Terms and Conditions
Designd & Designed Terms and Conditions set the rules for using designd.org. By using Designd & Designed, you agree to the rules below, so please read every section carefully before you continue. Please be aware that these terms cover the use of our website, while separate 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
Designd & Designed Terms and Conditions govern access to and use of Designd & Designed, available at https://designd.org, and of all pages, features, tools and content of designd.org. By accessing or using Designd & Designed, you confirm that you have read, understood and agreed to be bound by Designd & Designed Terms and Conditions, the Designd & Designed Privacy Policy and the Designd & Designed Cookies Policy. If you agree, you are welcome to continue using Designd & Designed, and otherwise we ask you to stop using Designd & Designed. The publisher of Designd & Designed is identified in the Designd & Designed Impressum.
2. Content Is for Entertainment and Information Only
Designd & Designed publishes features about lighting and lighting projects and more. Everything published on Designd & Designed, 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, installation, home safety, architectural or engineering advice, please consult a qualified professional, because content on Designd & Designed is general information and carries no offer, endorsement, recommendation or guarantee of any product, service, person or company. Designd & Designed is an editorial publication, so to purchase featured lighting and lighting projects designs, products or projects, please contact the respective designers or brands. You alone are responsible for any decision you take on the basis of content published on Designd & Designed.
3. Provided As Is, Where Is and As Available
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Designd & Designed and all content published on designd.org 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 designd.org will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free or free of viruses or other harmful components. Designd & Designed does not warrant the accuracy, completeness or reliability of information supplied by designers, brands, advertisers or other third parties.
4. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Designd & Designed, the publisher of Designd & Designed and the owners, operators, editors, contributors, licensors, partners, sponsors, advertisers, affiliates and service providers of Designd & Designed 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 access to or use of, or the inability to use, Designd & Designed, or reliance on any content published on designd.org, even if previously advised of the possibility of such damages. Nothing in Designd & Designed Terms and Conditions excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
5. Full Indemnity
You agree to fully indemnify, defend and hold harmless Designd & Designed, the publisher of Designd & Designed and the owners, operators, editors, contributors, licensors, partners, sponsors, advertisers, affiliates and service providers of Designd & Designed 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 Designd & Designed, (b) your breach of Designd & Designed 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 Designd & Designed or to the third-party services reached through Designd & Designed. The obligation to indemnify survives any end, suspension or termination of your use of Designd & Designed.
6. Intellectual Property
Featured works. The lighting and lighting projects designs, products, projects, photographs, renderings, descriptions, names, logos and trademarks featured on Designd & Designed belong to the original creators, designers, brands and license holders of each work, who keep all rights to their intellectual properties. Each work is shown on Designd & Designed for editorial purposes, and the presentation of a work on Designd & Designed leaves every single right with the respective owners.
Original materials of Designd & Designed. Except for third-party works, the original texts, the selection and arrangement of content and the layout of Designd & Designed are protected by copyright and are © 2008 – 2026 Designd & Designed. You are welcome to read Designd & Designed and to share links to pages of designd.org for personal, non-commercial and lawful purposes. Please obtain prior and explicit written permission from the publisher of Designd & Designed, and from the relevant rights holders for featured works, before copying, reproducing, scraping, harvesting, mirroring, framing, republishing, selling or otherwise exploiting content of designd.org, except where the law expressly allows.
Notice to rights holders. If you are a creator or rights holder and believe that a feature on Designd & Designed infringes an intellectual property right, or gives incorrect credit, you can send a written notice through the Designd & Designed Contact page, indicating the address of the page, identifying the work and your rights in the work, and providing a way to reach you. Designd & Designed reviews every notice promptly and carefully and, where appropriate, corrects or removes the content.
7. Third-Party Websites, Services and Advertising
Designd & Designed contains links to, and content from, third parties, including the A' Design Award & Competition, Designers.org, the Design Encyclopedia and other partner websites. Third-party websites are operated independently of Designd & Designed, 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 subject to the terms of the respective third party.
Advertising shown on Designd & Designed is delivered by Massive Outreach Ads Network, the privacy-first advertising solution provider of Designd & Designed. Advertisements are supplied by third parties, and each advertised product, service or advertiser remains the responsibility of the respective advertiser. Any dealings between you and an advertiser are solely and exclusively between you and that advertiser.
8. Forms and Forwarding to Third-Party Services
Some features of Designd & Designed, such as the Designd & Designed Submit Design page, the Designd & Designed Newsletter page and the Designd & Designed Encyclopedia page, work in two steps. You provide a few details on designd.org and may then be forwarded to a partner service that carries out the actual service. The partner service, and not Designd & Designed, 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 and truthful information and to enter only information that belongs to you or that you are authorized to share.
9. Acceptable Use
You agree to use Designd & Designed for lawful purposes, to access designd.org through ordinary browsing and search engine indexing rather than through robots, crawlers, scrapers or other automated means, to respect the security and availability of designd.org, its servers and its networks, to provide truthful information through the forms of Designd & Designed, and to keep every credit, copyright and other notice intact.
10. Availability and Changes
The publisher of Designd & Designed may change, suspend or discontinue Designd & Designed, or any content or feature of Designd & Designed, at any time and without notice or liability. Designd & Designed 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 Designd & Designed after a revision means that you accept the revised Designd & Designed Terms and Conditions.
11. Governing Law
Designd & Designed Terms and Conditions, and any dispute arising out of or in connection with Designd & Designed, are governed by the laws applicable in the jurisdiction of the publisher of Designd & Designed identified in the Designd & Designed Impressum, without regard to conflict of law 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 Designd & Designed Terms and Conditions is found invalid 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. Designd & Designed Terms and Conditions, together with the Designd & Designed Privacy Policy and the Designd & Designed Cookies Policy, form the entire agreement regarding the use of Designd & Designed.
13. Contact
If you have questions about Designd & Designed Terms and Conditions, please use the Designd & Designed Contact page or the Designd & Designed Impressum.
Last updated on 30 October 2026