Effective date: December 19, 2020
Thanks for entrusting GitHub Inc. (“GitHub”, “we”) with your source code, your projects, and your personal information. Holding on to your private information is a serious responsibility, and we want you to know how we're handling it.
All capitalized terms have their definition in GitHub’s Terms of Service, unless otherwise noted here.
The short version
We use your personal information as this Privacy Statement describes. No matter where you are, where you live, or what your citizenship is, we provide the same high standard of privacy protection to all our users around the world, regardless of their country of origin or location.
Of course, the short version and the Summary below don't tell you everything, so please read on for more details.
Summary
| Section | What can you find there? |
|---|---|
| What information GitHub collects | GitHub collects information directly from you for your registration, payment, transactions, and user profile. We also automatically collect from you your usage information, cookies, and device information, subject, where necessary, to your consent. GitHub may also collect User Personal Information from third parties. We only collect the minimum amount of personal information necessary from you, unless you choose to provide more. |
| What information GitHub does not collect | We don’t knowingly collect information from children under 13, and we don’t collect Sensitive Personal Information. |
| How GitHub uses your information | In this section, we describe the ways in which we use your information, including to provide you the Service, to communicate with you, for security and compliance purposes, and to improve our Service. We also describe the legal basis upon which we process your information, where legally required. |
| How we share the information we collect | We may share your information with third parties under one of the following circumstances: with your consent, with our service providers, for security purposes, to comply with our legal obligations, or when there is a change of control or sale of corporate entities or business units. We do not sell your personal information and we do not host advertising on GitHub. You can see a list of the service providers that access your information. |
| Other important information | We provide additional information specific to repository contents, public information, and Organizations on GitHub. |
| Additional services | We provide information about additional service offerings, including third-party applications, GitHub Pages, and GitHub applications. |
| How you can access and control the information we collect | We provide ways for you to access, alter, or delete your personal information. |
| Our use of cookies and tracking | We only use strictly necessary cookies to provide, secure and improve our service. We offer a page that makes this very transparent. Please see this section for more information. |
| How GitHub secures your information | We take all measures reasonably necessary to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your personal information on GitHub and to protect the resilience of our servers. |
| GitHub's global privacy practices | We provide the same high standard of privacy protection to all our users around the world. |