Welcome to Beam! We provide an online platform and mobile app that helps homeowners and design and build professionals design, plan, and manage home remodel projects from start to finish.
These Terms of Use (the “Terms”) govern your use of Beam’s website, platform, and other offerings from Beam (collectively, the “Beam Platform”). By using the Beam Platform, including browsing our website, you’re agreeing to these Terms. If you do not agree with these Terms, you may not use the Beam Platform. This is a legal agreement between you and Build with Beam, Inc. (“Beam,” “we” or “us”).
Please note that Section 13 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 Platform. By using our Platform, you agree that we can process your information in the ways set out in the Privacy Policy.
To access certain aspects of the Beam Platform, 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 Beam Platform.
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]am.com.
Content that you submit to Beam or upload to the Beam Platform is considered your content (“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, floor plans, comments, and other design files and drawings, as well as photographs and materials that are created by other people, like home inspiration photos.
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, uploading it to the Beam Platform, or providing it to any of Beam’s third-party service providers.
By providing Your Content to Beam, 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 Beam Platform. 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 with our vendors, who use it to create floor plans and 3D CGI renderings (“Design Files”) of your project, or our network of build and design professionals (“Design Pros”), who may use it to provide professional remodeling services (“Design Pro Services”) to you.