The AI providers Sourcegraph works with are required not to store your prompts or the AI's responses after the response is generated.
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This provision establishes that third-party LLM providers do not retain Customer Content, which is a material data protection commitment for enterprise users whose proprietary code is transmitted to those providers.
Interpretive note: Zero Retention is a contractual assertion by Sourcegraph on behalf of Partner LLMs; the document does not describe technical verification, auditing, or certification mechanisms supporting this claim.
User Prompts, LLM Prompts, and Responses transmitted to Sourcegraph Partner LLMs are stated to be deleted after each response is generated, meaning third-party providers do not accumulate a record of your code queries or outputs. This commitment does not apply if you use your own LLM relationship.
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"Sourcegraph Partner LLMs will not retain any input or output from the model, including embeddings, beyond the time it takes to generate the output ("Zero Retention").Excerpt from Sourcegraph Cody's Usage and Privacy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Zero Retention commitments interact with GDPR data minimization and storage limitation principles, as well as CCPA restrictions on service provider data retention.
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This provision establishes that third-party LLM providers do not retain Customer Content, which is a material data protection commitment for enterprise users whose proprietary code is transmitted to those providers.
User Prompts, LLM Prompts, and Responses transmitted to Sourcegraph Partner LLMs are stated to be deleted after each response is generated, meaning third-party providers do not accumulate a record of your code queries or outputs. This commitment does not apply if you use your own LLM relationship.
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