“Cognition may use Customer Data for model training purposes and to improve and enhance the Services. If you subscribe to a paid Service Tier, you may opt out of this use ("Opt-Out").”
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Customer Data may be used to train Windsurf's AI models by default; the opt-out right exists only for paid-tier subscribers, meaning free-tier customers have no opt-out mechanism.
Your Customer Data may be used for model training and service improvement; you can opt out only if you subscribe to a paid Service Tier.
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"Cognition may use Customer Data for model training purposes and to improve and enhance the Services. If you subscribe to a paid Service Tier, you may opt out of this use ("Opt-Out").Excerpt from Windsurf's Cognition Platform Terms of Service
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Customer Data may be used to train Windsurf's AI models by default; the opt-out right exists only for paid-tier subscribers, meaning free-tier customers have no opt-out mechanism.
Your Customer Data may be used for model training and service improvement; you can opt out only if you subscribe to a paid Service Tier.
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