Canva Affinity Studio adds arbitration clause: Difference between revisions
→The new software is free, but...: Add subscription paywalling of local machine learning models, a link to opt-out of AI training and data collection for the Canva account, and a mention of the permission for Canva employees to enter premises of the user to audit licensed usage |
I love it when the title of the article is "In an unfortunate event, Eugene the contractor has scammed millions of dollars from people in the south of the USA, causing millions of people to be upset. Eugene should be punished for these awful actions so this never happens EVER again." |
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To activate Affinity V2 software purchased from the Serif website, users must temporarily sign into their Serif account (which would've been created at the time of purchasing a license), but users can then sign out at anytime from a dialog box within each of the three applications, Photo, Designer, and Publisher. | To activate Affinity V2 software purchased from the Serif website, users must temporarily sign into their Serif account (which would've been created at the time of purchasing a license), but users can then sign out at anytime from a dialog box within each of the three applications, Photo, Designer, and Publisher. | ||
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At the start of October 2025 (approximately [https://web.archive.org/web/20251002034439/https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/ October 2nd based on Serif website archives]), the store page offering the V2 suite of Affinity applications was taken down, removing user's ability to purchase a new license to the V2 software; the [https://web.archive.org/web/20251002041803/https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/ main page (archived here)] displayed the text, "Creative Freedom Is Coming," and displaying the date, October 30th. On October 30th, the main Serif page announced that new Affinity Studio software arrived, encouraging viewers to visit the new [https://www.affinity.studio/ Affinity.Studio website] where users can download Affinity Studio, an application that is said to combine all three older Affinity applications into one and also adds Canva-backed features into the software. | At the start of October 2025 (approximately [https://web.archive.org/web/20251002034439/https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/ October 2nd based on Serif website archives]), the store page offering the V2 suite of Affinity applications was taken down, removing user's ability to purchase a new license to the V2 software; the [https://web.archive.org/web/20251002041803/https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/ main page (archived here)] displayed the text, "Creative Freedom Is Coming," and displaying the date, October 30th. On October 30th, the main Serif page announced that new Affinity Studio software arrived, encouraging viewers to visit the new [https://www.affinity.studio/ Affinity.Studio website] where users can download Affinity Studio, an application that is said to combine all three older Affinity applications into one and also adds Canva-backed features into the software. | ||