“Critical incidents are communicated via email to affected users.”
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Email notification to affected users is the stated channel for critical incident communication, establishing both the medium and the scope of recipients.
Interpretive note: The excerpt does not define 'critical incident' or specify timing of notification, which limits the full scope of the obligation. The canonical claim is accurate to what is stated but the practical meaning depends on those undefined terms.
Readers affected by a critical incident can expect to be notified by Cursor via email.
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"Critical incidents are communicated via email to affected users.Excerpt from Cursor's Security Practices
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Email notification to affected users is the stated channel for critical incident communication, establishing both the medium and the scope of recipients.
Readers affected by a critical incident can expect to be notified by Cursor via email.
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