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marco12241959
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July 10, 2021
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Changing from a personal account to a Non-Profit business account

  • July 10, 2021
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Last month I started working exclusively for a non-profit that was already one of my clients. I have my own Adobe License, which I pay monthly, but they offered to pick up my account and make it part of their multi-license deal they have.

Becoming part of their Adobe account is attractive on many levels, not least the part where they pay for it, but I don't want to lose my existing files, apps or any of the carefully curated settings I developed over the past few years.

I am also concerned about the eventuality that we may part ways one day, and again I would not want to lose whatever files and settings I have accumulated to that point.

 

What would be the best patth to converting my personal accout as part of their business license? What about my files and my Adobe cloud? What would happen to it?

 

I have found several posts discussing personal licenses turning into Educational ones and vice versa, but I couldn't find a situation quite like mine, although it must happen quite frequently.

Thank you for any help you can provide.

 

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July 11, 2021

What you could do is agree that you will pass on the bill as an expense. This will keep all rights to your personal account. It won't enable sharing. If they insist you use a business account, then you have to decide whether to keep paying for the personal account, or shut it down, pay any penalty, and lose anything saved to the cloud.

 

You should also obtain absolute clarity on who will own the work you make as an employee, and whether you would have the rights to take it with you. Sending your own work outside the company without permission could be a sacking offense. You should also obtain absolute clarity on whether you could use the company account for personal work of any kind.

Nancy OShea
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Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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July 11, 2021

Hi @marco12241959,

You should keep your current account and maintain separate log-in IDs & passwords.

  • You cannot combine assets from your personal account with the organization's account. 
  • Whatever work you create with the organization's account is technically and legally theirs since they pay for the software. 
  • When you eventually leave the organization, you can't take with you their plan or the assets created with it.

 

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