“Customer Data will not be used for training by Cursor.”
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This establishes a direct prohibition on Cursor using Customer Data for model training, conditioned on Privacy Mode being active.
Interpretive note: The excerpt does not itself mention Privacy Mode; the condition is supplied by surrounding document context not present in the quoted fragment. Confidence is medium because the claim depends on that surrounding context to establish the condition.
The updated terms clarify that Cursor maintains zero data retention agreements with all AI model providers and will not use customer data for training. However, the revised language now explicitly states 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 temporarily for investigation and deleted according to the providers' retention policies. The policy removed the legacy Privacy Mode option; non-ZDR models now require explicit admin opt-in. You can review the specific retention policies of OpenAI and Anthropic through their documentation.
View change record →If Privacy Mode is enabled, the reader's Customer Data will not be used by Cursor for training purposes.
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This establishes a direct prohibition on Cursor using Customer Data for model training, conditioned on Privacy Mode being active.
If Privacy Mode is enabled, the reader's Customer Data will not be used by Cursor for training purposes.
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