Slatepost Terms of Service

1. About these terms

Slate is a social media scheduling service operated by Vantage Thinking (“we”, “us”), registered at 427 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia. These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the Slate website, application and API at slatepost.lol.

By creating an account, connecting a social media channel, or otherwise using Slate, you agree to these Terms. If you are agreeing on behalf of a company or other organisation, you confirm you have authority to bind it, and “you” means that organisation.

Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal data and forms part of these Terms.

2. What Slate does

Slate lets you write a post once, schedule it, and have it published to the social media accounts you have connected. The core of the service is:

• A calendar and composer for drafting posts and choosing when they go out.
• A media library for the images and video you attach to those posts.
• A scheduler that, at the time you chose, sends your post to each connected platform through that platform’s official API.
• Reporting that reads back publicly available metrics for the posts Slate published, where the platform makes them available.

Slate acts on your instructions. We do not write, edit, approve or moderate the content you schedule, and we do not post to your accounts except as you have directed.

3. Your account

You must be at least 16 years old, or the minimum age at which you can consent to online services in your country if that is higher, to use Slate. You must give accurate registration details and keep them current.

You are responsible for everything that happens under your account. Keep your password and any API keys confidential, and tell us promptly at joel@vantage.fyi if you believe your account has been accessed without your permission.

4. Connected channels

To publish anything, you connect one or more social media accounts (“channels”) to Slate. Connecting a channel authorises us, through that platform’s official OAuth flow, to act on your behalf within the permissions you granted.

Each platform has its own terms, and they continue to apply to you. Using Slate does not change your relationship with any platform, and it does not exempt you from their rules on content, advertising disclosure, automation, or rate limits. You are responsible for making sure the posts you schedule comply with the rules of every platform you send them to.

You can disconnect a channel at any time from the Slate settings screen, and you can independently revoke Slate’s access from inside the platform itself. Doing either will stop Slate publishing to that channel, including any posts already scheduled.

We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of the platforms Slate connects to. Their names and marks belong to them.

5. Posting to TikTok

TikTok imposes specific obligations on both of us, so this section sets them out separately.

When you connect a TikTok account, you authorise Slate through TikTok Login Kit and you use the TikTok Content Posting API through us. In doing so:

• You agree to be bound by TikTok’s own terms, including the TikTok Terms of Service and Community Guidelines.
• You confirm you own or have the rights to the video, images, audio and text you publish through Slate, and that publishing them does not infringe anyone else’s rights.
• You agree to TikTok’s Music Usage Confirmation when you post, and additionally to TikTok’s Branded Content Policy when you have disclosed the post as branded content. Slate shows you the applicable statement in the composer before you publish.
• You are responsible for correctly disclosing commercial content. If a post promotes yourself, a brand, a product or a service, you must switch on the commercial content disclosure in the composer and select whether it promotes your own brand, a third party, or both.

Slate offers two ways to send content to TikTok, and they behave differently:

TikTok also applies its own limits, including a maximum caption length, a maximum video duration for your account, a cap on pending inbox uploads, and per-account rate limits. Where TikTok rejects a post for one of these reasons, Slate reports the error to you but cannot override it.

6. Your content

You keep all rights in the text, images, video and other material you upload to or create in Slate (“your content”). We claim no ownership of it.

You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, reformat and transmit your content, strictly to the extent needed to run the service for you: to show it back to you and your team, to store it in our media library, to convert or compress it where a platform requires a particular format, and to deliver it to the platforms you have chosen. This licence exists only for the purpose of operating Slate and ends when you delete the content or close your account, subject to the retention periods described in the Privacy Policy.

You are responsible for having the rights to everything you publish through Slate, including any music, footage, images, trademarks and likenesses it contains.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to use Slate to:

• Publish content that is unlawful, that infringes someone else’s intellectual property or privacy, or that breaches the rules of the platform it is sent to.
• Operate spam, engagement farming, coordinated inauthentic behaviour, or bulk automated posting designed to evade a platform’s limits.
• Post on behalf of accounts you do not own or are not authorised to manage.
• Circumvent, disable or interfere with the security, rate limiting or access controls of Slate or of any connected platform.
• Resell, sublicense or provide the hosted service to third parties as your own, other than by managing their channels with their permission.

Nothing in this section restricts what you may do with the Slate source code itself. See Open source rights below.

8. Scheduling and availability

Slate schedules on a best-effort basis. A scheduled post is a request to publish at a time, not a guarantee that publication will succeed at that exact moment. Publication can be delayed or fail for reasons outside our control, including platform outages, API changes, expired or revoked authorisations, rate limits, content rejections, and spam or integrity checks applied by the platform.

Where a post fails, Slate surfaces the platform’s error and, where it is safe to do so, retries. We do not promise any particular uptime, delivery rate or reach unless we have separately agreed a service level with you in writing.

Social platforms change and withdraw their APIs, and they may suspend or restrict our access without notice. If a platform becomes unavailable through Slate, we will tell you, but we are not liable for that platform’s decision.

9. Suspension and termination

You may stop using Slate and delete your account at any time. Contact joel@vantage.fyi if you want your account and its data erased rather than simply left inactive.

We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially breach these Terms, if your use puts the service or another user at risk, if a platform requires it, or if we are required to by law. Where it is reasonable and lawful to do so, we will warn you first and give you a chance to put things right.

We may also discontinue the hosted service. If we do, we will give you at least 30 days’ notice, let you export your scheduled and published posts and your media, and refund any prepaid fees covering the period after shutdown.

10. Open source rights

These Terms govern the hosted service. They do not govern the software. Slate is built on Slate and, like Slate, the entire codebase including our modifications is licensed to you under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 (“AGPL-3.0”).

Nothing in these Terms limits, waives or adds conditions to any right you have under the AGPL-3.0. In particular, you are free to obtain, run, study, modify and redistribute the Slate source code under that licence, and no clause here should be read as prohibiting you from doing so. Where these Terms and the AGPL-3.0 conflict as to the software, the AGPL-3.0 wins.

The complete Corresponding Source for the version of Slate running on this site is published at https://github.com/encryptedvolume/slatepost, free of charge and without needing an account. That repository also identifies the exact revision deployed here.

Slate is a modified version of Slate (upstream release v1.47.0), Copyright © 2025 Nevo David. Our fork was created on 28 July 2026 and has been modified continuously since; the changes are recorded in the repository’s commit history and include rebranding and the removal of upstream trademarks. Slate is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Slate or Nevo David.

The AGPL-3.0 covers the software only. It does not license the Slate name, logo or other branding, and it does not cover your content or any other customer data held in the hosted service.

11. Disclaimers and liability

Except as expressly stated in these Terms, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, the hosted service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. As the AGPL-3.0 itself states, the software comes with absolutely no warranty.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for lost profits, lost revenue, lost or delayed posts, loss of reach or followers, loss of goodwill, or any indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss. Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to Slate in any 12-month period is limited to the greater of the fees you paid us for the service in that period and the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or AUD if you paid nothing.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

You agree to indemnify us against claims, losses and reasonable costs arising from your content, from your use of Slate in breach of these Terms, or from your breach of a connected platform’s terms.

12. Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms as the service changes or as the platforms we integrate with change their requirements. If a change is material, we will give you reasonable notice before it takes effect — by email or in the product — and we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. Continuing to use Slate after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms. If you do not accept them, stop using the service and cancel your plan.

13. Governing law

These Terms and any dispute arising out of them are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia, and the courts of New South Wales, Australia have exclusive jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live, or of your right to bring proceedings there.

If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest continues to apply. Our not enforcing a right is not a waiver of it. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any plan you subscribe to, are the whole agreement between us about the hosted service.

14. Contact

Questions about these Terms, or about Slate generally, go to joel@vantage.fyi.

Vantage Thinking
427 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia