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What are the usage rights and license on the templates?

All templates by SlidesCarnival are free to use under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International. This means that you can use them for personal or even commercial purposes as long as you keep credit to SlidesCarnival.

The photographs provided with the templates have their own licenses, if you keep them check the Credits slide to see how to attribute them.

1. You are free to:

Share — copy, add your own content and then redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

We cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

2. Under the following terms:

Attribution — You must give appropriate credit and provide a link to this website. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

3. Prohibitions

You do not have the rights to resell, sublicense or redistribute (even for free) the files “as is” (without modifications) on its own or as a separate attachment from any of your work. You can only resell/redistribute/attach a presentation made using SlidesCarnival templates if you’ve built upon the original material with your own content.
If you wish to promote SlidesCarnival on your site, you must link back to the template page where users can find the “Use this template” link and not directly to the template file at Google Slides or Powerpoint.
You can only use the templates for lawful purposes. Also, you can’t use a template with contents that are offensive, defamatory, pornographic, obscene or demeaning, or promote discrimination.

Notices:

You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation.

No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material.