lowercase "personal data" in privacy statement
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| [Who is responsible for the processing of your information](#who-is-responsible-for-the-processing-of-your-information) | Subject to limited exceptions, GitHub is the controller and entity responsible for the processing of your Personal Data in connection with the Website or Service. |
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| [What information GitHub collects](#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 Personal Data from third parties. We only collect the minimum amount of Personal Data necessary from you, unless you choose to provide more.|
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| [Who is responsible for the processing of your information](#who-is-responsible-for-the-processing-of-your-information) | Subject to limited exceptions, GitHub is the controller and entity responsible for the processing of your personal data in connection with the Website or Service. |
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| [What information GitHub collects](#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 personal data from third parties. We only collect the minimum amount of personal data necessary from you, unless you choose to provide more.|
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| [How GitHub uses your 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 Website or Service or develop new features and functionality of our Website or Service. We also describe the legal basis upon which we process your information, where legally required. |
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| [How we share the information we collect](#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. |
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| [Your choices regarding our processing of your personal data](#your-choices-regarding-our-processing-of-your-personal-data) | We provide ways for you to access, alter, or delete your personal information. |
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| [Cookies](#cookies) | We only use strictly necessary cookies to provide, secure, and improve our Website or Service or develop new features and functionality of our Website or Service. We offer a page that makes this very transparent. We do not send any information to third-party analytics services. |
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| [How GitHub secures your information](#how-github-secures-your-information) | We take all measures reasonably necessary to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your Personal Data on GitHub and to protect the resilience of our servers. |
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| [How GitHub secures your information](#how-github-secures-your-information) | We take all measures reasonably necessary to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your personal data on GitHub and to protect the resilience of our servers. |
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| [Communication preferences](#communication-preferences) | We communicate with you by email. You can control the way we contact you in your account settings, or by contacting us. |
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| [Resolving complaints](#resolving-complaints) | In the unlikely event that we are unable to resolve a privacy concern quickly and thoroughly, we provide a path of dispute resolution. |
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| [Changes to our Privacy Statement](#changes-to-our-privacy-statement) | We notify you of material changes to this Privacy Statement 30 days before any such changes become effective. You may also track changes in our Site Policy repository. |
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## GitHub acting on your behalf
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In some cases, GitHub is acting only on your behalf for the personal data we collect and process in connection with our Service (for example, for the Personal Data added to a repository by the contributors to such repository). In such cases, GitHub will only process the data in order to provide the Service requested by you. Please note that subject to our [Private Information Removal Policy](/site-policy/content-removal-policies/github-private-information-removal-policy) contributors’ requests to remove Personal Data generally require notice to and action from the repository owner.
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In some cases, GitHub is acting only on your behalf for the personal data we collect and process in connection with our Service (for example, for the personal data added to a repository by the contributors to such repository). In such cases, GitHub will only process the data in order to provide the Service requested by you. Please note that subject to our [Private Information Removal Policy](/site-policy/content-removal-policies/github-private-information-removal-policy) contributors’ requests to remove personal data generally require notice to and action from the repository owner.
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## What information GitHub collects
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### Information we collect from third parties
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Other companies with whom you choose to engage. GitHub may collect Personal Data about you from third parties. For example, this may happen if you sign up for training or to receive information about GitHub from one of our vendors, partners, or affiliates. GitHub does not purchase Personal Data from third-party data brokers.
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Other companies with whom you choose to engage. GitHub may collect personal data about you from third parties. For example, this may happen if you sign up for training or to receive information about GitHub from one of our vendors, partners, or affiliates. GitHub does not purchase personal data from third-party data brokers.
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Service Providers. We may also receive information from processors or service providers who process the data on our behalf, such as our payment processor who process payment and billing information in connection with our Service.
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Publicly available sources. We may also obtain information from publicly available sources as GitHub repositories.
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When you are asked to provide Personal Data, you may decline. And you may use web browser or operating system controls to prevent certain types of automatic data collection. But if you choose not to provide or allow information that is necessary for certain services or features, those services or features may not be available or fully functional.
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When you are asked to provide personal data, you may decline. And you may use web browser or operating system controls to prevent certain types of automatic data collection. But if you choose not to provide or allow information that is necessary for certain services or features, those services or features may not be available or fully functional.
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## How GitHub uses your information
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We may use your information to provide, administer, analyze, manage, and operate our Service. For example, we use your information for the following purposes:
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## How we share the information we collect
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We share Personal Data with your consent or as necessary to complete your transactions or provide the services you have requested or authorized. In addition, we may share each of the categories of your Personal Data described above with the types of third parties described below for the following business purposes:
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We share personal data with your consent or as necessary to complete your transactions or provide the services you have requested or authorized. In addition, we may share each of the categories of your personal data described above with the types of third parties described below for the following business purposes:
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### Public information
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You may select options available through our Service to publicly display and share your name and/or username and certain other information, such as your profile, demographic data, content and files, or geolocation data. For example, if you would like your email address to remain private, even when you’re commenting on public repositories, [you can adjust your setting for your email address to be private in your user profile](https://github.com/settings/emails). You can also [update your local Git configuration to use your private email address](/github/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-account/setting-your-commit-email-address). Please see more about email addresses in commit messages [here](/github/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-account/setting-your-commit-email-address).
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Please note that if you would like to compile GitHub data, you must comply with our [Terms of Service](/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service) regarding information usage and privacy, and you may only use any public-facing information you gather for the purpose for which our user authorized it. For example, where a GitHub user has made an email address public-facing for the purpose of identification and attribution, do not use that email address for the purposes of sending unsolicited emails to users or selling personal information, such as to recruiters, headhunters, and job boards, or for commercial advertising. We expect you to reasonably secure information you have gathered from GitHub, and to respond promptly to complaints, removal requests, and "do not contact" requests from GitHub or GitHub users.
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### Third-party applications
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We share your Personal Data with third parties when you tell us to do so. For example, if you purchase an application listed on our Marketplace, we share your username to allow the application developer to provide you with services. Additionally, you may direct us through your actions on GitHub to share your Personal Data. For example, if you join an Organization, you indicate your willingness to provide the owner of the Organization with the ability to view your activity in the Organization’s access log.
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We share your personal data with third parties when you tell us to do so. For example, if you purchase an application listed on our Marketplace, we share your username to allow the application developer to provide you with services. Additionally, you may direct us through your actions on GitHub to share your personal data. For example, if you join an Organization, you indicate your willingness to provide the owner of the Organization with the ability to view your activity in the Organization’s access log.
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You can enable or add third-party applications, known as "Developer Products" to your Account. These Developer Products are not necessary for your use of GitHub. We will share your Personal Data with such third-party applications when you ask us to; however, you are responsible for your use of the third-party Developer Product and for the amount of Personal Data you choose to share with it. You can check our [API documentation](/rest/reference/users) to see what information is provided when you authenticate into a Developer Product using your GitHub profile.
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You can enable or add third-party applications, known as "Developer Products" to your Account. These Developer Products are not necessary for your use of GitHub. We will share your personal data with such third-party applications when you ask us to; however, you are responsible for your use of the third-party Developer Product and for the amount of personal data you choose to share with it. You can check our [API documentation](/rest/reference/users) to see what information is provided when you authenticate into a Developer Product using your GitHub profile.
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### Organizations with which you engage
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You may indicate, through your actions on GitHub, that you are willing to share your Personal Data. If you collaborate on or become a member of an organization, then its Account owners may receive your Personal Data. When you accept an invitation to an organization, you will be notified of the types of information owners may be able to see (for more information, see [About Organization Membership](/github/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-account/about-organization-membership)). Please contact the Account owners for more information about how they might process your Personal Data in their Organization and the ways for you to access, update, alter, or delete your Personal Data stored in the Account.
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You may indicate, through your actions on GitHub, that you are willing to share your personal data. If you collaborate on or become a member of an organization, then its Account owners may receive your personal data. When you accept an invitation to an organization, you will be notified of the types of information owners may be able to see (for more information, see [About Organization Membership](/github/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-account/about-organization-membership)). Please contact the Account owners for more information about how they might process your personal data in their Organization and the ways for you to access, update, alter, or delete your personal data stored in the Account.
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### Service providers
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We share your Personal Data with service providers who process the information on our behalf to provide or improve our Service. For example, our service providers may perform payment processing, customer support ticketing, network data transmission, security, and other similar services. While GitHub processes all Personal Data in the United States, our service providers may process data outside of the United States or the European Union. Such processing by service providers will be in compliance with applicable law including any relevant transfer mechanism.
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We share your personal data with service providers who process the information on our behalf to provide or improve our Service. For example, our service providers may perform payment processing, customer support ticketing, network data transmission, security, and other similar services. While GitHub processes all personal data in the United States, our service providers may process data outside of the United States or the European Union. Such processing by service providers will be in compliance with applicable law including any relevant transfer mechanism.
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### Affiliates
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We enable access to Personal Data across our subsidiaries, affiliates, and related companies, for example, where we share common data systems or where access is needed to operate and provide the Service.
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We enable access to personal data across our subsidiaries, affiliates, and related companies, for example, where we share common data systems or where access is needed to operate and provide the Service.
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### For security purposes
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We will disclose Personal Data if we believe it is necessary to:
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We will disclose personal data if we believe it is necessary to:
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- protect our customers and others, for example to prevent spam or attempts to commit fraud, or to help prevent the loss of life or serious injury of anyone;
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- operate and maintain the security of the Service, including to prevent or stop an attack on our systems or networks; or
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- protect the rights or property or ourselves or others, including enforcing our agreements, terms, and policies.
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### For legal disclosure
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GitHub may disclose Personal Data or other information we collect about you to law enforcement or other governmental agencies if required in response to a valid legal process. For more information about our disclosure in response to legal requests, see our [Guidelines for Legal Requests of User Data](/github/site-policy/guidelines-for-legal-requests-of-user-data).
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GitHub may disclose personal data or other information we collect about you to law enforcement or other governmental agencies if required in response to a valid legal process. For more information about our disclosure in response to legal requests, see our [Guidelines for Legal Requests of User Data](/github/site-policy/guidelines-for-legal-requests-of-user-data).
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### Change in control or sale
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We may share your Personal Data if we are involved in a merger, sale, or acquisition of corporate entities or business units as described in this Privacy Statement.
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We may share your personal data if we are involved in a merger, sale, or acquisition of corporate entities or business units as described in this Privacy Statement.
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Please note that some of the features on our Service include integrations, references, or links to services provided by third parties whose privacy practices differ from ours. If you provide Personal Data to any of those third parties, or allow us to share Personal Data with them, that data is governed by their privacy statements.
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Please note that some of the features on our Service include integrations, references, or links to services provided by third parties whose privacy practices differ from ours. If you provide personal data to any of those third parties, or allow us to share personal data with them, that data is governed by their privacy statements.
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Finally, we may share de-identified information in accordance with applicable law.
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### No Selling of Personal Data
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We *do not* sell your Personal Data for monetary or other consideration as defined under California and Nevada state laws.
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### No selling of personal data
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We *do not* sell your personal data for monetary or other consideration as defined under California and Nevada state laws.
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You can learn more about the CCPA and how we comply with it [here](#githubs-notice-to-california-residents).
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## Your choices regarding our processing of your personal data
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We provide choices about the Personal Data we collect about you. The choices you make will not apply to any Personal Data associated with an Organization under your Account.
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We provide choices about the personal data we collect about you. The choices you make will not apply to any personal data associated with an Organization under your Account.
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Access, correction, and deletion. If you're a GitHub user, you may access, update, alter, or delete your basic user profile information by [editing your user profile](https://github.com/settings/profile) or contacting [GitHub Support](https://support.github.com/contact) or [GitHub Premium Support](https://enterprise.githubsupport.com/hc/en-us). You can control the information we collect about you by limiting what information is in your profile, by keeping your information current, or by contacting [GitHub Support](https://support.github.com/contact) or [GitHub Premium Support](https://enterprise.githubsupport.com/hc/en-us).
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We retain and use your information as described in this Privacy Statement, but barring legal requirements, we will delete your full profile within 90 days of your request. After an account has been deleted, certain data, such as contributions to other Users' repositories and comments in others' issues, will remain. However, we will delete or de-identify your Personal Data, including your username and email address, from the author field of issues, pull requests, and comments by associating them with a ghost user. That said, the email address you have provided via your Git commit settings will always be associated with your commits in the Git system. If you choose to make your email address private, you should also update your Git commit settings. We are unable to change or delete data in the Git commit history — the Git software is designed to maintain a record — but we do enable you to control what information you put in that record.
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We retain and use your information as described in this Privacy Statement, but barring legal requirements, we will delete your full profile within 90 days of your request. After an account has been deleted, certain data, such as contributions to other Users' repositories and comments in others' issues, will remain. However, we will delete or de-identify your personal data, including your username and email address, from the author field of issues, pull requests, and comments by associating them with a ghost user. That said, the email address you have provided via your Git commit settings will always be associated with your commits in the Git system. If you choose to make your email address private, you should also update your Git commit settings. We are unable to change or delete data in the Git commit history — the Git software is designed to maintain a record — but we do enable you to control what information you put in that record.
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If GitHub processes Personal Data other than your profile information, such as information about you GitHub receives from [third parties](/github/site-policy/github-privacy-statement#information-we-collect-from-third-parties), then you may, subject to applicable law, access, update, alter, delete, object to or restrict the processing of your Personal Data by contacting [GitHub Support](https://support.github.com/contact) or [GitHub Premium Support](https://enterprise.githubsupport.com/hc/en-us).
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If GitHub processes personal data other than your profile information, such as information about you GitHub receives from [third parties](/github/site-policy/github-privacy-statement#information-we-collect-from-third-parties), then you may, subject to applicable law, access, update, alter, delete, object to or restrict the processing of your personal data by contacting [GitHub Support](https://support.github.com/contact) or [GitHub Premium Support](https://enterprise.githubsupport.com/hc/en-us).
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You can adjust the settings on your Account regarding the display of your Personal Data in private or public repositories or Personal Data processed in connection with Community Features (such as the GitHub Feed, the GitHub Globe, GitHub Explore, the GitHub Discussion Leaderboard) through [profile settings](https://github.com/settings/profile).
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You can adjust the settings on your Account regarding the display of your personal data in private or public repositories or personal data processed in connection with Community Features (such as the GitHub Feed, the GitHub Globe, GitHub Explore, the GitHub Discussion Leaderboard) through [profile settings](https://github.com/settings/profile).
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Additionally, if you are unable to access certain Personal Data we have via the means described above, you can request access by contacting us as described at the bottom of this privacy statement.
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Additionally, if you are unable to access certain personal data we have via the means described above, you can request access by contacting us as described at the bottom of this privacy statement.
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### Data portability
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### European Data Protection Rights
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If the processing of Personal Data about you is subject to European Union data protection law, you have certain rights with respect to that data:
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If the processing of personal data about you is subject to European Union data protection law, you have certain rights with respect to that data:
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You can request access to, and rectification or erasure of, Personal Data;
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If any automated processing of Personal Data is based on your consent or a contract with you, you have a right to transfer or receive a copy of the Personal Data in a usable and portable format;
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If the processing of Personal Data is based on your consent, you can withdraw consent at any time for future processing;
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You can to object to, or obtain a restriction of, the processing of Personal Data under certain circumstances; and
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You can request access to, and rectification or erasure of, personal data;
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If any automated processing of personal data is based on your consent or a contract with you, you have a right to transfer or receive a copy of the personal data in a usable and portable format;
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If the processing of personal data is based on your consent, you can withdraw consent at any time for future processing;
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You can to object to, or obtain a restriction of, the processing of personal data under certain circumstances; and
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For residents of France, you can send us specific instructions regarding the use of your data after your death.
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To make such requests, please use the contact information at the bottom of this statement. When we are processing data on behalf of another party (i.e., where GitHub is acting as a data processor) you should direct your request to that party. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, but we encourage you to first contact us with any questions or concerns.
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We rely on different lawful bases for collecting and processing Personal Data about you, for example, with your consent and/or as necessary to provide the services you use, operate our business, meet our contractual and legal obligations, protect the security of our systems and our customers, or fulfill other legitimate interests.
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We rely on different lawful bases for collecting and processing personal data about you, for example, with your consent and/or as necessary to provide the services you use, operate our business, meet our contractual and legal obligations, protect the security of our systems and our customers, or fulfill other legitimate interests.
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## Our use of cookies and tracking technologies
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"[Do Not Track](https://www.eff.org/issues/do-not-track)" (DNT) is a privacy preference you can set in your browser if you do not want online services to collect and share certain kinds of information about your online activity from third party tracking services. GitHub responds to browser DNT signals and follows the [W3C standard for responding to DNT signals](https://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/). If you would like to set your browser to signal that you would not like to be tracked, please check your browser's documentation for how to enable that signal. There are also good applications that block online tracking, such as [Privacy Badger](https://privacybadger.org/).
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## Retention of Personal Data
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We retain Personal Data for as long as necessary to provide the services and fulfill the transactions you have requested, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and other legitimate and lawful business purposes. Because these needs can vary for different data types in the context of different services, actual retention periods can vary significantly based on criteria such as user expectations or consent, the sensitivity of the data, the availability of automated controls that enable users to delete data, and our legal or contractual obligations. For example, we may retain your Personal Data for longer periods, where necessary, subject to applicable law, for security purposes.
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## Retention of personal data
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We retain personal data for as long as necessary to provide the services and fulfill the transactions you have requested, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and other legitimate and lawful business purposes. Because these needs can vary for different data types in the context of different services, actual retention periods can vary significantly based on criteria such as user expectations or consent, the sensitivity of the data, the availability of automated controls that enable users to delete data, and our legal or contractual obligations. For example, we may retain your personal data for longer periods, where necessary, subject to applicable law, for security purposes.
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## How GitHub secures your information
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GitHub takes reasonable measures necessary to protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, alteration, or destruction; maintain data accuracy; and help ensure the appropriate use of your Personal Data. To help us protect personal data, we request that you use a strong password and never share your password with anyone or use the same password with other sites or accounts.
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GitHub takes reasonable measures necessary to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, alteration, or destruction; maintain data accuracy; and help ensure the appropriate use of your personal data. To help us protect personal data, we request that you use a strong password and never share your password with anyone or use the same password with other sites or accounts.
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In addition, if your account has private repositories, you control the access to that Content. GitHub personnel does not access private repository content except for
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Github will provide notice regarding private repository access where not prohibited by law or if in response to a security threat or other risk to security.
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### Cross-border data transfers
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GitHub processes Personal Data both inside and outside of the United States and relies on legal mechanisms such as Standard Contractual Clauses to lawfully transfer data from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland to the United States. You may request a copy of the Standard Contractual Clauses using the contact details provided in the section entitled “Contacting GitHub” below.
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GitHub processes personal data both inside and outside of the United States and relies on legal mechanisms such as Standard Contractual Clauses to lawfully transfer data from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland to the United States. You may request a copy of the Standard Contractual Clauses using the contact details provided in the section entitled “Contacting GitHub” below.
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### Resolving complaints
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If you have concerns about the way GitHub is handling your Personal Data, please let us know immediately. We want to help. You may contact us by filling out the [Privacy contact form](https://support.github.com/contact/privacy). You may also email us directly at **(privacy [at] github [dot] com)** with the subject line "Privacy Concerns." We will respond promptly — within 45 days at the latest.
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If you have concerns about the way GitHub is handling your personal data, please let us know immediately. We want to help. You may contact us by filling out the [Privacy contact form](https://support.github.com/contact/privacy). You may also email us directly at **(privacy [at] github [dot] com)** with the subject line "Privacy Concerns." We will respond promptly — within 45 days at the latest.
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You may also contact our Data Protection Officer directly.
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