Beautiful.ai is a presentation software that helps users create visually appealing slides quickly. It streamlines design processes, making it easier for teams to communicate ideas effectively.
Beautiful.ai is an AI-powered presentation maker that enables users to generate professional, on-brand slide decks from text prompts in seconds, automating design to deliver polished visuals without manual effort.[1][3] Key features include Smart Slides for adaptive layouts, AI image and text generation, writing assistance for refining content, real-time collaboration with team controls, and integrations with tools like PowerPoint, Google Slides, Slack, and Salesforce, plus exports to PPTX, PDF, and more.[1][2][4]
It targets teams in marketing, sales, startups, and businesses needing efficient workflows for pitch decks, QBRs, reports, and campaigns, allowing non-designers to create consistent presentations quickly.[2][3][5] What sets Beautiful.ai apart is its foundational Smart Slides technology and DesignerBot, which enforce brand guidelines automatically, reduce revisions through intelligent adaptations, and provide advanced capabilities like video narration, analytics, and slide search for a complete end-to-end experience.[1][5][6]
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The ToS addresses AI Features but does not explicitly state whether user data or Customer Content is used to train Beaut
No training opt-out mechanism was identified in the legal documents.
Moderate risk. Suitable for internal data but avoid confidential information.
The ToS addresses AI Features but does not explicitly state whether user data or Customer Content is used to train Beautiful.ai's models. Section 2.6 prohibits customers from using AI Features to 'develop, train, or improve any AI, LLMs, or ML models' but does not clarify Beautiful.ai's own training practices. Section 5.4 states Usage Data (excluding Customer Content) may be used for 'operate, improve, and support' but this is vague regarding model training specifically. The absence of an explicit 'no training on user data' commitment creates moderate concern.
“[ToS] Section 2.6: 'Customer agrees that it will not...use the AI Features or any Output to develop, train, or improve any AI, LLMs, or ML models' and Section 5.4: 'Beautiful.ai may collect Usage Data and use it to operate, improve, and support the Beautiful.ai Services'”
Section 3.5 grants Beautiful.ai a 'non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use (including through the use of subcontractors) the Customer Content solely to the extent reasonably necessary for Beautiful.ai to provide Customer the Beautiful.ai Services.' The license is limited to service provision but permits sublicensing to 'subcontractors' and the phrase 'reasonably necessary' is somewhat vague. Section 5.2 confirms customer retains ownership of Customer Content, but the broad sublicensing right to subcontractors creates moderate concern.
“[ToS] Section 3.5: 'Customer hereby grants to Beautiful.ai a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use (including through the use of subcontractors) the Customer Content solely to the extent reasonably necessary for Beautiful.ai to provide Customer the Beautiful.ai Services'”
The Privacy Policy Section 6 discloses sharing with 'Vendors and Service Providers' and mentions Google Cloud Hosting, but does not provide a comprehensive sub-processor list. Section 6 states third parties are 'obligated to use your personal data solely to provide the services to us,' suggesting DPA-like protections, but no explicit DPA requirement is stated for all sub-processors. Usage Data sharing is limited to de-identified and aggregated form per ToS Section 5.4. The lack of a published sub-processor list and vague vendor obligations create moderate concern.
“[Privacy] Section 6: 'We provide your data to the vendors and service agencies that we may engage to assist us in providing our services to you. For example, we use Google Cloud Hosting to host our Site and Services. Such third party entities are obligated to use your personal data solely to provide the services to us.'”
Privacy Policy Section 14 states Beautiful.ai will 'only keep your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for' but does not specify concrete retention periods for different data types. It notes 'by law we have to keep basic information about our customers, such as payment data, generally for seven years' but this is vague for other data. ToS Section 6.3(c) provides 14 days for data retrieval after termination but does not clearly specify when data is deleted. The absence of explicit retention schedules creates moderate concern.
“[Privacy] Section 14: 'We will only keep your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for' and 'by law we have to keep basic information about our customers, such as payment data, generally for seven years after they stop being customers for tax purposes'”
ToS Section 5.2 explicitly states: 'As between the parties, Customer shall retain all right, title and interest in and to the Customer Data and, subject to Beautiful.ai's rights in and to the Beautiful.ai Materials, the Customer Content (including, the presentations created by Customer via the Service and Output based specifically on Customer Content).' This clearly confirms customer ownership of outputs generated from customer content, with no claims by Beautiful.ai to output IP.
“[ToS] Section 5.2: 'As between the parties, Customer shall retain all right, title and interest in and to the Customer Data and...the Customer Content (including, the presentations created by Customer via the Service and Output based specifically on Customer Content)'”
The ToS Section 2.8 mentions 'industry-standard technical and organizational security measures' but provides no specific compliance certifications (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA). The Privacy Policy Section 13 states 'We employ industry standard procedural and technological measures' and mentions 'secure socket layer, password protection' but no formal certifications are listed. Privacy Policy Section 17 references GDPR compliance and mentions the option to request a DPA, but no formal GDPR certification or audit is documented. The absence of published compliance certifications creates moderate concern.
“[ToS] Section 2.8: 'Beautiful.ai shall implement and maintain appropriate industry-standard technical and organizational security measures reasonably designed to prevent unauthorized access to and disclosure of unencrypted Customer Data' and [Privacy] Section 17: 'In our discretion, we may adopt other means, such as entering into data processing agreements that include the EU Standard Contractual Clauses'”
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