Windsurf
Cognition · Coding agent · US · windsurf.com
services/windsurf.yamlVendor data-handling terms
The policy defers to plan terms for whether content is used in training; the individual and team plan terms were not reachable at the time of checking.
“To customize your experience with our Services and otherwise improve our Services including, depending on the terms that apply to your use of the Services, using User Content to train, fine tune and improve the models that power our Services.”
“Retention We retain your personal information as needed to provide our Service to you, comply with legal obligations, or protect ours or others interests. / In line with these considerations, we delete information that is no longer needed for the above purposes or when you request deletion of your information.”
“To facilitate our operations, Cognition, our third-party partners, and service providers may transfer, store, and process your personal information throughout the world, including the EU, UK and the US.”
Domains and endpoints
observed means seen in Unseen deployments; vendor-documented means listed by the vendor. Vendors do not publish complete lists.
| Host | Role | Source |
|---|---|---|
| codeium.com | app | observed |
| windsurf.codeium.com | app | observed |
| windsurf.com | app | observed |
| api.codeium.com | api | observed |
Assessment
Reasoning: An AI code editor and IDE plugin, now part of Cognition. The privacy policy leaves training use to the plan terms, so a developer on a personal plan should assume code and prompts may be used to improve the models. Retention is open-ended and processing is worldwide.
Flags: Training use depends on plan terms · Personal plans on company code · Worldwide processing · Assessed 2026-09-16. The assessment is Unseen's; the terms above are the vendor's.
Changelog
- 2026-09-16Documented. Training, retention and transfer terms verified against the Cognition privacy policy served at windsurf.com.
- 2026-09-15Listed from the Unseen catalogue with observed domains.
Corrections
Pull request on GitHub, or the form below. Changes are reviewed and recorded in the changelog.