Is Cline safe with your data?
Cline
Cline Bot Inc.
Poor disclosure · high confidence
Cline earns an F (34/100) because it discloses little about its data practices.
Dealbreaker flag
- D1.4: non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable right and license ... this license is perpetual and irrevocable with respect to any de-identified or aggregated data
- D4.3: We may share a common account identifier (such as a hashed email address or user ID) with our third-party advertising partners
#177
of 216 apps ranked
34
score · Coding avg 53
-19
vs category average
Cline's policies grant a sublicensable licence over user content that turns perpetual for de-identified data, carve that use out only for per-seat subscribers, and stay silent on retention periods, deletion, access and security controls.
What Cline's privacy policy and terms of service say about your data
Perpetual licence over derived data
The terms take a non-exclusive, worldwide, sublicensable and transferable licence over user content, and that licence is stated to be perpetual and irrevocable for any de-identified or aggregated data.
Paid tier buys an exemption
The product-improvement use of user content is switched off while a per-seat subscription is active, so the treatment of code and prompts depends on which plan the user is on.
Third-party model training is passed through
Where Cline supplies the API keys, prompts and code go to outside model providers who may use that content for training unless an opt-out happens to be offered by that provider.
No retention or data-rights commitments
The policy names no retention period, no deletion timeline, and no access, correction or portability process, and it describes no specific security controls or breach-notification timeframe.
What the policy is silent or vague on
- Not stated: your ownership of generated outputs
- Not stated: a right to access your data
- Not stated: a right to delete your data
- Not stated: data portability
Cline privacy rating
Details
- Category
- Coding
- Modalities
- text
- Processes biometrics
- No
- Policy last updated
- 2025-09-24
- Region scored
- Global / US-default
- Last assessed
- 2026-10-13
Documents examined
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Each grade reflects our analysis of what an app states in its public privacy policy and terms as of the assessment date. It measures the transparency of those documents, not the company's actual data practices, security, or compliance. Grades are our opinion, offered for general information. Full disclaimer.