1) A segment in Google Analytics belongs to the user who created it and only that user has access to the segment.
2) A service account will not have access to any of the saved advanced segments. For API requests you could try using dynamic segments instead.
So, a User has saved segments and those segments can be applied to any request for views (profiles) that the User has access to.
Example:
Assuming User A creates/saves a segment and User B also has saved segments and your application is authorized to access User A and B's Analytics account (i.e. they give permission to your App to access their data). The App would be able to retrieve the IDs of the saved segments for both users but you can't apply User A's segment ID to a request for User B's data. For that to work, User A would need to have access to User B's view (profile) to begin with.