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Privacy policy

Canva

canva.com

C

Risk score

47of 100

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In short

  • Canva collects your personal information, usage data, and content to provide its design service and improve features using machine learning.
  • You allow Canva to share this data with affiliates and third-party partners for advertising and analytics.
  • The policy also covers how account controls are managed by employers or team owners.

What you accept

If you use this site

Everyday words for the material promises and rights you give up. Each line includes a quote from the document.

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  1. 01

    You are agreeing that Canva uses your activity and uploaded media to train AI and improve the Service.

    This product

    “We may analyze your activity, content, media uploads and related data in your account ... to train our algorithms, models and AI products and services using machine learning”
  2. 02

    You are agreeing that your employer or organization can control your account if you use a work email.

    Other companies

    “If you sign up for the Service using an email address associated with your employer or another organization ... Canva may ... give control of the Administered Account to the Admin Entity.”
  3. 03

    You are agreeing to retain your data after your account is terminated for legal and backup purposes.

    This product

    “Following termination or deactivation of your user account, Canva will retain your profile information and User Content for a commercially reasonable time, and for as long as we have a valid purpose to do so.”

What it can cost you

Downsides we could quote

Quoted clauses that can affect your privacy, money, or right to go to court — including terms that follow you to other products.

Highest-cost clauses first

High cost

Indefinite retention

You are agreeing that Canva keeps your information and content long after your account is closed.

“Following termination or deactivation of your user account, Canva will retain your profile information and User Content for a commercially reasonable time, and for as long as we have a valid purpose to do so.”

What that means: You may not fully delete your data because Canva holds onto it for business or legal reasons even after you leave.

The company keeps your data indefinitely if it has a 'valid purpose,' which includes legal compliance and backups, rather than deleting it immediately upon request or cancellation.

Medium cost

Broad license to user content

You are agreeing to let Canva use your uploaded content to train their AI systems.

“We may analyze your activity, content, media uploads and related data in your account ... to train our algorithms, models and AI products and services using machine learning”

What that means: Your designs and images might be used to teach Canva’s AI tools, potentially impacting your exclusive ownership.

Canva takes your uploaded content and uses it to train their artificial intelligence models to improve the service, effectively licensing your creative work for their internal product development.

Medium cost

Tracking you across apps

You are agreeing to share your data with third-party ad networks for cross-site advertising.

“We partner with third party ad servers, ad networks and social media platforms ... to deliver personalized advertisements ... on our Service and other sites”

What that means: Your browsing habits on Canva and elsewhere are shared with advertisers to target you with specific ads.

Canva shares your data with advertising partners like Facebook and Google to track your behavior across other websites and serve you targeted ads.

Medium cost

Data sold or shared with third parties

You are agreeing that your data can be sold if Canva's business is acquired or merged.

“Canva may also share, sell or transfer your information to third parties in connection with ... any merger, acquisition, reorganization, financing, sale of assets...”

What that means: If Canva changes ownership, your personal information becomes part of the assets being sold to the new owner.

Your data can be sold or transferred if Canva is bought out, merges with another company, or sells off parts of its business.

Medium cost

Liability shifted onto the user

You are agreeing that Canva is not responsible if your data is compromised.

“Canva cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to Canva or guarantee that information on the Service may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed.”

What that means: If your data is hacked or leaked, Canva accepts no liability for the damage.

The company explicitly states it does not guarantee the safety of your data, shifting the risk of a breach or data loss onto you.

If these terms already apply to you

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