Copyright Policy

1. Our approach

Slideparty lets players put text, images they upload, and images and stickers from Unsplash and Klipy on slides. Those slides are shown to the other people in a party and, if their owner turns on a public link, to anyone who has that link. You may only upload or post material you own or have permission to use (Terms, Section 8).

Slideparty is operated from France. We handle reports of illegal or infringing content under the EU Digital Services Act (Sections 2 to 5). Copyright holders in the United States can also use the DMCA procedure (Sections 6 to 8).

2. Reporting content

Anyone can report material on Slideparty they consider illegal, including infringement of copyright, image rights or other rights, by emailing hey@slideparty.app with:

1. where the material is, precisely: a public deck link (slideparty.app/d/…) and slide number, or for a party you took part in, the party link and whose deck it is;
2. why you consider it illegal (for copyright: which work of yours it copies);
3. your name and email address;
4. a statement that you believe, in good faith, that the information in your report is accurate and complete.

Every public deck page has a “Report copyright infringement” link, as does every deck in a party's gallery; both open a prefilled email to the address above. We confirm that we have received your report.

Images and stickers that come from Unsplash or Klipy are licensed by those services; if your work appears there without permission, please also report it to them so it is removed at the source.

3. What we do with a report

We review every report ourselves; no automated tool decides. If the material is illegal or breaks our Terms, we remove it or disable access to it without delay: by turning off the deck's public link, removing the identified images and stickers (and deleting any uploaded file behind them), or removing the deck's content.

We then tell the person who posted it what we removed and why: the facts, whether it followed a report, and the law or the clause of our Terms it breaks. We include a copy of the report, which can include your name and contact details, and explain how they can contest the decision (Section 4). We also tell you what we decided. If a report is missing something we need, we will tell you what.

If content suggests a threat to someone's life or safety, we inform the competent authorities, as the law requires.

4. Contesting a decision

If we removed something you posted, or declined to act on your report, and you think we got it wrong, reply to our email explaining why. We will look at it again and tell you the outcome. You can also take the matter to the French courts at any time. If the removal followed a DMCA notice, you can alternatively send a counter-notice (Section 7).

5. Repeat infringers

We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe copyright. Each valid notice against an account that is not successfully contested counts as a strike. An account with three strikes in any 12-month period is terminated, which deletes it and its data as described in the Privacy Policy. We may terminate sooner for flagrant or deliberate infringement. A user whose account was terminated may not create a new one. To apply this policy we keep each notice, and which account it concerned, for three years.

6. DMCA notices (United States)

If you are a US copyright holder and want to use the procedure of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512), send your notice to our designated agent (Section 8) containing:

1. your physical or electronic signature (typing your full name is enough);
2. identification of the copyrighted work you say is infringed;
3. identification of the material you say infringes it, with enough detail for us to find it (as in Section 2);
4. your name, postal address, telephone number and email address;
5. a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
6. a statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or authorised to act on the owner's behalf.

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), anyone who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing may be liable for damages. If you are not sure the material infringes, consider getting legal advice first. We handle DMCA notices as described in Section 3.

7. DMCA counter-notices

If material you posted was removed after a DMCA notice and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can send our designated agent a counter-notice containing:

1. your physical or electronic signature;
2. identification of the material that was removed and where it appeared before removal;
3. a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification;
4. your name, address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the US Federal District Court for the judicial district where your address is (or, if your address is outside the United States, any judicial district in which Slideparty may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice or their agent.

We forward a valid counter-notice to the person who sent the original notice. Unless they tell us within 10 business days that they have filed a court action to stop the infringement, we restore access within 10 to 14 business days of receiving the counter-notice. Where the removed file was deleted and cannot be restored, we tell you that you may post it again.

8. DMCA designated agent