Windsurf and its third-party partners use cookies, web beacons, and pixel tags to collect information about your browser, IP address, page interactions, and online activity across different services over time.
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The policy authorizes cross-service tracking by third-party analytics partners, including Google Analytics, meaning user activity may be observed across websites and services beyond windsurf.com under the analytics partners' own practices.
Third-party analytics partners, including Google Analytics, may use tracking technologies to collect data about your online activity across different services and over time; the policy states you can modify cookie settings through your browser, though doing so may affect service functionality.
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We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Services and store certain information. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Services. You can instruct your browser to refuse all c...
We use Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, LinkedIn Insight Tag, and other third-party analytics and advertising tools to collect information about how visitors use our website. This may include information about your device, browser, IP address, and pages visited.
We and our third-party partners may use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect information about your use of our Services, including your browser type, pages viewed, links clicked, and the date and time of your visit.
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"We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store Personal Information, including your browser type, operating system version, domains, IP address, the URL of the page that referred you, referring/exit pages and information about your interactions with our Website (such as the time of your visit to our Website, page views, where you have clicked and Website traffic trends). ... Our third-party partners, such as analytics partners, may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across different services.— Excerpt from Windsurf's Windsurf Privacy Policy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages the EU ePrivacy Directive (Cookie Directive) as implemented in EU member states, which requires prior informed consent for non-essential cookies. The UK ICO's guidance on cookies applies to UK users. CCPA and CPRA may treat certain cookie-based data sharing as a sale or sharing of personal information, triggering opt-out rights. The policy does not describe a cookie consent management mechanism for EEA or UK users. GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. The use of Google Analytics and other third-party analytics partners for cross-service tracking creates exposure under the ePrivacy Directive if consent has not been obtained before non-essential cookies are set. The absence of a described cookie consent manager in the policy text creates a gap for EEA and UK compliance documentation. JURISDICTION FLAGS: EEA users require prior consent for analytical and advertising cookies under the ePrivacy Directive as interpreted by national data protection authorities. California users may have the right to opt out of the sharing of personal information via cookies under CPRA. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Enterprise customers should assess whether their employees' use of windsurf.com results in third-party tracking data being collected and shared with analytics vendors, and whether this is consistent with their own data governance policies. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Legal teams should confirm whether a cookie consent management platform is implemented on windsurf.com for EEA and UK visitors. The Google Analytics disclosure should be evaluated in light of EU data protection authority guidance on the use of Google Analytics.
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The policy authorizes cross-service tracking by third-party analytics partners, including Google Analytics, meaning user activity may be observed across websites and services beyond windsurf.com under the analytics partners' own practices.
Third-party analytics partners, including Google Analytics, may use tracking technologies to collect data about your online activity across different services and over time; the policy states you can modify cookie settings through your browser, though doing so may affect service functionality.
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