Privacy Policy

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TLDR

If you enable "Privacy Mode" in Cursor's settings: zero data retention will be enabled, and none of your code will ever be stored or trained on by us or any third-party.
If you choose to keep "Privacy Mode" off, we collect telemetry and usage data. This may include prompts, editor actions, code snippets, and edits made to this code. We use this data to evaluate and improve our AI features.
With "Privacy Mode" off, if you use autocomplete, Fireworks (our inference provider) may also collect prompts to improve inference speed.

Even if you use your API key, your requests will still go through our backend! That's where we do our final prompt building.
If you choose to index your codebase, Cursor will upload your codebase in small chunks to our server to compute embeddings, but all plaintext code ceases to exist after the life of the request. The embeddings and metadata about your codebase (hashes, file names) may be stored in our database, but none of your code is.