Canva is strongest where users can manage account rights, privacy requests, deletion, and some AI-related preferences directly.
Canva is a design platform, reviewed for privacy controls, AI data analysis choices, sharing, retention, and account/data rights.
60
Mixed
60
Mixed
Canva gives users decent privacy controls, but marketing tracking and optional AI data-analysis settings still matter.
Canva is strongest where users can manage account rights, privacy requests, deletion, and some AI-related preferences directly.
The weakest area is still the surrounding tracking and marketing layer, plus any optional data-analysis or sharing choices tied to AI features.
55
Weak
Canva says privacy settings control whether Canva and technology partners may use data to improve AI services for everyone.
Canva AI inputs may be shared with technology partners to provide AI functionality.
Canva gives users privacy settings for AI-service improvement use.
55
Weak
Canva still shares data with affiliates and third-party service providers to operate the service and pursue legitimate interests.
Canva may obtain profile and interest data from social platforms and third-party data providers for promotions and personalization.
Canva documents privacy rights including access, correction, deletion, restriction, export, and objection.
Users can unlink third-party accounts after connecting them to Canva.
Canva lets users opt out of collecting more data from third-party providers for tailored messaging.
The policy names key sharing paths such as affiliates, service providers, social platforms, and third-party data providers.
55
Weak
Canva and third-party partners create online identifiers and use cookies and similar technologies across the service.
Some providers can combine cookie and pixel data with email or mailing-address data to help Canva serve relevant offers.
Canva also receives advertising engagement information from ad servers, ad networks, and social media platforms.
Canva provides browser-level cookie controls and points users to cookie settings.
Canva's policy is explicit about cookies, online identifiers, pixels, tags, and similar technologies.
Students using Canva Education are carved out of several advertising uses described elsewhere in the policy.
60
Mixed
Canva retains profile information and user content while it has legal, audit, backup, archival, or service-related reasons to keep them.
The public policy does not provide one short, simple deletion window for most content and account data.
Users can request deletion or restriction of personal information through Canva's privacy channels.
Canva gives users a path to stop future AI-improvement use through privacy settings.
Canva documents a formal privacy-rights process instead of leaving retention questions entirely undocumented.
75
Good
Canva provides a privacy controls page with AI-training settings.
Users can submit privacy rights requests for access, correction, deletion, restriction, export, and objection.
Users can control cookies through browser settings and can opt out of some tailored messaging data collection.
Users can unlink connected third-party accounts after using them with Canva.
Some privacy rights and controls depend on country-specific laws and request workflows.
Several controls still rely on browser settings, connected platforms, or separate provider interfaces rather than one Canva-only switch.
1. AI Use
Canva says privacy settings control whether Canva and technology partners may use data to improve AI services for everyone.
2. AI Use
Canva AI inputs may be shared with technology partners to provide AI functionality.
3. AI Use
Canva gives users privacy settings for AI-service improvement use.
Founded
Jan 2012
Founder
Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht, and Cameron Adams
Parent Company
Canva
Lifecycle
Active
Category
Design & Creative Tools
CEO
Melanie Perkins
Security Team
Security Team
Date Added
06-10-2026