What they may do · DPDP §6(4)
What Canva: AI Video & Photo Editor does with your data
Canva's policy says it profiles you for ads, shares data with ad partners to target you on other sites, and trains its AI models on your designs and activity (opt-outs offered), and keeps your content after you close your account.
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Shares your data with partners
Passed to group companies, advertisers or analytics firms you never chose.
What this costs you. Your number and habits travel to companies you have never heard of and never agreed to. This is the step where the spam calls start.
Show me where they say that
Canva: AI Video & Photo Editor’s own policy says “We share your information with Canva affiliates and third-party service providers for the purpose of providing the Service to you, to facilitate Canva’s legitimate interests or if you consent.”
Our summary Section 3(a) discloses sharing with Canva affiliates and third-party service providers across billing, hosting, analytics, data labelling/machine learning and advertising functions.
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Builds an advertising profile of you
They watch what you view, tap and buy, and use it to decide which ads you see.
What this costs you. Your attention gets priced. What you hesitate over becomes a bid — and a profile built to predict you is a profile built to persuade you.
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Canva: AI Video & Photo Editor’s own policy says “For advertising purposes: We use information about you, including cookies information and other information we (and our third-party partners) collect from you automatically about your use of the Service, to serve, personalize and measure the effectiveness of advertising on the Service and third-party sites and platforms.”
Our summary Section 2 states Canva uses automatically-collected usage and cookie data to serve and personalise advertising, and Section 1(c) says it enriches this with third-party data to "better understand your profile and interests".
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Follows you onto other websites and apps
Their tracking carries on after you leave, through pixels and SDKs embedded elsewhere.
What this costs you. You get recognised on sites that have nothing to do with them. Closing the app does not close the file.
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Canva: AI Video & Photo Editor’s own policy says “Canva may share certain information with our third party advertising partners, such as your email address, location, cookie information and information relating to your use of our Service, and allow partners to perform a match of your information against information from other third party networks or sites to serve ads either on the Service or on third party sites (including, but not limited to Facebook, Google and Samsung televisions) and to measure the effectiveness of these ads.”
Our summary Section 4 discloses sharing identifiers with named ad networks and social platforms so they can match the user against other networks and serve/measure ads on third-party sites.
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Keeps your records long-term
Held on after you stop using the service.
What this costs you. Years after you delete the app, the record is still sitting there — and every year it sits there is another year it can leak.
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Canva: AI Video & Photo Editor’s own policy says “Following termination or deactivation of your user account, Canva will retain your profile information and User Content for a commercially reasonable time, and for as long as we have a valid purpose to do so.”
Our summary Section 8 sets no fixed retention period, keeping profile information and User Content after account termination for as long as Canva considers it has a valid purpose, plus backup and archival.
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Trains AI models on your content
Your photos, messages or activity are used to train machine-learning models.
What this costs you. This one has no undo. Once your content is inside a trained model, no erasure request can lift it back out.
Show me where they say that
Canva: AI Video & Photo Editor’s own policy says “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 to develop, improve and provide our Service.”
Our summary Section 2 states user activity, content and media uploads are used to train Canva's algorithms, models and AI products, with a user-managed setting in privacy controls.
What the policy does not mention
These are uses Canva: AI Video & Photo Editor’s policy is silent on. Silence is not a promise — it means the document does not say, and we do not infer either way.
- Processes your face or other biometrics
Canva: AI Video & Photo Editor is one app. How many are on your phone?
Most people carry twenty to forty. Add yours and see the total in one screen — how many share your data, profile you for ads, or follow you across the web. Then take it back from all of them at once.
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Questions
What does Canva: AI Video & Photo Editor do with my personal data?
According to Canva: AI Video & Photo Editor's own privacy policy, read on 2026-08-14, it discloses 5 of the six uses we track: shares your data with partners, builds an advertising profile of you, follows you onto other websites and apps, keeps your records long-term, trains ai models on your content.
Can I withdraw my consent from Canva: AI Video & Photo Editor?
Section 6(4) of India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 gives you the right to withdraw consent for processing you agreed to. The Act's substantive provisions commence in stages up to May 2027, so a request made now asks for voluntary compliance and puts the date on record. Processing a company carries out under a legal obligation — such as KYC records the RBI requires — cannot be withdrawn.
Does Canva: AI Video & Photo Editor track me for advertising?
Yes — Canva: AI Video & Photo Editor's published policy discloses this. The exact sentence it is based on is quoted on this page, with the date we read it and a link to the source.
Every use above is one Canva: AI Video & Photo Editor declared in its own published privacy policy, which we
read on 2026-08-14. Quotes are verbatim; the summary beside each one is ours
and is labelled as ours. Nothing here is inferred.
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