Terms and Conditions
Design Reporter Terms and Conditions set the rules for using design-reporter.com. By using Design Reporter, you agree to the rules below, so please read every section carefully. Please note that these terms cover the use of our website, while additional terms may apply during newsletter subscription or sign-up, and distinct terms apply if you decide to submit a design to us.
1. Your Acceptance of the Terms and Conditions
Design Reporter Terms and Conditions govern access to and use of Design Reporter, available at https://design-reporter.com, and of all pages, features, tools and content of design-reporter.com. By accessing or using Design Reporter, you confirm that you have carefully read, understood and agreed to be bound by Design Reporter Terms and Conditions, the Design Reporter Privacy Policy and the Design Reporter Cookies Policy. Please continue to use Design Reporter only if you agree. The publisher of Design Reporter is identified in the Design Reporter Impressum.
2. Content Is for Entertainment and Information Only
Design Reporter publishes features about energy and design quality and more. Everything published on Design Reporter, including articles, descriptions, images, rankings, daily features, quotes, links and advertisements, is provided for entertainment and general information purposes only. For professional, legal, financial, purchasing, investment, design, energy or environmental advice, please consult a qualified and licensed professional, because content on Design Reporter is general information and carries no offer, endorsement, recommendation or guarantee of any product, service, person or company. Design Reporter is an independent editorial publication, so to purchase featured energy and design quality designs, products or projects, please contact the respective designers, brands or rights holders. You alone are responsible for any decision you take on the basis of content published on Design Reporter.
3. Provided As Is, Where Is and As Available
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law and regulations, Design Reporter and all content published on design-reporter.com are provided on an AS IS, WHERE IS and AS AVAILABLE basis, with all faults, and without warranties or representations of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including, without limitation, any warranty of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, reliability, availability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement, and any warranty that design-reporter.com will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free or free of viruses, malware or other harmful components. Design Reporter does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of information supplied by designers, brands, advertisers or other third parties.
4. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law and regulations, Design Reporter, the publisher of Design Reporter and the owners, operators, editors, contributors, licensors, partners, sponsors, advertisers, affiliates and service providers of Design Reporter shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, business, data, goodwill, reputation or opportunity, arising out of or in connection with the use of, or the inability to use, Design Reporter, or reliance on any content published on design-reporter.com, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. Nothing in Design Reporter Terms and Conditions excludes or limits any form of liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
5. Full Indemnity
You agree to fully indemnify, defend and hold harmless Design Reporter, the publisher of Design Reporter and the owners, operators, editors, contributors, licensors, partners, sponsors, advertisers, affiliates and service providers of Design Reporter from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, liabilities, damages, losses, judgments, settlements, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal and attorney fees, arising out of or related to (a) your use or misuse of Design Reporter, (b) your breach of Design Reporter Terms and Conditions, (c) your violation of any law or of any right of a third party, including intellectual property and privacy rights, and (d) any information you provide through Design Reporter or to the third-party services reached through Design Reporter. The obligation to indemnify survives any end of your use of Design Reporter.
6. Intellectual Property
Featured works. The energy and design quality designs, products, projects, photographs, renderings, descriptions, names, logos and trademarks featured on Design Reporter belong to the original creators, designers, brands and license holders of each work, who keep all rights to their intellectual properties and related rights. Each work is shown on Design Reporter for editorial purposes, and the presentation of a work on Design Reporter leaves every single right with the respective owners.
Original materials of Design Reporter. Except for third-party works, the original texts, the selection and arrangement of content and the layout of Design Reporter are protected by copyright and are © 2008 – 2026 Design Reporter. You are welcome to read Design Reporter and to share links to pages of design-reporter.com for personal, non-commercial and lawful purposes. Please obtain prior written permission from the publisher of Design Reporter, and from the relevant rights holders for featured works, before copying, reproducing, scraping, harvesting, mirroring, framing, republishing, selling or otherwise exploiting content of design-reporter.com, except where the law expressly allows.
Notice to rights holders. If you are a creator or rights holder and believe that a feature on Design Reporter infringes an intellectual property right, or gives incorrect credit, you can send a notice through the Design Reporter Contact page, indicating the address of the page, identifying the work and your rights in the work, and providing a way to reach you. Design Reporter reviews every notice promptly and, where appropriate, corrects or removes the content.
7. Third-Party Websites, Services and Advertising
Design Reporter contains links to, and content from, third parties, including the A' Design Award & Competition, Designers.org, the Design Encyclopedia and other partner and affiliated websites. Third-party websites are operated independently of Design Reporter, so their content, availability, terms and privacy practices remain solely the responsibility of the respective third party. You access third-party websites at your own risk and discretion and subject to the terms of the respective third party.
Advertising shown on Design Reporter is delivered by Massive Outreach Ads Network, the privacy-first advertising solution provider of Design Reporter. Advertisements are supplied by third parties, and each advertised product, service or advertiser remains solely the responsibility of the respective advertiser. Any dealings between you and an advertiser are solely between you and that advertiser.
8. Forms and Forwarding to Third-Party Services
Some features of Design Reporter, such as the Design Reporter Submit Design page, the Design Reporter Newsletter page and the Design Reporter Encyclopedia page, work in two steps. You provide a few details on design-reporter.com and may then be forwarded to a partner service that carries out the actual service. The partner service, and not Design Reporter, is responsible for processing your information and for everything that happens after the forwarding, under the terms and the privacy policy of that service. You agree to provide accurate information and to enter only information that belongs to you or that you are authorized to share.
9. Acceptable Use
You agree to use Design Reporter for lawful purposes, to access design-reporter.com through ordinary browsing and search engine indexing rather than through robots, crawlers, scrapers, bots or other automated means, to respect the security and availability of design-reporter.com, its servers and its networks, to provide truthful information through the forms of Design Reporter, and to keep every credit, copyright and other notice intact.
10. Availability and Changes
The publisher of Design Reporter may change, suspend or discontinue Design Reporter, or any content or feature of Design Reporter, at any time and without notice or liability. Design Reporter Terms and Conditions may also be updated from time to time, and the date shown at the bottom of this page indicates the latest revision. Your continued use of Design Reporter after a revision means that you accept the revised Design Reporter Terms and Conditions.
11. Governing Law
Design Reporter Terms and Conditions, and any dispute arising out of or in connection with Design Reporter, are governed by the laws applicable in the jurisdiction of the publisher of Design Reporter identified in the Design Reporter Impressum, without regard to conflict of law rules and principles, and the competent courts of that jurisdiction have jurisdiction, unless mandatory consumer protection laws of your country of residence provide otherwise.
12. General Provisions
If any provision of Design Reporter Terms and Conditions is found invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force and effect. Any delay in enforcing any right or provision is not a waiver of that right or provision. Design Reporter Terms and Conditions, together with the Design Reporter Privacy Policy and the Design Reporter Cookies Policy, form the entire agreement regarding the use of Design Reporter.
13. Contact
If you have questions or concerns about Design Reporter Terms and Conditions, please use the Design Reporter Contact page or the Design Reporter Impressum.
Last updated on 30 October 2026