Zoom vs Figma
Side-by-side comparison of the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy of Zoom and Figma.
Zoom provides notable positives like AI-training limits for communications content, deletion access after termination, and privacy rights for many regions. But these are outweighed by mandatory arbitration, class-action waiver, broad content-use licenses, expansive data sharing and admin visibility, auto-renewal/nonrefundable billing, and strong warranty/liability disclaimers.
Zoom’s legal terms are mixed: it offers some meaningful privacy assurances, including a promise not to use meeting content to train AI models and region-specific privacy rights, but it also relies on broad data sharing, auto-renal billing, unilateral contract changes, liability limits, and mandatory individual arbitration. Account owners and hosts can access substantial participant data depending on settings.
Points of interest
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negative ●●●●● termsMandatory arbitration waiver
Most disputes must be resolved through binding individual arbitration, not court, and class actions are waived. Claims also generally must be brought quickly, reducing users’ leverage in disputes.
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negative ●●●●○ termsAuto-renewal and price changes
Paid plans renew automatically unless cancelled within the notice window, and Zoom can change pricing before the next renewal term. Users who miss the deadline may be locked into another paid term at a new rate.
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negative ●●●●○ termsNonrefundable current term
Payments are generally final and non-refundable during the active subscription term, except where law or the order form says otherwise. That limits flexibility if you stop needing the service mid-term.
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negative ●●●●○ privacyAdmins can access meeting data
Account owners and admins may be able to access participant details, usage data, chats, recordings, transcripts, polls, and other shared content depending on settings. For workplace or school accounts, your organization may have broad visibility into your activity.
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negative ●●●●○ termsStrong liability disclaimers
The service is provided largely 'as is,' with warranty disclaimers, liability limits, damage waivers, and indemnity obligations. If something goes wrong, your ability to recover from Zoom may be sharply limited.
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positive ●●●●○ termsNo AI training on content
Zoom says it does not use your meeting communications content—such as audio, video, chat, screen sharing, or attachments—to train Zoom’s or third-party AI models. This is a meaningful privacy commitment for core meeting content.
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negative ●●●○○ termsBroad content license
You keep ownership of your content, but grant Zoom a perpetual, worldwide, sublicensable and transferable license for permitted uses. Even if framed around service-related purposes, the license is broad and long-lasting.
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negative ●●●○○ privacyAdvertising and analytics sharing
Zoom shares data with advertising, marketing, and analytics partners, especially through website cookies and tracking tools. This means your website activity may be used for targeted advertising unless you opt out where available.
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negative ●●●○○ termsUnilateral terms changes
Zoom can modify its terms, service descriptions, and related policies, and continued use after changes means acceptance. Some policy changes may occur with little or no direct notice.
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positive ●●●○○ privacyDeletion and privacy rights
Zoom offers access, correction, deletion, portability, objection, and complaint rights in many jurisdictions, and provides tools/contact paths to exercise them. After termination, it also gives a 30-day window to retrieve customer content before deletion protocols apply.
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neutral ●●○○○ privacyLong flexible retention
Zoom keeps personal data for as long as needed for services, legal obligations, disputes, and enforcement. This is common, but the policy does not provide tight default deletion timelines for all data.
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Figma offers meaningful positives like user ownership of content, deletion/access/portability rights, security commitments, and a relatively narrow service-use license over content. However, these are balanced by arbitration and class-action waiver terms, auto-renewal and nonrefundability, broad termination/change powers, extensive tracking and advertising disclosures, and strong liability limits.
Figma’s terms are fairly standard for a SaaS productivity tool: users keep ownership of their content, get some privacy controls and data rights, and can download content for 30 days after termination. But the legal posture includes mandatory individual arbitration unless you opt out, auto-renewing subscriptions with mostly nonrefundable fees, broad liability limits, extensive data collection, targeted advertising, and discretionary service changes or termination.
Points of interest
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negative ●●●●● termsMandatory arbitration default
Most disputes must go to binding arbitration instead of court unless you opt out within 30 days. This also waives jury trial and usually makes claims harder to pursue publicly.
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negative ●●●●● termsClass action waiver
Users must pursue claims only on an individual basis, not as part of a class or representative action. That can reduce leverage for smaller-value disputes.
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negative ●●●●○ termsAuto-renewal and no refunds
Paid subscriptions and AI credit subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled before the term ends, and fees are generally nonrefundable. Users need to monitor renewals and seat counts closely.
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negative ●●●●○ termsLow liability cap
If something goes wrong, Figma sharply limits what users can recover, generally to indirect damages excluded and total damages capped at $100 or 12 months of fees. This can leave users undercompensated after outages or losses.
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positive ●●●●○ termsYou keep content ownership
Figma says customers retain all rights in their uploaded and created content. Its rights to use that content are framed as being for operating, securing, and improving the service rather than taking ownership.
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positive ●●●●○ termsNarrow content-use license
The terms limit Figma’s use of customer content to providing and maintaining the service, including security and debugging. That is more user-protective than a broad commercial reuse license.
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positive ●●●●○ privacyAccess, deletion, portability rights
Figma offers rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object, and obtain portability of personal data, subject to applicable law. It also recognizes GPC signals for CCPA-style sale/sharing opt-outs when identifiable.
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negative ●●●○○ termsFigma can change terms
Figma may modify the terms and incorporated policies at any time, with only an effort to give advance notice for material changes. Continued use after the effective date means acceptance.
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negative ●●●○○ termsBroad termination discretion
Figma can terminate access at its sole discretion and may change or discontinue features without notice. It does promise a prorated refund in some paid-service discontinuation cases.
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negative ●●●○○ privacyTargeted advertising and tracking
The privacy policy allows third-party advertising partners to use cookies and tracking tools for interest-based advertising. This goes beyond strictly necessary service analytics.
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positive ●●●○○ terms30-day post-termination download
After termination, Figma says customer content will be available for electronic retrieval for 30 days, after which it may be deleted. This gives users a limited off-ramp to export work.
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neutral ●●○○○ privacyAI training has admin control
Figma says customer content may be used to improve AI only if content training is toggled on in admin settings, with de-identification and aggregation steps. This is better than default blanket training, but users in org accounts may not control the setting themselves.
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Comparison is based on each service's published Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Read the source documents linked above before relying on any specific clause.