Starting from last week I've got several emails from Canva with "Notice of violation" topic.

In each email there are noticed about some of my contents (3-5 in each mail) like:

"Violation details
Smiling Young Woman in Bikini Swimsuit on Beach (Raster)
Facts and circumstances:
We identified this content through our own investigation.
This content violates our policies on sexual content.
This decision was made by a member of our team.
Enforcement taken:
This content won�t be shown to Canva Education account holders."

These are all old contents, uploaded 2 years ago or more. Beach photos in bikinis, protos of people drinking beer in the bar and similar. Usual stock contents.

It's OK for me if they delete some previously accepted contents, but latest email also says: "Repeated violations may result in the permanent suspension of your Canva account." Nothing like this in previous emails.

It would be so stupid to lose my account just because they deleted some old contents. I wonder if I'm the only one getting these notices lately.

Hi, yes I too have already received 2 violation emails, now I wrote to them to understand exactly what it is about but is it possible to appeal this, has this happened to others as well?

I honestly don't understand what sense there is in removing images from 4 years ago or even 3 uploaded to my portfolio when maybe there weren't even these strict restrictions and rules yet, it doesn't make sense, it's very strange, especially having your account suspended for images that you didn't know they could break the rules

New guidelines:

https://www.canva.com/design/DAFy_EhKK9c/33U0SY0gUL4dynPax-6r8A/view?utm_content=DAFy_EhKK9c&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=editor#11

I really hope old contents that are being deleted now because of new guidelines will not trigger disabling of accounts. It would be a nonsense.

Received a violation email too: a cartoon vector of an old man holding a glass of beer while intoxicated.

Not safe for school, apparently.

They could have worded the email differently, instead of 'violation'. They accepted it years ago so it's not MY violation.

You're true, it's not YOUR violation. But what about this? :

Your work is left (and you did many illustrations of it). Right, is the famous La Linea by Osvaldo Cavandoli.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Linea_(TV_series)
violation or not???

Hi, yes I too have already received 2 violation emails, now I wrote to them to understand exactly what it is about but is it possible to appeal this, has this happened to others as well?

I have received a couple of such notices as well, and it really raised concern and anxiety. They were contents I submitted and approved years ago, and if there is a new guideline, I will definitely comply... but strong words such as "Repeated violations may result in the permanent suspension of your Canva account." is a very scary statement. Like everybody mentioned here, it will be too harsh if we got suspended due to content from the past.

Have you received feedback from Canva regarding this yet? Please share the information you received.

i had an erotic sculpture of the kama sutra on a temple in India removed  - they said they had ONE complaint so removed it.  i pointed out that not only are there dozens of similar images in their collection, but these are easily accepted by all other agencies without any warnings attached

Have any of you already had your account suspended?

Have any of you already had your account suspended?

I doubt it will lead to account suspension, because the new policy is applied retro-actively instead.

This afternoon I wrote to the people at Canva complaining about the fact that they send notifications on images uploaded 3 or 4 years ago that violate the new rules and they replied that they will solve this problem, do you believe it?

I got one today for an image of US money (100$ bills). None of my images show complete bills that could be used for counterfeit, but whatever. They have been deleting images without notice for years, so for some reason they gave notice for this one.

edited to add - I decided to do a search for "100 dollar us bill" and it returned 1843146 photos, including what looks like straight scans of bills - which probably is illegal - so they have a bit more deleting to do.