“Cursor maintains zero data retention (ZDR) agreements with all providers, and AI model providers will not store or train on your data.”
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The existence of ZDR agreements with all providers establishes a contractual constraint preventing model providers from retaining or training on user data.
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 →Under these agreements, no AI model provider Cursor uses will store or train on the reader's data.
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If you close your account, we will delete your account data within 180 days...
We shall promptly destroy personal information without delay when the retention period has expired or when the purpose of processing has been achieved, and the personal information is no longer necessary.
When Personal Information is no longer needed for the purposes for which it was collected, we securely delete, anonymize, or put it beyond use.
"Cursor maintains zero data retention (ZDR) agreements with all providers, and AI model providers will not store or train on your data.Excerpt from Cursor's Data Use & Privacy Overview
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The existence of ZDR agreements with all providers establishes a contractual constraint preventing model providers from retaining or training on user data.
Under these agreements, no AI model provider Cursor uses will store or train on the reader's data.
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