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Policy inquiry: Is account termination permanent for the person?

Forum|Forum|6 months ago
December 27, 2025
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Hello admins and community,
I have a question regarding the Terms of Service.
If a contributor account was terminated about 1 years ago due to content violations (issues with 'similar content' and quality, not fraud), is there any way for this person to rejoin Adobe Stock today?
Does the ban have an expiration date, or is the individual permanently prohibited from creating a new account forever?
I want to understand if registering a new account now would be considered a violation of the rules.

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Abambo

Community Expert

There are no admins here.

I would suggest that you are looking for a different agency. In general, getting banned from a plattform for not following the rules means that you are causing high costs. There exists no right to contribute. Adobe selects it's suppliers.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

AFAIK, there's no expiration date on terminations.

When you're fired from a job for poor performance, you don't keep coming back hoping they'll rehire you. You move on to other things.

Your name, address, and TAX ID # identifies you as the same person who was terminated. They don't want repeat-offenders. It's bad for business.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

M

maximFilAuthor

Thank you, Nancy. Your point about the Tax ID identifying the person makes total sense.

However, I have a follow-up question about the technical side of this matching process.
Hypothetically, let's say a person already registered a new account after a ban, and the system successfully accepted their Tax Form (it wasn't rejected immediately). The account is active and generating sales.

Does this mean the person has technically 'slipped through' the security check and is safe?
Or does the system perform retroactive audits (for example, right before a payout is processed or after a certain earnings threshold) that will flag the duplicate Tax ID/Identity months later?

I am asking to understand if an 'active' status actually means the user is in the clear, or if it is just a temporary delay before an inevitable termination.

Jill_C

Community Expert

I don't think any of us in the Contributor community knows whether or how often Adobe reviews existing accounts to determine whether the Contributor has previously been banned. We DO know that the first payout request, and often subsequent payout requests, can trigger an account review which could result in a temporary, or even permanent, account suspension.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

Jill_C

Community Expert

If your account was permanently disabled, it is my understanding that Adobe does not want you back as a Contributor. Concentrate your efforts on submitting to other agencies.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

RALPH_L

Community Expert

Registering a new account is a violation. You need to contact Adobe using the form found here:
Adobe Appeals Form

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