Pro Content on Houzz

This article explains how Houzz uses your Customer Content as further detailed in the Houzz Pro Services Agreement.

To enable Houzz to provide the Services to you, we need you to provide us with content and materials about your business (i.e. Customer Content). Customer Content includes, for example, information about your business, your logo and associated imagery. For example, we use your content to display your professional profile and otherwise provide exposure for your work.

You retain all ownership of your Customer Content that you provide to Houzz and you grant Houzz a license to use that Customer Content so that Houzz can provide you with the Services and promote the Houzz Platform, Houzz or the Services. We need you to grant Houzz that license and certain other rights detailed in the Houzz Pro Services Agreement so that technical actions we take in operating the Services are not considered legal violations. For example, copyright laws could prevent us from processing, maintaining, storing, backing-up and distributing certain content (like your proposals to clients), unless you give us these rights. We also use service providers, such as web hosting services, who need to receive the content in order for us to operate the Services.

In order to maintain a consistent experience for others in the community who may view our editorial articles that feature your photos or who may have saved your photos to their Ideabooks, your photos and public content remain on our Platform after account closure.

For European Union customers, Houzz uses your content as an online intermediation service provider under the European Regulation on platform to business relations (“P2B”)* to include your business in our Project Match tool that matches homeowners with professionals.

Capitalised terms that are not defined in this article have the meaning given to them in the Houzz Pro Services Agreement.

*Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on promoting fairness and transparency for business users of online intermediation services