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After Effects

Design & Creative ToolsLast updated: 2026-06-10

After Effects is Adobe's motion graphics product, reviewed for project files, cloud storage, sharing, tracking, retention, and AI-adjacent Adobe workflows.

ScoreLatest FindingScore BreakdownSource & EvidenceCompanyAlternatives
ScoreLatest FindingScore BreakdownSource & EvidenceCompanyAlternatives

65

Mixed

Mixed
Mixed
Weak
Mixed
Good

Overall Score

65

Mixed

AI Training:65
Mixed
Data Sharing:70
Mixed
Ads & Tracking:50
Weak
Data Retention:65
Mixed
User Control:75
Good

Overall Score

65

Mixed

AI Training:65
Mixed
Data Sharing:70
Mixed
Ads & Tracking:50
Weak
Data Retention:65
Mixed
User Control:75
Good

Latest Policy Findings: 2026-06-10

After Effects gives users decent control, but Adobe tracking and cloud collaboration still shape the privacy edge around creative work.

Strongest: User Control
75/100

After Effects is strongest where users can manage exports, account rights, cloud assets, and team sharing without a public-first model.

Weakest: Ads & Tracking
50/100

The weakest area is the wider Adobe ecosystem around telemetry, analytics, account linking, and optional cloud-based creative workflows.

Recommended Action:

Score Breakdown:

AI Training

65

Mixed

65

Mixed

Adobe's privacy notice includes user-generated requests such as prompts and describes content analysis and product-improvement processing.

-20Source [1]

Adobe provides account-level Content Analysis and Usage Data settings that can limit some improvement uses.

+20Source [2]

Data Sharing

70

Mixed

70

Mixed

Data can flow through collaborators, Adobe family companies, service providers, enterprise admins, integrations, and legal recipients.

-15Source [3]

Linked Adobe services and business-customer analytics can expose more than a standalone local-file workflow would.

-15Source [4]

Adobe provides privacy rights, account controls, and customer or admin settings.

+25Source [5]

Project and cloud-sharing choices are not universally forced; users and teams decide when to collaborate.

+20Source [6]

Adobe's service-provider framing for some business contexts gives customers more structure than generic public-consumer tools.

+15Source [7]

Adobe documents preferences and controls across account, product, and admin surfaces.

+10Source [8]

Ads & Tracking

50

Weak

50

Weak

Adobe still processes account, device, usage, cookie, analytics, and product interaction data.

-25Source [9]

Adobe Experience Cloud materials show that cookies and similar technologies can support advertising and marketing efforts.

-25Source [10]

Users or admins can manage account preferences, access, sharing, and some product settings.

+20Source [11]

Adobe provides opt-outs and consent-oriented tooling in some business and advertising contexts.

+15Source [12]

After Effects itself is not a public social feed or ad-targeting product.

+15Source [13]

Data Retention

65

Mixed

65

Mixed

Retention still depends on cloud storage, licenses, contracts, exports, legal duties, and admin settings.

-20Source [14]

Cloud workflows and connected services can retain copies outside a single local project file lifecycle.

-15Source [15]

Adobe documents privacy rights and account-management paths.

+20Source [16]

Customers determine how long some Experience Cloud information is retained.

+15Source [17]

Project access and sharing are customer-administered rather than being permanently public.

+15Source [18]

Adobe's rights and account controls give users more than one route to remove or manage some data.

+15Source [19]

User Control

75

Good

75

Good

Users or admins can manage access, sharing, exports, project settings, and privacy requests.

+25Source [20]

Adobe provides account-level preference and privacy settings.

+20Source [21]

Creative projects can stay in more limited collaboration states unless users deliberately publish or share them.

+15Source [22]

Business-customer contexts add admin controls over access and retention.

+15Source [23]

Controls are distributed across Adobe account, product, cloud, and enterprise admin surfaces.

-15Source [24]

Local and cloud copies, exports, and collaborator access can still escape a single user's direct control.

-10Source [25]

Source & Evidence Links:

Sources:

Adobe Privacy Page

Open: adobe.com

Adobe Privacy Page

Open: adobe.com

Evidence:

1. Adobe Privacy

Adobe's privacy notice includes user-generated requests such as prompts and describes content analysis and product-improvement processing.

Open: adobe.com

2. Controls

Adobe provides account-level Content Analysis and Usage Data settings that can limit some improvement uses.

Open: adobe.com

Company Details:

Founded

Dec 1982

Founder

John Warnock and Charles Geschke

Parent Company

Adobe

Lifecycle

Active

Category

Design & Creative Tools

CEO

Shantanu Narayen

Security Team

Security Team

Date Added

06-10-2026

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65

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70

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65

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65

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