Terms of service

1. Agreement to these terms

These Terms of Service form a binding agreement between you and Hekaton LLC, a Minnesota limited liability company, governing your access to and use of the DeckShift website, applications, and services (the "Service"). By creating an account, clicking "I agree," or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

If you are using the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization, and "you" includes that organization.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old to use the Service. Where a higher minimum age applies in your jurisdiction, that higher age governs. We may terminate any account we believe belongs to a person under 16.

3. The Service

DeckShift lets you upload presentation files and related materials ("input content"), processes that content using artificial-intelligence models, and generates new or revised presentation slides ("generated output"), typically returned as a PowerPoint (.pptx) file. The Service may also derive anonymized insights and sales-presentation trends as described in Section 6 and in the Privacy Policy.

We may modify, add, or discontinue features at any time. AI systems are probabilistic and evolving; the Service and its output may change over time.

4. Accounts, free trial, and paid subscriptions

You are responsible for the accuracy of your account information and for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials and all activity under your account.

Trial scope, duration, and limits are described at sign-up and may change. Paid subscriptions, fees, billing cycles, and renewal terms are presented at purchase. Unless stated otherwise: subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled; fees are stated in US dollars and exclusive of taxes, which you are responsible for; and fees are non-refundable except where required by law or expressly stated. You may cancel at any time through account settings, effective at the end of the then-current billing period.

5. Your content and the licenses you grant

You keep ownership of your input content. As between you and Hekaton, you retain all rights you hold in it; we do not claim ownership.

You own the generated output. As between you and Hekaton, and to the maximum extent permitted by law, you own the generated output we return to you, and we assign to you whatever rights we may have in it. You are responsible for how you use it, and you understand AI-generated material may not be eligible for certain intellectual-property protections and may resemble output provided to other users.

License to operate the Service: you grant Hekaton a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, transmit, display, adapt, and process your input content and generated output for the purpose of operating, securing, maintaining, and improving the Service and providing it to you, including transmitting content to the third-party AI providers described in Section 8. This license lasts only as long as needed for those purposes and the retention periods in the Privacy Policy.

Anonymized training and trends: we use uploaded content to develop and improve our models, insights engine, and trend analytics, but only after de-identification and, where feasible, aggregation, so it does not identify you, your organization, your customers, or any individual. You may opt out at any time in account settings; opting out does not affect processing needed to deliver your output.

6. Your representations about what you upload

Each time you upload input content, you represent and warrant that:

• You own it or have all rights, licenses, consents, and authority necessary to upload it and grant the licenses above, including training and trend-analytics use unless you have opted out.
• Your upload and our permitted use do not infringe or violate any third party's intellectual-property, privacy, confidentiality, contractual, or other rights.
• You are not under a confidentiality or contractual obligation your upload would breach, and if uploading for an organization, you are authorized to do so.
• It does not contain trade secrets or data subject to special legal protection, including protected health information, payment-card data, government-issued identifiers, financial account credentials, or biometric identifiers.
• It does not contain material that is unlawful, defamatory, or that you are otherwise prohibited from sharing.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to: use the Service in violation of law or these Terms; upload content you lack rights to upload; attempt to reverse engineer, scrape, or extract our models, datasets, or source code, or use the Service to build a competing model or dataset; probe, disrupt, or circumvent security or rate limits; use the Service to generate unlawful, infringing, deceptive, or harmful material; or misrepresent your identity or authority. We may suspend or terminate access for violations.

8. Third-party AI providers and subprocessors

To provide the Service, we transmit input content and related data to third-party AI model providers and infrastructure vendors acting as our service providers. We contractually require these providers not to use your content to train their own models except as necessary to provide their service to us. Their processing is also governed by their own terms. We select them with reasonable care but are not responsible for the independent acts or omissions of third parties.

9. Intellectual property in the Service

The Service, including our software, models, insights engine, aggregated and anonymized datasets, trademarks (including "DeckShift"), and all related intellectual property, is and remains owned by Hekaton and its licensors. Except for rights expressly granted to you, we reserve all rights. Anonymized, aggregated, or de-identified data and insights we derive as permitted by these Terms and the Privacy Policy are owned by Hekaton.

10. AI output — no warranty of accuracy

Generated output is produced by automated systems and may be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, or unsuitable for your purpose. It is not professional advice. You are responsible for reviewing, editing, and verifying generated output before relying on or distributing it. The confidence scores in the product exist precisely because this review step matters.

11. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE AND ALL GENERATED OUTPUT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers, so some of the above may not apply to you.

12. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, HEKATON AND ITS OWNERS, EMPLOYEES, AND SUPPLIERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE. OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED US DOLLARS. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you.

13. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Hekaton and its owners, employees, and agents from and against any claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to your input content, your use of the Service, your generated output, or your breach of these Terms or of your representations in Section 6.

14. Term and termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, if required by law, or to protect the Service or other users. Upon termination, the licenses you grant for operating the Service end, subject to content already de-identified or aggregated for permitted training and analytics, which may be retained in anonymized form, and our routine backup and legal-retention practices. Sections that by their nature should survive do survive termination.

15. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Subject to any mandatory consumer protections in your jurisdiction, the state and federal courts located in Minnesota will have exclusive jurisdiction, and you consent to venue there. Nothing in these Terms deprives EU, UK, or EEA consumers of the protection of mandatory laws or the right to bring proceedings in their home courts where required by local law.

16. Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will provide reasonable notice, for example by email or in-app notice, before they take effect. Continued use after changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms. We will not apply materially new uses of previously uploaded content retroactively without an appropriate lawful basis or your consent.

17. Contact

Hekaton LLC, Minnesota, USA. Questions about these Terms: legal@deckshift.online.