“never used as training data when privacy mode is enabled.”
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This establishes a conditional prohibition on training use of cached files, tied specifically to privacy mode being active.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is a fragment. The full context from id 59564 makes clear the subject is cached file contents, but the fragment alone does not specify the subject. Confidence is medium because the claim depends on reading this fragment in conjunction with its surrounding sentence.
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 cached file contents will not be used to train Cursor's models.
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This establishes a conditional prohibition on training use of cached files, tied specifically to privacy mode being active.
If privacy mode is enabled, the reader's cached file contents will not be used to train Cursor's models.
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