Terms and Conditions

Design Quarterly Terms and Conditions set the rules and conditions for using design-quarterly.com. Using Design Quarterly means agreeing to the rules below, so please read every section carefully. Please be aware that these terms cover the use of our website, while further 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 Quarterly Terms and Conditions govern access to and use of Design Quarterly, available at https://design-quarterly.com, and of all pages, features, tools and content of design-quarterly.com. By accessing or using Design Quarterly, you confirm that you have carefully read, understood and agreed to be bound by Design Quarterly Terms and Conditions, the Design Quarterly Privacy Policy and the Design Quarterly Cookies Policy. Please continue to use Design Quarterly only if you agree. The publisher of Design Quarterly is identified in the Design Quarterly Impressum.

2. Content Is for Entertainment and Information Only

Design Quarterly publishes features about kitchenware, culinary art and kitchen furniture and more. Everything published on Design Quarterly, including articles, descriptions, images, rankings, daily features, quotes, links and advertisements, is provided for entertainment, educational and general information purposes only. For professional, legal, financial, purchasing, investment, design, dietary, nutritional, food safety or installation advice, please consult a qualified and licensed professional, because content on Design Quarterly is general information and carries no offer, endorsement, recommendation or guarantee of any product, service, person or company. Design Quarterly is an independent editorial publication, so to purchase featured kitchenware, culinary art and kitchen furniture designs, products or projects, please contact the respective designers or brands. You alone are responsible for any decision or action you take on the basis of content published on Design Quarterly.

3. Provided As Is, Where Is and As Available

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Design Quarterly and all content published on design-quarterly.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 but not limited to any warranty of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, reliability, availability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement, and any warranty that design-quarterly.com will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free or free of viruses, malware or other harmful components. Design Quarterly 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 and regulations, Design Quarterly, the publisher of Design Quarterly and the owners, operators, editors, contributors, licensors, partners, sponsors, advertisers, affiliates and service providers of Design Quarterly 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 or opportunity, arising out of or in connection with the use of, or the inability to use, Design Quarterly, or reliance on any content published on design-quarterly.com, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. Nothing in Design Quarterly 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 Design Quarterly, the publisher of Design Quarterly and the owners, operators, editors, contributors, licensors, partners, sponsors, advertisers, affiliates and service providers of Design Quarterly 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 Quarterly, (b) your breach of Design Quarterly 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 Quarterly or to the third-party services reached through Design Quarterly. The obligation to indemnify survives any end of your use of Design Quarterly.

6. Intellectual Property

Featured works. The kitchenware, culinary art and kitchen furniture designs, products, projects, photographs, renderings, descriptions, names, logos and trademarks featured on Design Quarterly 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 Design Quarterly for editorial or entertainment purposes, and the presentation of a work on Design Quarterly leaves every single right with the respective owners.

Original materials of Design Quarterly. Except for third-party works, the original texts, the selection and arrangement of content and the layout of Design Quarterly are protected by copyright and are © 2008 – 2026 Design Quarterly. You are welcome to read Design Quarterly and to share links to pages of design-quarterly.com for personal, non-commercial and lawful purposes. Please obtain prior written permission from the publisher of Design Quarterly, and from the relevant rights holders for featured works, before copying, reproducing, scraping, harvesting, mirroring, framing, republishing, selling or otherwise exploiting content of design-quarterly.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 Quarterly infringes an intellectual property right, or gives incorrect credit, you can send a notice through the Design Quarterly 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 Quarterly reviews every notice promptly and, where appropriate, corrects or removes the content.

7. Third-Party Websites, Services and Advertising

Design Quarterly 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 Design Quarterly, so their content, availability, terms and privacy practices remain 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 Quarterly is delivered by Massive Outreach Ads Network, the privacy-first advertising solution provider of Design Quarterly. 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 and exclusively between you and that advertiser.

8. Forms and Forwarding to Third-Party Services

Some features of Design Quarterly, such as the Design Quarterly Submit Design page, the Design Quarterly Newsletter page and the Design Quarterly Encyclopedia page, work in two steps. You provide a few details on design-quarterly.com and may then be forwarded to a partner service that carries out the actual service. The partner service, and not Design Quarterly, 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 Quarterly for lawful purposes, to access design-quarterly.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-quarterly.com, its servers and its networks, to provide truthful information through the forms of Design Quarterly, and to keep every credit, copyright, trademark and other notice intact.

10. Availability and Changes

The publisher of Design Quarterly may change, suspend or discontinue Design Quarterly, or any content or feature of Design Quarterly, at any time and without notice or liability. Design Quarterly 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 Quarterly after a revision means that you accept the revised Design Quarterly Terms and Conditions.

11. Governing Law

Design Quarterly Terms and Conditions, and any dispute arising out of or in connection with Design Quarterly, are governed by the laws applicable in the jurisdiction of the publisher of Design Quarterly identified in the Design Quarterly 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 Quarterly 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 Quarterly Terms and Conditions, together with the Design Quarterly Privacy Policy and the Design Quarterly Cookies Policy, form the entire agreement regarding the use of Design Quarterly.

13. Contact

If you have questions about Design Quarterly Terms and Conditions, please use the Design Quarterly Contact page or the Design Quarterly Impressum.

Last updated on 30 October 2026