Free Service Agreements Templates

The GitHub Educational Use Agreement sets the terms for educational institutions participating in the GitHub Education Partner Program, granting students, faculty, and researchers free access to GitHub Enterprise products for non-commercial, academic use. It is an official GitHub contract that defines benefits, conditions, and responsibilities, and can be trusted as part of GitHub’s legally binding program terms.

The GitHub Corporate Terms of Service governed business and institutional use of GitHub’s hosted services, beta previews, support, and professional services, including provisions on accounts, content rights, privacy, compliance, and liability. Though deprecated in 2021, it remains binding for legacy customers and comes from GitHub’s trusted library of official, lawyer-vetted agreements.

The GitHub Terms for Additional Products and Features supplement GitHub’s standard agreements by setting specific rules for using services like Actions, Codespaces, Advanced Security, npm, Packages, Pages, and GitHub Copilot. These terms ensure compliance, clarify billing and usage limits, and protect both users and GitHub, making them a trusted extension of GitHub’s official contractual framework under Microsoft’s governance.

The Seedsummit Consultancy Agreement template governs the provision of freelance services under Portuguese law, clarifying that the consultant operates independently and not as an employee. It sets out key terms on services, compensation, confidentiality, intellectual property, data protection, and termination.

The Seedsummit Advisor Agreement template outlines the terms under which an independent advisor provides consulting or strategic services to a company in exchange for equity or monetary compensation. It defines the relationship as that of an independent contractor and includes detailed provisions on confidentiality, intellectual property assignment, payment, and governing law under Portuguese jurisdiction.

The Seedsummit bilingual Full-Time Indefinite Employment Contract outlines comprehensive terms of employment under German law, including position, working time, remuneration, vacation, confidentiality, intellectual property, and termination. It ensures full compliance with the Civil Code (BGB), Documentation Act, and other labor statutes, while providing detailed provisions on non-compete, forfeiture of claims, and precedence of the German text version.

The Seedsummit bilingual Employment Contract template sets out comprehensive terms of employment under German law, covering position, working hours, remuneration, vacation, sickness, side activities, confidentiality, intellectual property, and termination. It includes detailed provisions on forfeiture of claims, governing law, language precedence, and written form requirements, ensuring full compliance with German employment regulations and the Civil Code (BGB).

The GitHub Disrupting the Experience of Other Users Policy prohibits behaviour that significantly or repeatedly interferes with other users’ ability to productively engage on the platform, such as spammy comments, meaningless pull requests, or excessive notifications. As part of GitHub’s Acceptable Use Policies, it empowers both project maintainers and GitHub staff to restrict accounts that misuse platform features in disruptive ways.

The GitHub Sponsors Additional Terms govern participation in the GitHub Sponsors Program, outlining the rights and obligations of both sponsored developers and sponsors, including payment terms, eligibility, acceptable uses, and matching fund rules. Published and maintained by GitHub, these terms supplement the GitHub Terms of Service and ensure transparency, compliance, and accountability in supporting open source projects.

The GitHub Subprocessors Policy identifies the third-party vendors GitHub authorizes to process customer and personal data on its behalf under the GitHub Data Protection Agreement. Maintained and published by GitHub, this list ensures GDPR compliance and transparency by providing at least 30 days’ notice before adding new subprocessors.