plans with a fixed commitment (for example, 3 or 12 months) run for the agreed term in exchange for a reduced per-slide rate and renew or end as set out in your order. The current plans, rates and discounts are those published on our website or stated in your quote at the time of order.

3. Briefs, turnaround & timelines

You provide briefs and the source material we need to produce your decks. Timelines we state, such as approximately 48 hours to your first deck and a 24-hour target for subsequent decks, are good-faith targets that assume a complete brief and timely feedback. They are not guaranteed deadlines unless expressly agreed in writing. Larger or more complex work (for example keynotes, master templates or IR reports) is scoped and timed separately.

4. Revisions & satisfaction

Unless otherwise agreed, each deck includes two (2) rounds of revision. If, after two rounds, a deck still does not meet the agreed brief, we will, at our discretion, redo the work or refund the fee for that brief. This does not cover changes to the original brief or new scope, which are handled as additional work.

5. Fees, billing & taxes

All prices are stated exclusive of statutory VAT, which is added where applicable. We invoice in EUR or USD as agreed. Any setup fee is due before setup begins; ongoing work is invoiced as set out in your order (for example per delivery or monthly). Invoices are payable within fourteen (14) days of the invoice date unless otherwise agreed. We reserve the right to pause work on overdue accounts and to charge statutory default interest.

6. Term & cancellation

Fixed-term plans may be cancelled with effect from the end of the agreed term; work already commissioned remains payable. Either party may terminate for good cause, including material breach that is not remedied within a reasonable period after notice.

7. Intellectual property

Upon full payment for the relevant work, you receive ownership of, or a perpetual licence to use, the final delivered presentation files for your business purposes.

We retain all rights in our pre-existing materials, methods, tooling, templates and the underlying Design System framework, systems and know-how used to produce your decks. We may reference your name and show non-confidential samples of delivered work in our portfolio and marketing, unless we have agreed otherwise in writing (for example under an NDA).

8. Confidentiality

Each party will keep the other party’s non-public information confidential and use it only to perform the engagement. On request, we will sign your standard mutual NDA before briefs are exchanged, and we operate under standard EU data processing agreements where applicable.

9. Client responsibilities

You are responsible for providing accurate briefs, assets and approvals in good time, and for ensuring you hold the necessary rights to any content, logos, fonts or data you supply to us. You agree not to use our services for unlawful, infringing or misleading content.

10. Warranties & liability

We provide our services with professional care. To the extent permitted by law, we are liable without limitation only for damages caused intentionally or by gross negligence, and for injury to life, body or health. In cases of slight negligence, we are liable only for breach of a material contractual obligation (an obligation whose fulfilment is essential to the proper performance of the contract and on which you may reasonably rely), and such liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract. Any further liability is excluded. Mandatory statutory liability, including under the German Product Liability Act, remains unaffected.

11. Data protection

We process personal data in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data protection law.

12. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The current version is the one published on this page. For ongoing engagements, we will give reasonable notice of material changes, which take effect for future briefs unless you object.

13. Governing law & jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). Where you are a merchant (Kaufmann), a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law, the exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from the engagement is Hamburg, Germany.

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