GitHub Acceptable Use Policies

This document sets the rules for what users can and cannot do on GitHub, and explains what GitHub can do if those rules are broken. You are responsible for following all laws and GitHub's policies, and are prohibited from harming other users, infringing anyone's intellectual property, misusing personal information, or using GitHub to support malware or attacks. GitHub has full discretion to suspend or terminate your account or remove your content for policy violations, and can also delete repositories or throttle your access if your usage strains its infrastructure.

GitHub's Acceptable Use Policies establish a framework of affirmative user obligations and platform enforcement powers governing conduct on the Service. Users bear responsibility for compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and GitHub's policies, and are prohibited from a defined set of conduct including: activity that significantly harms other users, content or activity that infringes proprietary rights of any party, misuse of personal information, third-party privacy violations, reproduction or exploitation of the Service without express written permission, unlawful content or promotion of unlawful activities, and content directly supporting active malware or attack campaigns causing technical harm. GitHub reserves full discretion to respond to policy violations through account suspension, account termination, or content removal, and may also suspend accounts or throttle file hosting for significantly excessive bandwidth usage or delete repositories determined to place undue strain on infrastructure after advance notice. Any person, entity, or service collecting data from the Service is bound by GitHub's Privacy Statement with respect to personal information.

As a GitHub user, you are personally responsible for ensuring your activity complies with all laws and GitHub's policies — the document places that burden on you, not on GitHub. Your account can be suspended or terminated, and your content can be removed, at GitHub's full discretion if it determines you have violated its policies; no graduated process is guaranteed. If your bandwidth usage is determined to be significantly excessive compared to similar users, your account may be suspended or your file hosting throttled. If you store repositories, GitHub may delete them after advance notice if it determines they place undue strain on its infrastructure — that advance notice is your window to back up or migrate your data before any deletion occurs.