Dribbble

Privacy Policy Overview

*Policy updated March 12, 2024. This summary is informational, not legal advice.*

1. Data Collection & Usage

Dribbble Group companies—including Dribbble, Creative Market, Fontspring, and Font Squirrel—collect data depending on the services you use.

Information you provide

• Account data: Name, email, username, avatar, and login details.
• Profile data: Expertise, training, biography, location, photos, videos, and other professional information.
• Identity verification: For certain services, such as opening a shop, they may collect full name, date of birth, national ID number, and photo identification.
• Payment data: Credit-card and billing information, billing address, and telephone number.
• User content: Designs, shop listings, job postings, applications, messages, portfolios, and other uploaded material.
• Surveys, contests, and communications: Survey answers, contest information, support requests, and communications with other users or the company.

Automatically collected or inferred data

• Usage activity, content viewed, interactions, applications, and features used.
• IP address, approximate location, device identifiers, browser/device characteristics, network data, and log files.
• Cookie, pixel, analytics, advertising, and similar tracking information.
• Information from social-media platforms, advertising networks, analytics companies, shippers, and other sources.
• Inference data, created by analyzing or combining information from you and third parties.

Uses include providing and improving services, processing payments, customer support, fraud prevention, enforcing terms, personalization, targeted advertising, analytics, research, legal compliance, and potentially evaluating a merger or sale of company assets.

The policy says the company does not knowingly collect sensitive personal data, but users may voluntarily make such information public in profiles or uploaded content.

2. User Rights

Depending on location, users may have rights to:

• Access, correct, update, or delete personal data.
• Restrict or object to certain processing, including processing based on legitimate interests.
• Withdraw consent, although this does not undo prior lawful processing and may reduce functionality.
• Receive portable data in certain circumstances.
• Opt out of marketing emails.
• Manage or disable cookies and certain local storage technologies.
• Object to certain automated decisions under EU/UK law.
• File a complaint with a data-protection regulator.

California residents

California residents may request categories and specific pieces of information, sources, purposes, recipients, and deletion, subject to exceptions. Requests generally require identity verification and may be limited to two access/portability requests per 12 months. The company states it does not sell personal information for CCPA purposes and will not discriminate against users exercising CCPA rights.

3. Third-Party Sharing

Data is shared with:

• Affiliated Group companies.
• Hosting and cloud providers.
• Payment processors such as Stripe, PayPal, Braintree, and Tipalti.
• Customer support, email, fraud-prevention, trust-and-safety, analytics, advertising, and data-platform providers, including examples such as Segment, Hotjar, Google Analytics, Google Ads, New Relic, Mailchimp, and Freestar.
• Registered API application providers.
• Social-media platforms when users interact with integrations or plugins.
• Government authorities, courts, or other parties when legally required.
• Buyers or successor entities in a corporate transaction.

Many providers are located in the United States, with others in places such as the Philippines and Malta. The company says it will use legally required safeguards for EEA transfers, but international transfers may still expose data to different legal regimes.

Third-party websites and services have their own privacy and security policies, for which Dribbble disclaims responsibility.

4. AI/ML Training

The policy does not expressly state that user data or uploaded designs are used to train artificial-intelligence or machine-learning models. It does permit broad analytics, personalization, advertising, inference, research, and service-improvement uses. Users seeking assurance that their content will not be used for AI training should obtain clarification directly from Dribbble.

5. Key User Obligations and Risks

• Provide accurate information where required and protect account passwords.
• Maintain control of email and account access, use strong passwords, and sign out when appropriate.
• Be cautious about posting sensitive information or content publicly; public communications and posts may remain available indefinitely after account closure.
• Understand that disabling cookies may impair service functionality, and the Services do not honor browser “Do Not Track” signals.
• Comply with the Terms of Service and intellectual-property rules. Data may be retained to investigate violations or protect platform safety.

6. Liability, Security & Disputes

The company describes technical and organizational safeguards, but expressly states it cannot guarantee that transmitted or stored data will never be breached, altered, disclosed, or destroyed. It is not responsible for third-party security or functionality.

This privacy policy does not provide a detailed arbitration, governing-law, or liability framework. Disputes and liability limits may instead appear in the applicable Terms of Service. Users may contact help@dribbble.com and, in the EEA/UK, complain to the relevant supervisory authority.

7. Policy Changes

Material changes may be communicated by:

1. Emailing the address associated with the account; or

2. Posting a notice on the relevant website or app.

Users should keep their email current and review notices, since continued use after changes may have practical consequences.

Dribbble Terms of Service — Key User Implications

*This overview is based only on the Terms provided, updated March 17, 2025. The separate Privacy Policy, Pricing and Payment Terms, Community Guidelines, and in-product notices are incorporated into the contract and may contain important additional details.*

1. Data Collection & Usage

The Terms do not provide a detailed list of personal data collected. Instead, they incorporate Dribbble’s separate Privacy Policy, which governs collection, use, disclosure, transfer, and processing of personal information.

The Terms indicate that Dribbble may process:

• Account and registration information, including usernames, passwords, and information obtained through linked services such as Google.
• Payment, billing, tax, and transaction information.
• User Content, including profiles, portfolios, designs, comments, messages, images, files, job postings, logos, and other uploaded material.
• Usage and activity information, including downloads and account activity, for security, fraud detection, legal compliance, and enforcement.
• Email addresses for service notices, feature updates, newsletters, and marketing.

Dribbble may store payment information through third-party processors such as Stripe or PayPal. Users are told not to upload sensitive personal information—such as medical or health data—except where specifically required for billing, payment, or taxes. Dribbble disclaims responsibility for sensitive information submitted contrary to this rule.

2. User Rights

The Terms themselves do not describe specific privacy rights such as access, deletion, correction, portability, or objection. Those rights, if available, must be determined from the Privacy Policy and applicable law.

Users may:

• Manage email and notification preferences through account settings.
• Unsubscribe from marketing communications, although service-related messages may continue.
• Retain ownership of intellectual-property rights in their User Content, subject to the broad license granted to Dribbble.
• Opt out of arbitration and the class-action waiver within 30 days after first becoming subject to those provisions, by emailing the specified information to optout@dribbble.com.

3. Third-Party Sharing

The Terms permit information to be transferred to and processed by Dribbble companies and third-party service providers. Examples include:

• Social-login providers, which may share information with Dribbble under their own policies.
• Payment processors, including Stripe and PayPal.
• Linked websites, social-media platforms, advertisers, and other third parties, whose privacy practices Dribbble does not control.
• Affiliates, contractors, advisors, and service providers as necessary to operate the Services, enforce the Terms, process payments, or conduct business.

Dribbble may also disclose information as described in its Privacy Policy or where legally required. Users should review third-party privacy policies separately.

4. AI/ML Training

The Terms do not expressly state that User Content or personal data will be used to train artificial-intelligence or machine-learning models.

However, the license to Dribbble is extremely broad: it is worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, and permits copying, modification, publication, distribution, public display, and derivative works. Dribbble may use User Content for its business, marketing, promotion, and to maintain, support, or improve the Services. This language could potentially support certain automated analysis or model-development activities, but it does not clearly authorize AI training specifically. The Privacy Policy or future product disclosures may clarify this.

5. Key Obligations and Restrictions

Users must:

• Be at least 13 and comply with applicable law.
• Provide accurate, non-misleading information.
• Secure account credentials, report breaches, and accept responsibility for account activity.
• Avoid sharing, selling, transferring, or improperly using accounts.
• Ensure uploaded content does not infringe others’ rights, contain malware, violate privacy/publicity rights, or contain unlawful, hateful, defamatory, misleading, or prohibited material.
• Pay applicable subscription, platform, processing, tax, and other fees.
• Conduct qualifying designer-client transactions through Dribbble and pay required fees.
• Avoid circumventing Dribbble’s introduction and payment rules for 12 months, unless an exception applies, such as certain Designer Advertiser arrangements.
• Avoid scraping, automated access, data harvesting, reverse engineering, security interference, spam, impersonation, and unauthorized commercial solicitation.

Dribbble may audit relevant business and financial records for compliance and may charge collection costs plus interest—up to 12% annually—for unpaid fees.

6. Liability and Disputes

Dribbble provides the Services “as is” and disclaims warranties regarding availability, security, accuracy, suitability, user conduct, transactions, deliverables, and third-party content.

Dribbble generally disclaims responsibility for data loss, unauthorized access, malware, interruptions, user disputes, and third-party conduct. Its cumulative liability is limited to the greater of $100 or amounts paid or owed for the relevant Services during the preceding six months.

Users must indemnify Dribbble for claims arising from their use, violations, User Content, transactions, or infringement of third-party rights.

Disputes generally require individual binding arbitration, with a class-action waiver. Canadian consumers use British Columbia arbitration and law; U.S. and most non-Canadian consumers use arbitration rules involving New York and New York law for non-arbitrated matters. Small-claims and certain intellectual-property or injunctive-relief matters are exceptions.

7. Changes and Notice

Dribbble may revise the Terms at its discretion. Changes generally take effect immediately when posted unless a later date is specified. Continued use of the Services or continued presence of User Content after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

Notices may be delivered by email, push notification, hard copy, or website posting. Users are responsible for regularly checking the Terms and monitoring the email address associated with their account.