Privacy Policy

Effective date: August 3, 2026

Last updated: August 3, 2026

Apostle Interior Architecture & Design, referred to in this Privacy Policy as “Apostle,” “we,” “us,” or “our,” respects your privacy.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you:

  • Visit apostleiad.com

  • Contact the studio

  • Submit a project enquiry

  • Join an email list

  • Take a quiz or scorecard

  • Download a resource

  • Create an account

  • Purchase a digital product

  • Interact with The Foyer, The Workshop, or The Edit

  • Otherwise communicate with Apostle

By using the website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information you provide

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide, including:

Contact information

This may include your:

  • Name

  • Email address

  • Telephone number

  • Company or studio name

  • Mailing or billing address

Project-enquiry information

When you contact Apostle about a design project, we may collect:

  • Project location

  • Property type

  • Project scope

  • Estimated budget

  • Desired timeline

  • Referral source

  • Information included in uploaded documents or messages

  • Other details you choose to provide

Please do not submit confidential, financial, medical, or other sensitive personal information through a general enquiry form unless it is necessary and specifically requested.

Designer-resource information

When you join The Workshop, take a scorecard, or request a resource, we may collect:

  • Information about your studio or professional role

  • Quiz or scorecard responses

  • Business-process information

  • Areas in which you are seeking support

  • Email preferences

  • Downloads or resources requested

Purchase information

When you purchase a digital product, we may receive:

  • Your name and contact information

  • Billing address

  • Product purchased

  • Order date

  • Transaction amount

  • Payment status

  • Order or transaction identifier

Payments are processed through [www.squarespace.com]. Apostle does not intend to store complete credit-card numbers or payment credentials on its own systems.

Communications

We may retain emails, form submissions, support requests, survey responses, and other communications you send to us.

2. Information collected automatically

When you visit the website, Apostle and its service providers may automatically collect information such as:

  • Internet Protocol address

  • Browser type

  • Device type

  • Operating system

  • Approximate geographic location

  • Referring website

  • Pages viewed

  • Links selected

  • Date and time of access

  • Time spent on the website

  • Cookie or device identifiers

  • Interaction with forms, emails, products, or website features

This information may be collected through cookies, pixels, log files, analytics tools, and similar technologies.

3. How we use information

We may use information to:

  • Operate, maintain, secure, and improve the website

  • Respond to project and resource enquiries

  • Evaluate whether a prospective project is a fit for the studio

  • Deliver purchased digital products

  • Process and document transactions

  • Provide customer support

  • Deliver quiz or scorecard results

  • Send requested guides, downloads, and resources

  • Manage The Workshop founding list

  • Send newsletters and marketing communications

  • Understand website and content performance

  • Personalize communications or recommendations

  • Maintain records

  • Detect fraud, misuse, or security incidents

  • Enforce our policies and agreements

  • Comply with legal, tax, accounting, or regulatory obligations

We may also use aggregated or deidentified information that does not reasonably identify an individual.

4. Email communications

When you subscribe to The Foyer, join The Workshop, take the scorecard, download a free resource, or otherwise consent to receive email, we may send:

  • Requested downloads

  • Scorecard results

  • Educational content

  • Studio news

  • Product announcements

  • Founding-list updates

  • Marketing communications

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link included in the message.

Even after unsubscribing from marketing communications, you may continue to receive transactional or service-related messages, such as purchase confirmations, download links, security notices, and direct responses to enquiries.

Our email platform is [INSERT EMAIL PLATFORM].

5. Quiz and scorecard information

Apostle may use [INSERT QUIZ PLATFORM] to administer quizzes, assessments, or scorecards.

Your responses may be used to:

  • Calculate and display a result

  • Identify areas in which your process may need support

  • Deliver relevant resources

  • Organize email communications according to result category

  • Improve Apostle’s educational products and content

Scorecard results are educational and informational. They are not a professional certification, formal audit, legal evaluation, or guarantee of business performance.

6. Cookies and similar technologies

The website may use cookies and similar technologies for:

  • Core website operation

  • Security

  • Session management

  • Shopping-cart and account functions

  • Remembering user preferences

  • Website analytics

  • Form performance

  • Email signup and attribution

  • Affiliate-link tracking

  • Advertising or audience measurement, when enabled

Some cookies are necessary for the website to operate. Others may be controlled through the cookie banner, browser settings, or privacy controls available on the website.

Disabling cookies may affect certain features, including forms, accounts, shopping carts, embedded content, and checkout.

7. How we disclose information

We may disclose information to service providers that perform work on our behalf, including:

  • Website-hosting and ecommerce providers

  • Payment processors

  • Email-marketing platforms

  • Quiz and form platforms

  • Cloud-storage providers

  • Analytics providers

  • Customer-support providers

  • Professional advisers

  • Contractors supporting website or business operations

These providers may access information only as reasonably necessary to perform their services, subject to their agreements and privacy practices.

We may also disclose information:

  • When required by law, legal process, court order, or governmental request

  • To investigate fraud, security incidents, misuse, or violations of our terms

  • To protect the rights, safety, property, or integrity of Apostle or others

  • In connection with a merger, sale, restructuring, financing, or transfer of all or part of the business

  • With your consent or at your direction

8. Sale or sharing of personal information

Apostle does not sell personal information for money.

Certain privacy laws may define disclosures made through advertising, analytics, affiliate, or audience-measurement technologies as a “sale” or “sharing,” even when no money is exchanged directly for the information.

When applicable law requires an opt-out mechanism, Apostle will provide an appropriate cookie preference control, privacy request method, or “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” option.

BEFORE PUBLICATION: Confirm whether Meta Pixel, Pinterest Tag, Google advertising tools, ShopMy tracking, Amazon affiliate tracking, or other cross-site advertising technologies will be active.

9. Data retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to:

  • Provide the requested product, service, or communication

  • Maintain purchase and business records

  • Complete a design enquiry or professional relationship

  • Comply with legal, tax, accounting, and contractual obligations

  • Resolve disputes

  • Prevent fraud

  • Enforce our agreements

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected.

10. Data security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards appropriate to the nature of the information we maintain.

No website, storage system, payment method, or electronic transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You provide information through the website at your own risk.

11. Your privacy choices

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:

  • Request access to personal information

  • Request information about how it is collected, used, or disclosed

  • Request correction of inaccurate information

  • Request deletion

  • Withdraw consent

  • Opt out of certain marketing

  • Opt out of certain sales, sharing, or targeted advertising

  • Limit certain uses of sensitive personal information

  • Receive a portable copy of certain information

  • Exercise privacy rights without unlawful discrimination

To submit a privacy request, email hello@apostleiad.com with the subject line: Privacy Request.

We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests. We will respond as required by applicable law.

12. Browser privacy signals

Some browsers offer “Do Not Track” settings. Because there is no uniform standard governing all Do Not Track signals, the website may not respond to legacy Do Not Track settings.

Where required by applicable law and supported by the technologies used on the website, Apostle will recognize legally valid browser-based opt-out signals, such as Global Privacy Control.

BEFORE PUBLICATION: Check this section against the final Squarespace cookie and consent configuration.

13. Third-party websites and embedded content

The website may link to or embed content from third-party websites, platforms, manufacturers, retailers, affiliate partners, social networks, or service providers.

Apostle does not control the privacy or security practices of those third parties. Their collection and use of information are governed by their own policies.

14. Children’s privacy

The website and Apostle’s products are not directed to children under 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information through the website, contact us so that we can review and, where appropriate, delete it.

15. International visitors

Apostle is based in the United States. Information submitted through the website may be processed and stored in the United States or in other locations where Apostle’s service providers operate.

Data-protection laws in those locations may differ from the laws where you live.

16. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may revise this Privacy Policy as the website, business, products, services, or legal obligations change.

The revised policy will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. Material changes may also be communicated through the website or by email when appropriate.

17. Contact

Questions or privacy requests may be directed to:

Apostle Interior Architecture & Design

Email: hello@apostleiad.com

Website: apostleiad.com

Mailing address: [INSERT BUSINESS MAILING ADDRESS]