Terms of Service

Effective Date: 11 August 2026 Last Updated: 11 August 2026 Version: 1.0

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of Slides by Karya (the "Service"), an AI presentation platform operated by Karya, a partnership firm registered under the Indian Partnership Act, 1932 (Registration No. 3263 of 2026), having its principal place of business in New Delhi, India ("Karya", "we", "us", "our").

By creating an account, purchasing credits or a plan, or otherwise using the Service, you ("you", "your", "User") agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Please read these sections carefully. They limit our liability (§17), require you to indemnify us if you use the Service for business (§18), and govern how disputes are resolved (§21).

If you are a consumer in the EU, EEA, or UK, you have a statutory right to cancel within 14 days — see §8. Nothing in these Terms removes rights your local law gives you that cannot be waived by agreement.

Contents

1. Definitions · 2. The Service ·
3. Eligibility · 4. Accounts ·
5. Organizations · 6. Credits & plans ·
7. Payment, billing & auto-renewal ·
8. Right of withdrawal ·
9. Cancellation & refunds ·
10. Your content · 11. AI output ·
12. Where your decks are stored ·
13. Sharing & audience data ·
14. Acceptable use · 15. Our IP ·
16. Third parties ·
17. Liability ·
18. Indemnification ·
19. Privacy & data protection ·
20. Suspension & termination ·
21. Governing law ·
22. Changes ·
23. General · 24. Contact

1. Definitions

"Business User" means a User who accesses the Service wholly or mainly for purposes relating to their trade, business, craft, or profession, including any User acting on behalf of an entity.

"Consumer" means an individual User acting wholly or mainly outside their trade, business, craft, or profession.

"Content" means briefs, prompts, uploaded source files, images, style references, text, and any other material you submit to the Service.

"Credits" means the Service's internal unit of account, used to pay for AI-powered features.

"Deck" means a presentation created, edited, generated, imported, or stored through the Service.

"Model Provider" means a third party that hosts and runs the AI models used to produce Output. See Sub-processors.

"Organization" means a shared workspace with multiple members drawing on a common Credit wallet.

"Output" means any content produced by the Service in response to your Content, including generated slides, edits, images, and outlines.

"Shared Deck" means a Deck you publish to a shareable link.

2. The Service

2.1. Slides by Karya turns a brief and source material into editable presentation decks. It provides AI deck generation, an editor, an AI copilot for editing, AI image generation, outlines, import and export, interactive slide blocks, and shareable presentation links.

2.2. The Service is provided as software-as-a-service. Features may be added, changed, or removed as described in §22.

2.3. AI is central to the Service. Deck drafting, copilot editing, outlines, and image generation are performed by AI models operated by third-party Model Providers. Your Content is transmitted to those providers to produce Output. See §11, the AI Transparency Notice, and the Privacy Policy.

2.4. The Service is offered worldwide, subject to §23.7 (export control and sanctions).

3. Eligibility

3.1. You must be at least 18 years old. You confirm your date of birth at sign-up. The Service is not directed to, and may not be used by, anyone under 18.

3.2. You must have the legal capacity to enter a binding contract. If you accept these Terms on behalf of an entity, you warrant that you are authorised to bind that entity, and "you" includes that entity.

3.3. You must not be located in, or ordinarily resident in, a country or territory subject to comprehensive sanctions, and must not be a person with whom dealings are prohibited under applicable sanctions law.

4. Accounts

4.1. You register with a valid email address and a password. You must verify your email address before using paid features.

4.2. You are responsible for the accuracy of your registration details, for keeping your credentials secure, and for all activity under your account.

4.3. Notify us at support@the-karya.com immediately if you suspect unauthorised access.

4.4. We may suspend duplicate accounts created to circumvent Credit grants, free allowances, or rate limits.

4.5. You may sign out of all sessions and reset your password from your account settings; doing so invalidates existing sessions.

5. Organizations

5.1. An Organization owner may invite or approve members. Approved members spend Credits from the Organization's shared wallet; all other Users spend from their personal wallet.

5.2. The Organization owner is responsible for managing membership and for all use and spending under the Organization, and remains liable for it.

5.3. Deck visibility within an Organization. A Deck is private to its creator by default. Its creator may set its visibility to Organization, which lets every approved member of that Organization view it. Visibility is set per Deck and is stamped from the creator's Organization when the Deck is created.

5.4. Decks on member departure. A Deck belongs to the account that created it, not to the Organization, and remains with that account when the member leaves — including Decks that were visible to the Organization. If your Organization needs continuity of work product, ensure it is exported, published as a Shared Deck, or recreated under an account the Organization controls before a member departs. We will not transfer a Deck between accounts without the creating account holder's consent.

5.5. Credits in an Organization wallet belong to the Organization, not to individual members, and are not apportioned on departure.

6. Credits & plans

6.1. AI features are paid for with Credits. Credit prices, plan inclusions, and the Credit cost of each feature are published in the Service and may be updated as underlying costs change. Changes apply prospectively.

6.2. Credits are charged when a paid operation runs. Where an operation partially fails, we refund the unused portion in Credits automatically.

6.3. Credits are not money. Credits are a limited licence to access Service features. They are not legal tender, e-money, a prepaid payment instrument, a security, or a stored-value product; they carry no cash value, cannot be redeemed, exchanged, transferred, or withdrawn for cash, and are not transferable between accounts.

6.4. Expiry. Credits included with a subscription plan expire when that plan lapses or is cancelled. Credits purchased separately as top-ups do not expire while your account remains active.

6.5. Free features (such as the outline step and the daily copilot allowance) are rate-limited and may be modified or withdrawn.

6.6. We may apply fair-use limits and rate limits, and may require an upgrade where usage materially exceeds normal good-faith use or degrades the Service for others.

7. Payment, billing & auto-renewal

7.1. Payment processing. Payments are processed by our third-party payment processor. Karya is the merchant of record. We do not receive or store your full card details.

7.2. Prices and taxes. Prices are shown in the Service. Unless stated otherwise, prices are exclusive of tax, and applicable GST, VAT, or sales tax is added at checkout based on your location. Where we are required to collect and remit VAT on sales to consumers in the EU or UK, that VAT is shown before you pay. Business customers in the EU/UK may supply a valid VAT number for reverse-charge treatment where applicable.

7.3. AUTO-RENEWAL — please read. Where you buy a subscription plan:

• Your subscription renews automatically at the end of each billing period.
• You will be charged the then-current price for the next period on the renewal date, using the payment method on file, until you cancel.
• The billing period, price, and renewal date are shown to you before you complete the purchase, and you must affirmatively consent to them.
• We send you an acknowledgment of these terms after purchase.
• You can cancel at any time, online, from your account settings, in as few steps as it took to subscribe. No phone call or email is required.
• Where required by law, we will send you advance notice before an annual renewal or before a price increase takes effect.

7.4. Price changes. We may change prices on notice. For monthly plans, changes take effect at the next billing period after notice. For annual plans, at the next renewal. If you do not accept a change, cancel before it takes effect.

7.5. Failed payment. If payment fails, paid features may be suspended. Your account and data are retained for 30 days, during which you may reactivate by settling the outstanding amount. After that we may delete the account under §20.4.

7.6. You are responsible for any fees your bank or card issuer charges, including foreign-transaction and currency-conversion fees.

8. Right of withdrawal — EU/EEA and UK Consumers

8.1. If you are a Consumer in the EU, EEA, or UK, you have the right to withdraw from a purchase within 14 days of the contract being concluded, without giving a reason.

8.2. How to withdraw. Tell us by a clear statement — email support@the-karya.com or use the cancellation option in your account. You may use the model withdrawal form in the Refund & Cancellation Policy, but you do not have to.

8.3. Effect. Where the right of withdrawal applies and has not been waived under §8.4, we refund all payments received within 14 days of being informed, using the same payment method, at no charge to you. This is subject to the deduction in §8.5 for Credits you have already used.

8.4. IMPORTANT — waiver on immediate access. The Service gives you access to digital content and services immediately on purchase. By purchasing and ticking the confirmation box at checkout, you expressly request that we begin performance immediately and acknowledge that you thereby lose your right of withdrawal once performance has begun and, for digital content, once supply has started.

8.5. Where you have used only part of what you bought before withdrawing, we may deduct a proportionate amount for the Credits actually consumed.

8.6. This section applies in addition to the general cancellation terms in §9 and prevails over them for EU/EEA/UK Consumers.

9. Cancellation & refunds

9.1. You may cancel a subscription at any time from your account settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid period; you keep access until then. We do not pro-rate unused portions of a paid period.

9.2. Outside the statutory rights in §8 and any other mandatory law, purchases of Credits and subscription fees are non-refundable.

9.3. We refund in full where we charged you in error, where a paid operation failed and Credits were not automatically returned, or where a refund is required by law. See the Refund & Cancellation Policy for the process and timelines.

9.4. No refund is given where an account is terminated for breach of these Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy.

10. Your content

10.1. You own your Content. We claim no ownership of your briefs, files, images, or Decks.

10.2. Licence to us. You grant us a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, transmit, adapt, and display your Content solely to operate and support the Service for you — including sending it to Model Providers to produce Output, converting it between formats, rendering it, and serving Shared Decks you choose to publish. This licence ends when the relevant Content is deleted, except for Shared Decks you have published, for as long as those links remain live.

10.3. Your warranties. You represent and warrant that you own or have all necessary rights to your Content, and that your Content and its use through the Service do not infringe any third party's intellectual property, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, or other rights.

10.4. Style references — read this. The Service lets you upload an existing deck or image as a style reference to guide visual direction. You are responsible for having the right to use any material you upload for this purpose. Uploading a third party's deck, brand assets, or copyrighted design work as a style reference may infringe their rights. Style references guide aesthetic direction only; they are not a licence to reproduce protected material, and we do not review or clear the rights in what you upload.

10.5. Uploaded source files are used to generate your Deck and are not retained on our servers after generation. See the Privacy Policy.

10.6. Feedback. If you send us feedback or feature suggestions, we may use them freely and without obligation to you.

11. AI-generated output

11.1. You are interacting with AI. Deck generation, the copilot, outlines, and image generation are performed by AI. Decks and edits produced by the Service are AI-generated content.

11.2. Output is probabilistic. It may be inaccurate, incomplete, out of date, biased, or simply wrong. It may vary between runs for identical input. We do not warrant that Output is accurate, original, non-infringing, or fit for any purpose.

11.3. You must review Output before you rely on it. Do not use Output in medical, legal, financial, tax, employment, safety-critical, or regulatory contexts without qualified human review. You are solely responsible for what you publish or present.

11.4. Similarity. AI models are trained on large datasets and may produce Output that resembles existing work. We make no representation that Output is original or free of third-party rights. Check before commercial use.

11.5. Ownership of Output. As between you and Karya, you own the Output generated from your Content, subject to the terms and licences of the underlying models and Model Providers. We make no representation that Output is copyrightable or that you hold enforceable rights in it — in several jurisdictions, purely AI-generated material may not attract copyright protection.

11.6. Model changes. The models, Model Providers, and their versions may change at our discretion to improve quality, cost, latency, or availability. Such changes may alter the style or characteristics of Output. We are not liable for changes attributable to a Model Provider or model update.

11.7. AI transparency. Where required by law — including Article 50 of the EU AI Act — AI-generated Decks are disclosed as AI-generated, and we mark synthetic content in a machine-readable format where applicable. See the AI Transparency Notice.

11.8. No deepfakes of real people. See the Acceptable Use Policy.

12. Where your decks are stored

12.1. Your Decks are stored on our servers. This includes slide content, your theme and formatting, and any speaker notes. A working copy is also cached in your browser so the editor stays responsive.

12.2. Decks expire after 12 months. A Deck you have not opened or edited for 12 months is deleted automatically, together with all of its content. We do this so that old work does not sit on our servers indefinitely. Export anything you want to keep beyond that period.

We retain a limited history of recent versions of a Deck so you can undo a bad edit, but we do not guarantee that any particular earlier version will remain available, and that history is deleted with the Deck.

12.3. Backups are not guaranteed recovery. We take routine backups for operational resilience, but we do not offer a data recovery service and do not warrant that a deleted or corrupted Deck can be restored. Export anything you cannot afford to lose. The Service provides export functionality for this purpose.

12.4. Deletion is permanent. Deleting a Deck deletes its slides and its version history. Deleting your account deletes all of your Decks. This cannot be undone once the retention periods in §20.5 have run.

12.5. Confidentiality. Your Decks sit on our systems. We do not routinely access or review them, but we can and will where a security incident, a valid legal demand, or an abuse report requires it. Do not put anything in a Deck that you would not want us to be able to access. For genuinely sensitive material, consider whether this Service is the right place for it.

13. Sharing, presenting & audience data

13.1. Shared Decks are published to a link. Anyone with the link can view the Deck. Links are unlisted but are not secret — do not publish confidential, personal, or sensitive material to a Shared Deck.

13.2. Expiry. A Shared Deck expires 90 days after publication by default and is then permanently deleted. You may unpublish at any time.

13.3. Interactive blocks and your audience. Decks may include polls, multiple-choice questions, and reveal blocks. When you share such a Deck and audience members respond:

• You are the controller of that audience data; we process it on your behalf as your processor.
• It is your responsibility to tell your audience what you are collecting and why, and to have a lawful basis for it.
• **Do not use interactive blocks to collect personal, sensitive, or special category data.** They are designed for aggregate, anonymous audience response. Do not ask for names, contact details, health information, or anything similar.
• We store responses in aggregate to serve results back to the Deck.

13.4. Content standards. Shared Decks are subject to the Acceptable Use Policy. We may remove a Shared Deck that violates it or is the subject of a valid infringement notice under the Copyright & DMCA Policy.

13.5. We label Shared Decks as AI-generated where applicable (§11.7).

14. Acceptable use

Your use of the Service is governed by the Acceptable Use Policy, which forms part of these Terms. In summary, you must not use the Service to break the law, infringe others' rights, generate harmful or deceptive content, attack or overload our systems, evade limits or billing, or build a competing model or service. Breach may result in content removal, suspension, or termination without refund.

15. Intellectual property

15.1. The Service — including its software, interface, design, editor, kernel document model, prompts, workflows, templates, documentation, and the names "Karya" and "Slides by Karya" — is and remains our property or our licensors'. These Terms grant you no ownership in it.

15.2. We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the Service in accordance with these Terms for the duration of your access.

15.3. You must not copy, modify, reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the source code, prompts, model configurations, or architecture of the Service, except to the extent that restriction is prohibited by applicable law.

15.4. The Service incorporates open-source components under their respective licences. That does not grant you rights in our proprietary layers.

16. Third-party services

16.1. The Service depends on third parties — Model Providers, payment, email, hosting, and image generation. See Sub-processors.

16.2. We do not control their availability, performance, security, or terms, and are not liable for their acts, omissions, outages, changes, or discontinuation, subject to §17.6.

16.3. Where you connect a third-party service or export to one, your use of it is governed by that provider's terms and is at your own risk.

17. Disclaimers & limitation of liability

17.1. "As is". To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and accuracy.

17.2. No uptime guarantee. We do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free access. The Service may be unavailable for maintenance, updates, or causes beyond our control, including Model Provider and infrastructure outages. Paid enterprise plans may carry a separate SLA.

17.3. LIABILITY CAP — BUSINESS USERS. To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability to a Business User arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the Service — in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise — shall not exceed the greater of (a) the total fees you paid us in the 3 months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) USD 100.

17.4. LIABILITY — CONSUMERS. If you are a Consumer, we are liable for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breach of these Terms or our failure to use reasonable care and skill. We are not liable for unforeseeable loss, or for loss arising from your use of the Service for any business purpose. Nothing in these Terms affects your statutory rights as a consumer, including rights to a service performed with reasonable care and skill and to remedies where it is not.

Subject to §17.6, and to the extent permitted by the law that applies to you, our total aggregate liability to a Consumer shall not exceed the total fees you have paid us under these Terms. Where the mandatory law of your country of residence does not permit a limitation at that level, the lowest limitation it does permit applies instead.

17.5. Exclusion of consequential loss. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, special, incidental, punitive, or consequential loss, including loss of profit, revenue, data, goodwill, business opportunity, or reputation — except that this exclusion does not apply to a Consumer to the extent such loss was foreseeable.

17.6. Liability we do not exclude. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for: fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; death or personal injury caused by our negligence; or any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. If you are a Consumer, nothing in these Terms limits any right or remedy given to you by the mandatory law of your country of residence.

17.7. Specific disclaimers. Subject to §17.4 and §17.6, we are not liable for: your failure to export Deck content you cannot afford to lose, or for Deck content you delete (§12); your reliance on AI Output (§11); or the content, accuracy, or legality of what you or your audience put into the Service. This does not limit our own obligation to keep your Deck content available and secure — see §17.6 and the Privacy Policy.

17.8. Force majeure. We are not liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including natural disaster, epidemic, war, terrorism, civil unrest, government action, network or power failure, or the unavailability of third-party AI, payment, or infrastructure services.

17.9. Basis of the bargain. You acknowledge that our pricing reflects the allocation of risk in this section, and that these limits are an essential basis of the agreement between us. Where any limit is held unenforceable, it applies to the maximum extent permitted and the remainder of this section survives.

18. Indemnification

18.1. If you are a Business User, you will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Karya and its partners, employees, and contractors against all claims, losses, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from: your Content; your Output and how you use it; your Shared Decks and the data you collect through them; your breach of these Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy; your breach of applicable law; and your infringement of third-party rights.

18.2. We may assume exclusive defence and control of any indemnified matter, in which case you will cooperate. You will not settle any matter in a way that imposes an obligation or admission on us without our prior written consent.

18.3. This section does not apply to Consumers. A Consumer's liability to us is limited to loss caused by their own breach of these Terms, to the extent provided by applicable law.

19. Privacy & data protection

19.1. Our handling of personal data is described in the Privacy Policy.

19.2. Roles. For account, billing, security, and administration data, we act as controller (Data Fiduciary under the DPDP Act). For personal data contained in Content you submit about others — including audience responses to interactive blocks — you are the controller and we act as your processor.

19.3. DPA. Where you are a Business User and applicable data protection law requires it, our Data Processing Addendum, including EU Standard Contractual Clauses and the UK Addendum where relevant, applies and is incorporated into these Terms.

19.4. Your obligations as controller. You warrant that you have a lawful basis and any required notices and consents for personal data you submit, and that you will not submit special category data, government identifiers, payment card data, or children's data to the Service.

19.5. We maintain a current list of our sub-processors, identifying each by name, location, and purpose. We provide it on request — email support@the-karya.com. Business customers under our Data Processing Addendum receive it with that addendum, together with 30 days' notice of any change and a right to object.

20. Suspension & termination

20.1. By you. Close your account at any time from account settings or by emailing support@the-karya.com. Closure triggers deletion under §20.5.

20.2. By us — for cause. We may suspend or terminate your access, with notice where practicable, if you breach these Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy, if your payment is overdue beyond the grace period, if required by law, or if your use poses a security or legal risk to us, other users, or third parties.

20.3. Immediate suspension. Where the risk is serious — active abuse, an attack on our systems, illegal content, or a credible legal demand — we may suspend immediately and notify you afterwards.

20.4. Effect. On termination, access ends. Unused Credits and unexpired subscription time are forfeited, except where a refund is required by law or where we terminated without cause.

20.5. Deletion. Your account data is retained for 30 days after closure to allow reactivation, then deleted. Shared Decks are deleted. Decks in your browser are unaffected and remain with you. We retain what law requires us to keep — principally financial and tax records — and a minimal record that the account was deleted. See the Data Retention Schedule.

20.6. Survival. Sections 6.3, 9, 10.3, 11, 12.3, 15, 17, 18, 21, and 23 survive termination.

21. Governing law & disputes

21.1. Talk to us first. Most problems are solved fastest by email. Contact support@the-karya.com before starting formal proceedings; we will try to resolve the matter within 30 days.

21.2. BUSINESS USERS — governing law and arbitration. These Terms are governed by the laws of India. Any dispute that is not resolved under §21.1 shall be finally resolved by binding arbitration under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, by a sole arbitrator appointed by agreement. The seat and venue is New Delhi, India; the language is English; the award is final and binding.

21.3. CONSUMERS — your local law and courts. If you are a Consumer, these Terms are governed by the laws of India, but this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory laws of your country of residence. You may bring proceedings in the courts of your country of residence, and we will bring any proceedings against you there. The arbitration provision in §21.2 does not apply to Consumers.

21.4. EU consumers — online dispute resolution. EU consumers may also raise a complaint with a competent alternative dispute resolution body in their country. We are not obliged to, and do not commit to, participate in ADR proceedings before any particular body.

21.5. Injunctive relief. Either party may seek urgent injunctive or interim relief from a court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual property or confidential information, or to prevent irreparable harm.

21.6. No class actions (Business Users only). Business Users agree to bring claims only in an individual capacity and not as a claimant or class member in any class or representative proceeding.

22. Changes to these Terms and the Service

22.1. We may change these Terms. We will post the updated version with a new effective date and, for material changes, notify you by email or in-product at least 30 days before they take effect (or sooner where a change is required by law or addresses a security or legal risk).

22.2. Continued use after the effective date means you accept the change. If you do not accept it, stop using the Service and cancel before the effective date; where a material change materially disadvantages you and you cancel for that reason, we will refund the unused portion of any prepaid period.

22.3. We may change, add, or remove Service features. We will not materially degrade a paid feature you are actively using within a paid period without providing notice and, where the change is material and adverse, a pro-rata refund option.

22.4. Previous versions of these Terms are available on request.

23. General

23.1. Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, Acceptable Use Policy, Refund & Cancellation Policy, and any applicable DPA or Order Form, are the entire agreement between us on this subject.

23.2. Severability. If a provision is unenforceable, it is modified to the minimum extent needed or severed; the rest stands.

23.3. Waiver. A failure or delay in exercising a right is not a waiver of it.

23.4. Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them in connection with a merger, reorganisation, incorporation, sale of assets, or any transfer of the business to a successor entity of any form, on notice to you. If you are a Consumer and an assignment reduces your rights, you may cancel and receive a pro-rata refund.

23.5. Notices. We may notify you by email to your account address or in-product. Notify us at support@the-karya.com.

23.6. Relationship. We are independent contractors. Nothing here creates a partnership, joint venture, agency, or employment relationship.

23.7. Export control and sanctions. You must comply with applicable export control and sanctions laws. You must not use the Service in, or make it available to, a sanctioned territory or a restricted party, or for any prohibited end use.

23.8. Third-party beneficiaries. Except for our partners, employees, and contractors under §17 and §18, these Terms confer no rights on third parties.

23.9. Language. These Terms are made in English, which controls. Translations are for convenience.

24. Contact

Karya New Delhi, India Partnership firm, Reg. No. 3263 of 2026

Grievance Officer (India, DPDP Act): Aarya Banthia — support@the-karya.com If you are in the EU, EEA, or UK: we have no establishment there. Contact us directly at the address above, in English. We respond to data protection requests within 30 days.

See also: Contact & Grievance.