Adobe General Terms of Use

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context

Published and effective October 3, 2025; replaces prior versions, rolling out globally

This version of the Adobe General Terms of Use states it was published and became effective on October 3, 2025, and replaces and supersedes all prior versions. An introductory notice says the terms were rewritten to be easier to understand and will be rolled out to customers globally over the following several weeks.

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Published October 3, 2025. Effective as of October 3, 2025. These General Terms of Use replace and supersede all prior versions.

Over the next several weeks we will roll these terms out to customers globally.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The rollout statement is a general notice about how the update reaches customers; the document does not say on which date any particular customer or region is moved to this version.

Not stated here

• How the several-week rollout maps to specific customers, products or regions is not stated.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context

Plain-language summaries are not legally binding; only the terms are

Adobe says it provides summaries as a helpful overview of what you are agreeing to, but only the terms themselves are legally binding, not the summaries.

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we are providing summaries as a helpful overview of what you’re agreeing to. Only the terms themselves are legally binding, not these summaries.

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General Terms plus Product Specific Terms govern Services and Software; a separate agreement controls conflicts

The General Terms, together with any applicable Product Specific Terms (a section 1.2 reference), are collectively the Terms. They govern your use of and access to Adobe websites, web-based applications and products, customer support, discussion forums and other interactive areas or services, and services such as Creative Cloud (the Services), and your installation and use of included software such as mobile and desktop applications, Sample Files and Content Files, scripts, instruction sets and related documentation (the Software). If you have agreed to the Subscription and Cancellation Terms, those are also part of the Terms, but they do not apply if you use the Services and Software through Adobe’s Value Incentive Plan (VIP) program; the rest of the Terms still do. If you have entered into another agreement with Adobe concerning specific Services and Software, that agreement controls where it conflicts with the Terms.

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These General Terms of Use (“General Terms”), along with any applicable Product Specific Terms (see section 1.2 (Product Specific Terms) below) (collectively, the “Terms”) govern your use of and access to our websites, web-based applications and products, customer support, discussion forums or other interactive areas or services, and services such as Creative Cloud (collectively, the “Services”) and your installation and use of any software that we include as part of the Services, including, without limitation, mobile and desktop applications, Sample Files and Content Files (defined below), scripts, instruction sets, and related documentation (collectively, the “Software”)

If you have agreed to the Subscription and Cancellation Terms

then such terms are also considered part of the Terms. If you are using and accessing the Services and Software through Adobe’s Value Incentive Plan (“VIP”) program, then the Subscription and Cancellation Terms do not apply to you, but the remainder of the Terms will govern your use of and access to the Services and Software. If you have entered into another agreement with us concerning specific Services and Software, then the terms of that agreement control where it conflicts with the Terms.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The Subscription and Cancellation Terms apply only if you have agreed to them, and not to VIP-program users.
• The conflict rule covers only another agreement with Adobe about specific Services and Software, and only where it conflicts.

Not stated here

• The content of the Product Specific Terms and the Subscription and Cancellation Terms is not part of this document.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

You must be of legal age or have parental consent; Adobe ID requires age 13 or older

By using the Services or Software you affirm you are of legal age to enter into the Terms, or, if not, that you have obtained parental or guardian consent. You must be 13 or older to register for an Adobe ID. Schools and their personnel may deploy Services to children under 13, consistent with the separate K-12 and Higher Education Additional Terms for Student Data.

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By using the services or the software, you affirm that you are of legal age to enter into the terms, or, if you are not, that you have obtained parental or guardian consent to enter into the terms.

You must be 13 or older to register for an Adobe ID. Schools and their personnel may deploy Services to children under 13 consistent with the K-12 (Primary and Secondary) and Higher Education Additional Terms for Student Data

Qualifications & exceptions

• The under-13 allowance is for schools and their personnel deploying Services, and is tied to the linked K-12 and Higher Education Additional Terms for Student Data.

Not stated here

• The K-12 and Higher Education Additional Terms for Student Data are linked but not part of this document.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context

Contracting entity and governing law depend on where you live; local-law rights are not limited where prohibited

Which Adobe company you contract with and which law governs depend on where you live. If you reside in North America (including the United States, Canada, Mexico, U.S. territories and possessions, and U.S. military bases wherever located), your relationship is with Adobe Inc. and California law governs, unless preempted by U.S. federal law and without regard to conflict-of-law rules. If you reside outside North America or Japan, your relationship is with Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited and Irish law governs, unless preempted by local law. If you reside in Japan, your relationship is with Adobe KK and Japanese law governs, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. For customers in Australia, the Irish entity acts as authorized agent for Adobe Systems Pty Ltd. Separately, the terms say you may have additional rights under your local law and that Adobe does not seek to limit those rights where it is prohibited to do so by law. In the Terms, "Adobe", "us", "we" and "our" mean whichever of the four Adobe entities applies.

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The country and law(s) that this agreement falls under depends on where you live.

If you reside in North America (inclusive of the United States, Canada, Mexico, United States territories and possessions, and United States military bases, wherever located), your relationship is with Adobe Inc., a United States company, and the Terms are governed by, and construed and interpreted in accordance with, the laws of the State of California, U.S.A., unless preempted by U.S. federal law, without regard to conflict of law rules.

If you reside outside of North America or Japan, your relationship is with Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited, and the Terms are governed by, and construed and interpreted in accordance with, the laws of Ireland, unless preempted by local law.

If you reside in Japan, your relationship is with Adobe KK, a Japanese company, and the Terms are governed by, and construed and interpreted in accordance with, the laws of Japan, without regard to conflict of law rules.

For customers in Australia, Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited is acting as an authorized agent of Adobe Systems Pty Ltd.

You may have additional rights under your local law. We do not seek to limit those rights where it is prohibited to do so by law.

For purposes of the Terms, “Adobe,” “us,” “we,” and “our” mean either Adobe Inc., Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited, Adobe Systems Pty Ltd., or Adobe KK, as applicable.

Qualifications & exceptions

• California law applies "unless preempted by U.S. federal law"; Irish law applies "unless preempted by local law".
• The additional-local-rights sentence is limited to rights that the law prohibits Adobe from limiting.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context

Product Specific Terms govern over the General Terms where they conflict; services licensed, not sold

The Services and Software are licensed, not sold, to you, and may also be subject to one or more additional terms (Product Specific Terms, also called Additional Terms). If the General Terms and the Product Specific Terms conflict, the Product Specific Terms govern in relation to those Services or Software. The plain-language summary says product-specific terms always override the general terms; the operative text applies that to conflicts, for the Services or Software the product terms cover. Product Specific Terms can change as described in section 1.5 (Updates to Terms).

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These are general terms of use that apply to all of Adobe’s products. However, there may also be terms that are specific to the products you use. Product-specific terms always override the general terms.

Our Services and Software are licensed, not sold, to you, and also may be subject to one or more of the additional terms below (“Product Specific Terms”). If there is any conflict between the terms in the General Terms and the Product Specific Terms, then the Product Specific Terms govern in relation to those Services or Software. The Product Specific Terms are subject to change as described in section 1.5 (Updates to Terms) below. Product Specific Terms may also be referred to as Additional Terms.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The override operates only where there is an actual conflict and only for the Services or Software the Product Specific Terms cover.
• Only the operative text is legally binding; the summary is not.

Not stated here

• The content of each Product Specific Terms document is linked from this page but is not part of the supplied text.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context

Product Specific Terms are listed for Acrobat, Express, Lightroom, Frame.io and other creative and document products

Section 1.2 lists separately linked Product Specific Terms for these products: Adobe Acrobat Services (DC APIs), Adobe Acrobat Sign, Adobe ColdFusion, Document Cloud, Adobe Express, Photoshop Express, Lightroom, Frame.io, Adobe Spark, Fuse, Project Aqua, Medium and InDesign Server. Which of them applies to you depends on the Services or Software you use; the linked terms are not part of this document.

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Adobe Acrobat Services (DC APIs)

Adobe Acrobat Sign

Adobe ColdFusion

Document Cloud

Adobe Express

Photoshop Express

Lightroom

Frame.io

Adobe Spark

Fuse

Project Aqua

Medium

InDesign Server

Not stated here

• The text of each linked Product Specific Terms document is not supplied here, so what they add or change is unknown.

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Product Specific Terms also listed for Fonts, Stock, Substance 3D, Generative AI, Behance, Business, K-12 and Software

Section 1.2 also lists separately linked Product Specific Terms for: Adobe Fonts, Adobe Stock, Adobe Stock Contributor, Adobe Substance 3D Assets, Adobe Substance 3D Community Assets, Demo Assets, Adobe Generative AI, Adobe Developer, Adobe Collaboration Space, Behance, Business Customers, K-12 and Higher Education, and Software. Which of them applies to you depends on the Services or Software you use; the linked terms are not part of this document.

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Adobe Fonts

Adobe Stock

Adobe Stock Contributor

Adobe Substance 3D Assets

Adobe Substance 3D Community Assets

Demo Assets

Adobe Generative AI

Adobe Developer

Adobe Collaboration Space

Behance

Business Customers

K-12 and Higher Education

Software

Not stated here

• The text of each linked Product Specific Terms document (including Adobe Generative AI and Business Customers) is not supplied here, so what they add or change is unknown.

Account & Service Control · Permission or license

Receiving an Entitlement from a Business makes you a Business User; the Business can control your profile and Content

If you received an Entitlement (the right to use, access and consume the Services and Software) from a Business under one of Adobe’s business plans (such as Creative Cloud for Teams, Creative Cloud for Enterprise or Document Cloud), you are a Business User of that Business, your Adobe profile for that Entitlement is a Business Profile, and "you" in the Terms means the Business and its Business Users as applicable. Business here includes any commercial entity, government entity, non-profit organization or educational institution. As a Business User you agree that Adobe may give the Business the ability to access, use, remove, retain and control your Business Profile and all Content in it, whether uploaded or imported before or after the Terms were last updated; that your use is governed by the Business’s agreement with Adobe; and that Adobe may provide your personal information to the Business. Users added to a Business’s Admin Console for complimentary Entitlements (Complimentary Services) are also Business Users. If you get Entitlements from several Businesses you may have separate Business Profiles for each. Any other agreements or obligations you have with a Business may affect your Business Profile or Content, and Adobe is not responsible for your violation of them.

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If you received an “Entitlement” (which is defined as the right to use, access, and consume the Services and Software) from an organization or group, including but not limited to a business or any other commercial entity, government entity, non-profit organization, or educational institution (each, a “Business”) under one of Adobe’s business plans (such as Creative Cloud for Teams, Creative Cloud for Enterprise, or Document Cloud), then (A) you are a “Business User” of such Business; (B) your Adobe profile associated with such Entitlement is a “Business Profile”; and (C) all references to “you” in the Terms will mean such Business and its Business Users, as applicable.

If you are a Business User, you agree that, due to your receipt of Entitlements from such Business, (1) Adobe may provide such Business with the ability to access, use, remove, retain, and control your Business Profile and all Content therein whether uploaded or imported before or after the date the Terms were last updated; (2) your use of the Services and Software is governed by such Business’s agreement with Adobe; and (3) Adobe may provide your personal information to such Business.

Access to complimentary Entitlements (“Complimentary Services”) may be provided to any users added to a Business’s Admin Console (as defined in the [Business Customers Additional Terms](http://www.adobe.com/go/business_terms#_dnt#_nohtml) set forth in Section 1.2) and such users would be considered Business Users.

If you are a Business User with Entitlements from multiple Businesses, you may have separate Business Profiles associated with each Business. As a Business User, you may have different agreements with or obligations to a Business, which may affect your Business Profile or your Content (defined in 4.1). Adobe is not responsible for any violation by you of such agreements or obligations.

“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

• Applies only to people who received an Entitlement from a Business; people with only a personal plan are Personal Users (see the Personal User card).
• "Content" is defined in section 4.1 as material you upload, import into, embed for use by, or create using the Services and Software.
• The Admin Console meaning is given in the linked Business Customers Additional Terms, which are not supplied here.

Not stated here

• What the Business’s own agreement with Adobe requires or allows is not stated here.
• The Business Customers Additional Terms that define the Admin Console are not supplied.

Account & Service Control · User right or choice

Personal Users keep sole control of account Content, subject to the Privacy Policy; dual status is possible

If you did not receive Entitlements from a Business (for example you subscribed to a Creative Cloud for individuals plan), you are a Personal User, your Adobe profile is a personal profile, and you maintain sole access and control over all Content in your personal account or profile, except as otherwise indicated in the Privacy Policy. "You" then means you as an individual. If you receive Entitlements both through a personal plan and from a Business, you are both: a Personal User when using the Entitlements from your personal plan, and a Business User when using those provided by the Business.

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If you did not receive Entitlements from a Business (e.g., you subscribed to a Creative Cloud for individuals plan and received Entitlements through this plan), then (a) you are a “Personal User”; (b) your Adobe profile is a personal profile; (c) you maintain sole access and control over all Content in your personal account or personal profile (except as otherwise indicated in the Privacy Policy); and (d) all references to “you” in the Terms will mean you as an individual.

If you receive Entitlements through a personal plan and from a Business, then you are both a Personal User and a Business User. You are a Personal User when you utilize the Entitlements you obtained through your personal plan, and you are a Business User when you utilize your Entitlements provided by a Business.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The sole-control statement is limited by "except as otherwise indicated in the Privacy Policy".

Not stated here

• What the Privacy Policy indicates is not part of this document, so the extent of that exception is unknown.

Account & Service Control · Permission or license

A Business may roll your work-email account into its account and take control after prior notice

If you create an Adobe account with an email address provided or assigned by a Business (such as a work email), and the Business establishes a direct relationship with Adobe, the Business may, with prior notice from the Business or Adobe, roll your account into the Business’s account. The Business may then access the account, take control over it and any Content in it whether stored, uploaded or imported before or after the Terms were last updated, and recommend moving non-Business Content to a new account using a non-Business email address. You also acknowledge that Adobe may provide your personal information (such as name, email address and Entitlement information) to the Business, including its administrator, and Adobe may share information about the Business, such as the administrator’s name and email address, with a Business User. If you do not want a Business to access, use, remove, retain or control an account or profile, do not use a Business email address with it.

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As a Personal User or a Business User, you may create an Adobe account using an email address provided or assigned to you by a Business (such as your work email address). If the Business establishes a direct relationship with us, they may want to add your account to such relationship. If this happens, the Business may, with prior notice from the Business or us, roll your account into the Business’s account.

This means the Business may (A) access the account; (B) take control over the account and any Content therein whether stored, uploaded, or imported before or after the date the Terms were last updated; and (C) recommend any non-Business Content associated with such account to be moved to a new account that utilizes an email address not associated with such Business.

You, as a Personal User with an Adobe account assigned to a Business or a Business User, also acknowledge that Adobe may provide your personal information to such Business (including, for clarity, sharing your information with an administrator of your Business), such as your name, email address and Entitlement information.

If you do not want a Business to access, use, remove, retain, or control an account or profile, then do not use a Business email address with that account.

Adobe may share information about the Business, such as name and email address of the administrator, to a Business User.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to Personal Users and Business Users who use a Business-provided email address for the account.
• The roll-up needs the Business to establish a direct relationship with Adobe and requires prior notice.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Company practice

Adobe may change the Terms; important changes are notified and do not apply to earlier disputes

Adobe may change the Terms from time to time, from cleaning up typos to changes in policy. If it makes any important changes, it will notify you (the summary adds: important changes to the terms or to your subscription). Changes do not apply to any dispute between you and Adobe arising before the date the revised Terms were posted, or when they otherwise become effective. You are asked to review the Terms regularly. If you do not agree to the amended Terms, you must stop using the Services and Software and, if applicable, cancel your subscription.

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We may make changes to the Terms from time to time ranging from cleaning up typos to changes in policy. If we make any important changes, we will notify you.

Any such changes will not apply to any dispute between you and Adobe arising prior to the date on which we posted the revised Terms incorporating such changes, or when the Terms otherwise become effective.

Please review the Terms regularly. If you do not agree to the amended Terms, you must stop using our Services and Software and, if applicable, cancel your subscription.

We’ll notify you when there are important changes to these terms or to your subscription.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The notification promise covers "important changes"; the text does not say how notice is given or what counts as important.
• The rule for earlier disputes turns on the posting date or other effective date of the revised Terms.

Not stated here

• The method and timing of notice for important changes are not stated here.

Use & Processing · Context

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:

Not stated here

• 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.

Not stated here

• 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.

Not stated here

• The Adobe Stock Contributor Agreement is not supplied, so what it permits for submitted Content is unknown.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context

Where required by law, a data processing agreement applies; the EU DPA covers EEA and UK personal data

In some countries the law requires Adobe to have a data protection agreement with you if it handles Personal Data for you as part of the Services and Software. The Terms name two such agreements. The European Union Data Processing Agreement (DPA) applies where you provide Personal Data collected from individuals in the European Economic Area and the UK and where you are a Controller and Adobe is a Processor under the GDPR or its UK successor.

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In some countries, the law requires that we put a data protection agreement in place with you if we handle Personal Data (as defined in the applicable agreement) for you as part of our Services and Software.

The DPA terms apply where you provide Personal Data (as defined in the DPA) collected from individuals from countries in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and the UK and where you are a “Controller” and Adobe is a “Processor” under the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”) or any successor for the GDPR associated with the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The DPA applies only where you are the Controller and Adobe the Processor for that data.
• The second agreement, the Data Protection Terms for data from outside the EEA and the UK, is covered in the next section.

Not stated here

• The DPA itself is linked but not supplied; "Personal Data" is defined there.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context

Data Protection Terms apply to Personal Data from outside the EEA and UK that Adobe processes on your behalf

The second data protection agreement, the Data Protection Terms, applies where you provide Personal Data collected from individuals outside the European Economic Area and the UK and where Adobe is Processing that data at your instruction and on your behalf. Terms such as "Personal Data" and "Processing" are defined in the Data Protection Terms, which are linked and not supplied here.

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(B) Data Protection Terms. The Data Protection Terms apply where you provide Personal Data (as defined in the Data Protection Terms) collected from individuals outside of the EEA and the UK and where Adobe is Processing (as defined in the Data Protection Terms) this data at your instruction and on your behalf.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies only where Adobe is processing the data at your instruction and on your behalf.

Not stated here

• The Data Protection Terms are not supplied, so their contents are unknown.

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

You agree not to collect, process or store Sensitive Personal Information using the Services, with listed exceptions

You agree not to collect, process or store any Sensitive Personal Information using the Services and Software, except as (A) directly authorized by Adobe, (B) intended by the Services and Software, or (C) governed by the Product Specific Terms, as applicable. You also agree not to transmit, disclose or make available Sensitive Personal Information to Adobe or Adobe’s third-party providers; the exceptions are stated in the first sentence, and the second sentence is worded without them. If you are a Business, you also agree to ensure Business Users’ compliance with this section.

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You agree not to collect, process, or store any Sensitive Personal Information (as defined below) using the Services and Software, except as (A) directly authorized by Adobe, (B) intended by the Services and Software, or (C) governed by the Product Specific Terms, as applicable.

You agree not to transmit, disclose, or make available Sensitive Personal Information to Adobe or Adobe’s third-party providers.

If you are a Business, you also agree to ensure Business Users’ compliance with this section 2.4 (Sensitive Personal Information).

Qualifications & exceptions

• The listed exceptions are written into the collect, process or store sentence; the transmit, disclose or make available sentence is stated separately.

Not stated here

• What Adobe "directly authorizes" or what the Product Specific Terms permit is not stated in this document.

Data Access & Collection · Context

Sensitive Personal Information includes financial, sexual, health, biometric and children’s data

"Sensitive Personal Information" means an individual’s financial information, data concerning an individual’s sexual behavior or sexual orientation, medical or health information protected under any health data protection laws, biometric data, personal information of children protected under any child data protection laws (such as the information defined under the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, COPPA), and any additional types included within this term or a similar term (such as "sensitive personal data" or "special categories of personal information") as used in applicable data protection or privacy laws.

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“Sensitive Personal Information” means an individual’s financial information, data concerning an individual’s sexual behavior or sexual orientation, medical, or health information protected under any health data protection laws, biometric data, personal information of children protected under any child data protection laws (such as the personal information defined under the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”)) and any additional types of information included within this term or any similar term (such as “sensitive personal data” or “special categories of personal information”) as used in applicable data protection or privacy laws.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Health and children’s information count where protected under the relevant health or child data protection laws.

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.

Supporting quotations

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.

Not stated here

• The countries and partners involved are not listed.

Content & IP Rights · Permission or license

You get a non-exclusive, limited, revocable right to use the Services and Software; one person per license

Subject to your compliance with the Terms and applicable law, Adobe grants you a non-exclusive, limited, revocable right to install, access and use the Services and Software that it makes available to you and that you license from it. Each license is to be used by only one person and cannot be shared. The summary describes this as Adobe granting you certain rights to use your license to its apps and services.

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Subject to your compliance with the Terms and applicable law, we hereby grant you a non-exclusive, limited, revocable right (as set forth herein) for you to install, access and use the Services and Software that we make available to you, and that you license from us.

Each license is to be used by only one (1) person and cannot be shared.

Adobe grants you certain rights to use your license to Adobe’s apps and services.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The right is conditioned on compliance with the Terms and applicable law.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

License ends per your order or the Subscription Terms; versions may change; use is not contingent on future features

At the end of your license term, your licenses expire as set out in your order documents or the Subscription and Cancellation Terms. The versions of the Services and Software available at renewal may differ from those available when you first licensed them, and Adobe points to a page listing the versions it supports. You agree that your decision to use, access or license the Services and Software is not contingent on delivery of any future functionality or features, or dependent on any oral or written public comments by Adobe about future functionality.

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At the end of your license term, your license(s) will expire as set forth in your order document(s), or the [Subscription and Cancellation Terms

The version(s) of the Services and Software available at your renewal date may be different from the version(s) available when you first licensed them from Adobe.

You agree that your decision to use, access, or license the Services and Software is not contingent on the delivery of any future functionality or features, or dependent on any oral or written public comments made by us regarding future functionality or features.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The expiry mechanics are set by your order documents or the Subscription and Cancellation Terms, which are not supplied here.

Not stated here

• The Subscription and Cancellation Terms and the supported-versions page are linked but not supplied.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Adobe and its licensors keep all rights in the Services and Software; you may not use Adobe marks on others’ products

Adobe (and its licensors, as applicable) remain the sole owner of all right, title and interest in the Services and Software. Except as stated in the Terms, Adobe does not grant you rights to patents, copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks or any other rights in the items in the Services or Software. You may not use Adobe’s trade names, trademarks, service marks or logos in connection with any product or service that is not Adobe’s, or in any manner likely to cause confusion. Adobe reserves all rights not granted under the Terms.

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We (and our licensors, as applicable) remain the sole owner of all right, title, and interest in the Services and Software. Except as stated in the Terms, we do not grant you any rights to patents, copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks, or any other rights in respect to the items in the Services or Software. This means you may not use our trade names, trademarks, service marks or logos in connection with any product or service that is not ours, or in any manner that is likely to cause confusion. We reserve all rights not granted under the Terms.

Adobe owns its products and services and gives you a license to use them.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The no-rights statement is "except as stated in the Terms".

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

Adobe recommends you back up Content; it may set storage limits and suspend Services until you are within them

Adobe recommends that you regularly back up your Content and Creative Cloud Customer Fonts elsewhere, even where the Services provide storage and that functionality is enabled. Adobe may create reasonable technical limits, such as limits on file size, storage space and processing capacity, and may suspend the Services until you are within the storage space limit associated with your account.

Supporting quotations

We recommend that you back up your Content and Creative Cloud Customer Fonts elsewhere regularly, even if the Services provide storage and this functionality is enabled by the applicable Services.

We may create reasonable technical limits, such as limits on file size, storage space, processing capacity, and other attributes. We may suspend the Services until you are within the storage space limit associated with your account.

Not stated here

• Specific limits are not stated here.

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

After your license ends you have 30 days to move your Content out, then Adobe may delete it

At the end of your license term, Adobe will use commercially reasonable efforts to allow you to transition your Content out of the Services. The transition must be completed within thirty days from the date the license term terminates or expires. At the end of that 30-day period Adobe reserves the right to delete your Content, and you should download any Content stored in the Services before your license ends. The summary says that after you cancel, Adobe tries to save the subscription’s content for some time but reserves the right to delete content.

Supporting quotations

At the end of your license term, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to allow you to transition your Content out of the Services. The transition must be completed within thirty (30) days from the date of the termination or expiration of your license term. At the end of this 30-day transition period, we reserve the right to delete your Content. You should download any Content that you have stored in the Services before your license ends.

When you cancel your subscription, we try to save it for some time in case you need it later, but we reserve the right to delete content.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Adobe commits only to "commercially reasonable efforts" to allow the transition.
• The 30 days run from termination or expiration of the license term.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Adobe may host user-generated content, bears no responsibility for it, and offers a way to report it

Adobe may host user-generated content from its users. If you access the Services, you may come across user-generated content that is illegal or that you find offensive or upsetting, and Adobe says it bears no responsibility for such content. If available, you may click a "Report" button to report content, and Adobe’s Transparency Center describes its content moderation policies and how to report content.

Supporting quotations

We may host user-generated content from our users. If you access our Services, you may come across user-generated content that is illegal or that you find offensive or upsetting. We bear no responsibility for such user-generated content.

If available, you may also click on the “Report” button to report this content to us. You may learn more about our content moderation policies and practices, including how to report content to us at our

Users may upload and share their content using our products and we are not responsible for this content.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The Report button is available only "if available".

Not stated here

• The Transparency Center is linked but not supplied.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Sample Files may be used only for their tutorial or trial purpose and may not be distributed stand-alone

"Sample Files" are Adobe-provided audio, visual, video or other content files for tutorials, demonstrations and other trial purposes, which may be identified as sample files. They cannot be used for any other purpose than the one for which they were provided. You cannot distribute Sample Files in any way that lets a third party use, download, extract or access them as a stand-alone file, and you cannot claim any rights in them.

Supporting quotations

“Sample Files” means Adobe-provided audio, visual, video, or other content files for use in tutorials, demonstrations, and for other trial purposes, which may be identified as sample files.

Sample Files cannot be used for any other purpose than for which they were provided.

You cannot distribute Sample Files in any way that allows a third party to use, download, extract, or access the Sample Files as a stand-alone file, and you cannot claim any rights in the Sample Files.

Content & IP Rights · Permission or license

Content Files may be used and modified to build your End Use, but not distributed on a stand-alone basis

"Content Files" are Adobe assets provided as part of the Services and Software. Unless documentation or specific licenses (including Product Specific Terms) say otherwise, Adobe grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Content Files to create your End Use, meaning the derivative application or product you author into which the Content Files or derivations are embedded. The license is non-sublicensable, except that a Business may sublicense only to its Business Users. You may modify Content Files before embedding them and may reproduce and distribute them only in connection with your End Use; under no circumstances may you distribute them on a stand-alone basis outside the End Use.

Supporting quotations

“Content Files” means Adobe assets provided as part of the Services and Software. Unless documentation or specific licenses (including but not limited to Product Specific Terms) state otherwise, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable (except if you are a Business, then sublicensable only to your Business Users), and non-transferable license to use the Content Files to create your end use (i.e., the derivative application or product authored by you) into which the Content Files, or derivations thereof, are embedded for your use (“End Use”).

You may modify the Content Files prior to embedding them in the End Use.

You may reproduce and distribute Content Files only in connection with your End Use, however, under no circumstances can you distribute the Content Files on a stand-alone basis, outside of the End Use.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Documentation or specific licenses, including Product Specific Terms, can change these terms.
• The sublicense exception applies only to a Business and only to its Business Users.

Not stated here

• Product Specific Terms that might change the Content Files license are not supplied.

Account & Service Control · Permission or license

Free, complimentary and trial access is governed by the Terms and Adobe may end it without notice

Adobe may provide free memberships, Complimentary Services, offers and trial subscriptions in its sole discretion. Access provided for free, as Complimentary Services or for trial purposes is governed by the Terms. At any time before or during the free, complimentary or trial period, Adobe may in its sole discretion end that access without prior notice and without any liability to you, to the extent permitted under applicable law, for any reason, including to prevent abuse. After the period expires you may continue in a paid subscription, if available, or as otherwise permitted by Adobe.

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Adobe may provide free memberships, Complimentary Services, offers, and trial subscriptions in its sole discretion. If access to the Services and Software is provided to you for free, Complimentary Services, or for trial purposes, such access is governed by the Terms.

At any time prior to or during the free, Complimentary Services, or trial period, Adobe may, in its sole discretion, terminate that access without prior notice and without any liability to you, to the extent permitted under applicable law, for any reason, including to prevent abuse of the free, Complimentary Services, or trial access.

After the free, Complimentary Services, or trial access period expires, you may continue using the Services or Software in a paid subscription, if available, or as otherwise permitted by Adobe.

We may offer our products and services to you at no charge, like free memberships or trial subscriptions.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The no-liability statement applies "to the extent permitted under applicable law".

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

During free, complimentary or trial periods there are no warranties or support and the Services are provided as-is

During a free, Complimentary Services or trial period, no express or implied warranties apply to the Services and Software. All Services and Software are provided "as-is" with all defects, and no technical or other support is included.

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During the free, Complimentary Services, or trial period, no express or implied warranties shall apply to the Services and Software; all Services and Software are provided “as-is” with all defects, and no technical or other support is included.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies only during the free, complimentary or trial period.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

NFR, trial or evaluation versions may be used only for the stated period and purposes, not commercially

Adobe may designate Services and Software as "trial," "evaluation," "not for resale," or similar (an NFR Version). You may install and use an NFR Version only for the period and purposes stated when it is provided, and you must not use materials you produce with it for any commercial purposes.

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Adobe may also designate the Services and Software as “trial,” “evaluation,” “not for resale,” or other similar designation (“NFR Version”).

You may install and use the NFR Version only for the period and purposes stated when we provide the NFR Version. You must not use any materials you produce with the NFR Version for any commercial purposes

Qualifications & exceptions

• The permitted period and purposes are those stated when Adobe provides the NFR Version.

Not stated here

• The period and purposes for any particular NFR Version are not stated in this document.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Job postings that solicit customized unpaid creative work are not allowed and may be removed without refund

On Adobe Talent, you may not post jobs that point to specific work contests or other opportunities that solicit customized and unpaid creative work from creative professionals. Any such postings may be removed without refund.

Supporting quotations

(A) You may not post jobs that point to specific work contests or other opportunities that solicit customized and unpaid creative work from creative professionals. Any such postings may be removed without refund.

Sharing & Disclosure · Permission or license

Public profiles and projects you upload may appear in paid Talent Search results

Adobe offers a paid "Talent Search" feature to recruiters and companies looking to discover and hire creative talent. By uploading a public profile or public project on the Services, you agree that the public information may be included in Talent Search results.

Supporting quotations

(B) We offer a paid “Talent Search” feature to recruiters and companies looking to discover and hire creative talents. By uploading a public profile or public project on the Services, you agree that the public information may be included in Talent Search results.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to public profiles and public projects you upload.

Content & IP Rights · Company practice

You warrant you have rights to uploaded fonts and let Adobe host and distribute them for your use

For any font or font file you upload or submit to the Services and Software (Creative Cloud Customer Fonts), you represent and warrant that you have all necessary rights to allow Adobe to use, reproduce, display, host and distribute them through the Services and Software for your use. Creative Cloud Customer Fonts are not considered Content as defined in the Terms, and you retain all rights to the unmodified fonts. Displaying them may require Adobe Technology, including its font-optimization technology, and Adobe retains all rights to that technology. Adobe does not represent that the fonts will be compatible with or suitable for the Services or Software. The summary advises being sure you have the rights before uploading fonts.

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(A) For any font or font file you upload or submit to the Services and Software (“Creative Cloud Customer Fonts”) you represent and warrant that you have all necessary rights to allow us to use, reproduce, display, host, and distribute the Creative Cloud Customer Fonts through the Services and Software for your use.

Creative Cloud Customer Fonts are not considered Content, as defined in the Terms. You retain all rights to the unmodified Creative Cloud Customer Fonts.

You acknowledge that enabling the display of any Creative Cloud Customer Font with the Services and Software for your use may require us to use Adobe Technology, including our proprietary font-optimization technology, and that we retain all rights to such Adobe Technology.

Adobe does not represent or warrant that any such Creative Cloud Customer Fonts will be compatible with or be suitable for use with the Services or Software.

Before uploading any fonts to Adobe products, be sure you have the rights to use those fonts.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Because the fonts are not Content, rules written for Content in other sections do not by their terms apply to them.
• The warranty is about rights for use through the Services and Software for your use.

Content & IP Rights · Permission or license

Adobe may remove your uploaded fonts if you lack the rights or they infringe, with no liability

If a third party such as a foundry informs Adobe, or Adobe becomes aware, that you do not have the rights you warranted for your Creative Cloud Customer Fonts or that they violate third-party Intellectual Property Rights, Adobe may remove them from your account, from the Services, or from Content that uses them. You acknowledge that the display of your Content may change as a result and that Adobe has no liability for the removal. "Intellectual Property Rights" is defined in section 6.8 as copyright, moral rights, trademark, trade dress, patent, trade secret, unfair competition, right of privacy, right of publicity and any other proprietary rights.

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(B) If we are informed by a third party, such as a foundry, or become aware that you do not have the rights to which you warrant in section 3.10(A) (Creative Cloud Customer Fonts) or that your Creative Cloud Customer Fonts violate third-party Intellectual Property Rights, then we may remove the Creative Cloud Customer Fonts from your account, from the Services, or from the Content that uses such Creative Cloud Customer Fonts. You acknowledge that if we remove your Creative Cloud Customer Fonts from your account, the Services or the Content that uses the Creative Cloud Customer Fonts, or the display of your Content may change, and we will have no liability in connection with the removal.

“Intellectual Property Rights” means copyright, moral rights, trademark, trade dress, patent, trade secret, unfair competition, right of privacy, right of publicity, and any other proprietary rights;

Qualifications & exceptions

• Triggered by a third party’s notice or Adobe’s own awareness that you lack the warranted rights or that the fonts violate third-party Intellectual Property Rights.

Retention & Deletion · User right or choice

You can revoke Adobe’s access to your fonts by deleting them; Adobe may delete them when your account ends

You may revoke Adobe’s access to your Creative Cloud Customer Fonts and terminate its rights at any time by deleting the fonts from the Service. Upon termination or closure of your account, Adobe reserves the right to delete your Creative Cloud Customer Fonts, and some copies may be retained as part of routine backups.

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(C) You may revoke our access to your Creative Cloud Customer Fonts and terminate our rights at any time by deleting your Creative Cloud Customer Fonts from the Service.

(D) Upon termination or closure of your account, we reserve the right to delete your Creative Cloud Customer Fonts. Some copies of your Creative Cloud Customer Fonts may be retained as part of our routine backups.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Revocation works by deleting the fonts from the Service.
• Backup copies may remain after deletion.

Not stated here

• How long routine backups are kept is not stated.

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

Adobe may delete your uploaded fonts when your account ends; routine backups may retain copies

Upon termination or closure of your account, Adobe reserves the right to delete your Creative Cloud Customer Fonts. Some copies of the fonts may be retained as part of Adobe’s routine backups.

Supporting quotations

(D) Upon termination or closure of your account, we reserve the right to delete your Creative Cloud Customer Fonts. Some copies of your Creative Cloud Customer Fonts may be retained as part of our routine backups.

Qualifications & exceptions

• This is a reserved right to delete ("reserves the right"), not a stated deletion deadline.

Not stated here

• How long routine backups are kept is not stated.

Data Access & Collection · Company practice

Adobe may collect information about which fonts you upload and how you use them

Adobe may collect information connected to your use of Creative Cloud Customer Fonts, such as the names of the fonts you upload and how you use them.

Supporting quotations

(E) We may collect information connected to your use of the Creative Cloud Customer Fonts, such as names of the Creative Cloud Customer Fonts that you upload and how you use the Creative Cloud Customer Fonts.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The examples given (font names, how you use the fonts) are illustrations introduced by "such as".

Not stated here

• What else may be collected, and how it is used, is not stated here.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Beta versions are not final, may cause failure or data loss, and must be dropped and destroyed on Adobe’s request

Adobe may designate Services and Software, or a feature, as a prerelease or beta version. A Beta Version does not represent the final product and may contain bugs that cause system or other failure and data loss. Adobe may choose not to release a commercial version. If Adobe asks, you must promptly stop using the Beta Version and destroy all copies. Any separate agreement Adobe enters into with you governing the Beta Version supersedes these provisions. The summary adds that Adobe may ask you to keep your use of its beta versions confidential.

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(A) Pre-release or Beta Version. We may designate the Services and Software, or a feature of the Services and Software, as a prerelease or beta version (“Beta Version”). A Beta Version does not represent the final Services and Software and may contain bugs that may cause system or other failure and data loss. We may choose not to release a commercial version of the Beta Version.

You must promptly cease using the Beta Version and destroy all copies of the Beta Version if we request you to do so.

Any separate agreement we enter into with you governing the Beta Version will supersede these provisions.

Adobe may also ask you to keep your use of its beta versions confidential.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The confidentiality request appears in the plain-language summary; the operative 3.11(A) text supplied here does not state a confidentiality obligation.

Not stated here

• Whether a confidentiality duty arises depends on a request or separate agreement not supplied here.

Data Access & Collection · Permission or license

Using a Beta Version lets Adobe collect usage data and analyze your Content, including human review, despite opt-outs

In exchange for your use of a Beta Version, you agree that Adobe may collect data, including crash data, about your use of the Beta Version and analyze your Content, including by human review, to improve its Services and Software and personalize your experience. This applies regardless of whether you have opted out of data collection for non-Beta Versions. If you do not want your usage tracked or Content analyzed, you must stop using the Beta Version by uninstalling it or using a non-Beta Version. The summary says that if you choose a beta version, human review of your content may occur.

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In exchange for your use of a Beta Version, you agree that Adobe may collect data, including crash data, regarding your use of the Beta Version and analyze your Content, including human review, to improve our Services and Software and to personalize your experience, regardless of whether you have opted-out of data collection for non-Beta Versions.

If you do not wish to have your usage tracked or Content analyzed, you must discontinue your use of the Beta Version by uninstalling such Beta Version or utilizing a non-Beta Version of the Services and Software.

If you choose to use a beta version, human review of your content may occur.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to the Beta Version only; the opt-out for non-Beta Versions does not prevent it.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

Educational Versions are limited to eligible educational users in the country where they qualify

If Adobe designates Services and Software for educational users (an Educational Version), you may use it only if you meet the eligibility requirements on the linked eligibility page. You may install and use it only in the country where you are qualified as an educational user; if you reside in the EEA, "country" means the EEA.

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(B) Education Version. If we designate the Services and Software to be for use by educational users (“Educational Version”), then you may use the Educational Version only if you meet the eligibility requirements stated at [https://www.adobe.com/go/primary-secondary-institution-eligibility-guidelines](https://www.adobe.com/go/primary-secondary-institution-eligibility-guidelines#_dnt#_nohtml). You may install and use the Educational Version only in the country where you are qualified as an educational user.

If you reside in the EEA, then the word “country” in the prior sentence means the EEA.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The country limit uses the EEA as the unit for EEA residents.

Not stated here

• The eligibility guidelines are linked but not supplied.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Third-party software and services are outside the Services and Software; your use is solely with the third party

Adobe may make third-party software and services, including plug-ins and extensions, available through the Services and Software as a convenience. They are not Services and Software as defined in the Terms, and your acquisition and use of them is solely between you and the third party. You are responsible for complying with all applicable third-party terms. The summary says Adobe is not responsible for these tools and they are governed by the third parties’ terms.

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Adobe may make third-party software and services (including plug-ins and extensions) available to you through the Services and Software as a convenience. Third-party software and services are not Services and Software as defined in the Terms and your acquisition and use of such third-party software and services is solely between you and the third party.

You are responsible for complying with all applicable third-party terms.

Adobe isn’t responsible for these tools. They are governed by the terms of the third-party providers.

Not stated here

• The linked third-party terms pages are not supplied.

Content & IP Rights · Context

“Content” means material you upload, import, embed or create using the Services and Software

In the Terms, "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.

Supporting quotations

“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

• Creative Cloud Customer Fonts are stated elsewhere not to be Content.

Content & IP Rights · User right or choice

You retain all rights and ownership of your Content, and Adobe claims no ownership

As between you and Adobe, you (as a Business User or a Personal User, as applicable) retain all rights and ownership of your Content, and Adobe does not claim any ownership rights to it. The summary puts this as: your content is your content, you own it and Adobe does not.

Supporting quotations

As between you and Adobe, you (as a Business User or a Personal User, as applicable) retain all rights and ownership of your Content. We do not claim any ownership rights to your Content.

Your content is your content — you own it, and we don’t.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Ownership is stated "as between you and Adobe"; for Business Users, the Business’s control over a Business Profile and its Content is addressed in section 1.3.

Content & IP Rights · Permission or license

You license Adobe to use your Cloud Content solely to operate the Services on your behalf

Solely for the purpose of operating the Services and Software on your behalf, and subject to section 4.2 (you own your Content in all cases), you grant Adobe a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to do the following with your Cloud Content: reproduce it (for example copies on servers, between Adobe Express projects, of Creative Cloud libraries, across servers to prevent data loss, or cached on content delivery networks); distribute it (for example publishing under your direction to third-party platforms, sharing under your direction with friends, family and colleagues, or letting authorized people download with your permission); create derivative works (for example a thumbnail, background removal at your direction, or translation); publicly display it and publicly perform it (for example publishing an image or document, or playing a video, on public properties or third-party platforms at your direction); and sublicense these rights to third parties acting on Adobe’s behalf (for example trusted cloud infrastructure providers and content delivery networks). The summary describes this as permission to use content stored or processed in the cloud so Adobe can provide its products, such as sharing or publishing on Behance.

Supporting quotations

(A) License to Cloud Content to Operate the Services and Software on Your Behalf. Solely for the purpose of operating the Services and Software on your behalf, and subject to section 4.2 (Ownership) above which states that in all cases you own your Content, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to do the following with your Cloud Content:

reproduce (for example, to create copies of your Cloud Content on our servers

distribute (for example, to publish your work under your direction to third party platforms or services, to share Cloud Content under your direction through our Services to your friends, family, and colleagues

create derivative works (for example, to compress an image to use as a thumbnail, to remove an image background at your direction, or to translate the Cloud Content into another language

publicly display (for example, for an image or document, to publish the image or document on a public property such as Behance or a third-party platform at your direction but not to use your image or document to market or promote Adobe

publicly perform (for example, to enable the playback of a video on public properties or third-party platforms at your direction but not to use the video to market or promote Adobe

sublicense the foregoing rights to third parties acting on our behalf

You own your content. But in order to use our products and services, we need you to give us permission to use your content when stored or processed in our cloud. This permission is called a license.

This license allows us to provide our products and services to you, like if you want to share your content or publish your content on Behance.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The license is for Cloud Content and is limited by "solely for the purpose of operating the Services and Software on your behalf".
• Several listed rights are tied to your direction or permission in the examples.
• "Cloud Content" is Content you uploaded to Adobe’s servers or created using its cloud-based Services (section 2.2(C)).

Content & IP Rights · Company commitment

Under the operating license Adobe will not market with your Content or train generative AI on it, absent your request

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(A) it does not have the right to, and will not, use your Content to market or promote Adobe; the examples for public display and performance repeat that they are not to market or promote Adobe. Adobe will not use these rights to train generative AI models on your Content, and will not use the sublicense rights to have anyone else do so, except at your specific request, such as asking Adobe to train a custom model on your Content. The summary says this license does not permit training generative AI models on your or your customers’ content, which Adobe does not do unless the content was submitted to the Adobe Stock marketplace.

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What Adobe Does Not Do

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(A), we do not have the right to, and will not, use your Content to market or promote Adobe.

We will not use these rights to train generative AI models on your Content and will not use the sublicense rights to have anyone else train generative AI models on your Content, except at your specific request (like you asking us to train a custom model on your Content).

This license does not give us permission to train generative AI models with your or your customers’ content. We 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 limits are stated for the 4.3(A) operating license; the Adobe Stock exception appears in the summary and in the generative AI statement in the following packet.
• The generative AI exception is limited to your specific request.

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.

Supporting quotations

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.

Supporting quotations

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.

Supporting quotations

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.

Not stated here

• 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.

Supporting quotations

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.

Not stated here

• The Adobe Stock Contributor Agreement is not supplied here.

Sharing & Disclosure · Restriction or exception

Content you Share or make public can be used, copied, modified or re-shared by others, and you are responsible for it

Some Services may let you Share your Content with other users or make it public. "Share" means to email, post, transmit, stream, upload or otherwise make available, whether to Adobe or other users, through your use of the Services and Software. Other users may use, copy, modify or re-share your Content in many ways. You are asked to consider carefully what you Share or make public, because you are responsible for the Content you Share.

Supporting quotations

(A) Sharing. Some Services and Software may provide features that allow you to Share your Content with other users or to make it public. “Share” means to email, post, transmit, stream, upload, or otherwise make available (whether to us or other users) through your use of the Services and Software. Other users may use, copy, modify, or re-share your Content in many ways. Please carefully consider what you choose to Share or make public as you are responsible for the Content that you Share.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies only to features that allow sharing; "Share" includes making content available to Adobe.

Sharing & Disclosure · Restriction or exception

Adobe does not monitor what others do with shared Content; the default access may be the most permissive

Adobe says it does not monitor or control what others do with your Content. You are responsible for determining the limitations placed on your Content and for applying the appropriate level of access. If you do not choose an access level, the system may default to its most permissive setting. It is your responsibility to let other users know how your Content may be Shared and to adjust the settings for accessing or Sharing it.

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(B) Level of Access. We do not monitor or control what others do with your Content. You are responsible for determining the limitations that are placed on your Content and for applying the appropriate level of access to your Content. If you do not choose the access level to apply to your Content, the system may default to its most permissive setting. It is your responsibility to let other users know how your Content may be Shared and to adjust the setting related to accessing or Sharing your Content.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The most-permissive default applies if you do not choose an access level, and is stated as something the system "may" do.

Not stated here

• Which features default to the most permissive setting is not stated.

Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice

Comments you submit are not anonymous and may be viewed by other users; they can be deleted by you, others or Adobe

Any comments you submit through the Services and Software are not anonymous and may be viewed by other users. In some Services and Software, your comments may be deleted by you, by other users, or by Adobe.

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(C) Comments. Any comments that you submit through the Services and Software are not anonymous and may be viewed by other users. In some Services and Software, your comments may be deleted by you, by other users, or by us.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Deletion by you, other users or Adobe applies in "some" Services and Software.

Retention & Deletion · Company commitment

If you delete Content, Adobe stops making it public within a reasonable time; backups may keep copies

If you delete Content from the Services and Software, Adobe will stop making that Content publicly available within a reasonable amount of time. Some copies of your Content may be retained for a period of time as part of routine backups, and Adobe is not responsible for any use of Content that you have Shared or made public.

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(D) Removing Your Content. If you delete Content from the Services and Software, we will stop making that Content publicly available within a reasonable amount of time. Some copies of your Content may be retained for a period of time as part of our routine backups, and we are not responsible for any use of Content that you have Shared or made public.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Adobe’s time commitment is "a reasonable amount of time".
• Adobe does not take responsibility for use of Content you Shared or made public.

Not stated here

• How long backup copies are retained is not stated.

Sharing & Disclosure · Procedure

Review the Adobe Collaboration Space Product Specific Terms before you Share Content in collaboration environments

Before you Share any Content through the Services, the Terms ask you to review the Adobe Collaboration Space Product Specific Terms (listed in section 1.2) as they apply to you and to Content you Share within Adobe collaboration environments.

Supporting quotations

(E) Collaboration. Before you Share any Content through the Services, please review the Adobe Collaboration Space Product Specific Terms set forth in section 1.2 above as they apply to you and the Content you Share within Adobe collaboration environments.

Not stated here

• The Adobe Collaboration Space terms are linked but not supplied here.

Content & IP Rights · Procedure

Adobe will email you if it removes your Content for violating the Terms; you can appeal

If Adobe removes your Content for violating the Terms, it will inform you of its decision at the email address you provided. If you believe your Content was removed in error, you may submit an appeal by following the process in Adobe’s communication to you or through its Transparency Center.

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If we remove your Content for violating the Terms, we will inform you of our decision via the email address you provided to us. If you believe that your Content was removed in error, you may submit an appeal by following the process outlined in our communication to you or at our

If you believe that your Content was removed in error, you may submit an appeal

Qualifications & exceptions

• The notice commitment applies where Adobe removes Content for violating the Terms.

Not stated here

• The appeal process itself is not described here.

Content & IP Rights · Permission or license

Feedback you give may be used freely by Adobe without payment, attribution or other obligation

If you provide feedback about the Services and Software, including ideas, suggestions, proposals or examples involving your Content, you agree that Adobe is free to use the Feedback for its business purposes, including by incorporating it into the Services and Software, without payment, attribution or other obligation to you. Giving feedback is your choice.

Supporting quotations

You may choose to provide us with feedback regarding the Services and Software, including in the form of ideas, suggestions, proposals, or examples involving your Content ("Feedback"). In such event, you agree that we are free to use the Feedback for our business purposes, including by incorporation into the Services and Software without any payment or attribution or other obligation to you.

When you choose to share your feedback with us, it helps improve our products and services.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to feedback you choose to provide, including feedback involving your Content.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

You are responsible for all activity on your account and may not share account information or use another’s account

You, as a Personal User or a Business User, are responsible for all activity that occurs through your account, even if the activity is not by you or is without your knowledge or consent. You may not share your account information, whether intentionally or unintentionally, except with an authorized account administrator, and you may not use another person’s account. Your account administrator may use your account information to manage your use of and access to the Services and Software.

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You, as a Personal User or a Business User, are responsible for all activity that occurs via your account even if that activity is not by you or is without your knowledge or consent.

You may not (A) share your account information (except with an authorized account administrator), whether intentionally or unintentionally; or (B) use another person’s account.

Your account administrator may use your account information to manage your use and access to the Services and Software.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The sharing prohibition has one stated exception: an authorized account administrator.

Charges & Financial Obligations · Permission or license

For PhoneGap, Adobe may monitor and enforce subscription plan limits, including charging for overages

For PhoneGap specifically, Adobe reserves the right to monitor and enforce subscription plan limits and restrictions, including, but not limited to, the right to charge for overages.

Supporting quotations

For PhoneGap, we reserve the right to monitor and enforce subscription plan limits and restrictions, including, but not limited to, the right to charge for overages.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Stated for PhoneGap only.

Not stated here

• The plan limits and overage charges are not stated here.

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

You must keep your account secure and notices current; Adobe may require multi-factor authentication

You are responsible for taking reasonable steps to maintain the security and control of your Adobe Account. Adobe may require you to enable multi-factor authentication and provide a phone number or an alternate email for security purposes. You are responsible for keeping your email address and telephone number up to date to receive Adobe’s notices or alerts, and for carefully reviewing messages purporting to be from Adobe to ensure they are legitimate. If you suspect your account or security details have been compromised, the Terms say to contact your account administrator or Adobe Customer Care.

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You are responsible for taking reasonable steps to maintain the security and control of your Adobe Account.

Adobe may require you to enable multi-factor authentication and provide a phone number or an alternate email for security purposes.

You are responsible for keeping your email address and telephone number up to date to receive any notices or alerts that we may send you, and you are also responsible for carefully reviewing any messages purporting to be from Adobe to ensure they are legitimate.

If you suspect that your Adobe Account or any of your security details have been compromised, please contact your account administrator or Adobe Customer Care

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Adobe assumes no responsibility for losses from compromised credentials or ignored notices, or for lockouts

Adobe assumes no responsibility for any loss you sustain due to a compromise of your account login credentials, or your failure to follow or act on notices or alerts it sends to your email address or telephone number. It also assumes no responsibility if you cannot access your Adobe Account because you cannot provide the appropriate login credentials, such as a password, email address or telephone number.

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Adobe assumes no responsibility for any loss that you may sustain due to a compromise of your account login credentials, or your failure to follow or act on any notices or alerts that we may send to your email address or telephone number.

We assume no responsibility if you are unable to access your Adobe Account because you cannot provide the appropriate login credentials, such as a password, email address, or telephone number.

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

Inactive free accounts may have Content permanently deleted or be closed; paid accounts in good standing are excluded

You are responsible for keeping your account active by signing in and using it periodically, to avoid Content deletion, disruption or loss of access, or termination of your account. If you do not sign in periodically, Adobe reserves the right to assume the account is inactive, and you agree that Adobe may permanently delete the Content stored in the account or close the account entirely. Before doing so Adobe will attempt to provide notice. This section does not apply to paid accounts in good standing.

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You are responsible for keeping your account active, which means you must sign in and use your account periodically to avoid any Content deletion, disruption or loss of access to the Services and Software, or termination of your account.

If you don't sign into your account periodically, we reserve the right to assume your account is inactive, and you agree that we may permanently delete your Content stored in the account or close your account entirely.

Prior to permanently deleting your Content or closing your account for inactivity, we will attempt to provide notice to you.

this section 5.3 (Free Account Inactivity) does not apply to paid accounts in good standing.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Notice is an "attempt", not a guarantee of receipt.
• The section does not apply to paid accounts in good standing; the heading refers to free accounts.

Not stated here

• How long an account must be unused before Adobe treats it as inactive is not stated.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

You must use the Services responsibly; the conduct list gives examples and includes violating applicable law

You must use the Services and Software responsibly and not misuse them. The Terms then list examples of what you must not do (the list is introduced with "for example"). The list includes violating applicable law. The summary says Adobe products should not be used for things like selling or sharing accounts, generating illegal content, creating fake accounts or committing fraud.

Supporting quotations

You must use the Services and Software responsibly and not misuse the Services and Software. For example, you must not:

6.22 violate applicable law.

Adobe products should be used responsibly, and not used for things like selling or sharing accounts, generating illegal content, creating fake accounts, or committing fraud.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The numbered items are examples and are not described as an exhaustive list.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

You must not use the Services without a license, or copy, modify, host, stream, sublicense or resell them

Among the things you must not do: use the Services and Software without, or in violation of, a written license or agreement with Adobe (6.1), and copy, modify, host, stream, sublicense or resell the Services and Software (6.2).

Supporting quotations

6.1 use the Services and Software without, or in violation of, a written license or agreement with Adobe;

6.2 copy, modify, host, stream, sublicense, or resell the Services and Software;

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

You must not let others use your account or offer the Services as a hosted, outsourced or service-bureau service

Among the things you must not do: enable or allow others to use the Services and Software through your account information (6.3), and offer, use, or permit the use of or access to the Services and Software in a computer services business, third-party outsourcing service, on a membership or subscription basis, on a service bureau basis, on a time-sharing basis, as part of a hosted service, or on behalf of any third party (6.4).

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6.3 enable or allow others to use the Services and Software using your account information;

6.4 offer, use, or permit the use of or access to the Services and Software in a computer services business, third-party outsourcing service, on a membership or subscription basis, on a service bureau basis, on a time-sharing basis, as a part of a hosted service, or on behalf of any third party;

Qualifications & exceptions

• Section 5.1 separately restricts sharing account information, with an exception for an authorized account administrator.

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

You must not build Content Files datasets for reverse engineering, bypass the interface, or circumvent restrictions

Among the things you must not do: construct a database or dataset using, including or comprised of the Adobe Content Files for the purpose of reverse engineering (6.5); access or attempt to access the Services and Software by any means other than the interface Adobe provides or authorizes (6.6); and circumvent any access or use restrictions put in place to prevent certain uses (6.7). "Content Files" are Adobe assets provided as part of the Services and Software.

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6.5 construct a database or dataset using, including, or comprised of the Adobe Content Files for the purpose of reverse engineering;

6.6 access or attempt to access the Services and Software by any means other than the interface we provide or authorize;

6.7 circumvent any access or use restrictions put into place to prevent certain uses of the Services and Software;

“Content Files” means Adobe assets provided as part of the Services and Software.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The dataset restriction (6.5) is tied to the purpose of reverse engineering.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

You must not Share or generate Content that violates anyone’s Intellectual Property Rights

Among the things you must not do: Share or generate Content, including Creative Cloud Customer Fonts, or otherwise engage in behavior that violates anyone’s Intellectual Property Rights (6.8). "Intellectual Property Rights" means copyright, moral rights, trademark, trade dress, patent, trade secret, unfair competition, right of privacy, right of publicity and any other proprietary rights.

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6.8 Share or generate Content, including Creative Cloud Customer Fonts, or otherwise engage in behavior that violates anyone’s Intellectual Property Rights. “Intellectual Property Rights” means copyright, moral rights, trademark, trade dress, patent, trade secret, unfair competition, right of privacy, right of publicity, and any other proprietary rights;

“Share” means to email, post, transmit, stream, upload, or otherwise make available (whether to us or other users) through your use of the Services and Software.

Qualifications & exceptions

• "Share" means to email, post, transmit, stream, upload, or otherwise make available (to Adobe or other users) through the Services and Software.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

You must not Share or generate unlawful, harmful or objectionable Content, or Content that sexualizes minors

Among the things you must not do: Share or generate any Content or engage in behavior that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, obscene, violent, abusive, tortious, defamatory, libelous, vulgar, lewd, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful or otherwise objectionable (6.9); and Share or generate any Content that sexualizes minors or is intended to facilitate inappropriate interactions with minors, other Adobe users or the public (6.10).

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6.9 Share or generate any Content or engage in behavior that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, obscene, violent, abusive, tortious, defamatory, libelous, vulgar, lewd, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or otherwise objectionable;

6.10 Share or generate any Content that sexualizes minors or that is intended to facilitate inappropriate interactions with minors, other Adobe users, or the public;

“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" and "Share" are defined terms: Content is material you upload, import into, embed for use by, or create using the Services and Software.

Not stated here

• "Otherwise objectionable" is not defined, so who decides what is objectionable is not stated.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

You must not impersonate others or misrepresent your affiliation, including undisclosed sponsorship in reviews

Among the things you must not do: impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity, including by not disclosing an applicable sponsorship or endorsement relationship when you leave a review (6.11).

Supporting quotations

6.11 impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity, including not disclosing an applicable sponsorship or endorsement relationship when you leave a review;

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

You must not disable or harm the Services, upload malware, or disrupt or harass other users

Among the things you must not do: attempt to disable, impair or destroy the Services and Software (6.12); upload, transmit, store or make available Content, including Creative Cloud Customer Fonts, or code that contains viruses, malicious code, malware or components designed to harm or limit the functionality of the Services and Software (6.13); and disrupt, interfere with or inhibit any other user from using the Services and Software, such as stalking, intimidation, harassment, or incitement or promotion of violence or self-harm (6.14).

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6.12 attempt to disable, impair, or destroy the Services and Software;

6.13 upload, transmit, store, or make available any Content, including Creative Cloud Customer Fonts, or code that contains any viruses, malicious code, malware, or any components designed to harm or limit the functionality of the Services and Software;

6.14 disrupt, interfere with, or inhibit any other user from using the Services and Software (such as stalking, intimidation, harassment, or incitement or promotion of violence or self-harm);

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

You must not send spam or run phishing or fraud, or place advertisements in the Services without prior written approval

Among the things you must not do: engage in chain letters, junk mail, pyramid schemes, phishing, spamming or other unsolicited messages (6.15); engage in fraudulent activities, such as payment and refund fraud (6.16); and place an advertisement of any products or services in the Services except with Adobe’s prior written approval (6.17).

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6.15 engage in chain letters, junk mail, pyramid schemes, phishing, spamming, or other unsolicited messages;

6.16 engage in fraudulent activities, such as payment and refund fraud;

6.17 place an advertisement of any products or services in the Services except with our prior written approval;

Qualifications & exceptions

• The advertising restriction has one stated exception: Adobe’s prior written approval.

Data Access & Collection · Restriction or exception

You must not use data mining or scraping on the Services, including scraping for machine learning

Among the things you must not do: use any data mining or similar data gathering and extraction methods in connection with the Services and Software, including data scraping for machine learning or other purposes (6.18).

Supporting quotations

6.18 use any data mining or similar data gathering and extraction methods in connection with the Services and Software, including data scraping for machine learning or other purposes;

Qualifications & exceptions

• Covers scraping "for machine learning or other purposes".

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

You must not manipulate the Services, create accounts to violate the Terms or evade termination, or frame the Services

Among the things you must not do: artificially manipulate or disrupt the Services and Software, such as manipulating appreciations on Behance or driving users to third-party sites (6.19); create Adobe accounts for the purpose of violating the Terms or Adobe’s policies (or other actions taken by Adobe), including creating fake accounts or circumventing account termination (6.20); and manipulate or display the Services and Software using framing or similar navigational technology (6.21).

Supporting quotations

6.19 artificially manipulate or disrupt the Services and Software (such as manipulating appreciations on Behance or driving users to third-party sites);

6.20 create Adobe accounts for the purpose of violating the Terms or our policies (or other types of actions taken by Adobe), including, but not limited to, creating fake accounts, or for circumventing account termination;

6.21 manipulate or otherwise display the Services and Software by using framing or similar navigational technology; or

Charges & Financial Obligations · Restriction or exception

You must pay applicable taxes and third-party fees and collection costs; payments may go to a foreign Adobe entity

You must pay any applicable taxes and third-party fees, for example telephone toll charges, mobile carrier fees, ISP charges, data plan charges, credit card fees, VAT, foreign exchange fees and foreign transaction fees. Adobe is not responsible for these fees, and you are told to contact your financial institution with questions about them. Adobe may take steps to collect fees you owe, and you are responsible for all related collection costs and expenses. If you are in a different country from the Adobe entity you transact with (Adobe Inc. for North American customers, Adobe KK for Japanese customers, and Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited for all other countries), your payments will be made to a foreign entity.

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You must pay any applicable taxes and third-party fees (including, for example, telephone toll charges, mobile carrier fees, ISP charges, data plan charges, credit card fees, VAT, foreign exchange fees, and foreign transaction fees).

We are not responsible for these fees.

We may take steps to collect the fees you owe us. You are responsible for all related collection costs and expenses.

If you are located in a different country from the applicable Adobe entity with which you are transacting (i.e., Adobe Inc. for North American customers, Adobe KK for Japanese customers, and Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited for customers in all other countries), your payments will be made to a foreign entity.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The foreign-entity statement applies when you are located in a different country from the applicable Adobe entity.

Charges & Financial Obligations · Permission or license

You authorize Adobe to store your payment method, try to update card details and keep billing amounts owed

You authorize Adobe or its authorized vendors to store your payment method and use it in connection with your use of the Services and Software as described in your Subscription and Cancellation Terms. To avoid interruption of service, Adobe may participate in programs supported by your card provider to try to update your payment information. You authorize Adobe or its vendors to continue billing and charging your account for amounts owed with the information obtained.

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You authorize us or our authorized vendor(s) to store your payment method and use it in connection with your use of the Services and Software as described in your Subscription and Cancellation Terms.

To avoid interruption of your service, we may participate in programs supported by your card provider to try to update your payment information.

You authorize us or our authorized vendor(s) to continue billing and charging your account for amounts owed with the information that we obtain.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The use of the stored payment method is tied to what your Subscription and Cancellation Terms describe.

Not stated here

• The Subscription and Cancellation Terms are not supplied here.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

You must hold the licenses, permissions and rights needed to use and Share your Content and grant the Terms’ licenses

You must have all necessary licenses and permissions to use and Share your Content, and the rights necessary to grant the licenses described in the Terms.

Supporting quotations

You must have: (A) all necessary licenses and permissions to use and Share your Content; and (B) the rights necessary to grant the licenses in the Terms.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

You must indemnify Adobe and related parties for claims arising from your Content, use, user interactions or violations

You will indemnify Adobe and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, employees, partners and licensors from any claims, demands, losses or damages, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising out of or related to: (A) your Content, including Creative Cloud Customer Fonts; (B) your use of the Services and Software, as applicable; (C) your interactions with any other users, including Third-Party Entitlement Holders; or (D) your violation of the Terms (each a "Matter").

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You will indemnify us and our subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, employees, partners, and licensors from any claim(s), demand(s), loss(es), or damage(s), including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising out of, or related to:

(A) your Content, including, but not limited to Creative Cloud Customer Fonts;

(B) your use of the Services and Software (as applicable);

(C) your interactions with any other users (including Third-Party Entitlement Holders); or

(D) your violation of the Terms (“Matter”).

Qualifications & exceptions

• The obligation covers claims "arising out of, or related to" the four listed matters.

Not stated here

• "Third-Party Entitlement Holders" is not defined in the text supplied.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Adobe controls the defense of indemnified Matters with its own counsel and you must cooperate

Adobe has the right to control the defense of any Matter subject to your indemnification with counsel of its own choosing, and you must fully cooperate with Adobe in the defense of any Matter.

Supporting quotations

We have the right to control the defense of any Matter subject to indemnification by you with counsel of our own choosing. You will fully cooperate with us in the defense of any Matter.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to Matters subject to indemnification by you.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Services are “AS-IS” unless Product Specific Terms say otherwise; warranties are disclaimed as far as the law permits

Unless stated in the Product Specific Terms, the Services and Software are provided "AS-IS". To the maximum extent permitted by law, Adobe, its affiliates and third-party providers (the Covered Parties) disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including implied warranties of non-infringement, merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. They make no commitments about the content within the Services. They also disclaim any warranty that the Services and Software will meet your requirements or be constantly available, uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free; that results will be effective, accurate or reliable; that quality will meet your expectations; or that errors or defects will be corrected.

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Unless stated in the Product Specific Terms, the Services and Software are provided “AS-IS.” To the maximum extent permitted by law, Adobe, its affiliates, and third-party providers (“Covered Parties”)

disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including the implied warranties of non-infringement, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose.

The Covered Parties make no commitments about the content within the Services.

The Covered Parties further disclaim any warranty that (A) the Services and Software will meet your requirements or will be constantly available, uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free; (B) the results obtained from the use of the Services and Software will be effective, accurate, or reliable; (C) the quality of the Services and Software will meet your expectations; or (D) any errors or defects in the Services and Software will be corrected.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The disclaimer is "unless stated in the Product Specific Terms" and "to the maximum extent permitted by law".

Not stated here

• Product Specific Terms that might state warranties are not supplied here.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

You use the Services at your own risk and are solely responsible for damage to your computer or loss of data

The Covered Parties specifically disclaim all liability for any actions resulting from your use of the Services and Software. You may use and access them at your own discretion and risk, and you are solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from using or accessing them.

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The Covered Parties specifically disclaim all liability for any actions resulting from your use of any Services and Software. You may use and access the Services and Software at your own discretion and risk, and you are solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from the use of and access to any Service and Software.

Sharing & Disclosure · Restriction or exception

For Content you publicly Share, Adobe is not responsible for loss, deletion by others or third-party reuse

If you post your Content on Adobe’s servers to publicly Share through the Services, the Covered Parties are not responsible for any loss, corruption or damage to your Content; the deletion of Content by anyone other than Adobe; or the inclusion of your Content by third parties on other websites or in other media.

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If you post your Content on our servers to publicly Share through the Services, the Covered Parties are not responsible for: (A) any loss, corruption, or damage to your Content; (B) the deletion of Content by anyone other than Adobe; or (C) the inclusion of your Content by third parties on other websites or in other media.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies where you post Content on Adobe’s servers to publicly Share it.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

No liability for indirect or consequential damages, except gross negligence, intentional misconduct, death or injury

Unless stated in the Product Specific Terms, in no event are the Covered Parties liable to you or anyone else for special, incidental, indirect, consequential, moral, exemplary or punitive damages, regardless of cause, including losses from loss of use, data, reputation, revenue or profits, under any theory of liability, or arising out of or in connection with your use of or access to the Services and Software. Nothing in the Terms limits or excludes Adobe’s liability for gross negligence, intentional misconduct of Adobe or its employees, death or personal injury.

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Unless stated in the Product Specific Terms, in no event shall the Covered Parties be liable to you or anyone else for any special, incidental, indirect, consequential, moral, exemplary or punitive damages whatsoever, regardless of cause, including losses and damages (A) resulting from loss of use, data, reputation, revenue, or profits; (B) based on any theory of liability, including breach of contract or warranty, negligence, or other tortious action; or (C) arising out of or in connection with your use of or access to the Services and Software.

Nothing in the Terms limits or excludes our liability for gross negligence, intentional misconduct of Adobe or its employees, death, or personal injury.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The exclusion is "unless stated in the Product Specific Terms".
• The carve-out covers gross negligence, intentional misconduct of Adobe or its employees, death and personal injury.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Adobe’s total liability is capped at the greater of US $100 or three months of fees paid; suppliers have none

Adobe’s total liability in any matter arising out of or related to the Terms is limited to the greater of (A) US $100 or (B) the total amount you paid for access to the Services and Software during the three-month period before the event giving rise to the liability. Adobe’s suppliers have no liability in any matter arising out of or related to the Terms.

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Our total liability in any matter arising out of or related to the Terms is limited to the greater of (A) US $100; or (B) the aggregate amount that you paid for access to the Services and Software during the three-month period preceding the event giving rise to the liability. Our suppliers will have no liability in any matter arising out of or related to the Terms.

Our suppliers will have no liability in any matter arising out of or related to the Terms.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The cap is stated separately from the gross negligence, intentional misconduct, death and personal injury carve-out in section 10.1, which says nothing in the Terms limits liability for those.
• Section 10.3 says the limits apply to the maximum extent permitted by law.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Liability limits apply even if a remedy fails or Adobe knew of the risk, and the Terms are your exclusive remedy

The limitations and exclusions in section 10 apply to the maximum extent permitted by law even if a remedy does not fully compensate you or fails of its essential purpose, or if the Covered Parties knew or should have known about the possibility of damages. The Terms set out the Covered Parties’ entire liability and your exclusive remedy with respect to access and use of the Services and Software.

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These limitations and exclusions in this section 10 (Limitation of Liability) apply to the maximum extent permitted by law even if (A) a remedy does not fully compensate you for any losses or fails of its essential purpose; or (B) the Covered Parties knew or should have known about the possibility of damages.

The Terms set forth the entire liability of the Covered Parties as well as your exclusive remedy with respect to access and use of the Services and Software.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies "to the maximum extent permitted by law".

Charges & Financial Obligations · User right or choice

You may cancel at any time, but outstanding and early cancellation fees remain owed

You may cancel your subscription and end your use of the Services and Software at any time. Cancelling or terminating your account does not relieve you of any obligation to pay outstanding fees associated with your subscription, including, but not limited to, early cancellation fees. The summary says you can cancel at any time but fees may apply.

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You may cancel your subscription and terminate your use of the Services and Software at any time.

Cancellation or termination of your account does not relieve you of any obligation to pay any outstanding fees associated with your subscription, including, but not limited to early cancellation fees.

You can cancel your subscription at any time, but fees may apply.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Outstanding fees, including early cancellation fees, remain payable after cancellation.

Not stated here

• The amount of any early cancellation fee is not stated here; the Subscription and Cancellation Terms are not supplied.

Account & Service Control · Permission or license

Adobe may immediately terminate or suspend your access in its sole discretion on seven listed grounds

Unless stated in the Product Specific Terms, Adobe may at any time immediately terminate or suspend your right to use and access the Services and Software if, in Adobe’s sole discretion: (A) you breach any provision of the Terms, or act in a way that clearly shows you do not intend to or cannot comply; (B) you fail to pay fees on time; (C) you abuse, threaten, bully or harass Adobe or its personnel, in which case Adobe may instead suspend or restrict access; (D) you have repeatedly made bad-faith or unreasonable complaints and continue after being asked to stop, in which case Adobe may instead suspend or restrict access; (E) continuing to provide the Services to you would violate applicable law; (F) Adobe elects to discontinue the Services and Software in whole or part because it becomes impractical to offer them in your region due to a change of law or other reason; or (G) there has been an extended period of inactivity in your free account. Separately, section 3.7 lets Adobe end free, complimentary or trial access at any time without prior notice.

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Unless stated in the Product Specific Terms, we may at any time immediately terminate or suspend your right to use and access the Services and Software if in Adobe's sole discretion:

(A) you breach any provision of the Terms (or act in a manner that clearly shows you do not intend to, or are unable to, comply with the Terms);

(B) you fail to make the timely payment of fees for the Services and Software, if any;

(C) you physically, verbally, or through other means abuse, threaten, bully, or harass us or our personnel (in such circumstances, we may alternatively suspend or restrict your access to the Services and Software);

(D) you have repeatedly made complaints in bad faith or without a reasonable basis, and continue to do so after we have asked you to stop (in such circumstances, we may alternatively suspend or restrict your access to the Services or Software);

(E) continuing to provide the Software or Services to you would violate any applicable law;

(F) we elect to discontinue the Services and Software, in whole or in part if it becomes impractical for us to continue offering Services in your region due to change of law, or other reason; or

(G) there has been an extended period of inactivity in your free account.

At any time prior to or during the free, Complimentary Services, or trial period, Adobe may, in its sole discretion, terminate that access without prior notice and without any liability to you, to the extent permitted under applicable law, for any reason, including to prevent abuse of the free, Complimentary Services, or trial access.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Stated as "unless stated in the Product Specific Terms" and as Adobe’s sole-discretion judgment.
• For grounds (C) and (D), Adobe may alternatively suspend or restrict access.

Not stated here

• What counts as an "extended period of inactivity" in a free account is not stated.

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

Notice, refunds and Content access on termination by Adobe depend on the reason; you may lose access to Content

If Adobe terminates the Terms or your use of the Services and Software for reasons other than for cause as listed in (A) to (D) and (G), it will make reasonable efforts to notify you by email at least thirty days before termination, with instructions on how to retrieve your Content. If Adobe terminates for reasons (E) or (F), it may, in its sole discretion, provide a pro rata refund of prepaid, unused fees for that Service or Software. Upon termination by Adobe, you may lose access to your Content.

Supporting quotations

If we terminate the Terms, or your use of the Services and Software for reasons other than for cause, as listed in any of Sections (A) to (D) and (G) above, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you via the email address you provide to us, at least thirty (30) days prior to termination, with instructions on how to retrieve your Content.

If we terminate your use of the Services and Software for reasons listed in Sections (E) or (F), we may, in our sole discretion, provide you with a pro rata refund for any prepaid, unused fees for that Service or Software.

Upon termination by us, you may lose access to your Content.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The advance-notice effort is described as "reasonable efforts", and applies to terminations other than those for the listed causes (A) to (D) and (G).
• The refund for grounds (E) or (F) is at Adobe’s sole discretion.

Not stated here

• The text does not state notice or refund terms for terminations for the listed causes (A) to (D) and (G).

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Services may stop without notice after termination; indemnity, disclaimers, liability limits and dispute terms survive

Upon expiration or termination of the Terms, some or all of the Services and Software may cease to operate without prior notice. Your indemnification obligations, Adobe’s warranty disclaimers and limitations of liability, and the dispute resolution provisions in the Terms survive.

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Upon the expiration or termination of the Terms, some or all of the Services and Software may cease to operate without prior notice.

Your indemnification obligations, our warranty disclaimers and limitations of liabilities, and the dispute resolution provisions stated in the Terms will survive.

Account & Service Control · Procedure

If you think your account was deactivated in error, you can appeal through the login process or Transparency Center

If you believe your Adobe Account has been deactivated in error, you may submit an appeal by following the process shown when you try to log in or through Adobe’s Transparency Center. For related questions you can contact Adobe Customer Care.

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If you believe your Adobe Account has been deactivated in error, you may submit an appeal by following the process outlined when you attempt to log into your account or at our

If you have any related questions, please contact

Not stated here

• The appeal process and any timeframe are described on linked pages that are not supplied.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

You must follow export and trade laws and may not upload export-controlled content without Adobe’s written approval

The Services and Software, and your use of them, are subject to the import, export and use laws, restrictions and regulations of the United States and other jurisdictions. By using them you agree to comply with those laws and warrant that you are not prohibited from receiving the Services and Software by the laws of any jurisdiction. You also agree not to upload or transmit any content that is controlled for export from the United States, including technical data controlled under the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations and technology controlled under the US Export Administration Regulations, without Adobe’s prior written approval.

Supporting quotations

The Services and Software, and your use of them, are subject to laws, restrictions, and regulations of the United States and other jurisdictions that govern the import, export, and use of the Services and Software.

By using the Services and Software, you agree to comply with all such laws, restrictions, and regulations, and you warrant that you are not prohibited from receiving the Services and Software by the laws of any jurisdiction.

Additionally, you agree not to upload to or transmit over any Services or Software any content that is controlled for export from the United States (including technical data controlled under the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations and technology controlled under the US Export Administration Regulations) without prior written approval from Adobe.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The export-controlled content restriction has one stated exception: Adobe’s prior written approval.

Not stated here

• The cited US regulations are named but not supplied here.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Australian consumer-law rights are not excluded; liability for statutory guarantees may be limited to listed remedies

Nothing in the Terms is intended to exclude, restrict or modify any consumer rights under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) or any other legislation that cannot be excluded, restricted or modified by agreement. Where that Act or other legislation implies a condition, warranty or term, or provides statutory guarantees, in respect of goods or services supplied (if any), Adobe’s liability for breach is limited, at its election and to the extent it is able to do so, to: for goods, replacing them or supplying equivalent goods, repairing them, or paying the cost of replacing, acquiring equivalent goods or repairing; and for services, supplying the services again or paying the cost of having them supplied again.

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Nothing in the Terms is intended to exclude, restrict, or modify any consumer rights under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) (“CCA”) or any other legislation which may not be excluded, restricted, or modified by agreement.

If the CCA or any other legislation implies a condition, warranty, or term into the Terms or provides statutory guarantees in connection with the Terms, in respect of goods or services supplied (if any), our liability for breach of such a condition, warranty, other term or guarantee is limited (at our election), to the extent it is able to do so: (A) in the case of supply of goods, our doing any one or more of the following: (1) replacing the goods or supplying equivalent goods; (2) repairing the goods; (3) paying the cost of replacing the goods or of acquiring equivalent goods; and (4) paying the cost of having the goods repaired; or (B) in the case of supply of services, our doing either or both of the following: (1) supplying the services again; and (2) paying the cost of having the services supplied again.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The remedy limitation applies only "to the extent it is able to do so" under the legislation.
• Applies to Australian consumer-law rights.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Procedure

Adobe Customer Care is the first stop for most concerns

Adobe says its Customer Care is available to address most concerns you may have about the Services and Software, and gives a contact page for it. A concern Customer Care cannot resolve can become a "Claim" under section 14.1.

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Adobe Customer Care is available to address most concerns that you may have regarding Adobe’s Services and Software.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Procedure

Before any legal action you must send a written Notice of Claim and wait 30 days

If you have a concern or dispute that Adobe Customer Care cannot resolve (a "Claim"), you agree to first try to resolve it informally and in good faith by contacting Adobe and sending a written Notice of Claim to the address in section 18.2 (Adobe Inc., 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, California, 95110-2704, USA, Attention: General Counsel). The Notice must give fair notice of your identity, describe the nature and basis of your Claim and the relief you seek, including the specific amount of any monetary relief, and cannot be combined with a Notice of Claim for other individuals. Neither party may start legal action until 30 days after the Notice is received. The summary says to try the amicable route first.

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If you have any concern or dispute that Adobe Customer Care is unable to resolve (“Claim”), you agree to first try to resolve the dispute informally and in good faith by contacting us and providing a written Notice of Claim to the address provided in section 18.2 (Notice to Adobe).

The Notice of Claim must provide Adobe with fair notice of your identity, a description of the nature and basis of your Claim, and the relief you are seeking, including the specific amount of any monetary relief you are seeking, and cannot be combined with a Notice of Claim for other individuals.

Neither party shall initiate legal action until 30 days after the Notice of Claim is received.

You may send notices to us at the following address: Adobe Inc., 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, California, 95110-2704, USA, Attention: General Counsel.

You agree to notify Adobe of any dispute and try to resolve it amicably.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The 30-day wait runs from receipt of the Notice of Claim and applies to both parties.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Unresolved Claims go to small claims court or final, binding arbitration, with exceptions and a 30-day opt-out

If a dispute related to your Claim is not resolved within 30 days of receipt of your Notice, any resulting legal actions must be resolved through either small claims court or final and binding arbitration, including any dispute about whether arbitration is required, subject to the exceptions set out in section 14.5. The agreement to arbitrate applies, without limitation, to all claims that arose or were asserted before the effective date of the Terms. The arbitrator, not any court or agency, has exclusive authority to decide disputes about the interpretation, applicability or enforceability of the Terms or their formation, including whether a dispute is subject to arbitration and whether any part of the Terms is void or voidable. Section 14.5 lets either party elect small claims court for eligible Claims and seek preliminary injunctive relief in court. Section 14.6 gives you the right to opt out of the arbitration and class action waiver provisions within the first 30 days of your use of the Services or the date of the last update to section 14, whichever is later.

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If any dispute related to your Claim is not resolved within 30 days of receipt, any resulting legal actions must be resolved through either small claims court or final and binding arbitration, including any dispute about whether arbitration is required for the dispute, subject to the exceptions set forth below.

This agreement to arbitrate shall apply, without limitation, to all claims that arose or were asserted before the effective date of the Terms.

The arbitrator, and not any federal, state, or local court or agency, shall have the exclusive authority to resolve any dispute relating to the interpretation, applicability or enforceability of the Terms or formation of the Terms, including whether any dispute between us is subject to arbitration (i.e., the arbitrator will decide the arbitrability of any dispute) and whether all or any part of these Terms are void or voidable.

14.5 Exceptions to Arbitration – Small Claims and Injunctive Relief

Notwithstanding the foregoing, either party may elect to have any Claim that is subject to the jurisdiction of small claims court decided in small claims court in Santa Clara County, California, USA, or the county of your residence.

Additionally, either party shall be entitled to apply for preliminary injunctive remedies (or an equivalent type of urgent legal relief) in any jurisdiction, such as in the event of your or others’ unauthorized access to or use of the Services or Software in violation of the Terms.

Within the first thirty (30) days of your use of the Services and Software or the date of the last update to section 14 (Dispute Resolution, Class Action Waiver, Arbitration Agreement) of the Terms, whichever is later, you have the right to opt out

If you opt out of these provisions, Adobe will also not be bound by them.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The arbitration requirement is expressly "subject to the exceptions set forth below" (small claims and injunctive relief, section 14.5).
• The opt-out in section 14.6 is a time-limited right; if you opt out, Adobe is also not bound by these provisions.
• The agreement covers claims that arose or were asserted before the effective date of the Terms.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Claims related to the Terms, Services or Software are permanently barred if not brought within one year

Claims related to the Terms, Services or Software are permanently barred if they are not brought within one year of the event resulting in the Claim.

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Claims related to the Terms, Services, or Software are permanently barred if not brought within one year of the event resulting in the Claim.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The year runs from the event resulting in the Claim.

Not stated here

• How this one-year limit interacts with the 30-day Notice of Claim wait is not stated.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

You may resolve disputes only individually and may not bring or join class, consolidated or representative actions

You may only resolve disputes with Adobe on an individual basis, and you may not bring a claim as a plaintiff or class member in a class, consolidated or representative action. If any part of this class action waiver is found unenforceable or invalid as to a particular remedy, only that remedy is severed from the arbitration and may be sought in court, and the parties agree that adjudication of remedies not subject to arbitration is stayed pending the outcome of any arbitrable claims and remedies. Section 14.6 lets you opt out of the arbitration and class action waiver provisions within the stated 30-day window.

Supporting quotations

You may only resolve disputes with us on an individual basis, and you may not bring a claim as a plaintiff or a class member in a class, consolidated, or representative action.

Nonetheless, if any portion of this class action waiver is deemed unenforceable or invalid as to a particular remedy, then that remedy (and only that remedy) must be severed from the arbitration and may be sought in court. The parties agree, however, that any adjudication of remedies not subject to arbitration shall be stayed pending the outcome of any arbitrable claims and remedies.

you have the right to opt out of the arbitration and class action waiver provisions of section 14 (Dispute Resolution, Class Action Waiver, Arbitration Agreement) by sending us written notice

Qualifications & exceptions

• The opt-out right in section 14.6 covers this waiver.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Procedure

Arbitration provider and place depend on where you live: JAMS in California, SIAC in Singapore, or LCIA in London

If you reside in the Americas, JAMS administers the arbitration in Santa Clara County, California, USA, under its Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures, and its Mass Arbitration Procedures and Guidelines for any action in which you are represented by a law firm or collection of firms that has filed at least 25 similar arbitration demands against Adobe within a year. If you reside in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, South Korea, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, or an ASEAN member state, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre administers the arbitration in Singapore under its Rules of Arbitration. Otherwise, the London Court of International Arbitration administers it in London under the LCIA Arbitration Rules.

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If you reside in the Americas, JAMS will administer the arbitration in Santa Clara County, California, USA, pursuant to its Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures and also its Mass Arbitration Procedures and Guidelines for any action in which you are represented by a law firm or collection of law firms that has filed at least 25 arbitration demands of a similar nature against Adobe within a year.

If you reside in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, South Korea, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, or a member state of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), then the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) will administer the arbitration in Singapore under its Rules of Arbitration, which rules are deemed to be incorporated by reference in this section.

Otherwise, the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) will administer the arbitration in London, UK under the LCIA Arbitration Rules.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The Mass Arbitration Procedures apply only where a law firm or collection of firms has filed at least 25 similar demands against Adobe within a year.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Procedure

Arbitration uses one mutually selected arbitrator, English, and the Terms prevail over provider rules

There will be one arbitrator whom you and Adobe mutually select. The arbitration is conducted in English, though a witness whose native language is not English may testify in that language with simultaneous translation into English at the expense of the party presenting the witness. Judgment on the award may be entered and enforced in any court of competent jurisdiction over you and Adobe. If the arbitration provider’s rules conflict with the Terms, including on assessing arbitration fees and costs, the Terms govern.

Supporting quotations

There will be one arbitrator that you and Adobe mutually select.

The arbitration will be conducted in the English language, but any witness whose native language is not English may give testimony in the witness’ native language, with simultaneous translation into English (at the expense of the party presenting the witness).

Judgment upon the award rendered may be entered and will be enforceable in any court of competent jurisdiction having jurisdiction over you and us.

In the event of a conflict between the rules of the arbitration provider and the Terms, including with respect to the assessment of the fees and costs of arbitration, the Terms will govern.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The Terms prevail over provider rules in a conflict, including on fees and costs.

Charges & Financial Obligations · Company commitment

Arbitration fees follow the provider’s rules, but Adobe pays if you cannot afford them

Payment of filing, administration and arbitrator fees and the costs of arbitration is governed by the rules of the arbitration provider. Notwithstanding that, if you are unable to afford the fees or costs of arbitration, Adobe will pay them. If the arbitrator finds that a Claim’s substance or the relief sought was frivolous, or a Claim was brought for an improper purpose, the parties may seek to re-allocate arbitration fees and costs under the provider’s rules.

Supporting quotations

Payment of all filing, administration, and arbitrator fees and costs of arbitration will be governed by the rules of the arbitration provider.

Notwithstanding the above, if you are unable to afford fees or costs of arbitration, Adobe will pay them.

If the arbitrator finds that either the substance of a Claim or the relief sought in arbitration was frivolous, or a Claim was brought for an improper purpose, the parties may seek to re-allocate the fees and costs of arbitration, according to the rules of the arbitration provider.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Adobe’s commitment to pay applies where you are unable to afford the fees or costs.
• Re-allocation can be sought if the arbitrator finds a Claim frivolous or brought for an improper purpose.

Not stated here

• The text does not say how inability to afford the fees is determined.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · User right or choice

Either party may choose small claims court for eligible Claims, even after arbitration is filed

Notwithstanding the arbitration requirement, either party may elect to have any Claim that falls within small claims court jurisdiction decided in small claims court in Santa Clara County, California, USA, or in the county of your residence. If a Claim is filed in arbitration that could have been brought in small claims court, the other party may give notice before an arbitrator is appointed that it wants small claims court; the arbitrator then administratively closes the case before assessing any fees and the claimant must proceed in small claims court. Disputes about whether a Claim qualifies are decided by the small claims court, not an arbitrator, and the arbitration stays closed unless that court decides the Claim should proceed in arbitration.

Supporting quotations

Notwithstanding the foregoing, either party may elect to have any Claim that is subject to the jurisdiction of small claims court decided in small claims court in Santa Clara County, California, USA, or the county of your residence.

If either party files a Claim in arbitration that could have been brought in small claims court, the other party may provide notice that it wants the case decided in small claims court before the appointment of an arbitrator, and the arbitrator shall administratively close the case before assessing any fees, and the party bringing the Claim must proceed in small claims court in lieu of arbitration.

Any dispute about whether a Claim qualifies for small claims court shall be resolved by that court, not by an arbitrator. In the event of any such dispute, the arbitration proceeding shall remain closed unless and until a decision by the small claims court that the Claim should proceed in arbitration.

If any dispute related to your Claim is not resolved within 30 days of receipt, any resulting legal actions must be resolved through either small claims court or final and binding arbitration, including any dispute about whether arbitration is required for the dispute, subject to the exceptions set forth below.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The election applies to Claims subject to small claims court jurisdiction.
• Notice to switch to small claims court must be given before an arbitrator is appointed.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Either party may seek preliminary injunctive relief in court anywhere; other relief stays in arbitration or small claims

Either party may apply for preliminary injunctive remedies, or an equivalent type of urgent legal relief, in any jurisdiction, for example if you or others gain unauthorized access to or use of the Services or Software in violation of the Terms. If a party seeks both preliminary injunctive relief and other relief, it may go to court for the preliminary injunctive relief but must arbitrate its claims, or seek relief in small claims court, for all other forms of relief.

Supporting quotations

Additionally, either party shall be entitled to apply for preliminary injunctive remedies (or an equivalent type of urgent legal relief) in any jurisdiction, such as in the event of your or others’ unauthorized access to or use of the Services or Software in violation of the Terms.

If a party has a dispute in which they seek to obtain both preliminary injunctive relief and other forms of relief, the party may go to court to seek preliminary injunctive relief but must arbitrate its claims or seek relief in small claims court for all other forms of relief.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The court exception is for preliminary injunctive or equivalent urgent relief only.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · User right or choice

You can opt out of arbitration and the class action waiver within 30 days of first use or the last update to section 14

Within the first thirty days of your use of the Services and Software or the date of the last update to section 14, whichever is later, you have the right to opt out of the arbitration and class action waiver provisions of section 14 by sending written notice of your decision to the section 18.2 address or by email to ContractNotifications@adobe.com. If you opt out of these provisions, Adobe will also not be bound by them.

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Within the first thirty (30) days of your use of the Services and Software or the date of the last update to section 14 (Dispute Resolution, Class Action Waiver, Arbitration Agreement) of the Terms, whichever is later, you have the right to opt out of the arbitration and class action waiver provisions of section 14 (Dispute Resolution, Class Action Waiver, Arbitration Agreement) by sending us written notice of your decision at the address set forth in section 18.2 (Notice to Adobe) or via email at ContractNotifications@adobe.com.

If you opt out of these provisions, Adobe will also not be bound by them.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The window is 30 days from the later of first use or the last update to section 14.
• Opting out also releases Adobe from these provisions.

Not stated here

• The text does not say what dispute process applies once you have opted out.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Permission or license

Adobe may audit a Business’s use of the Services up to once every 12 months and require it to fix any license shortfall

If you are a Business, Adobe may, no more than once every twelve months and on at least seven days’ prior notice, appoint its personnel or an independent third-party auditor bound to confidentiality to inspect your records, systems and facilities (manually, electronically or both) to verify that your installation and use of the Services or Software comply with the Terms. You must provide all records and information Adobe requests within thirty days of the request to verify use in conformity with your valid licenses. If the verification shows a shortfall in conformity with the licenses, you must immediately acquire any necessary licenses, subscriptions and applicable back maintenance and support, or take other applicable action, to remedy it. The summary says this does not apply to individuals using a personal (non-business) account or profile.

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If you are a Business, then we may, no more than once every twelve (12) months, upon at least seven (7) days’ prior notice to you, appoint our personnel or an independent third-party auditor who is obliged to maintain confidentiality, to inspect (including manual inspection, electronic methods, or both) your records, systems, and facilities to verify that your installation and use of Services or Software comply with our Terms.

Additionally, you will provide us with all records and information requested by us within thirty (30) days of our request in order for us to verify that the installation and use of any and all Services and Software is in conformity with your valid licenses.

If the verification discloses a shortfall in conformity with the licenses for the Services and Software, you will immediately acquire any necessary licenses, subscriptions, and applicable back maintenance and support or other applicable action in order to remedy any such non-conformity(ies).

This doesn’t apply to individuals using their personal (non-business) account or profile.

If you received an “Entitlement” (which is defined as the right to use, access, and consume the Services and Software) from an organization or group, including but not limited to a business or any other commercial entity, government entity, non-profit organization, or educational institution (each, a “Business”) under one of Adobe’s business plans (such as Creative Cloud for Teams, Creative Cloud for Enterprise, or Document Cloud), then (A) you are a “Business User” of such Business; (B) your Adobe profile associated with such Entitlement is a “Business Profile”; and (C) all references to “you” in the Terms will mean such Business and its Business Users, as applicable.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to a Business; the summary says it does not apply to individuals using a personal account or profile.
• Limited to once every twelve months and at least seven days’ prior notice.

Account & Service Control · Permission or license

Adobe may modify or discontinue Services without liability, with best-efforts notice of detrimental paid changes

Adobe may modify, update or discontinue the Services and Software, including any portion or feature, at any time without liability to you or anyone else, and says such changes may be detrimental or diminish value to you. For changes to paid offerings that, in Adobe’s reasonable discretion, are detrimental or materially diminish value to you, Adobe will make reasonable commercial efforts to notify you. If Adobe discontinues a Service or Software in its entirety, it will use reasonable commercial efforts to allow you to transition your Content, and it may provide a pro rata refund of unused prepaid fees for that Service or Software.

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We may modify, update, or discontinue the Services and Software (including any portions or features), which modifications, updates or discontinuations may, for clarity, be detrimental or result in a diminishment of value to you, at any time, without liability to you or anyone else.

For changes to paid offerings that, in Adobe’s reasonable discretion, are detrimental or result in a material diminishment of value to you, we will make reasonable commercial efforts to notify you of such modification, update, or discontinuation.

If we discontinue the Services or Software in its entirety, we will use reasonable commercial efforts to allow you to transition your Content, and we may provide you with a pro rata refund for any unused fees for that Service or Software that you prepaid.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Notice applies only to paid-offering changes that Adobe, in its reasonable discretion, finds detrimental or materially diminishing, and only as reasonable commercial efforts.
• The refund on full discontinuation is something Adobe "may" provide, not a stated commitment.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Services may be unavailable or blocked in some countries; users in China may not use the online services

Adobe’s webpages may be accessible worldwide, but that does not mean all Services and Software, or user-generated content, are available or legal in your country. Access to certain Services, features or Software may be blocked in certain countries. Users in China are not permitted to access or use any online services within the Services and Software and must purchase the Services and Software specifically made available to users in China for use in China. You are responsible for making sure your use is legal or available where you use them, and the Services and Software are not available in all languages.

Supporting quotations

Our webpages may be accessible worldwide, but this does not mean all Services and Software are available in your country or that user-generated content available via the Services and Software is legal or available in your country.

Access to certain Services (or certain Service features) or Software may be blocked in certain countries.

Users in China are not permitted to access or use any online services within our Services and Software and must purchase the Services and Software specifically made available to users in China for use in China.

It is your responsibility to make sure your use of the Services and Software is legal or available where you use them. Services and Software are not available in all languages.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The China restriction applies to online services; China-specific Services and Software must be purchased for use in China.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

You must not modify, adapt, reverse engineer or decompile the Services and Software, which Adobe treats as confidential

Certain elements of the Services and Software are Adobe’s (or its licensors’) confidential information. Except as expressly permitted in the Terms, you must not, and must not allow third parties to: (A) modify, port, adapt or translate any portion of the Services or Software; or (B) reverse engineer (including monitoring or tracking the inputs and outputs flowing through a system or application in order to recreate that system), decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code, data representations, underlying algorithms, processes, methods or any other portion of a Service or Software. The summary says Adobe does not allow you to recreate or attempt to recreate its products.

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Certain elements of the Services and Software constitute our (or our licensors’) confidential information. Except as expressly permitted in the Terms, you must not (and must not allow third parties to): (A) modify, port, adapt, or translate any portion of the Services or Software; (B) reverse engineer (including but not limited to monitoring or tracking the inputs and outputs flowing through a system or an application in order to recreate that system), decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover, within any Service or Software, the source code, data representations or underlying algorithms, processes, methods, and any other portion of such Service or Software;

We invest in our technology and services and don’t allow you to recreate or attempt to recreate our products.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The restrictions apply "except as expressly permitted in the Terms", and the interoperability provision in the next card describes one route for decompilation under local law.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

You must not use the Services or their output to create, train, test or improve machine learning or AI systems

Except as expressly permitted in the Terms, you must not, and must not allow third parties to, use the Services or Software, or any content, data, output or other information received or derived from them, to directly or indirectly create, train, test or otherwise improve any machine learning algorithm or artificial intelligence system, including architectures, models or weights. The plain-language summary says products are meant to support creativity and productivity, not to create AI training datasets, and that, other than the reverse engineering and recreation activities described, you can use Firefly and Adobe’s generative AI tools to generate content for any other legal purpose. Only the operative text is legally binding; the summary’s carve-out names the reverse engineering and recreation activities described below and does not itself mention the machine-learning restriction.

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or (C) use the Services or Software, or any content, data, output, or other information received or derived from the Services or Software, to directly or indirectly create, train, test, or otherwise improve any machine learning algorithms or artificial intelligence system, including but not limited to any architectures, models, or weights.

Our products are meant to support creativity and productivity, not to create AI training datasets.

Other than the reverse engineering activities and attempts to recreate our products described below, you can use Firefly and our generative AI tools to generate content for any other legal purpose.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The restriction reaches "any content, data, output, or other information received or derived from" the Services, directly or indirectly.
• It applies "except as expressly permitted in the Terms".
• The summary describes a general permission to use Firefly and generative AI tools for other legal purposes; the operative restriction in section 17(C) is stated on its own and refers to machine learning and AI systems directly.

Not stated here

• The text does not say how the restriction applies to a particular tool, output or use; Product Specific Terms (such as Adobe Generative AI) are not supplied.

Content & IP Rights · Procedure

Where local law lets you decompile for interoperability, you must first ask Adobe, which may set reasonable conditions

If the laws of your jurisdiction give you the right to decompile the Services or Software to obtain information needed to make the licensed portions interoperable with other software, you must first request that information from Adobe. Adobe may, in its discretion, either provide the information or impose reasonable conditions, including a reasonable fee, on your decompilation to protect its and its licensors’ and suppliers’ proprietary rights.

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If the laws of your jurisdiction give you the right to decompile the Services or Software to obtain information necessary to render the licensed portions of the Services or Software interoperable with other software, you must first request such information from us. We may, in our discretion, either provide such information to you or impose reasonable conditions, including a reasonable fee, on your decompilation of the Services or Software to ensure that our and our licensors’ and suppliers’ proprietary rights in the Services and Software are protected.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies only where the laws of your jurisdiction give you a decompilation right for interoperability.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context

The English version of the Terms is used for interpretation

The English version of the Terms is the version used when interpreting or construing the Terms.

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The English version of the Terms will be the version used when interpreting or construing the Terms.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Procedure

Notices to Adobe go to its San Jose address; Adobe may notify you by email, mail or postings in the Services

You may send notices to Adobe at Adobe Inc., 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, California, 95110-2704, USA, Attention: General Counsel. Adobe may notify you by the email or postal mail associated with your account, postings within the Services, or other legally accepted means, and it is your responsibility to keep your account information current to receive notifications.

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You may send notices to us at the following address: Adobe Inc., 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, California, 95110-2704, USA, Attention: General Counsel.

We may notify you by your email or postal mail associated with your account, postings within the Services, or other legally accepted means. It is your responsibility to keep your account information current to receive notifications.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Notice to you may be given through several channels, including postings within the Services.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

You may not transfer the Terms without Adobe’s consent, but Adobe may assign its rights without yours

You may not assign or otherwise transfer the Terms, or your rights and obligations under them, in whole or in part, without Adobe’s written consent, and any such attempt is void. Adobe may assign or transfer its rights under the Terms to a third party without your consent.

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You may not assign or otherwise transfer the Terms or your rights and obligations under the Terms, in whole or in part, without our written consent, and any such attempt will be void. We may assign or transfer our rights under the Terms to a third party without your consent.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

U.S. government users receive the Services as commercial products with only the rights granted to other end users

If you are a U.S. government entity, or the Terms are or become subject to the Federal Acquisition Regulations, the Services and Software are "Commercial Products or Commercial Services" as defined in the cited federal regulations, consisting of "Commercial Computer Software" and "Commercial Computer Software Documentation" and related services. They are licensed to U.S. Federal Government End Users only as commercial products and services, and with only those rights granted to all other end users under the Terms. Unpublished rights are reserved under United States law.

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If you are a U.S. government entity, or if the Terms are or become subject to the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), then the Services and Software, provided under the Terms are “Commercial Product(s) or Commercial Service(s)”, as those terms are defined at 48 C.F.R. §2.101, consisting of “Commercial Computer Software” and “Commercial Computer Software Documentation,” and services related thereto, as such terms are used in 48 C.F.R. §12.212 or 48 C.F.R. §227.7202, as applicable.

Consistent with 48 C.F.R. §12.212 or 48 C.F.R. §227.7202-1 through §227.7202-4, as applicable, the Commercial Computer Software and Commercial Computer Software Documentation are licensed to U.S. Federal Government End Users (A) only as Commercial Products and Services; and (B) with only those rights as are granted to all other end users pursuant to the Terms.

Unpublished rights are reserved under the laws of the United States.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies to U.S. government entities or where the Terms are or become subject to the FAR.

Not stated here

• The cited federal regulations are named but not supplied here.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context

Headings do not affect meaning, invalid provisions are severed, and non-enforcement is not a waiver

Headings in the Terms are for convenience only and are not used to construe meaning or intent. If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, the rest continues in full force and the provision is ineffective only to the extent of the invalidity or unenforceability. Adobe’s failure to enforce or exercise any provision is not a waiver of that provision.

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Headings used in the Terms are provided for convenience only and will not be used to construe meaning or intent.

If any provision of the Terms is held invalid or unenforceable for any reason, the remainder of the Terms will continue in full force and effect and such provision shall be ineffective only to the extent of such invalidity or unenforceability.

Our failure to enforce or exercise any provision of the Terms is not a waiver of that provision.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The headings clause means section headings in this document are not to be used to interpret the Terms.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Neither party is liable for delays from unforeseen events beyond reasonable control, except your payment obligations

Neither party is liable to the other for delay or failure to perform an obligation, other than your payment obligations to Adobe, if it is due to unforeseen events that occur after the Terms take effect and are beyond the parties’ reasonable control, such as strikes, blockade, war, terrorism, riots, natural disasters, or refusal of license by the government or other governmental agencies. This applies insofar as the event prevents or delays performance and the affected party cannot prevent or remove the force majeure at reasonable cost.

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Neither party will be liable to the other for any delay or failure to perform any obligation (other than your payment obligations to Adobe)

if the delay or failure is due to unforeseen events, which occur after the effectiveness of the Terms and which are beyond the reasonable control of the parties, such as strikes, blockade, war, terrorism, riots, natural disasters, refusal of license by the government or other governmental agencies, in so far as such an event prevents or delays the affected party from fulfilling its obligations and such party is not able to prevent or remove the force majeure at reasonable cost.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Your payment obligations to Adobe are excluded from the relief.
• The event must be unforeseen, occur after the Terms take effect, and be beyond the parties’ reasonable control.

Content & IP Rights · Company commitment

Adobe responds to clear copyright infringement notices consistent with the DMCA

Adobe says it respects the Intellectual Property Rights of others and expects its users to do the same. It will respond to clear notices of copyright infringement consistent with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and points to a page describing its IP takedown policies and practices.

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We respect the Intellectual Property Rights of others, and we expect our users to do the same. We will respond to clear notices of copyright infringement consistent with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”).

You can learn more about Adobe’s IP Takedown policies and practices here:

Qualifications & exceptions

• The commitment covers "clear notices" of copyright infringement.

Not stated here

• Adobe’s IP takedown policies and practices are on a linked page that is not supplied.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context

The document lists addresses for Adobe Inc., Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited and Adobe KK

The document lists addresses for the three contracting Adobe entities: Adobe Inc. in San Jose, California, USA; Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited in Saggart, Dublin, Republic of Ireland; and Adobe KK in Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Which entity you contract with depends on where you live (section 1.1).

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Adobe Inc.: 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, California 95110-2704, USA.

Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited: 4-6 Riverwalk, City West Business Campus, Saggart, Dublin 24, Republic of Ireland

Adobe KK: Gate City Ohsaki East Tower, 1-11-2 Ohsaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0032, Japan

Qualifications & exceptions

• The addresses appear after the DMCA paragraph without a stated purpose.

Not stated here

• The text does not say what the addresses are to be used for.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context

The Terms list linked documents, including Subscription and Cancellation Terms, Privacy Policy and data protection terms

A hyperlinked document list, in order of mention, names documents the Terms refer to: the Subscription and Cancellation Terms; the K-12 (Primary and Secondary) and Higher Education Additional Terms for Student Data; a help page on personal content stored in Creative Cloud and Document Cloud for teams or enterprise storage; the Privacy Policy; Adobe Privacy Choices; the Content Analysis FAQ; the Data Processing Agreement for individuals from the EEA and UK; and the Data Protection Terms for individuals outside the EEA and UK. The page ends with a document identifier, Adobe_General_Terms_of_Use-en_US_20251003.

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General Terms of Use Hyperlinked Document List (listed in order of mention above):

Subscription and Cancellation Terms

K-12 (Primary and Secondary) and Higher Education Additional Terms for Student Data

Personal content stored in Creative Cloud and Document Cloud for teams or enterprise cloud storage HelpX

Privacy Policy

Adobe Privacy Choices

Content Analysis FAQ

Individuals from countries in the EEA and UK Data Processing Agreement for Adobe Cloud Services

Individuals outside of EEA and UK Data Protection Terms for Cloud Services

Adobe_General_Terms_of_Use-en_US_20251003

Qualifications & exceptions

• The listed documents are linked, not part of the supplied text.

Not stated here

• The contents of these linked documents are not supplied, and the K-12 document link carries a different date in its file name (20251103) than this document’s October 3, 2025 date; which version of each linked document applies is not stated.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context

The list also names support guidelines, the Transparency Center, font and eligibility pages and third-party notices

The hyperlinked document list also names: Adobe software support guidelines; the Transparency Center; a page on uploading fonts to Creative Cloud; the Primary and Secondary Institution Eligibility Guidelines; Third Party Software Notices and Additional Terms and Conditions; Image Use Rights; Adobe Customer Care; and the Intellectual Property Removal Policy. Home and Legal links follow the list.

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Adobe software support guidelines

Transparency Center

Upload your fonts to Creative Cloud

Primary and Secondary Institution Eligibility Guidelines

Third Party Software Notices and/or Additional Terms and Conditions

Image Use Rights

Adobe Customer Care

Intellectual Property Removal Policy

Qualifications & exceptions

• The listed documents are linked, not part of the supplied text.

Not stated here

• The contents of these linked documents are not supplied.