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These terms govern your use of Canva and set out important limitations: if you are on a Team or an employer-managed account, your Team Owner, Administrator, or employer's admin can access, delete, or reassign your content and designs. Any dispute with Canva must go through binding individual arbitration—not a court or class action—and your total compensation in any dispute is capped at the greater of $100 or your last twelve months of subscription fees. Paid subscriptions renew automatically each billing cycle and cancellations do not entitle you to a refund for the unused portion of the current period.
Canva's Terms of Use establish the conditions under which users and organizations may access and use the Service, including binding arbitration and class-action waiver requirements, a dual-cap aggregate liability ceiling of the greater of $100 USD or twelve months of subscription fees, and a no-refund policy upon cancellation. Canva obtains a royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, display, copy, store, and use User Content to provide the Service, with that license becoming perpetual for content included in shared Designs. Account control provisions grant Team Owners, Administrators, and Admin Entity admins concurrent authority over user-uploaded content, Designs, and account settings, and a user's sign-up with a work email binds their employer or organization to the Terms. The Service is categorically closed to children under 13 (outside Canva Education), and all forms of data mining, extraction, or scraping—including for AI and machine learning purposes—are prohibited.
If you use Canva through a work email, a Team account, or an employer-managed account, your content and designs are accessible to and controllable by Administrators, Team Owners, or your employer's admin—not exclusively by you. Canva holds a sublicensable license to your content to run the Service, and that license becomes perpetual once your content is part of a shared Design, persisting even if you remove the content or close your account. Your subscription renews automatically and no refund is issued if you cancel mid-cycle; to avoid an unwanted renewal charge, you must cancel before the current billing cycle ends. Any claim against Canva must be brought individually through AAA arbitration rather than in court.
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7 important changes detected
15 versions captured · Last updated: July 2026
Canva updated its Terms of Use to reference an Indirect Master Services Agreement for customers purchasing through resellers. The updated terms specify that this separate agreement governs reseller purchases instead …
View change record →Canva's terms of service were updated on July 20, 2026 with a single sentence modification in the document's navigation or header section. The change added the phrase 'Loading finished' to …
View change record →Canva updated its Terms of Use on June 24, 2026 to clarify how Add-Ons (additional paid features) can be billed and how automatic renewal applies to subscriptions. The updated language …
View change record →Canva's navigation menu was updated on April 20, 2026 to add a link to 'Template library' in the product section. This is a navigation and site structure change with no …
View change record →Canva updated its Terms of Use on April 19, 2026. The change involved removal of 'Template library' from the product features navigation menu in the document header. This is a …
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