Your code queries are sent to third-party AI providers. If your administrator enables the embeddings feature, a full copy of your code repository is also sent to a third-party AI provider.
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This provision discloses that enabling the embeddings feature triggers transmission of full repository contents to a third-party provider, which is an operationally significant data sharing event that may not be apparent to individual users and is controlled at the administrator level.
Under this provision, both individual code queries and, if embeddings are enabled by an administrator, entire repository contents are transmitted to third-party LLM providers. The scope of this data sharing is stated to be limited to service provision, but the activation of embeddings represents a broader data transfer than routine query processing.
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"Yes. Cody sends LLM Prompts to a third-party LLM provider. In addition, when an administrator turns on the feature to generate embeddings for a repository, a copy of the repository contents will be shared with a third-party LLM provider for the sole purpose of providing you the service.Excerpt from Sourcegraph Cody's Usage and Privacy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Transmission of full repository contents to third-party providers engages GDPR data transfer requirements, including requirements for data processing agreements and, for cross-border transfers, appropriate transfer mechanisms.
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This provision discloses that enabling the embeddings feature triggers transmission of full repository contents to a third-party provider, which is an operationally significant data sharing event that may not be apparent to individual users and is controlled at the administrator level.
Under this provision, both individual code queries and, if embeddings are enabled by an administrator, entire repository contents are transmitted to third-party LLM providers. The scope of this data sharing is stated to be limited to service provision, but the activation of embeddings represents a broader data transfer than routine query processing.
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