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Abuse-flagged data is subject to a different retention pathway than ordinary data, meaning it may be stored longer or under different conditions before deletion.
Interpretive note: The pronoun 'their' in 'their retention policies' is ambiguous — it could refer to Cursor's policies, the model providers' policies, or both. The primary claim reflects the deletion obligation without resolving that ambiguity.
The updated policy clarifies that Cursor maintains zero data retention agreements with all AI model providers and customer data will not be used for training by Cursor. However, the policy now explicitly discloses that model providers may run risk classifiers to detect policy violations, and if your prompts or conversations trigger abuse detectors, your data may be stored for investigation and deleted according to the provider's retention policies. The policy removed the previous blanket statement that code would never be trained on by Cursor or third parties, replacing it with more specific disclosure of abuse detection practices. You can review OpenAI and Anthropic's documentation directly for details on their specific retention policies.
View change record →If your data triggers an abuse detector, it may be stored for investigation rather than handled under standard data flows, and deleted only per the applicable retention policies.
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"if your prompts or conversations trigger abuse detectors your data may be stored for investigation and deleted in accordance with their retention policies.Excerpt from Cursor's Data Use & Privacy Overview
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Abuse-flagged data is subject to a different retention pathway than ordinary data, meaning it may be stored longer or under different conditions before deletion.
If your data triggers an abuse detector, it may be stored for investigation rather than handled under standard data flows, and deleted only per the applicable retention policies.
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