Canva
Canva trains its AI models on your activity, content and uploads by default, with an opt-out in privacy settings. Canva Education content is excluded from AI training.
A self-serve opt-out exists
"We may analyze your activity, content, media uploads and related data in your account to provide and customize the Service, including generating and storing that data as Memories, and to train our algorithms, models and AI products and services using machine learning"
- 01 Aug 2026
- Free & Pro (consumer accounts)
- global
- 09F8DC3C…0F3B
Scope of this finding: The opt-out is real and free, but it lives on a separate "privacy controls" page reached from privacy settings, and the policy describes a second, distinct control for "Memories" in AI personalisation settings — so switching off one does not self-evidently switch off the other. The policy states the training use under a "Service improvement" heading rather than announcing it at signup, which is why this grades D rather than C.
"We will not use User Content of Canva Education for AI training."
- 01 Aug 2026
- Canva Education (students)
- global
- 09F8DC3C…0F3B
Scope of this finding: A flat exclusion rather than a switch, which is why there is no opt-out to offer. It is stated in a passage about advertising, and covers "User Content of Canva Education" specifically — the policy does not say whether a student's activity and analytics data, which the consumer clause above also names, is excluded on the same terms.
What each plan can refuse
The same questions asked of every plan we could identify. Every cell is sourced from a quoted clause or a documented search — see the evidence above.
- Self-serve toggle
- Not stated
- 50 / 100
- Unknown
- None offered
- Not stated
- 12 / 100
- Unknown
Everything we read
Vendor response
Canva has not disputed, clarified, or announced a change to any clause quoted above. If that changes, it will be published here verbatim.
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