Terms and Conditions

Design Serial Terms and Conditions set the rules and conditions for using designserial.com. Using Design Serial means agreeing to the rules below, so please read every section carefully. Kindly note that these terms cover the use of our website, while separate terms may apply during newsletter subscription or sign-up, and separate terms apply if you decide to submit a design to us.

1. Your Acceptance of the Terms and Conditions

Design Serial Terms and Conditions govern access to and use of Design Serial, available at https://designserial.com, and of all pages, features and content of designserial.com. By accessing or using Design Serial, you confirm that you have carefully read, understood and agreed to be bound by Design Serial Terms and Conditions, the Design Serial Privacy Policy and the Design Serial Cookies Policy. If you agree, you are welcome to continue using Design Serial, and otherwise we ask you to stop using Design Serial. The publisher of Design Serial is identified in the Design Serial Impressum.

2. Content Is for Entertainment and Information Only

Design Serial publishes features about consumer electronics and more. Everything published on Design Serial, 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, technical or cybersecurity advice, please consult a qualified professional, because content on Design Serial is general information and carries no offer, endorsement, recommendation, warranty or guarantee of any product, service, person or company. Design Serial is an editorial publication, so to purchase featured consumer electronics 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 Serial.

3. Provided As Is, Where Is and As Available

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law and regulations, Design Serial and all content published on designserial.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 any limitation, any warranty of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, reliability, availability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement, and any warranty that designserial.com will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free or free of viruses or other harmful components. Design Serial 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, Design Serial, the publisher of Design Serial and the owners, operators, editors, contributors, licensors, partners, sponsors, advertisers, affiliates and service providers of Design Serial 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, Design Serial, or reliance on any content published on designserial.com, even if previously advised of the possibility of such damages. Nothing in Design Serial 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 Serial, the publisher of Design Serial and the owners, operators, editors, contributors, licensors, partners, sponsors, advertisers, affiliates and service providers of Design Serial 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 Serial, (b) your breach of Design Serial 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 Serial or to the third-party services reached through Design Serial. The obligation to indemnify survives any end of your use of Design Serial.

6. Intellectual Property

Featured works. The consumer electronics designs, products, projects, photographs, renderings, descriptions, names, logos and trademarks featured on Design Serial 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 Serial for editorial or entertainment purposes, and the presentation of a work on Design Serial leaves every right with the respective owners.

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

7. Third-Party Websites, Services and Advertising

Design Serial 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 Serial, 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 Design Serial is delivered by Massive Outreach Ads Network, the advertising solution provider of Design Serial. 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 between you and that advertiser.

8. Forms and Forwarding to Third-Party Services

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

10. Availability and Changes

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

11. Governing Law

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

13. Contact

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

Last updated on 30 October 2026