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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.
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.
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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