Canva Privacy Policy

This document explains how Canva collects and uses your personal information, including using your content and activity to train its AI and to serve you targeted ads on Canva and other sites. If your account is managed by an organization, that organization's admin can access, change, or delete your account and all its content. Canva Education users receive stronger protections: their content is not used for AI training, their data is not sold, and they are not shown advertising.

Canva's Privacy Policy establishes the conditions under which Canva collects, uses, shares, and retains user information. It permits Canva to analyze user activity, content, and media uploads to train its algorithms and AI products via machine learning, while providing users a privacy-controls mechanism to manage that use. The policy authorizes sharing or transfer of user information to third parties in connection with corporate transactions including due diligence, and enables Canva and third-party partners to collect and use data — including cookies and automatically collected data — for targeted advertising on Canva and third-party platforms. It carves out categorical protections for Canva Education users, excluding their content from AI training, prohibiting the sale of student data, barring advertising to students, and restricting child self-registration, while noting that Canva cannot warrant the security of transmitted or stored information.

For most users, Canva may use the content you create and upload, along with your activity data, to train its AI models and to serve personalized advertising across Canva and third-party platforms. Your information may also be shared with third parties if Canva undergoes a merger, acquisition, or similar corporate event. If your account is administered by an organization, that admin holds broad control over your account, content, and settings. To limit how your data is used for AI training, you can manage that preference through the privacy controls page in your privacy settings. Canva Education users — including students — are categorically excluded from AI training data use, student data sales, and advertising.