157 Total
51 High severity
93 Medium severity
13 Low severity

Key Facts

What may Adobe do with a user's personal information?
Adobe may share a user's personal information with the Business that administers their account.
Who may Adobe share a user's personal information with?
Adobe may share a user's personal information with the Business that administers their account.
What may Adobe collect and analyze during use of a Beta Version?
Adobe may collect data, including crash data, and analyze user Content including through human review, during use of a Beta Version, regardless of whether the user has opted out of data collection for non-Beta Versions.
What ability may Adobe grant a Business?
Adobe may grant a Business the ability to access, use, remove, retain, and control a user's Business Profile and all Content within it, including Content uploaded or imported before or after the Terms were last updated.
May Adobe grant a Business the ability to access, use, remove, retain, and control a user's Business Profile and all Content within it?
Adobe may grant a Business the ability to access, use, remove, retain, and control a user's Business Profile and all Content within it, including Content uploaded or imported before or after the Terms were last updated.
How must users resolve disputes?
Adobe requires users to resolve disputes on an individual basis and prohibits bringing a claim as a plaintiff or class member in a class, consolidated, or representative action.
What does Adobe prohibit regarding bringing a claim?
Adobe requires users to resolve disputes on an individual basis and prohibits bringing a claim as a plaintiff or class member in a class, consolidated, or representative action.
Where must a legal action arising from a claim not resolved within 30 days of receipt be brought?
Adobe requires that any legal action arising from a claim not resolved within 30 days of receipt must be brought in small claims court or through final and binding arbitration.
What will Adobe not use users' Local or Cloud Content to do?
Adobe will not use users' Local or Cloud Content to train generative AI models, except for Content users choose to submit to the Adobe Stock marketplace.
What are Adobe's Covered Parties not liable for?
Adobe's Covered Parties are not liable for any special, incidental, indirect, consequential, moral, exemplary, or punitive damages, regardless of cause.
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Summary

These terms set the rules for using Adobe's products and services, including how your content is handled, who can access it, and how disputes are resolved. If your account is managed by a business, that business can access, control, and delete your content—including anything you uploaded before or after the terms were last updated. If you have a dispute with Adobe that isn't resolved within 30 days, you must pursue it through arbitration or small claims court rather than a standard lawsuit, and you cannot join a class action.

Analysis

Adobe's Terms of Use establish the conditions under which users may access Adobe's Services and Software, including a binding arbitration requirement with class-action waiver that channels unresolved disputes to arbitration or small claims court after a 30-day window. The document sets out Adobe's content control architecture: Business administrators may be granted sweeping access to, control over, and deletion rights for users' Business Profile Content, while Adobe itself commits not to use Local or Cloud Content to train generative AI models except for Content voluntarily submitted to Adobe Stock. Users are expressly prohibited from using Adobe's Services, Software, or any derived output to build or improve AI or machine learning systems, and from processing Sensitive Personal Information through the platform outside three defined exceptions. Adobe's liability exposure is substantially curtailed by a broad disclaimer of all implied warranties and an exclusion of consequential, punitive, and related damages, with Product Specific Terms taking precedence over the General Terms in the event of conflict.

What this means for you

For an individual user, the most direct effects of this document are: your Business Profile Content—including past uploads—can be accessed, retained, or deleted by the Business that administers your account, not just by you; Beta Versions collect data and allow human review of your Content even if you previously opted out of data collection for standard versions; and after your license ends, Adobe reserves the right to permanently delete your Content once a 30-day transition period has passed. Adobe will not use your Local or Cloud Content to train generative AI models unless you choose to submit that Content to Adobe Stock. If you use a Beta Version and want to limit data collection, be aware that your existing opt-out does not apply to that version.

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