Data Use and Privacy Overview
Last updated: June 9, 2026
Privacy Mode ON
When Privacy Mode is enabled:
- Customer Data will not be used for training by ZOD
- ZOD maintains zero data retention (ZDR) agreements with all providers
- AI model providers will not store or train on your data
- Model providers may run risk classifiers to detect violations
- Non-ZDR models designated as such or require admin opt-in
Privacy Mode OFF
When Privacy Mode is disabled:
- We may use and store codebase data, prompts, editor actions, code snippets, and other code data and actions to improve our AI features and train our models
- Prompts and limited telemetry may be shared with model providers when you explicitly select their models
- Inference providers (Baseten, Together AI, Fireworks) may temporarily access and store model inputs/outputs to improve inference performance; data deleted after use
Other important notes
- Even with your API key, requests go through ZOD backend for final prompt building
- Codebase indexing: code uploaded in small chunks to compute embeddings; plaintext code ceases to exist after the request; embeddings and metadata (hashes, file names) may be stored
- File caching: temporary, encrypted with unique client-generated keys, never permanently stored, never used as training data when privacy mode is enabled
- Data not shared with model providers if account created before Oct 15, 2025