Adobe Stock

 
Last updated: June 11, 2018
 
Adobe Stock is a service that gives creatives access to more than 100 million high-quality, royalty-free photos, vectors, illustrations, videos, templates, and 3D assets for their creative projects. Adobe Stock provides a marketplace for Adobe Stock Contributors to showcase and sell their digital content. The Adobe Privacy Policy describes the general privacy practices of most of Adobe’s websites and applications, including Adobe Stock.
 
In addition, please see below for Adobe Stock specific privacy-related information.
 
Adobe Stock Contributors
If you submit content to Adobe for licensing, we may also require verification of your identity with a government issued ID and your tax forms, such as IRS Forms W-8 or W-9 required for tax purposes, and other information such as:
  • Contact information such as your name, address, email address, telephone number;
  • Payout email address;
  • Content metadata;
  • SSN / EIN
 
Such information related to Adobe Stock Contributors that you provide to Adobe Stock may be used to:
  • Compensate you via third-party payment processors and prepare your tax forms
  • Help detect, investigate and prevent fraudulent activity
  • Reduce content duplication with our third-party content partners
  • Facilitate your participation in our interactive features such as blogs and forums; and
  • For security purposes to protect you as well as Adobe
 
We may share the information that Adobe Stock Contributors you provide to us with third-party service providers who need access to such information to carry out work on our behalf, such as, for example, payment processors and content partners. 
 
Display of Personal Data
As an Adobe Stock Contributor, we will display your first and last name or the preferred name that you choose, on our website in connection with selling licenses for your content including but not limited to displaying your name by your content, in the metadata of your content (if a customer downloads it) and in the shopping cart.

Model and Property Releases
Adobe Stock receives model releases and property release (s applicable) from its contributors and will process the information in those forms including name, contact information and basis demographics for the purposes of licensing, investigating and defending legal claims, notifying trade unions such as SAG-AFTRA, and protecting third party legal rights.
 
Storage
Where you have perpetually licensed content to us or have perpetually licensed content from us we need to keep a record of that in perpetuity for licensing, investigating and defending legal claims, to protect third party legal rights and for payment management purposes. Model and property releases also are kept in perpetuity (as certain content rights are perpetual) for licensing the content, investigating and defending legal claims, and to protect third party rights. We also keep our Adobe Stock Contributor’s bank details so we can verify that Adobe Stock paid the Adobe Stock contributors for the licenses that Adobe Stock sold.