When you upload designs, photos, text, or other content to Canva, you give Canva a broad, worldwide license to use, copy, modify, and share that content to run and promote its platform.
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The broad scope of this license grant establishes Canva's operational rights to incorporate user content into service delivery, product improvement, and content library functions. The transferability and sublicensability provisions authorize Canva to extend these usage rights to service providers, partners, and potentially successors in interest without requiring individual user consent for each transfer.
The updated terms establish a two-tier print fulfillment model. Purchases from Canva directly remain under Canva's Terms, while purchases from third-party Marketplace Sellers are now governed by separate Print Marketplace Seller Terms. The revised terms state that print orders may be subject to additional fees and taxes, and that orders may be accepted or rejected by Canva or a print partner for any reason, including product unavailability or errors. The agreement explicitly states that refunds are not available for user-made errors or change-of-mind situations, though refunds will be issued if an order is rejected after payment has been made.
View change record →Any content you upload to Canva, including photos, logos, or creative work, is covered by a license that allows Canva to use and modify it globally and royalty-free as part of operating the service; business users uploading client or employer-owned materials should verify they have authority to grant this license.
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"By making available any User Content through the Service, you hereby grant to Canva a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, copy, modify, create derivative works based upon, distribute, publicly display, and publicly perform your User Content in connection with operating and providing the Service and Content to you and to other users.Excerpt from Canva's Terms of Use
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The broad scope of this license grant establishes Canva's operational rights to incorporate user content into service delivery, product improvement, and content library functions. The transferability and sublicensability provisions authorize Canva to extend these usage rights to service providers, partners, and potentially successors in interest without requiring individual user consent for each transfer.
Any content you upload to Canva, including photos, logos, or creative work, is covered by a license that allows Canva to use and modify it globally and royalty-free as part of operating the service; business users uploading client or employer-owned materials should verify they have authority to grant this license.
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