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“We will notify our Users of material changes to this Agreement, such as price increases, at least 30 days prior to the change taking effect by posting a notice on our Website or sending email to the primary email address...”
“By using automated means to access... any publicly accessible Content from the Service for the purpose of developing or training any commercially available artificial intelligence model... you hereby waive any and all policies, terms, conditions...”
“You grant GitHub and our Affiliates the right to store, host, archive, parse, display, and make copies of Your Content as necessary to provide, develop, and improve the Service, including by training AI Features...”
“We will delete your full profile and the Content of your repositories within 90 days of cancellation or termination (though some information may remain in encrypted backups). This information cannot be recovered once your Account is canceled.”
“You may not use GitHub in violation of export control or sanctions laws of the United States or any other applicable jurisdiction.”
“GitHub has the right to suspend or terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately.”
This document sets the rules for using GitHub: you grant GitHub the right to use your content, including for AI training, as part of using the service. GitHub can suspend or end your account at any time without warning or reason, and paid subscriptions are non-refundable. By default, GitHub may use what you input and receive from the service to train AI models, but you can turn this off in your account settings.
GitHub's Terms of Service establish the conditions under which users access and interact with the platform, including a broad content license requiring users to grant GitHub and its Affiliates rights to store, host, parse, display, copy, and use Content — including for AI Feature training — as necessary to provide and improve the Service. GitHub reserves the right to suspend or terminate user access at any time, with or without cause or notice, effective immediately, and its paid Service is non-refundable. The Agreement requires at least 30 days' prior notice before material changes take effect, and GitHub commits to deleting user profiles and repository contents within 90 days of account cancellation or termination. By default, GitHub and its Affiliates may use user Inputs and Outputs to develop and train AI and machine learning models, though users may opt out through account settings, and the license does not permit sharing Inputs or Outputs with third-party AI model providers for their own independent training purposes.
As a GitHub user, your content — including what you submit to and receive from the service — is licensed to GitHub and its Affiliates for purposes that include AI training by default; you can opt out of the use of your Inputs and Outputs for AI and machine learning model development through your account settings. GitHub may suspend or terminate your access at any time without cause or advance notice, and once you cancel your account, your profile and repository contents will be permanently deleted within 90 days. GitHub will not compensate you for lost profits, lost data, or other indirect or consequential harms, and paid subscriptions carry no right to a refund for unused time.
Which mapped governance frameworks each document engages, tied to the specific provisions that engage them.
1 important change detected
7 versions captured · Latest change detected by ConductAtlas: April 2026
We withheld clauses we had published from this document. Each withholding is recorded in our correction log:
“We will notify our Users of material changes to this Agreement, such as price increases, at least 30 days prior to the change taking effect by posting a notice on our Website or sending email to the primary email address...”
“By using automated means to access... any publicly accessible Content from the Service for the purpose of developing or training any commercially available artificial intelligence model... you hereby waive any and all policies, terms, conditions...”
“You grant GitHub and our Affiliates the right to store, host, archive, parse, display, and make copies of Your Content as necessary to provide, develop, and improve the Service, including by training AI Features...”
“We will delete your full profile and the Content of your repositories within 90 days of cancellation or termination (though some information may remain in encrypted backups). This information cannot be recovered once your Account is canceled.”
“You may not use GitHub in violation of export control or sanctions laws of the United States or any other applicable jurisdiction.”
“GitHub has the right to suspend or terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately.”
“We will not be liable to you or any third party for any loss of profits, use, goodwill, or data, or for any incidental, indirect, special, consequential or exemplary damages, however arising...”
“You also grant GitHub and its Affiliates a license to collect and use your Inputs and Outputs to develop, train and improve artificial intelligence and machine learning models... unless (a) you opt out through your account settings...”
“You may not use the API to download data or Content from GitHub for spamming purposes, including for the purposes of selling GitHub users' personal information, such as to recruiters, headhunters, and job boards.”
“This license does not, however, permit GitHub or its Affiliates to share your Inputs or Outputs with third-party AI model providers for their own independent model training purposes.”
“GitHub considers the contents of private repositories to be confidential to you. GitHub will protect the contents of private repositories from unauthorized use, access, or disclosure...”
“The Service is billed in advance on a monthly or yearly basis respectively and is non-refundable. There will be no refunds or credits for partial months of service, downgrade refunds, or refunds for months unused with an open Account...”
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