Terms of use

Effective Date: 10/14/2025

These terms of use (“terms”) describe how you use and interact with Design Room LLC (“we,” “us,” or “our”) and our website (located at https://www.designroom.site), newsletter, and other products (the “services”).

By using our services, you agree to these terms.

1. User accounts

By signing up for a Design Room account, you are responsible for ensuring the information in your account is accurate and up-to-date. If you run into a problem with your account, or someone else gains access to your account, please notify us right away. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account for any reason.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years-old to use our services.

3. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

The content that appears in our services is designed only for personal, non-commercial informational purposes. The website is provided on an “as-is” and “as-available” basis, and we make no guarantees about its availability. We are not liable for any injury, loss, or other harm you experience as a result of our services, whether direct or indirect.

While we work tirelessly to ensure the accuracy of our stories, we are not liable for errors that may occur. We will strive to correct any mistakes. Please reach out at the contact information below if you discover an error.

By using the site, you agree to hold Design Room LLC, its owners, and employees harmless against any claims resulting from your use of our services or your violation of our terms of use.

4. Commenting policy

All paid subscribers are initially eligible to comment on stories. 

We encourage debate and disagreement in comments, but we expect all users of the site to treat our writers, interview subjects, and users with respect. We do not allow personal attacks, harassment, or slurs of any kind, nor do we tolerate explicit or vulgar language, images, videos, audio clips, or links.

We also do not allow spam, malware, off-topic posts, impersonation, or comments that will harm the website’s reputation or violate copyright law.

If a comment is determined to be on the borderline of our policies, we will remove the comment and issue the user a warning. If a comment is determined to be mean-spirited, hostile, or otherwise over the line of our policies, we will remove the comment and shut off the user’s ability to comment without warning.

5. User content

You retain ownership of any content you post as comments on Design Room, but you grant Design Room LLC a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use use, alter, and distribute that content for any purpose.

6. Subscriptions and billing

We offer free and paid subscriptions. Your membership grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access the content included in your membership tier. This license lasts as long as you remain a member at the same tier. We reserve the right to remove content from the site or change our membership tier offerings at any time without notice.

Subscriptions bill monthly or annually, depending how you choose to set them up, and by signing up for a paid subscription you authorize our payment processor to charge your payment method. If you upgrade your membership tier in the middle of a billing cycle, the change will be prorated for the rest of the current cycle. If you downgrade your membership tier in the middle of a billing cycle, the change will take effect at the beginning of the next cycle. Subscriptions renew automatically. We do not offer refunds and are not responsible for any taxes or charges billed to you on behalf of a third-party.

If your payment is declined, our payment processor will attempt to charge your payment method multiple times. If it continues to be declined, your membership will be downgraded to our free tier. You will remain responsible for uncollected fees.

Our membership tier prices are subject to change, and we will notify you before any changes take place. We also may offer discounted or free trial subscriptions, which will not be available to existing subscribers.

You are free to cancel your account at any time for any reason through your account settings. If you are unable to cancel your account through your account settings, email us at the contact information at the bottom of this page. When you cancel your account, you will still have access to the content from your membership tier through the end of your current billing cycle. We do not offer refunds or prorated charges for cancelations.

7. Intellectual property

All text, graphics, and other content appearing on the Design Room website and in the Design Room newsletter are the property of Design Room LLC or used with permission, and are protected by international copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws.

8. Posting our work on other platforms

We encourage citations and discussion of our stories on other platforms, but we do not allow pasting — or posting audio or video content containing — more than 25% or 500 words (whichever is less) of any one of our stories on another platform. We also ask that anyone citing our work on another platform link to the source.

9. Early access content

As part of Design Room’s business model, some of our stories are available early for paid subscribers in the Early access tier. We ask that Early access subscribers do not discuss these stories on other platforms until they become available for all paid subscribers. 

10. Links

Design Room LLC links to other websites and services. We assume no responsibility for the content, terms of use, or other practices of these websites and services.

11. Governing law

These terms of use are set in accordance with the laws of California.

12. Changes to these terms of use

We will update these terms of use over time. When we do, we will update the date at the top of this page and announce the changes prominently on the site prior to the changes becoming effective. Changes to these terms of use are effective when they are posted on this page.

13. Contact details

If you, or an agent acting on your behalf, have any questions about these terms, please contact us by email at support@designroom.site or by physical mail at: Design Room LLC, 2108 N ST STE N, Sacramento, CA 95816.