How Adobe processes information about you is described in its separate Privacy Policy
For how Adobe collects, uses, shares or otherwise processes information about you and your use of the Services and Software, the Terms refer you to Adobe’s Privacy Policy. They also point to a page where you have the option to manage information preferences.
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For information about how we collect, use, share, or otherwise process information about you and your use of our Services and Software, please see our Privacy Policy
You have the option to manage information preferences here:
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The Privacy Policy and the preferences page are linked but not part of this document, so what they say is unknown.
Use & Processing · Company practice
Adobe says it limits access to your Content, but its Services and Software access Local and Cloud Content to run
Adobe says it respects your rights to your Content and limits its access to it in the ways listed in section 2.2. One listed way is operational use: the Services and Software will access your Local and Cloud Content to enable their normal running, for example allowing Photoshop to open your file so you can edit it. The summary says no one but you owns your content, but Adobe needs access as necessary to operate its applications and services and limits that access to very specific purposes.
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We respect your rights to your Content (defined in Section 4.1) and limit our access to your Content in the following ways:
Our Services and Software will access your Local and Cloud Content to enable the normal running of the Services and Software, for example, allowing Photoshop to open your file so you can edit it.
No one but you owns your content, but we need access to your content as necessary to operate Adobe applications and services. We limit our access to very specific purposes.
“Content” means any text, information, communication, or material, such as audio files, video files, electronic documents, or images, that you upload, import into, embed for use by, or create using the Services and Software.
Qualifications & exceptions
"Content" is material you upload, import into, embed for use by, or create using the Services and Software (section 4.1).
"Local Content" is Content stored locally on your device; "Cloud Content" is Content you have uploaded to Adobe’s servers or created using its cloud-based Services.
Use & Processing · Company commitment
Adobe says it does not scan or review Content stored locally on your device
For Content stored locally on your device (Local Content), Adobe says it does not scan or review it, and that your Local Content is never reviewed by Adobe. This sits alongside the separate statement that Adobe’s Services and Software access Local and Cloud Content in order to run, for example opening a file for you to edit.
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For Content stored locally on your device (“Local Content”), we do not scan or review your Content.
Your Local Content is never reviewed by us.
We don’t scan or review content that is stored locally on your device.
Qualifications & exceptions
The commitment covers Content stored locally on your device; it does not extend to Cloud Content, which is addressed separately (scanning, analytics and review).
Use & Processing · Company practice
Cloud Content may be automatically scanned for illegal or abusive content; a person may review flagged items
For Content you have uploaded to Adobe’s servers or created using its cloud-based Services (Cloud Content), the Terms say it may be automatically scanned to make sure Adobe is not hosting illegal or abusive content, such as Child Sexual Abuse Material. The summary adds that the review starts with an automated machine-driven process, and that if automated systems or another user flag an issue, a person may review the content to confirm whether it is illegal or abusive. Screening covers certain illegal content and other abusive content or behavior, for example patterns of activity that indicate spam or phishing.
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For Content that you have uploaded to our servers or create using our cloud-based Services (“Cloud Content”), Content may be automatically scanned to ensure we are not hosting illegal or abusive content, like Child Sexual Abuse Material.
We review content that is on our servers to screen for certain types of illegal content (such as child sexual abuse material), or other abusive content or behavior (for example, patterns of activity that indicate spam or phishing). We start this process with an automated machine-driven review, but if our automated systems or another user flags an issue, a person may review the content to confirm if it is illegal or abusive.
Qualifications & exceptions
The operative text says "may be automatically scanned"; the human-review step is described in the summary and in the human-review list in the next card.
Use & Processing · Company practice
Human review of Cloud Content happens in limited circumstances, including when you opt in to improvement programs
For Cloud Content, human review may occur in limited circumstances: when you ask Adobe (for example by contacting support); when you make your Cloud Content publicly available (such as on Adobe Stock or Behance); when your Cloud Content is flagged or reported as illegal or abusive (such as Child Sexual Abuse Materials); or when you opt in to a prerelease, beta or product improvement program (such as the Adobe Photoshop Improvement Program). The summary lists similar occasions, including when you choose to let Adobe use your content to improve its products.
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(G) Human Review of Cloud Content. For Cloud Content, human review may occur in limited circumstances:
when you ask us (like contacting our support team);
when you make your Cloud Content publicly available (like on Adobe Stock or Behance);
when your Cloud Content is flagged or reported as illegal or abusive (like Child Sexual Abuse Materials); or
when you opt in to a prerelease, beta, or product improvement program (like the Adobe Photoshop Improvement Program).
A person may review your content on our servers in limited circumstances, such as upon your request, when you choose to let us use your content to improve our products or when your content is flagged or reported as illegal.
Qualifications & exceptions
These circumstances are for Cloud Content; Local Content is stated never to be reviewed.
Use & Processing · Company practice
Adobe may run Content Analytics on Cloud Content unless you opt out; insights may inform marketing to you
Subject to your opt-out rights, Adobe may perform Content Analytics (see section 4.3(B)) on Cloud Content to understand how users use the Services and Software, improve your experience, provide recommendations and customize your experience. The Terms point to pages about your right to opt out of Content Analytics using your Content and of using your usage data. Insights from Content Analytics may also be used to inform Adobe’s marketing to you, subject to your opt-out and consent rights regarding marketing.
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(D) Content Analytics with Cloud Content. Subject to your opt-out rights, we may perform Content Analytics (see section 4.3(B)) with Cloud Content to help us understand how our users are using our Services and Software to allow us to improve your Services and Software experience, provide recommendations to you, and customize your experience.
Insights from Content Analytics may be used to inform our marketing to you, subject to your opt-out and consent rights regarding our marketing.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to Cloud Content, not Local Content.
Both the analytics and the marketing use are described as subject to opt-out or consent rights.
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What Content Analytics covers is defined in section 4.3(B), which is carried in a later part of this analysis; the opt-out pages are linked but not supplied.
Use & Processing · Company practice
Public-facing and shared Cloud Content is subject to review for IP, safety and abuse
For Cloud Content on the Adobe Stock platform and other public-facing platforms such as Behance and Lightroom communities, all Cloud Content is subject to review for intellectual property issues and safety issues (for example violence and nudity). If you choose to share your Cloud Content with others using the Software and Services, Adobe may automatically review that shared Cloud Content to flag abusive behavior, such as spam or phishing.
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For Cloud Content on our Adobe Stock platform and other public-facing platforms like Behance and {{lightroom}} communities, all Cloud Content is subject to review for intellectual property issues and safety issues (for example, violence and nudity).
If you choose to share your Cloud Content with others using our Software and Services, we may automatically review this shared Cloud Content to flag abusive behavior (such as spam or phishing).
Qualifications & exceptions
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The automatic review of shared content applies where you choose to share it; the review of public-facing platform content applies to all Cloud Content there.
Use & Processing · Company commitment
Adobe will not train generative AI models on your Local or Cloud Content, except Adobe Stock submissions
Adobe says it will not use your Local or Cloud Content to train generative AI models, except for Content you choose to submit to the Adobe Stock marketplace, and that use is governed by the separate Adobe Stock Contributor Agreement. The summary repeats this for your and your customers’ content.
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We will not use your Local or Cloud Content to train generative AI models except for Content you choose to submit to the Adobe Stock marketplace, and this use is governed by the separate Adobe Stock Contributor Agreement.
We also don’t train generative AI models on your or your customers’ content unless you’ve submitted the content to the Adobe Stock marketplace.
Qualifications & exceptions
The exception covers only Content you choose to submit to the Adobe Stock marketplace.
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The Adobe Stock Contributor Agreement is not supplied, so what it permits for submitted Content is unknown.
Use & Processing · Permission or license
Adobe processes and stores information in the U.S. and elsewhere, and you authorize cross-border transfers
Adobe says it processes and stores information in the U.S. and other countries. By using the Services and Software, you authorize Adobe to transfer your personal information across national borders and to other countries where Adobe and its partners operate.
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We process and store information in the U.S. and other countries. By using our Services and Software, you authorize Adobe to transfer your personal information across national borders and to other countries where Adobe and its partners operate.
Qualifications & exceptions
The authorization is given by using the Services and Software.
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The countries and partners involved are not listed.
Use & Processing · Permission or license
You license Adobe to analyze Cloud Content for Content Analytics to improve its Services; you may opt out
Solely for Adobe’s internal analysis of how you use the Services and Software and the characteristics of your Content, such as file type and structural attributes (Content Analytics), you grant Adobe a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to improve its Services and Software by doing the following with your Cloud Content: reproduce it (for example copies in internal file storage repositories); create derivative works (for example converting between file formats or cropping); and sublicense these rights to third parties acting on its behalf (for example trusted vendors and contractors doing Content Analytics for Adobe, subject to confidentiality and privacy restrictions). Section 4.3(C) says you may choose not to participate in Content Analytics, and a following opt-out right covers Content Analytics using your Content. The summary adds that helping improve products is never required.
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Solely for the purpose of our internal analysis of how you use our Services and Software and the characteristics of your Content (such as file type and structural attributes) (together, “Content Analytics”), you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to do the following to improve our Services and Software:
reproduce (for example, to make copies of your Cloud Content in our internal file storage repositories
create derivative works (for example, to convert between file formats, or crop the Cloud Content
sublicense the foregoing rights to third parties acting on our behalf (for example, we may utilize trusted vendors and contractors subject to confidentiality and privacy restrictions to do Content Analytics on our behalf
(C) You May Choose Not to Participate in Content Analytics.
You have the right to opt out of us performing Content Analytics using your Content
We also ask whether you would like to help us improve our products and services, but it’s never required.
Qualifications & exceptions
The license is stated to be solely for internal analysis of how you use the Services and the characteristics of your Content.
The opt-out right is covered in the next packet’s card.
Use & Processing · Company commitment
Content Analytics cannot involve public display of your Content or letting third parties improve their products with it
Adobe says it cannot and will not grant a sublicense to a third party that is greater than the rights you give it. Under section 4.3(B), Adobe does not have the right to, and will not, publicly display your Content or allow third parties to improve their products with your Content.
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We will not (and cannot) grant a sublicense to a third party that is greater than the rights you give us.
Under this clause 4.3(B), we do not have the right to, and we will not, publicly display your Content or allow third parties to improve their products with your Content.
Qualifications & exceptions
The commitments are stated for the 4.3(B) Content Analytics license.
Use & Processing · User right or choice
You have the right to opt out of Content Analytics on your Content and of usage data use
You have the right to opt out of Adobe performing Content Analytics using your Content and of Adobe using your usage data, through the linked opt-out pages. This is the opt-out that section 4.3(C) refers to when it says you may choose not to participate in Content Analytics.
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Opt-out Rights. You have the right to opt out of us performing Content Analytics using your Content
and usage data
(C) You May Choose Not to Participate in Content Analytics.
Qualifications & exceptions
The opt-out covers Content Analytics using your Content and usage data.
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The linked opt-out pages are not supplied, so the steps and effect of opting out are unknown.
Use & Processing · Company commitment
Adobe will not use your Content to train generative AI models except Content submitted to Adobe Stock
Adobe says it will not use your Content to train generative AI models, except for Content you chose to submit to the Adobe Stock marketplace, and that use is governed by the separate Adobe Stock Contributor Agreement.
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Generative AI. We will not use your Content to train generative AI models except for Content you chose to submit to the Adobe Stock marketplace, and this use is governed by the separate Adobe Stock Contributor Agreement.
Qualifications & exceptions
The exception covers only Content you chose to submit to the Adobe Stock marketplace.
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The Adobe Stock Contributor Agreement is not supplied here.