If your payment card expires or fails at renewal time, Cursor can permanently delete your account and all your data with no compensation or liability.
If your payment method fails at renewal — even due to a bank-issued card replacement — Cursor can permanently delete your entire account and all associated data without any obligation to warn you or compensate you for the loss.
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Compare across platforms →A simple expired credit card could result in permanent, irreversible deletion of your account and all associated code, projects, and settings — with no warning and no recourse.
1. REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision engages GDPR Article 17 (right to erasure) in a perverse direction — the user's data is deleted not at their request but as a punitive measure by the controller — raising questions about whether this constitutes lawful processing under Article 6. CCPA §1798.105 grants California users a right to deletion but does not address involuntary deletion. Consumer protection law under FTC Act Section 5 may apply if the deletion practice is not clearly disclosed at the point of subscription purchase. State consumer protection statutes (UDAP laws) in multiple jurisdictions may find involuntary data deletion without notice to be an unfair practice. 2.
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