LEGAL
Copyright & Intellectual Property.
Ownership, permitted use, and prohibited use of Apartment Archive content, digital products, design systems, written materials, graphics, layouts, sourcing systems, and related materials.
Ownership of Apartment Archive Materials
Apartment Archive owns or controls the intellectual property rights in its website, digital products, downloadable files, furnishing guides, layouts, graphics, written content, templates, visual systems, product structure, sourcing systems, databases, page designs, brand assets, and related materials.
These materials are protected by copyright, trademark, trade dress, unfair competition, and other intellectual property laws where applicable.
Limited Personal Use
When you purchase or receive an Apartment Archive digital product, you receive a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use that product for your own personal furnishing planning.
You do not receive ownership of the file, design system, template, sourcing method, written content, graphics, layout structure, or any underlying intellectual property.
Prohibited Uses
You may not copy, reproduce, resell, redistribute, republish, upload, share, sublicense, modify for resale, adapt, scrape, extract, reverse engineer, or commercially exploit Apartment Archive materials without written permission.
Prohibited uses include:
- Sharing purchased files with people outside your personal household.
- Uploading Apartment Archive files to public websites, marketplaces, social platforms, or file-sharing services.
- Using Apartment Archive files as part of another design, staging, real estate, leasing, furnishing, or consulting service.
- Copying Apartment Archive page layouts, product structure, language, templates, sourcing systems, or design systems for a competing product or service.
- Using Apartment Archive content to train, test, prompt, benchmark, or develop artificial intelligence systems or automated design tools.
- Scraping, harvesting, extracting, or compiling Apartment Archive content into another database, archive, directory, product, or service.
Website Content
The text, graphics, structure, layout, styling, photography direction, product descriptions, legal pages, FAQ content, building page content, design style language, and user-facing systems on this website are part of Apartment Archive’s protected content.
You may view the website for personal, non-commercial use. You may not copy or reuse website content for commercial purposes without written permission.
Digital Product Files
Apartment Archive digital products are licensed, not sold. Downloading, receiving, or purchasing a file does not transfer ownership of the file’s design system, graphics, written materials, templates, visual organization, product recommendations, sourcing format, or layout logic.
Digital products are for personal furnishing planning only.
Building and Third-Party References
Apartment Archive may reference apartment buildings, floor plan names, management companies, retailers, furniture brands, product names, and other third parties for identification, sourcing, compatibility, or descriptive purposes.
Apartment Archive is independent and is not affiliated with any property owner, management company, leasing office, developer, architect, retailer, furniture brand, marketplace, or real estate brand unless expressly stated.
User Submitted Materials
If you submit floor plans, images, building names, addresses, unit information, product references, screenshots, or other materials to Apartment Archive, you confirm that you have the right to submit them.
You grant Apartment Archive permission to use submitted materials to review requests, prepare digital products, provide support, improve the archive, and operate the website.
Copyright Complaints
If you believe material on Apartment Archive infringes your copyright or intellectual property rights, contact Apartment Archive with enough information to identify the material and explain your claim.
Copyright and takedown requests may be handled under Apartment Archive’s DMCA & Takedown Policy.
Reservation of Rights
Apartment Archive reserves all rights not expressly granted in writing. No implied license is granted by access to the website, purchase of a product, delivery of a file, or submission of a request.
Contact
For intellectual property questions, permissions, licensing inquiries, or copyright concerns, contact Apartment Archive through the contact page.