Last Updated: March 16, 2023
Welcome to Beam! We provide an online platform and mobile app that allows users to create shoppable mood boards and post them online.
These Terms of Use (the “Terms”) govern your use of Beam’s website, platform, and other offerings from Beam (collectively, the “Services”). By using our Services, including browsing our website, you’re agreeing to these Terms. If you do not agree with these Terms, you may not use our Services. This is a legal agreement between you and Build with Beam, Inc. (“Beam,” “we” or “us”).
Please note that Section 14 contains an arbitration clause and class action waiver. By agreeing to the Terms, you agree to resolve all disputes through binding individual arbitration, which means that you waive any right to have those disputes decided by a judge or jury, and that you waive your right to participate in class actions, class arbitrations, or representative actions.
Our Privacy Policy explains how your information is used when you use our Services. By using our Services, you agree that we can process your information in the ways set out in the Privacy Policy.
To access certain aspects of the Services, you must register for an account. When you register for an account, you may be required to provide us with some information about yourself, such as your email address and home address. You agree that the information you provide to us is accurate and that you will keep it accurate and up-to-date at all times. You must be at least 18 years of age to use the Services.
You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account, and you accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account. If you believe that your account is no longer secure, notify us at [email protected]
Content that you submit to Beam, upload to the Beam platform, and include in any mood boards that you create using the Services, is considered your content (collectively, “Your Content”). Beam does not make any claims to own Your Content. Your Content may include materials that you create and own, like photos of your home, yourself, or your artwork,, as well as photographs and materials that are created by other people or brands, like images of cosmetic products, clothing apparel, or furniture.
A. You are responsible for Your Content.
You understand that you are solely responsible for Your Content. You represent that you have all necessary rights to use Your Content and that you’re not infringing or violating any third-party rights by providing it to Beam or uploading it to the Services.
B. Beam’s Permission to Use Your Content.
By providing and creating Your Content using the Services, you grant Beam a license to use it. In legal terms, you grant Beam a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid right and license (with the right to sublicense) to host, store, transfer, display, perform, reproduce, modify for the purpose of formatting for display, and distribute Your Content, in whole or in part, in any media formats and through any media channels now known or hereafter developed, solely for the purposes of operating, developing, providing, and using the Services. You agree not to assert any moral rights or rights of publicity against us for using Your Content.
This means, for example, that we are allowed to share Your Content, including your mood boards, on our home page, often along with your username and profile photo, in our blog, or on our social media accounts.
C. Please don’t give us inappropriate, false, or misleading content.
Your Content cannot be unlawful, harmful, hateful, threatening, abusive, harassing, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, racially disparaging, indecent, or invasive of another’s privacy.
D. Reporting Unauthorized Content.
Beam is committed to following appropriate legal procedures to remove infringing content from our Services. If content that you own or have rights to has been included in our Services and you want it removed, please follow the steps outlined in Section 12 (Unauthorized Content).