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Canva AI

Vannus records that this vendor routes across several model providers — not captured by one. Every finding below is quoted to the vendor’s own document, or marked not disclosed where the vendor publishes nothing.

Determination
Contracting entity depends on your region or order form — read the clause.
canva.com · read 2026-07-29
read from website terms · inferred from the address, not the heading

AI design assistant for presentations, graphics, and marketing content

design, presentations, marketing
What the vendor's own documentation says
Canva uses technology provided by third party service providers (Technology Partners) to provide some of our AI Products.
canva.com ↗ Vendor-sourced
Who controls it
US corporate controlRegion-dependent — a US entity contracts in some regions, another elsewhere
Contracting entityCanva US, Inc. (US billing) / Canva UK Operations Ltd (UK billing) / Canva Pty Ltd (all other countries)
Governing lawClaims filed in a US court go to N.D. Cal. or California state courts in Santa Clara County; Enterprise Subscription Agreement governed by the laws of the State of California
Trains on your dataYes, unless you opt out — on the vendor's default plan

Training and retention posture varies by plan. What we publish above describes the vendor’s default plan; enterprise, team and API agreements frequently differ, often materially, and a contract can override the published default entirely. Check your own plan and contract before relying on this row.

This is a separate question from the grade above. The grade measures resilience — whether the tool endures and whether you could leave it. This describes who controls the vendor. A tool can score modestly on one and strongly on the other, and many do.

On U.S. CLOUD Act reach specifically: the statute reaches a provider subject to U.S. jurisdiction over data in its possession, custody or control. Corporate control is a strong indicator of that and it is what we can evidence from published documents — but it is not the whole test. A company founded outside the U.S. can still contract through a U.S. entity or run substantial U.S. operations. Treat this as a starting point for your own review, not a legal determination, and take advice on anything that matters.

Compliance the vendor states
SOC2GDPR

Taken from the vendor’s own published material. Vannus does not hold these reports and has not reviewed their scope or dates — ask the vendor for the current report before relying on any of them.

How this grade is set

Vannus publishes a nine-dimension trust framework — data sovereignty, training privacy, compliance posture, operational resilience, exit portability, and more. The heaviest criterion asks whether the tool builds its own AI or resells someone else's model; where the vendor discloses it, the grade cites the vendor's own documentation. No paid placements — scoring is walled off from affiliate revenue. See the methodology →

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