Terms of Service

1. The agreement

These terms are the agreement between you and Reel48 Industries LLC (“we”, “us”) about using MakoDeck, a service for hosting, presenting and sharing HTML slide decks. By creating an account or using MakoDeck, you agree to them and acknowledge the Privacy Policy.

If you use MakoDeck for an organization, you confirm that you can agree to these terms for it. If you don’t agree, don’t use MakoDeck.

2. Who can use MakoDeck

To have an account you must be at least 18 years old and able to enter a binding contract where you live.

3. Your account

• Sign up with an email address you control. We check that it is yours, for example by emailing you a code, and you can’t upload until we have. Keep your details accurate.
• Keep your password and your sessions safe. You are responsible for what happens under your account. If you think someone else has access, change your password, use “Sign out everywhere” in Account settings, revoke any share link you don’t recognize in Links I made, and tell us.
• Don’t create accounts to get around limits, bans or these terms.
• To protect MakoDeck, we limit how often accounts and networks can sign up, sign in, ask for codes, upload, download and send invitations.

4. Workspaces and organizations

• Every account has a personal workspace that only you can use. You can also create organizations, invite people by email and give each of them a role. An organization’s owners and admins manage its members, fonts and templates; its members use what is there.
• Everything in an organization’s workspace, its decks and templates, can be opened by all of its members, and a template saved in an organization can be used by its members. Members can see each other’s names, email addresses and roles.
• What you publish in an organization stays with its workspace. If you leave, you lose access to it, and what you made stays with the organization.
• An organization’s owners and admins decide who belongs to it. An organization can’t be deleted in MakoDeck yet; write to us if you need that.

5. Your content and the licence you give us

Your content is what you upload or create in MakoDeck: decks, slides and their notes, fonts and attached files. You keep whatever rights you have in it; we don’t claim to own it.

You give us permission to host, store, copy, process, render (for example into thumbnails and PDFs), display and serve your content, only as needed to run MakoDeck for you and the people you give access to, to keep it safe, and to do what these terms and the Privacy Policy describe. This permission lasts while your content is on MakoDeck and for the time it takes to delete it afterwards.

You promise that you have the rights you need to upload your content and to give us this permission, and that your content doesn’t break the law or anyone’s rights.

A deck is code. Its HTML and JavaScript run in your viewers’ browsers, in a sandbox, on a separate website. We check uploads technically, for safety and so that they can be shown, but we don’t review what a deck says or shows, and we aren’t responsible for it.

Keep your own copy of anything you can’t afford to lose. A deck you move to the trash can be restored for 7 days; after that it is deleted for good.

6. Sharing decks with people outside your workspace

• Where share links are available, a deck’s editors can make a link for one person outside the workspace, who can view the deck without an account until the link ends or is revoked. Anyone who has the link can open it, so send it only to the person it is for, and revoke it if it reaches anyone else.
• Only share what you are allowed to share. You are responsible for the decks you share and for having the right to show them to the people you send them to.
• A link’s maker can see when it is opened and how long each slide is viewed, as the Privacy Policy describes. Use what you see lawfully, and don’t use share links to track people in ways the law doesn’t allow.
• Anyone viewing a share link can report it to us. A reported link may be paused automatically until we’ve reviewed the report, and we’ll tell the person who made it. When we get a report, we may suspend sharing for a link, a deck, a workspace or a person while we look into it, and take down what breaks these terms. A person whose sharing is suspended can’t share from another account that uses the same email inbox either.

7. Link domains

• Where link domains are available, a workspace can send its share links from a subdomain it owns, such as decks.yourcompany.com, instead of makodeck.page. Links already sent keep opening at the addresses they were sent with.
• Connect only a domain you own or control and are allowed to point at MakoDeck. You are responsible for its DNS records and for who can change them. Connecting an address means a certificate is issued for it, and certificates are recorded in public logs, so the address becomes publicly visible, as the Privacy Policy says.
• Keep the record we ask you to add in place for as long as you want the domain to work. If you remove it, or it stops pointing where we asked, links sent with that address stop opening there; the same links still open at their makodeck.page addresses.
• Where link domains are part of a paid plan, a workspace keeps its link domain only while its owner has that plan. If the plan ends, new links stop using the address at once, links already sent keep opening there for 30 days, and then we remove it; the same links still open at their makodeck.page addresses.
• A link domain depends on DNS and on services we don’t control. We don’t promise that it will always work, or that a certificate will be issued or renewed for it.
• We may disconnect a link domain, or stop serving it, if it breaks these terms, if it is used to deceive people (see “Acceptable use”), if it puts people at risk, or if the law requires it. Where we reasonably can, we will tell you why.

8. AI apps, API tokens and the MakoDeck tools

• You can connect an AI app, such as Claude or ChatGPT, or create an API token, so that software can publish and read decks for you in one workspace, with the permissions you chose. What it does through that connection or token is done on your behalf, and you are responsible for it, as if you had done it yourself.
• AI apps make mistakes. Check what an app publishes or changes before you rely on it or share it; updating a deck replaces its live copy, and the previous copy can be restored from the trash for 7 days.
• Keep tokens secret. Revoke a token or connection you no longer use, or that may be exposed, in Settings. Changing your password or signing out everywhere revokes them all.
• The AI app you use is provided by someone else, under its own terms and privacy policy, and we aren’t responsible for it. MakoDeck never receives your conversations with it, only the requests it sends to MakoDeck.
• Don’t use tokens or the tools to get around MakoDeck’s limits, to overload it, or to reach decks you aren’t allowed to.

9. Acceptable use

Don’t use MakoDeck to:

• upload or share malware, or anything made to harm, spy on or take over a device, an account or a system;
• phish or deceive people, including by copying another person’s or company’s sign-in or payment pages;
• connect a link domain you don’t own or control, or one whose address imitates another person’s or company’s name, brand or website to mislead the people you send links to;
• attack MakoDeck or anyone else through deck code, for example by trying to escape the sandbox, to read other people’s data, or to overload the service;
• upload content that infringes someone’s copyright, trademark or other rights, or that is unlawful;
• get around MakoDeck’s limits, security measures or access checks.

We may remove content, and suspend or end accounts, that break these rules (see “Suspension and ending your use”).

10. Fonts

A workspace’s owners and admins can upload brand fonts, so that every deck in that workspace can use them. Before each upload, they confirm this statement:

I own this font, or its licence allows me to upload it here and use it in presentations made and shared from this workspace — including ones viewed by people outside my organization.

We keep a record of who confirmed it, when, and exactly which words they saw; if we ever change the words, each record still points to the wording it was given. We don’t check your licence: you are responsible for what you upload, so only upload fonts you are allowed to use this way.

Decks can also use Inter, and the fonts in the Google Fonts library, which MakoDeck serves from its own copy under their open licences. If you remove a font from a workspace, decks that were already published keep their own copy of it until they are replaced or deleted.

11. Copyright, takedowns and repeat infringers

If you believe something on MakoDeck infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent: Copyright Agent, Reel48 Industries LLC, 5900 Balcones Dr. #23614, Austin, TX 78731-4257, United States, support@reel48.com. Say what the work is, where it is on MakoDeck, how we can reach you, that you believe in good faith that the use isn’t authorized, and that your notice is accurate.

When we receive a valid notice, or for other reasons such as abuse or a legal request, we can take a deck down. It stops being served at once and is deleted for good by the hourly clean-up that follows. We keep a record of why.

If you think we took something down by mistake, write to support@reel48.com. We may suspend or end the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe other people’s rights.

12. Plans and fees

MakoDeck has two plans, Free and Pro. Your plan is yours, not a workspace’s: it applies in every workspace you send share links from. Every account starts on Free.

• Free costs nothing. You can have up to 3 live share links at a time, counted across every workspace.
• Pro costs $20 a month per person, in US dollars, and removes Free’s limit on live share links, though a deck and a workspace can still have only so many at a time. There is no free trial. Before you pay, Stripe’s checkout page shows the total you will be charged.
• Pro is billed monthly through Stripe, our payment provider, and renews every month until you cancel it. You can cancel at any time in Settings → Plan and billing, under Manage billing. Pro then lasts until the end of the month you have paid for, and you are on Free after that.
• A change of plan never stops a link you have already sent. If you have more live links than Free allows when Pro ends, they keep working until they expire or you revoke them, but you can’t make another until you are under the limit.
• Pro is sold by Reel48 Industries LLC, the “we” of these terms. Stripe takes the payment and keeps your card details, as the Privacy Policy explains.

Every workspace also has limits on how much it can store, how much its decks can deliver each day and month, and how large its files can be, whichever plan you are on. We may change those limits, and Free’s.

You pay only if you buy Pro. If we change Pro’s price, we will tell you by email before the new price applies to you. If we introduce any other fee, we will tell you before it applies to you.

13. Suspension and ending your use

You can stop using MakoDeck at any time, and you can move your decks to the trash yourself. You can’t delete your account yourself yet: write to support@reel48.com and we will do it by hand. The Privacy Policy describes what we keep afterwards.

We may suspend or end your access, or remove content, if you break these terms, if what you do puts MakoDeck or other people at risk, or if the law requires it. Where we reasonably can, we will tell you why.

The parts of these terms that are meant to last, such as the disclaimers, the limits on our liability and the governing law, keep applying after your use ends.

14. Disclaimers and limits on our liability

MakoDeck is provided “as is” and “as available”. We don’t promise that it will be uninterrupted or free of errors, that nothing will ever be lost, or that a deck will look exactly the same in every browser.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, lost profits or lost data, and our total liability to you for anything to do with MakoDeck is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for MakoDeck in the 12 months before the claim and US$100.

Nothing in these terms limits a liability that the law doesn’t allow us to limit, or rights you have that can’t be excluded.

15. Governing law and where disputes go

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute about them or about MakoDeck will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Travis County, Texas, and you and we agree to their jurisdiction.

16. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. We will post the updated terms here with their date, and if a change matters we will tell you by email or in MakoDeck before it applies. If you keep using MakoDeck after a change applies, you accept it.

17. Contact

Reel48 Industries LLC
5900 Balcones Dr. #23614, Austin, TX 78731-4257, United States

Questions about these terms: support@reel48.com
Privacy: support@reel48.com