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Privacy policy

GitHub

GitHub General Privacy Statement

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Risk score

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In short

  • GitHub collects your personal data, including code and usage details, to provide its services.
  • It shares this information with partners like Microsoft and third-party apps for marketing and analytics.
  • Your account settings determine what data is visible to the public.

What you accept

If you use this site

Everyday words for the material promises and rights you give up. Each line includes a quote from the document.

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    You are agreeing that GitHub collects your personal data to improve its products and services.

    This product

    “We use Personal Data to develop and improve our products, services, and technologies...”

What it can cost you

Downsides we could quote

Quoted clauses that can affect your privacy, money, or right to go to court — including terms that follow you to other products.

Highest-cost clauses first

High cost

Tracking you across apps

You are agreeing to allow tracking of your online activities by third parties for targeted advertising.

“Our analytics and advertising partners may use these technologies in our Services to collect personal information... related to your online activities over time and across Services for various purposes, including targeted advertising.”

What that means: Your activity is tracked across multiple services to show you relevant advertisements.

Third-party partners collect your usage data across different sites to build profiles for targeted ads.

Medium cost

Indefinite retention

You are agreeing to have your personal data retained indefinitely while your account is active.

“We’ll retain your Personal Data as long as your account is active and as needed to fulfill contractual obligations, comply with legal requirements, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements.”

What that means: Your data stays with GitHub indefinitely if it deems it necessary for legal or operational reasons.

The document states that data is kept for an indefinite period based on necessity rather than a fixed timeline.

Medium cost

Data sold or shared with third parties

You are agreeing to share your personal information with advertising and analytics networks.

“We shared each category to or with advertising networks, data analytics providers, and social networks.”

What that means: Your personal details are shared with advertising and analytics companies.

GitHub explicitly shares your personal information with advertising networks and analytics providers for business purposes.

Lower cost

Location or sensitive-data over-collection

You are agreeing to the collection of regional geolocation data.

“Depending on the Service's functionality, we collect regional geolocation data.”

What that means: Your general geographic location may be collected.

The service collects geolocation data, but only on a regional basis rather than precise real-time location.

If these terms already apply to you

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