Submission terms
These terms apply to every article submitted to Classic Interior Design Journal through the form at /submit/. The journal is published by Pinnacli LLC. Submitting an article and paying the editorial review fee creates a contract between you (the submitter) and Pinnacli LLC on the terms set out below. If you do not accept any term, do not submit.
The editorial review fee
The editorial review fee is 180 USD per submission. The fee is charged via Stripe Checkout at the moment of submission. The fee is consideration for the editor's time to read the submission, judge it against the published editorial standards, and return a written decision; it is not consideration for placement, distribution, or any specific publication outcome.
The fee is non-refundable once the editor has begun the review, regardless of the decision. Refunds are issued only in the following circumstances: (a) duplicate charge produced by a Stripe processing error; (b) the editor's failure to return any decision within 30 calendar days of payment confirmation; (c) the journal's permanent closure before the review is performed. In each case, refund is to the same payment method, in the original currency, within 14 working days of the refund event.
Decision timeline and outcomes
The editor commits to returning a decision by email to the address on the submission within 14 working days of payment confirmation. The decision will be one of three outcomes:
- Accepted: the article will be published at classicinterior.design under the licence below, with author byline, biography, and link to the author's site if supplied.
- Accepted with revisions: a written list of revisions will be returned. If the author submits the revised article within 30 days, the editor will perform a second-round review at no further charge. Subsequent revision rounds are at the editor's discretion.
- Declined: the editor will return a brief written reason. The fee is not refunded.
The editor is not obliged to provide line-by-line feedback on declined submissions. Decisions are final after one written appeal to [email protected].
Author warranties
By submitting, the author warrants that:
- The author wrote the article, or has written authority from all co-authors to submit and to agree these terms on their behalf.
- The article is original and has not been published or accepted for publication elsewhere as of the submission date.
- The author holds or controls all rights to the text, images, photographs, diagrams, quoted passages, and any other material included in the submission, including any third-party material used under licence or fair use.
- The submission does not infringe any third party's intellectual-property, privacy, or contractual rights.
- The submission does not contain defamatory, unlawful, or discriminatory material.
- Any factual claims in the submission are true to the best of the author's knowledge, and where they are sourced from third parties, those sources are correctly cited.
Licence granted on acceptance
If the article is accepted (with or without revisions) and published, the author grants Classic Interior Design Journal a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to reproduce, distribute, communicate, and display the article and its illustrations on classicinterior.design and on the journal's email and social-media channels, in any present or future medium. The author retains copyright; this licence is non-exclusive. The author may republish the article elsewhere after publication, with attribution to the journal as first publisher.
Generated illustrations commissioned and produced by the journal to accompany the published article remain owned by Pinnacli LLC. The author may request a non-commercial editorial reuse licence for those illustrations free of charge by writing to [email protected].
Editorial standards and AI-generated content
Submissions are judged against the journal's editorial standards: research-grounded prose, sentence-level self-containment, semantic-triplet structure, named entities and verifiable data, no banned filler words, and substantial external citations to museums, archives, manufacturer datasheets, or auction-house records.
Submissions written wholly or substantially by generative AI tools are accepted only if the author discloses the use, takes editorial responsibility for the content, and the result still meets the standards above. Undisclosed AI-generated content is grounds for immediate rejection without refund.
Data handling
The data the author submits (name, email, biography, optional site, article body, files) is processed under the lawful basis of contract performance under GDPR Article 6(1)(b). Declined submissions are retained for 12 months for audit and chargeback-defence purposes; accepted submissions are retained indefinitely as part of the journal archive. The full data-handling notice is at privacy.
Chargebacks and disputes
The submitter agrees that, having read these terms before payment, a chargeback (payment dispute opened with the issuing card network) for "service not received" is not a good-faith dispute, because the contracted service is the editorial review, which begins on payment confirmation. Disputes about the quality of the review must first be raised with [email protected]. Chargebacks initiated without prior written contact will be defended with the submission record, the timestamp of payment, the editor's review notes, and these terms.
Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Pinnacli LLC's total aggregate liability arising from any submission, payment, or publication is limited to the editorial review fee paid for the submission in question. The journal is not liable for indirect, consequential, or special damages.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, where Pinnacli LLC is registered. Disputes that cannot be resolved by good-faith correspondence fall within the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Delaware.
Updates
These terms may be updated by republishing this page with a revised "Last updated" date. The terms in force on the date of payment apply to that submission, regardless of subsequent changes.