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Zoom vs Figma

Side-by-side comparison of the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy of Zoom and Figma.

Zoom logo
Zoom
Productivity
★★☆☆☆
Below average for users

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

  • negative ●●●●● terms
    Mandatory 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.

  • negative ●●●●○ terms
    Auto-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.

  • negative ●●●●○ terms
    Nonrefundable 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.

  • negative ●●●●○ privacy
    Admins 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.

  • negative ●●●●○ terms
    Strong 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.

  • positive ●●●●○ terms
    No 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.

  • negative ●●●○○ terms
    Broad 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.

  • negative ●●●○○ privacy
    Advertising 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.

  • negative ●●●○○ terms
    Unilateral 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.

  • positive ●●●○○ privacy
    Deletion 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.

  • neutral ●●○○○ privacy
    Long 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.

Documents

Figma logo
Figma
Productivity
★★★☆☆
Mixed / average user-friendliness

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

  • negative ●●●●● terms
    Mandatory 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.

  • negative ●●●●● terms
    Class 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.

  • negative ●●●●○ terms
    Auto-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.

  • negative ●●●●○ terms
    Low 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.

  • positive ●●●●○ terms
    You 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.

  • positive ●●●●○ terms
    Narrow 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.

  • positive ●●●●○ privacy
    Access, 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.

  • negative ●●●○○ terms
    Figma 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.

  • negative ●●●○○ terms
    Broad 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.

  • negative ●●●○○ privacy
    Targeted 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.

  • positive ●●●○○ terms
    30-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.

  • neutral ●●○○○ privacy
    AI 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.

Documents

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.