privacy.md

title: Privacy for Business - Zed Business description: How Zed Business handles data privacy across your organization, including enforced protections for prompts and training data.

Privacy for Business

Zed Business removes the per-member data-sharing options that Free and Pro expose. These protections are on by default for every Business organization. Administrators can adjust them from Admin Controls; individual members can't opt in or out.

What's enforced by default

For all members of a Zed Business organization:

  • No prompt sharing: Conversations and prompts are never shared with Zed. Members can't opt into AI feedback via ratings. Administrators can enable Agent Thread Feedback to allow this.
  • No training data sharing: Code context is never shared with Zed for Edit Prediction model training. Members can't opt in individually. Administrators can enable Edit Prediction Feedback to allow this.

These protections are enforced server-side and apply to all org members.

How individual plans differ

On Free and Pro, data sharing is opt-in:

  • Members can rate AI responses, which shares that conversation with Zed.
  • Members can opt into Edit Prediction training data collection for open source projects.

Neither option is available to Zed Business members.

What data still leaves the organization

These controls cover what Zed stores and trains on. They don't change how AI inference works: when members use Zed's hosted models, prompts and code context are still sent to the relevant provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, etc.) to generate responses. Zed maintains zero-data retention agreements with these providers. See AI Improvement for details.

Bring-your-own-key and external agents are subject to each provider's own terms; Zed has no visibility into how they handle data.

Additional admin controls

Administrators have additional options in Admin Controls:

  • Disable Zed-hosted models entirely via the Zed Model Provider toggle, so no prompts reach Zed's infrastructure
  • Disable Edit Predictions org-wide
  • Disable Edit Prediction Feedback
  • Disable Agent Thread Feedback
  • Disable real-time collaboration

See Admin Controls for the full list.