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AI/ML Training on User Content

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Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

Your creative work uploaded to Canva — including personal images and design content — could be used to train commercial AI systems, which raises questions about intellectual property and consent.

Recent Activity

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Medium May 5, 2026

The updated privacy policy no longer includes explicit language describing Canva's use of non-essential cookies for personalization, advertising tailoring, and website analytics. Previously, the poli…

High May 1, 2026

The updated privacy policy no longer explicitly discloses optional cookie uses or provides cookie preference controls on the privacy policy page itself. Previously, Canva stated it would use non-esse…

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

The policy states that Canva collects a broad range of personal data including uploaded content, designs, device identifiers, and usage activity, and authorizes sharing this data with advertising, analytics, and integration partners. The terms also indicate that user content and data may be used to improve Canva's services and AI features, which consumers using free or paid accounts should be aware of when uploading sensitive or proprietary materials. You can review your privacy choices, submit data access or deletion requests, and manage communication preferences through Canva's privacy settings at canva.com/privacy.

How other platforms handle this

Grammarly Medium

By submitting, posting, or displaying Content on or through the Services, you give Grammarly a worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such Content in connection with providing and improving the Servi...

Runway Medium

Subject to any applicable account settings that you select, you grant Company a fully paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right (including any moral rights) and license to host, use, license, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perf...

ClickUp Medium

By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distri...

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▸ View Original Clause Language DOCUMENT RECORD
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We use the information we collect about you and your use of the Service to help develop, train, and improve our artificial intelligence features and those of our service providers, where we have a lawful basis to do so. This may include content that you upload to the Service, such as images and text. We will only use your content for AI training where we have the right to do so under our Terms of Use and applicable law, and you have the ability to opt-out of this in certain circumstances.

— Excerpt from Canva's Canva Privacy Policy

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Provision details

Document information
Document
Canva Privacy Policy
Entity
Canva
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
May 11, 2026
Last verified
May 11, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-005242
Document ID
CA-D-00204
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
4608d013413fe0c49d9bac06799391e6496715c70027aec74677d661cbd6c89b
Analysis generated
May 11, 2026 23:11 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: Canva
Document: Canva Privacy Policy
Record ID: CA-P-005242
Captured: 2026-05-11 23:11:39 UTC
SHA-256: 4608d013413fe0c4…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/canva/canva-privacy-policy/aiml-training-on-user-content/
Accessed: May 14, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Canva's AI/ML Training on User Content clause do?

Your creative work uploaded to Canva — including personal images and design content — could be used to train commercial AI systems, which raises questions about intellectual property and consent.

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