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Last updated: June 2026

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These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the website thelastslide.com (the “Site”), the digital book The Last Slide by Manish Katariya (the “Book”), and the paid online reader that provides lifetime, browser-based reading access to the Book (the “Reader”, and together with the Site and the Book, the “Service”). The Service is operated by Manish Katariya (“we”, “us”, “our”).

1. Acceptance of these Terms

By accessing the Site, creating any account or access record, purchasing access to the Reader, or otherwise using the Service, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. If you do not agree, you must not use the Service.

You confirm that you are at least 18 years old, or that you are old enough to form a binding contract in your jurisdiction and have the consent of a parent or legal guardian. The Service is intended for business and professional use and is not directed at children.

2. The Book and your licence

When you purchase access to the Reader, you are not buying the Book itself or any rights of ownership in it. You are buying a limited licence to read the Book online through the Reader. Subject to your continued compliance with these Terms, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable, read-only licence to access and read the Book through the Reader for your own personal, non-commercial use.

This licence does not permit you to:

  • download, copy, save, print, screenshot, scrape, cache, or otherwise reproduce the Book or any part of it, except as strictly enabled by the Reader interface;
  • redistribute, resell, sublicense, rent, lend, share, publish, or make the Book available to any other person, including by sharing your access credentials or access link;
  • remove, obscure, or alter any copyright notice, watermark, attribution, or other proprietary marking;
  • circumvent, disable, or interfere with any access control, watermarking, rate-limiting, or security feature of the Reader; or
  • use the Book or any extract to train, fine-tune, or develop any machine-learning or artificial-intelligence model, or for any text or data mining, without our prior written consent.

Watermarking. To protect the author’s work, pages served through the Reader may be individually watermarked and/or tagged with information that can identify the account to which they were served. By using the Reader you consent to this watermarking. Distributing watermarked pages may allow the source of an unauthorised copy to be identified.

Browser-only access. The Reader provides reading access within a web browser only. No offline copy, downloadable file, e-book file, or printable edition is provided as part of the Reader licence. Reading access requires a compatible browser and a working internet connection.

3. Accounts and access

Access to the Reader is tied to the email address and access record created at the time of purchase. Lifetime access means access for the operational lifetime of the Service; it does not guarantee that the Service will be available in perpetuity (see Sections 9 and 11). You are responsible for:

  • providing an accurate email address and keeping it up to date;
  • keeping any access link, magic link, code, or credential confidential and not sharing it; and
  • all activity that occurs under your access record. Access is personal to you and may not be transferred or shared.

We may suspend or revoke access where we reasonably believe an access record is being shared, sold, or used in breach of these Terms, or where access has been obtained through a fraudulent, charged-back, or reversed payment.

4. Payment and Merchant of Record

Payments for Reader access are processed by Dodo Payments, which acts as the Merchant of Record for the transaction. This means Dodo Payments is the seller of record for the purchase, handles the payment, collects and remits any applicable taxes, and may handle billing-related support and refund processing in accordance with its own terms.

Your purchase is also subject to Dodo Payments’ terms of service and privacy policy, which are presented to you during checkout. We do not collect, see, or store your full card number or other sensitive payment-card details; these are handled directly by Dodo Payments and its payment processors. By completing a purchase you authorise Dodo Payments to charge your chosen payment method for the amount shown at checkout, including any applicable taxes.

5. Pricing, currency, and refunds

Lifetime access to the Reader is offered for a one-time price of £9.99. Prices may be displayed or charged in your local currency, and the final amount, currency, and any taxes or fees will be shown at checkout before you confirm your purchase. Currency conversion and the exact amount debited are determined by Dodo Payments and your card issuer or bank, and may differ slightly from the indicative price shown on the Site.

We may change pricing at any time. Any change will not affect a purchase you have already completed. Promotional pricing applies only while offered.

Refunds. The Reader provides immediate access to digital content. To the extent permitted by law, and because access is granted instantly, sales are generally final and non-refundable. Refund requests are assessed on a case-by-case basis and are handled by Dodo Payments as Merchant of Record. Nothing in this section limits any non-waivable refund or cancellation right you may have under the consumer law of your country (see Section 12). To raise a refund query, contact us at thelastslide@outlook.com or follow the support route provided by Dodo Payments.

6. Intellectual property

The Book, the Site, the Reader, and all associated text, framework explanations, diagrams, slide templates, case studies, graphics, logos, design, and software (the “Content”) are owned by Manish Katariya or our licensors and are protected by copyright and other intellectual-property laws. The name The Last Slide and associated branding are our property.

Except for the limited licence to read the Book granted in Section 2, no right, title, or interest in the Content is transferred to you. All rights not expressly granted are reserved. You may not use any part of the Content for commercial purposes, in any derivative work, or in any training corpus without our prior written consent.

Your submissions. If you submit a review, testimonial, message, or other content to us, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual licence to use, reproduce, edit, and display that submission in connection with marketing the Book and the Service. You confirm that your submission is your own and does not infringe the rights of any third party.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to, and not to attempt to:

  • use the Service for any unlawful, infringing, fraudulent, or harmful purpose;
  • copy, mirror, scrape, harvest, or systematically extract Content from the Site or Reader by any automated or manual means;
  • reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code of any part of the Service except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law;
  • probe, scan, overload, or test the vulnerability of the Service, or breach or circumvent any security or authentication measure;
  • introduce any virus, malware, or other harmful code, or interfere with the proper operation of the Service; or
  • use the Service in any way that infringes the rights of, or restricts the use and enjoyment of the Service by, any third party.

8. Disclaimers and no warranty

The Book provides general educational and informational content about consulting frameworks, problem-solving, and communication. It is not professional, legal, financial, investment, or career advice, and no outcome (including any job offer, interview result, or business result) is promised or guaranteed. You are solely responsible for how you apply the Content.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or free of harmful components, or that any defect will be corrected.

9. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event will Manish Katariya, or any of our affiliates, processors, or service providers, be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunity, arising out of or in connection with your use of, or inability to use, the Service, whether based on contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or otherwise, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) the total amount you actually paid us (or to Dodo Payments on our behalf) for Reader access in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) the equivalent of £9.99.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for any non-waivable consumer rights.

10. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Manish Katariya from and against any claims, losses, liabilities, and reasonable expenses (including legal fees) arising out of your breach of these Terms, your misuse of the Service, or your infringement of any third-party right, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

11. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service, in whole or in part, with or without notice, if you breach these Terms, if we are required to do so by law, or if continuing to provide the Service becomes impractical or commercially unviable. We may also discontinue the Reader or the Service as a whole; where we do so for reasons other than your breach, we will use reasonable efforts to give advance notice.

On termination, your licence to access the Book ends and you must stop using the Service. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, and governing law) will survive. You may stop using the Service at any time; you may also request deletion of your data as described in our Privacy Policy.

12. Governing law and consumer rights

These Terms are governed by the laws of India, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Subject to the consumer note below, the courts at the place of our establishment in India will have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service.

Consumer-law note for other regions. If you are a consumer resident outside India — for example in the European Union, the United Kingdom, or a U.S. state such as California — you may benefit from mandatory protections under the consumer-protection laws of your country or state. Nothing in these Terms, including the choice of Indian law and jurisdiction, deprives you of, or limits, any right or remedy that the law of your place of residence grants you and that cannot be waived by agreement. Where such mandatory law applies, it prevails over these Terms to the extent of any conflict, and you may also be entitled to bring proceedings in your local courts.

13. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date above and, where the changes are material, take reasonable steps to notify you. Your continued use of the Service after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms. If you do not agree to a change, you must stop using the Service.

14. Contact and grievances

For questions about these Terms, support, or to raise a grievance, contact the author and Grievance Officer, Manish Katariya, at thelastslide@outlook.com. Privacy-related requests, including data-deletion requests, are handled as described in our Privacy Policy.