Before the legal stuff, here’s what this actually means
panicslides.com exists to enable playful, chaotic creativity, while also encouraging you to professionally present topics you genuinely care about. You can be serious, silly, chaotic, absurd, dramatic, or strangely professional. Quality is subjective. I don’t judge your work, your style, or your intent. You are free to express yourself and your ideas as much as you like.
panicslides.com is built and run by one person. That’s me. I don’t have the time, team, or mental capacity to review everything people upload. I’m not a judge, not a moderation department, and not your parent.
I cannot manually review everything before it appears online, and I do not want panicslides to become a place where creativity has to ask permission first.
The only real rule is simple. Be creative. Create. Have fun. But do not use that freedom to harm people or ruin the place for everyone else. My only expectation is that this freedom brings fun, knowledge, and or joy to others, not harm to anyone.
Being offended by something is not automatically a Terms violation. Being offended is not a violation. I will not host open hate speech, harassment, discrimination against protected groups, or illegal content. If content crosses that line and gets reported, I may remove it. Anonymous published content may disappear without notice.
Not because I want to censor you. Because one bad use can destroy something many people could have enjoyed long-term.
panicslides.com is free to use because I believe creativity should not be locked behind a paywall. Free use is anonymous. Anonymous work is not guaranteed to be stored forever. You are responsible for keeping your own copies.
Where export features are available, you may be able to export presentations for use outside panicslides.
Some export options may be experimental, disabled, limited, or unavailable during Early Access.
If an export is created locally on your device, panicslides does not host, store, moderate, or control that exported file. What you do with exported files is your responsibility.
The exports are free because I believe trust is better than enforcement. Once you export, what you do with it is your responsibility. I don’t see it, I don’t moderate it, and I’m not involved anymore.
All I ask, human to human, is this. If you share your panicslides.com creation, please keep the panicslides.com branding in place so others can discover the tool. Not because I can enforce it. Because that’s how fun spreads. More importantly, spread fun.
The Terms of Service below describe the same rules in a more formal and legally binding way. If you understand and agree with this part, you’ll probably be fine.
Terms of Service
Last updated: 16.06.2026
These Terms of Service govern the use of panicslides.com and related panicslides services.
panicslides is currently operated by Benjamin Wegener as an individual freelance developer based in Madeira, Portugal.
1. Service provider information
Service provider / operator:
Benjamin Wegener
Registered freelance developer / individual operator
NIF: PT311119131
Business address: AV DO INFANTE, N 8 - 2K
9000 - 015 Funchal, Portugal
Email: support@panicslides.com Website: https://panicslides.com
For legal, privacy, account, billing, support, and moderation questions, contact:
Yes, it sounds like a support department. Right now, it is one person.
2. What panicslides is
panicslides is a web-based presentation editor and publishing service.
It lets users create slide decks, publish them as web presentations, and share them by link.
panicslides is currently in Early Access. That means the core product is real, but some parts are still changing, hidden, experimental, incomplete, or temporarily disabled until they behave properly.
Early Access is not a promise that every feature currently planned, tested, shown in a changelog, or mentioned somewhere will be publicly available at all times.
3. Acceptance of these terms
By using panicslides, creating an account, publishing a deck, connecting Patreon, purchasing a plan, or otherwise using the service, you agree to these Terms.
If you do not agree, do not use panicslides.
If you use panicslides on behalf of an organization, you confirm that you have authority to do so.
4. Age requirements
You must be at least 13 years old to create an account or use panicslides in a way that involves personal data.
If you are under the age of majority in your country, you should use panicslides only with permission from a parent or legal guardian.
panicslides is not intended for children under 13.
5. Accounts
You can use parts of panicslides without an account.
If you create an account, you are responsible for keeping access to your email and magic-link login secure.
You must not:
- use someone else’s account
- try to access accounts, decks, files, or systems you are not allowed to access
- impersonate another person or organization
- create accounts to abuse limits, moderation, reporting, payments, or publishing
panicslides may suspend or remove accounts that violate these Terms, create legal or security risk, or threaten the service.
6. Free, anonymous, and Pro use
panicslides has two main lanes:
Free and Pro.
Free is for making things.
Pro is for standing behind them.
Guest / anonymous use
Guest users can create and publish anonymously.
Anonymous drafts may depend on browser storage, local editing tokens, or session data. If that local data disappears, control over the deck may disappear too.
Anonymous published decks are public and anonymous. They are not guaranteed ownership surfaces.
Free account use
Free account users can save or link decks to their account within the current free limits.
Free account decks can be edited while they are unpublished.
For Free accounts, publishing a deck generally means the deck is completed. Published Free decks are anonymous and may not be editable or republishable afterwards.
Pro use
Pro is the paid ownership layer.
Pro users can access Pro features while they have an active Pro entitlement.
Pro may be activated through Patreon Supporter access, through direct panicslides subscription when available, or through a manual/admin grant where appropriate.
Pro features may include:
- claiming and changing a public @handle
- publishing under a public @handle
- editing and republishing owned decks
- higher presentation limits
- higher file/storage limits
- a public @handle page or creator surface
- other Pro features made available during Early Access
Current Early Access limits may include:
Free:
- up to 15 slides per presentation
- up to 20 linked account presentations
- anonymous publishing
- no republishing after publish
Pro:
- up to 25 slides per presentation
- up to 50 linked account presentations
- up to 1GB account file storage
- up to 45MB files per presentation
- @handle publishing
- republishing owned presentations
These limits may change as panicslides develops. Changes will not be used to randomly punish normal users, but the service needs room to stay technically and financially sustainable.
7. Handles and public identity
Pro users may be able to claim a public @handle.
A handle is a public identity namespace. It is not just a decoration.
panicslides may reject, reserve, rename, or remove handles that:
- impersonate someone
- infringe rights
- are abusive, misleading, hateful, or harassing
- use protected names or brands without permission
- are needed for system routes or internal use
- create legal, security, or operational risk
Old handles may remain reserved for the same account after a handle change. This protects old published links and prevents another user from appearing connected to someone else’s old decks.
Handle changes may be rate-limited.
8. Publishing
When you publish a presentation, you make it available through a public web link.
Anyone with the link may be able to view it.
Published decks may be indexed, cached, embedded, shared, archived, screenshotted, or linked by third parties. panicslides can remove or disable its own hosted copy, but cannot control everything that happens elsewhere on the internet.
You are responsible for what you publish.
9. User content
You keep your rights to the content you create, upload, or publish.
By creating, uploading, saving, or publishing content through panicslides, you grant panicslides the limited rights needed to operate the service, including to:
- store and backup your content
- render and process your decks
- publish public decks
- display decks to viewers
- generate thumbnails, previews, embeds, metadata, and oEmbed data
- transmit and cache content through hosting/CDN infrastructure
- moderate, remove, or restrict content where required
- technically transform files where needed for playback, publishing, optimization, or security
This license is worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, and limited to operating, improving, protecting, and providing panicslides.
Private or unpublished decks will not be intentionally used in public marketing without your permission.
Public decks may appear in public product surfaces connected to your account, such as your @handle page, if that feature is available.
10. Your responsibilities
You are responsible for making sure you have the rights to use and publish the content you upload or create.
Do not upload or publish content that you do not own, did not create, or do not have permission to use.
This includes images, GIFs, fonts, sounds, logos, characters, music, screenshots, videos, and other third-party material.
panicslides does not grant you rights to third-party content.
11. Acceptable Use
Do not use panicslides to create, upload, publish, store, or share:
- illegal content
- harassment, bullying, threats, or targeted abuse
- hate speech or discriminatory content
- racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, or otherwise hateful content
- content that encourages violence or self-harm
- sexual or pornographic content
- content involving sexual exploitation or abuse of minors
- doxxing, private personal data, or non-consensual exposure of others
- malware, phishing, scams, credential theft, or deceptive links
- spam or automated abuse
- impersonation or misleading identity claims
- copyright, trademark, or other intellectual-property infringement
- content that violates someone’s privacy, publicity, or personality rights
- content that creates legal, payment-provider, hosting, or operational risk for panicslides
- anything intended to break, overload, scrape, reverse engineer, or abuse the service
Make weird things. Do not make life worse for everyone.
12. Moderation, reports, and removals
panicslides may review, restrict, unpublish, replace, or remove content if it appears to violate these Terms, creates legal risk, receives credible reports, or threatens the operation of the service.
Published presentations may be reported by viewers or users.
If a presentation is removed or taken offline, the public page may be replaced with a neutral placeholder. The public placeholder will not show the reason, the reporter, or the reviewer.
If the deck is linked to an account, panicslides may notify the account owner by transactional email.
panicslides may keep internal records of reports, decisions, reasons, timestamps, and actions for safety, dispute handling, and legal compliance.
You can appeal or ask for context by emailing:
Include the presentation link and any useful context.
13. Illegal content notices and DSA contact
For notices about illegal content, intellectual-property issues, abuse, or other hosted content problems, contact:
Please include:
- the presentation URL
- what content you believe is illegal or violates rights
- why you believe it should be restricted or removed
- your name and contact email
- whether you are the affected person, rights holder, authorized representative, or another reporter
- any useful evidence or context
panicslides may ask for more information if a notice is incomplete.
Reports are reviewed as reasonably and quickly as possible, depending on severity, clarity, risk, and available information.
If content is removed, restricted, or replaced with a placeholder, the public page will not show the reason, reporter, or reviewer.
Users connected to affected presentations may be notified where appropriate and may contact support if they believe a decision was wrong.
DSA / moderation contact point: support@panicslides.com
Communication languages: English and German. Portuguese may be handled where legally required.
14. Payments and subscriptions
panicslides may offer paid Pro access.
Direct paid subscriptions, when available, may be offered monthly or yearly.
The current pricing page is the source of truth for available plans, prices, limits, and billing periods.
Direct panicslides subscriptions, when available, may be offered monthly or yearly.
During Early Access, Pro access may also be available through Patreon Supporter access.
Patreon
If you connect Patreon, panicslides may grant Pro access while your eligible Patreon membership is active.
Patreon payments, billing, invoices, cancellations, failed payments, and refunds are handled by Patreon under Patreon’s own terms.
If your Patreon support is active but Pro access does not unlock correctly, contact:
Creem / Merchant of Record
When direct panicslides payments are available through Creem, Creem may act as Merchant of Record.
That means the purchase transaction may be made with Creem as the legal seller for payment, tax, invoicing, refund, and chargeback purposes, while panicslides provides the product access.
You must follow the payment, cancellation, refund, and customer-portal flow shown at checkout or inside your account.
You can always contact panicslides support for help:
15. Cancellation and refunds
You may cancel a paid subscription through the account billing area, the payment provider’s customer portal, Patreon, or another available cancellation flow.
Cancellation usually stops future renewal. It may not automatically refund past charges.
Statutory consumer rights remain unaffected.
If you are a consumer in the EU/EEA, you may have a legal right of withdrawal for certain online purchases. For digital services that begin immediately, the right of withdrawal may be affected depending on the purchase flow, your consent, and applicable law.
Where payment is handled by Creem or Patreon, refunds and statutory payment handling may be processed through that provider.
If you are unsure, contact:
16. Service availability and Early Access changes
panicslides is provided on an Early Access basis.
The service may change, break, improve, be rebuilt, become unavailable, or have features added, removed, hidden, limited, or renamed.
panicslides does not promise uninterrupted access, perfect compatibility, permanent hosting of every public link, or that every experimental feature will become public.
I will try to keep the useful parts alive. That is the honest promise.
17. Data loss and backups
panicslides uses reasonable technical measures to protect saved work, but no web service can guarantee that data will never be lost.
You should keep copies of important assets and content.
Anonymous decks are especially fragile because control may depend on local browser storage or editing tokens.
If something matters, link it to your account. If a published deck needs to remain editable and under your name, use Pro.
18. Security
Do not attempt to break, scan, overload, attack, bypass, or exploit panicslides.
If you find a security issue, report it responsibly:
Do not publicly disclose security issues before panicslides has had a reasonable chance to fix them.
19. Third-party services
panicslides may rely on third-party services for hosting, storage, payments, authentication, email, analytics, support, feedback, or other technical operations.
Third-party services may have their own terms and privacy policies.
panicslides is not responsible for third-party services outside its control.
20. Intellectual property of panicslides
panicslides, its brand, code, interface, design, templates, documentation, logos, and platform materials are owned by Benjamin Wegener or licensed to him unless otherwise stated.
You may not copy, clone, resell, or misuse panicslides itself.
Using panicslides does not give you ownership of the service, the software, or the brand.
21. Termination
You may stop using panicslides at any time.
panicslides may suspend, restrict, or terminate access if:
- you violate these Terms
- you create legal, security, moderation, payment, or abuse risk
- your account is used for spam, scams, harassment, or illegal content
- payment fails or Pro entitlement expires
- continued access would harm the service or other users
Where possible and appropriate, panicslides may provide notice. In urgent, illegal, abusive, or security-related cases, action may be taken immediately.
22. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent allowed by law, panicslides is provided “as is” and “as available.”
panicslides is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, business interruption, reputational harm, or missed opportunities.
To the maximum extent allowed by law, panicslides’ total liability for claims relating to the service is limited to the amount you paid for panicslides during the 12 months before the claim, or €50 if you used only the Free service.
Nothing in these Terms limits liability where it would be unlawful to do so, including liability for intentional misconduct, gross negligence, death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or mandatory consumer rights.
23. Indemnity
If your content, conduct, or use of panicslides causes claims, damages, losses, legal costs, payment-provider issues, hosting issues, or third-party complaints, you agree to compensate panicslides and Benjamin Wegener to the extent allowed by law.
This applies especially to content you upload or publish without rights, illegal content, harassment, abuse, impersonation, or misuse of the service.
24. Changes to these Terms
These Terms may be updated as panicslides develops.
If changes are material, panicslides may provide notice through the website, dashboard, email, or another reasonable method.
Continued use after changes means you accept the updated Terms.
If you do not accept the updated Terms, stop using the service.
25. Transfer to a future company
panicslides is currently operated by Benjamin Wegener as an individual.
In the future, panicslides may be transferred to a company or other legal entity created to operate the service.
If that happens, the service, user accounts, customer relationships, rights, obligations, contracts, data, and infrastructure may be transferred to that entity so panicslides can continue operating.
Users will be informed where required by law.
26. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of Portugal, without prejudice to mandatory consumer protection laws that may apply in your country of residence.
Before starting a formal dispute, please contact:
In the event of a consumer dispute, consumers may be able to use alternative dispute resolution mechanisms.
For Madeira, the relevant regional consumer dispute body may be:
Centro de Arbitragem de Conflitos de Consumo da Região Autónoma da Madeira Rua Direita, n.º 27 - 1.º Andar 9050-450 Funchal Website: https://www.madeira.gov.pt/cacc/
Consumer support and disputes
For normal support, account access, billing/access questions, moderation questions, or product issues, contact:
panicslides is currently operated by Benjamin Wegener as an individual freelance developer in Madeira, Portugal.
Before starting a formal complaint or dispute, please contact support first so the issue can hopefully be solved directly.
In the event of a consumer dispute, consumers may be able to use alternative dispute resolution mechanisms.
For Madeira, the relevant regional consumer dispute body may be:
Centro de Arbitragem de Conflitos de Consumo da Região Autónoma da Madeira Rua Direita, n.º 27 - 1.º Andar 9050-450 Funchal Website: https://www.madeira.gov.pt/cacc/
27. Contact
For support, moderation, legal, privacy, billing, or account questions: