Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

AI for Interior Designers™ is owned and operated by AI for Interior Designers LLC, founded by Jenna Gaidusek and based in South Carolina ("we," "us," "our"). We are the data controller for the personal information described here.

This one policy covers everything we run:

• theaisocialclub.com, the AI Social Club membership platform, including its rooms (The Foyer, The Lounge, The Library, The Classroom, The Studio, The Study, The Loft, The Parlor, and the rest of the house) and the AI App Studio.
• aiforinteriordesigners.com, our public website, blog, podcast pages, class calendar, booking pages, forms, and checkout.
• aiforinteriordesigners.ai, our legacy class calendar and checkout site, which is being folded into the two sites above. While it stays live, this policy applies to it too.
• Our live classes, the Certificate Program, open enrollment classes, live broadcasts and the podcast, private AI advisory sessions, Workshop app builds, events, and our email newsletters.

If you work with us under a separate written agreement (for example, a custom app build or an enterprise engagement), that agreement controls where it differs from this policy.

2. What we collect

Information you give us

• Account details: name, email address, and password (stored by Firebase Authentication in hashed form; we never see it).
• Profile details you choose to add: firm name, role, headshot or portrait, bio, location, website, and social links.
• Entry details: answers to our door questionnaire or the member who sent your invite key.
• Purchases and bookings: what you bought, your membership tier and status, billing name and email, your Stripe customer ID, and the session times you book.
• Class and credential records: classes enrolled in and attended, completion status, and, if you want IDCEC continuing education credit, your IDCEC number and the information IDCEC requires.
• Community content: posts, replies, messages, contest entries, images, and anything else you share in the club.
• AI tool inputs: prompts, text, photos, floor plans, and files you enter into AI App Studio tools (see section 4).
• Forms and surveys: things like the AI Tech Stack Audit, intake forms, workshop and partnership inquiries, and event registrations.
• Support messages: anything you send our team.

Information collected automatically

• Usage and progress: rooms and content you visit, lessons and tasks you track, points, stars, credits, and progress inside the platform.
• Device and log data: browser type, device type, IP address, approximate location derived from IP, pages viewed, and timestamps.
• Cookies and browser storage: see section 9.

Information from others

• Stripe tells us whether a payment succeeded and gives us limited billing details.
• Google Calendar tells us when you book a session through our booking pages.
• A member or teammate may give us your name and email to send you an invite key or add you to a team seat.

3. How we use it

• To create and run your account, membership, team seats, and access to rooms, classes, and tools.
• To process payments, subscriptions, and bookings.
• To run live classes, broadcasts, and advisory sessions, and to send recaps and replays.
• To track your progress, issue the AI Certified Member credential, and report attendance for continuing education credit.
• To run AI App Studio tools and return your results.
• To show your profile and posts to other members, based on your settings.
• To send account emails (confirmations, password resets, receipts, class links) and, if you subscribe, our newsletters.
• To answer support requests.
• To keep the platform safe, prevent fraud and abuse, and enforce our Terms of Use.
• To understand what's working and improve the house, our classes, and our tools, using aggregated or de-identified data where we can.
• To meet legal, tax, and accounting obligations.

We do not sell your personal information. We do not use your personal information, your community content, or your AI tool inputs to train AI models.

4. AI App Studio and AI tools

Being clear about where your data goes when you use AI is core to how we teach, so here's exactly how it works.

JennAI. Some of our content features JennAI, an AI-generated version of Jenna. Anything featuring JennAI is labeled as AI-generated.

5. Classes, broadcasts, and recordings

• Live classes, live broadcasts in The Loft, round tables, and events may be recorded. Recordings can become replays, podcast episodes, clips, and educational content inside and outside the club.
• If you join on camera or microphone, or post in the live chat, you may appear in the recording. To stay out of it, keep your camera and microphone off and skip the chat. You can also ask us to trim you out of a published clip.
• Private advisory sessions run on Google Meet and may be recorded and transcribed, including with AI note-taking tools, so we can send recap notes. Recaps go to everyone on the calendar invite. Tell us at the start of a session if you'd prefer it not be recorded.
• We don't publish private advisory session recordings.

6. Your profile and community content

• Your name, profile photo, and posts are visible to other signed-in members, based on your privacy settings.
• Certificate members get a frame on The Wall in The Parlor showing their portrait and completed classes. It's visible to the whole community. You can hide it in your settings or by asking us.
• Contest entries go to a shared gallery visible to members and are handled under that contest's rules.
• Anything you post for other members can be seen, saved, or shared by them, so please share with care.
• We won't feature your work or name publicly outside the club (like on social media or our website) without asking you first, unless you entered something like a public contest whose rules say otherwise.

7. Who we share with

We share personal information only with service providers who help us run our business, under contracts or terms that require them to protect it, and in the limited cases listed below.

We may also share information:

• With your team account owner, if you're on a team seat (they can see who holds seats and basic usage).
• With professional advisors such as our accountant or attorney.
• When required by law, court order, or to protect the rights, safety, and property of our members, our team, or the public.
• As part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of our business, in which case this policy continues to protect your information.
• With anyone else, only with your permission.

8. Emails and newsletters

• Account emails (receipts, password resets, class links, booking confirmations) are part of the service, so they keep coming while your account is active.
• Our newsletters, including the AI Download and AI Social Buzz, are sent through Squarespace Email Campaigns and are opt-in. Every newsletter has an unsubscribe link, and you can choose which ones you get where that option is offered.
• We may note whether an email was opened or a link was clicked so we can make our emails more useful. You can block this by turning off image loading in your email app.

9. Cookies and browser storage

• Essential: Firebase uses cookies and browser storage to keep you signed in. The app uses local storage to remember your preferences and app state. The club doesn't work without these.
• Analytics: our public websites use Squarespace analytics cookies to count visits and see which pages are useful.
• Payments: Stripe sets cookies on checkout pages to prevent fraud.

We don't use third-party advertising cookies or cross-site tracking pixels inside the club. You can block or clear cookies in your browser settings, though signing in won't work without essential ones. Where required by law, we treat a Global Privacy Control signal as a request to opt out of any sale or sharing of personal information.

10. Storage and security

• Club data is stored in Google Firebase and Firestore on servers in the United States.
• Everything travels over HTTPS. Database security rules limit each member to their own private data.
• Only team members who need access to do their jobs can see member data.
• Stripe processes and stores payment data and is PCI-DSS Level 1 certified.

No system is perfectly secure. If a breach affects your personal information, we'll notify you and the authorities as the law requires.

11. How long we keep it

• Account and profile data: while your account is active.
• After you delete your account: we delete or de-identify your personal data within 30 days, except as noted below. Backups clear on their normal cycle.
• Payment and tax records: as long as tax and accounting law requires.
• Certificate and CEU records: as long as needed to verify credentials and meet accreditation requirements.
• Recordings: for as long as the replay or episode is offered.
• Posts in shared spaces: deleted with your account, or kept with your name removed where deleting them would break a conversation others are part of.
• Aggregated or de-identified statistics: may be kept indefinitely.

12. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• Access a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
• Correct it. Most details you can update yourself in your profile settings.
• Delete your account and personal information.
• Download your data in a portable, machine-readable format.
• Restrict or object to certain processing.
• Withdraw consent where we rely on it, without affecting what happened before.
• Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information and targeted advertising (we don't do either).
• Appeal our decision if we decline your request.

To make a request, email support@aiforinteriordesigners.com from the email on your account. We may need to confirm your identity first. We'll respond within 30 days, or sooner if your local law requires. You can use an authorized agent where the law allows. We'll never treat you differently for using your rights.

13. Legal bases (EEA, UK, and Switzerland)

• Contract: to provide the membership, classes, tools, and sessions you signed up for.
• Legitimate interests: to run, secure, and improve the platform and communicate with members, balanced against your rights.
• Legal obligation: to meet tax, accounting, and other legal requirements.
• Consent: for newsletters, optional cookies, and featuring your work publicly. You can withdraw it any time.

You also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority. We'd appreciate the chance to fix things first.

14. US state privacy notice

If you live in California or another US state with a consumer privacy law, here's the summary those laws ask for. In the last 12 months we collected identifiers (name, email, IP address), commercial information (purchases), internet activity (usage data), professional information (firm and role), audio and video (recordings), and content you create. We collected it from you, your devices, and the providers named in section 7, for the purposes in section 3, and disclosed it to the providers in section 7 for business purposes. We have not sold or shared personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, and we don't knowingly collect sensitive personal information beyond account login credentials, which we use only to sign you in.

15. International transfers

We operate from the United States and store data on US servers. If you're outside the US, your information is transferred here. For transfers from the EEA, UK, and Switzerland, we rely on safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses and our providers' participation in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework where applicable.

16. Age requirement

Our platform is built for design professionals and is not directed to anyone under 18. We don't knowingly collect personal information from minors. If you believe a minor has given us personal information, contact us and we'll delete it.

17. Changes to this policy

When we make meaningful changes, we'll update the date at the top and let members know by email or an in-platform notice before the changes take effect. The current version always lives at aiforinteriordesigners.com/privacy-policy.

18. Contact us

AI for Interior Designers™
AI for Interior Designers LLC
South Carolina, USA
Privacy and support: support@aiforinteriordesigners.com
Partnerships and press: partnerships@aiforinteriordesigners.com