You’re creating on Canva, which means…

“As between you and Canva”

The ownership sentence is not free-standing. It fixes ownership as between the two parties to this contract and settles nothing against anyone else. Against Canva, though, it is flat: you own it.

Two licences, one paragraph

The first covers running the product for you. The second has the same five verbs and no expiry. They sit three sentences apart and most people read them as one.

What flips the switch

Sharing. Including your content in a Design “you’ve shared with others” is the antecedent condition of the second grant — the first sentence carries no perpetual term and the second does. Section 4(d) is headed “Sharing and Publishing Your Designs” and treats the two together; nothing here says a published Design escapes it.

The counts, run

“Perpetual” appears one time in this entire document, and this is it. Neither “irrevocable” nor “worldwide” appears at all — zero occurrences each. Both licences are sublicensable, and neither sentence says who Canva may sublicense to. There is no matching cancel: nothing in these terms lets you withdraw the licence on a Design already shared.

The box is not the contract

Canva’s reassuring line about ownership sits in a grey explanatory box, and Section 16(i) says those boxes “will not in any way affect the meaning or interpretation of the Terms or any part of them.” Read the paragraph above the box, always. On this point the two happen to match — but the box is decoration, not a promise.

Your work, their pieces

A finished Design is normally your uploads plus Canva’s stock. Section 4(c) confirms you keep the first half. The second half never became yours, and using the Design means using it.

The rules are somewhere else

The restrictions live in a separate Content License Agreement, outside these Terms — a second document you are bound by without opening it.

Hover to find out

The terms do not state which restrictions apply. They tell you to hover over an item and click an info icon, because the rights “vary depending on the type and source of the Licensed Content.” The contract you are under is per-asset and only discoverable inside the editor.

It cuts one way

Termination ends your access and lets Canva delete your data. It does not touch the second grant in Section 4(a), which carries the word “perpetual” on its own face and needs nothing else to outlive the account.

The survival list, and what is missing from it

Section 15(d) names six surviving sections — Term and Termination, Billing, Canva’s Intellectual Property, Limitation of Liability, Indemnification, Miscellaneous. “Content and Designs” is not among them. That is the strongest argument against the reading above, and it does not carry: a perpetual licence does not need a survival clause, it is perpetual by its own terms. Note too that the sentence about shared Designs speaks of “the expiration of Your Subscription”, which is narrower than account termination.

Export first, or not at all

You can download your work before expiry — unless the account was terminated for a Violation, in which case that window closes with it, along with your right to open a new account without written permission.

The sentence is broken

The clause reads “will continue to available”. That is how it appears in the contract. Quoted as-is, because the clause it garbles is the one that outlives your subscription.

Assign is not license

A licence lends. An assignment transfers. The two grants in Section 4(a) are licences; this one is not — it moves ownership of the idea to Canva outright.

It has no boundary

The clause reaches “any suggestions, ideas, enhancement requests, or other feedback” relating to the Service. A support ticket, a feature request, a reply to a survey — the clause does not distinguish between them.

And it survives

Section 15(d) lists “Canva’s Intellectual Property” among the sections that survive expiry or termination of the Terms. Leaving does not return it.

Read who is granting

This is Canva granting you a right to use the software. It is not a description of what happens to your work, and it looks almost identical to the sentence that is.

The word, and its negation

The string “exclusive” occurs once in this document, and only inside “non-exclusive” — here, in the licence Canva grants you. Standing alone it never appears. Nothing in these terms says whether the licence you grant Canva is exclusive or not.

Freely revocable — theirs

“Revocable” appears once in this contract, and it is this licence: the one Canva can pull. Your access can be withdrawn freely. The perpetual licence you gave in Section 4(a) has no equivalent.

Non-transferable — also theirs

Your right to use Canva cannot be passed on. The licence you gave Canva is sublicensable. The asymmetry turns on a single word, in two sentences a section and a half apart — Section 2(b) and Section 4(a).

A setting, not a promise

Whether your content trains AI features is governed by your Privacy Settings, which you can review and change. The contract does not say what the default is.

The trusted partners

The clause extends beyond Canva to its “trusted partners”, who are not named. There is no list here, and no obligation in this document to publish one.

One firm exclusion

Canva Education content is out of AI training with no setting attached — the only unconditional carve-out in the paragraph.

The email address decides

Sign up with a work address and your employer can ask Canva for the account. Canva will make reasonable efforts to warn you first so you can move your files to a personal account — reasonable efforts, and a valid email on file.

Re-assign ownership

On a Team, an administrator can hand your Designs to someone else. This is the carve-out on the everything-you-upload line above: the taker is not Canva, it is whoever administers the account. Canva says plainly it is “not responsible for any actions taken by Team Owners or Administrators.”

You bind your employer

The reverse also holds: signing up on a managed address means “your use of the Service will bind your employer or the organization to these Terms”, and “you” in the contract then means both of you.