Canva

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Canva is an Australian software company that offers freemium graphic design and creative software. Canva has been accumulating acquisitions such as Serif, MangoAI, and Cavalry. Canva is also notable for its simple design style, accessible to users unfamiliar with Canva software.

Canva

Basic information
Founded	2013
Legal Structure	Private
Industry	Graphic design and creative tools
Also known as	Canva Pty Ltd.
Official website	https://www.canva.com/

Consumer-impact summary

User Freedom

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User Privacy

Canva’s privacy policy states that the service uses personal information collected by both Canva and 3rd-party sources in order to conduct artificial intelligence training and advertising.

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Canva’s privacy policy about AI model training with user data.

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Canva’s privacy policy on the usage of user data for personalized advertising.

Business Model

Canva is a freemium online graphic design suite that offers subscriptions for advanced features. Canva’s privacy policy admits to using user data for advertising and AI training purposes.

Market Control

Canva competes with the Adobe Creative Suite. Canva is also popular due to its vast collection of accessible templates.

Incidents

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This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the Canva category.

Data breach (May 24 2019)

On May 24, 2019, Canva identified their systems were attacked and posted an announcement about the breach, urging users to change their passwords. 139 million users were affected, and information taken includes usernames, real names, email addresses and location. 61 million users' data included password hashes, and for other users, Google tokens were taken. . Seven months later, on the 11th of January 2020, Canva became aware of 4 million user passwords had been decrypted and shared online. Following the discovery, on the 12th of January Canva has forcefully reset the password of every user that had not changed it since the date of the incident.

Acquisition of Affinity editing suite (March 26 2024)

Main article: Canva Affinity Studio adds arbitration clause

Canva acquired Serif, parent company of Affinity and respective software applications, removed the ability to purchase older versions of the software and forced users to utilize a Canva account along with their user agreement for the new software Affinity Studio.

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See also

• Canva Affinity Studio adds arbitration clause
• Adobe
• Figma