This document outlines GitHub's Gifts and Entertainment Policy, designed to ensure ethical business practices and compliance with anti-bribery laws. It provides guidelines for employees on acceptable and unacceptable gifts and entertainment when interacting with customers, vendors, and government officials. The policy emphasizes transparency and the prevention of improper influence in business dealings.

This policy outlines a company's approach to employee compensation, covering salary structure, equal pay principles, and living wage standards. It details the company's pension scheme, specifically mentioning NEST and UK legislation, along with contribution rates. Additionally, it describes supplementary benefits such as disability, accident, and life insurance provided to employees.

This Whistleblowing Policy establishes a clear mechanism for employees, contractual third parties, and partners to report concerns about unethical behavior, illegal activities, or policy violations within the company. It outlines the types of misconduct to report, emphasizes acting in good faith, and details the procedure for submitting and investigating complaints while protecting whistleblowers from retaliation.

Recruitment and Hiring Policy sets out fair, merit-based recruitment, equal-opportunity principles, blind application review, background checks, confidentiality and annual policy review. Developed by the Study Academy hiring team, specialists in accredited UK workplace training and compliance.

Customer Care Policy outlines responsive, inclusive and solution-focused standards across all customer channels, including fair treatment, reasonable adjustments, first-contact resolution, plain British English communication and protected handling of consumer data. Developed by the Study Academy Customer Experience & Accessibility training team, specialists in accredited UK compliance education and service-quality frameworks.

Code of Ethics sets out mandatory principles for honesty, fairness, confidentiality, intellectual-property respect, conflict-of-interest disclosure and zero tolerance for bribery, corruption, discrimination, harassment and bullying. Developed by Study Academy, a UK-based training provider delivering accredited compliance and workplace-skills education.

The GitHub Gifts and Entertainment Policy sets clear rules to prevent bribery and corruption by prohibiting employees from offering, soliciting, or accepting anything of value to improperly influence business decisions. Rooted in global anti-bribery laws like the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and U.K. Bribery Act, this policy provides practical guidance, approval requirements, and consequences, ensuring GitHub’s operations remain transparent, ethical, and legally compliant.