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“Adobe may provide your personal information to such Business. Access to complimentary Entitlements...may be provided to any users added to a Business's Admin Console.”
“you agree that Adobe may collect data, including crash data, regarding your use of the Beta Version and analyze your Content, including human review...regardless of whether you have opted-out of data collection for non-Beta Versions.”
“If you are a Business User, you agree that, due to your receipt of Entitlements from such Business, (1) Adobe may provide such Business with the ability to access, use, remove, retain, and control your Business Profile and all Content therein whether uploaded or imported before or after the date the Terms were last updated.”
“You may only resolve disputes with us on an individual basis, and you may not bring a claim as a plaintiff or a class member in a class, consolidated, or representative action.”
“If any dispute related to your Claim is not resolved within 30 days of receipt, any resulting legal actions must be resolved through either small claims court or final and binding arbitration...”
“We will not use your Local or Cloud Content to train generative AI models except for Content you choose to submit to the Adobe Stock marketplace...”
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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We withheld clauses we had published from this document. Each withholding is recorded in our correction log:
“Adobe may provide your personal information to such Business. Access to complimentary Entitlements...may be provided to any users added to a Business's Admin Console.”
“you agree that Adobe may collect data, including crash data, regarding your use of the Beta Version and analyze your Content, including human review...regardless of whether you have opted-out of data collection for non-Beta Versions.”
“If you are a Business User, you agree that, due to your receipt of Entitlements from such Business, (1) Adobe may provide such Business with the ability to access, use, remove, retain, and control your Business Profile and all Content …”
“You may only resolve disputes with us on an individual basis, and you may not bring a claim as a plaintiff or a class member in a class, consolidated, or representative action.”
“If any dispute related to your Claim is not resolved within 30 days of receipt, any resulting legal actions must be resolved through either small claims court or final and binding arbitration...”
“We will not use your Local or Cloud Content to train generative AI models except for Content you choose to submit to the Adobe Stock marketplace...”
“in no event shall the Covered Parties be liable to you or anyone else for any special, incidental, indirect, consequential, moral, exemplary or punitive damages whatsoever, regardless of cause...”
“If there is any conflict between the terms in the General Terms and the Product Specific Terms, then the Product Specific Terms govern in relation to those Services or Software.”
“You agree not to collect, process, or store any Sensitive Personal Information...using the Services and Software, except as (A) directly authorized by Adobe, (B) intended by the Services and Software, or (C) governed by the Product Specific Terms.”
“use the Services or Software, or any content, data, output, or other information received or derived from the Services or Software, to directly or indirectly create, train, test, or otherwise improve any machine learning algorithms or artificial intelligence system...”
“Unless stated in the Product Specific Terms, the Services and Software are provided "AS-IS." To the maximum extent permitted by law, Adobe...disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including the implied warranties of non-infringement, merchantability...”
“The transition must be completed within thirty (30) days from the date of the termination or expiration of your license term. At the end of this 30-day transition period, we reserve the right to delete your Content.”
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