Human Rights Statement
A short statement, from a small company, about the rights our work actually touches: the people who work here, the people whose data we hold, and the people our software either includes or leaves out.
The short version
A plain-words summary for orientation. The sections below are the full statement.
- We look to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and we are honest that a company this size implements them at this size.
- Our real impacts are in three places: how we treat the people who work here, how we handle the data people trust us with, and whether our software is usable by people with disabilities.
- We do not sell personal information, we do not build surveillance features, and we do not train AI models on your work.
- We build to WCAG 2.2 AA because a tool a person cannot operate is a tool that excluded them.
- We do not run a formal due-diligence programme or an impact assessment, and we say so rather than implying one.
- One email address reaches a person who can act. It is in the last section.
1. Our commitment, and its honest size
Bespoke Woodcraft Studio LLC respects human rights as set out in the International Bill of Human Rights and the International Labour Organization's Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, and we look to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights for how a business is supposed to go about that: know where your impacts are, avoid causing harm, and provide a way for people to tell you when you have.
We have not commissioned a human rights impact assessment, we do not run a formal due-diligence programme, we have not joined the UN Global Compact or any similar initiative, and we do not publish a human rights report. Companies that do those things are much larger than we are. What follows is what we actually do.
We are a California company that builds two pieces of browser software, CabDesign and StackDesign, and runs a custom cabinet shop in the Los Angeles area. Everyone who works for this company is someone the founder knows and pays directly. That is a small enough circle that the labour-rights half of this commitment is a matter of conduct rather than a matter of controls, and we would rather say that than describe a system we do not have.
2. Where our impacts actually are
Three places, and the second and third are the ones most people never think about.
The people who work here
Work here is voluntary, paid at or above the applicable minimum, and free to leave. We do not use labour agencies, we charge nobody a fee to work here, we hold nobody's identity documents, and we never hold a person's immigration status over them. We do not tolerate harassment or discrimination on any ground, and in a company this small there is nowhere for that to hide. The shop side has its own physical safety obligations under California law, and we meet them because the person most often standing at the saw is the founder.
The people whose data we hold
Privacy is a human right, and for a software business it is the right we touch most often. Our position is stated in full in the Privacy Policy, and the parts that belong here are the ones we would not change under commercial pressure: we do not sell personal information, we do not share it with advertising networks or data brokers, we do not build features whose purpose is to watch people, and we do not use your designs, your dimensions or your customers' details to train an AI model. Your work is yours. You can export it and you can delete your account yourself.
We also hold data about people who never agreed to anything with us: the customers whose names, addresses and phone numbers a cabinet shop types into a project. We treat those records as belonging to the shop that entered them, we do not mine them, and they are covered by the same protections as everything else in an account.
The people who use the software, including the ones software usually forgets
A design tool that a person cannot operate has excluded that person from a trade. We build to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 at level AA: every page carries a skip link, a visible keyboard focus indicator, accessible names on controls, a colour contrast standard both themes are written to, and a reduced-motion setting that is honoured rather than ignored. This is a build standard in our codebase with automated checks behind it, not a paragraph on a page. We keep a written list of the places that do not meet it yet, and we work it down. We will not always get it right, and an accessibility problem reported to us is treated as a defect rather than a feature request.
Further away: the supply chain
The physical materials the workshop buys are where the classic labour-rights risk sits, and they get their own document. Our Modern Slavery Statement says what we buy, from whom, and exactly where our visibility into the chain stops.
3. The AI Designer
Our software includes an AI assistant, so we should say what we think about that rather than leaving it implied.
It is a tool for designing cabinets. It is not making decisions about anyone's employment, credit, housing, health or liberty, and we are not going to build it into one. It is clearly labelled as an AI throughout the product, so nobody is talking to a machine while believing it is a person. What you type goes to a third-party AI provider to generate the reply, under commercial terms that do not permit training on your content, and the international data transfers statement names the providers and says where the processing happens.
It also gets things wrong sometimes, and a wrong number in a cabinet shop is wasted material and wasted hours. We say so in the product rather than pretending otherwise, and every dimension it produces is yours to check before you cut.
4. When we get it wrong
The UN Guiding Principles ask companies to provide remedy, not only to avoid harm. At our size that means something specific and modest: one monitored address that reaches a person who can actually change the thing, an answer rather than a form letter, and a fix rather than a policy update.
If we caused or contributed to a harm, we will say so plainly, fix what can be fixed, and tell the people affected. If a supplier or a provider of ours is the source, we will push as hard as a small customer can push, which is honestly not very hard, and we will say that plainly rather than issue a statement implying more.
5. Reviewing this statement
We review this page at least once a year, and whenever the company changes shape: new people, a new product, a new kind of data, or a new part of the world we serve. The date at the top always shows the current version.
6. Telling us something
If anything here is not true in practice, or you think our work has harmed someone, write to us. You will get a person, not a ticket queue.
- Email: support@cabdesign.app or support@stackdesign.app
- By post: Bespoke Woodcraft Studio LLC, 688 N Rimsdale Ave, Covina, CA 91722, United States
We do not retaliate against anyone who raises a concern, whether they work for us, work for a supplier, or are a stranger who noticed something.