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Privacy and Security

Philosophy

Zed collects minimal data necessary to serve and improve our product. Features that could share data, like AI and telemetry, are either opt-in or can be disabled.

  • Telemetry: Zed collects only the data necessary to understand usage and fix issues. Client-side telemetry can be disabled in settings.

  • AI: Data sharing for AI improvement is opt-in, and each share is a one-time action; it does not grant permission for future data collection. You can use Zed's AI features without sharing any data with Zed and without authenticating.

  • Open-Source: Zed's codebase is public. You can inspect exactly what data is collected and how it's handled. If you find issues, we encourage you to report them.

  • Secure-by-default: Designing Zed and our Service with "secure-by-default" as an objective is of utmost importance to us. We take your security and ours very seriously and strive to follow industry best-practice in order to uphold that principle.

  • Tool Permissions: Configure granular rules to control which agent actions are auto-approved, blocked, or require confirmation.

  • Worktree trust: How Zed opens files and directories in restricted mode.

  • Telemetry: How Zed collects general telemetry data.

  • Zed AI Features and Privacy: An overview of Zed's AI features, your data when using AI in Zed, and how to opt-in and help Zed improve these features.

  • Accounts: When and why you'd need to authenticate into Zed, how to do so, and what scope we need from you.

  • Collab: How Zed's live collaboration works and how data flows. Zed does not store your code.