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The trigger is Windsurf's own belief that disclosure is 'reasonably necessary,' meaning the threshold for disclosure is internal and subjective rather than requiring a confirmed legal mandate.
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Your information may be accessed, preserved, and disclosed to legal or governmental authorities based on Windsurf's judgment that doing so is reasonably necessary.
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All requests for information or documents related to potential, anticipated, or current legal proceedings, investigations, or disputes must be made using the appropriate level of legal process.
Either you or we may share confidential information with legal or regulatory authorities if required by law to do so.
The following is a list of categories of personal information which we may collect or may have been collected from California residents within the last twelve (12) months.
"We may access, read, preserve, and disclose information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to comply with law, legal obligations, regulations, law enforcement, governmental, and other legal requests, court orders...Excerpt from Windsurf's Privacy Policy
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The trigger is Windsurf's own belief that disclosure is 'reasonably necessary,' meaning the threshold for disclosure is internal and subjective rather than requiring a confirmed legal mandate.
Your information may be accessed, preserved, and disclosed to legal or governmental authorities based on Windsurf's judgment that doing so is reasonably necessary.
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