4. Acceptable Use Policies - General
This document outlines the Acceptable Use Policies for users of an online service or platform, similar to GitHub. It details restrictions on content and conduct related to user safety, intellectual property, privacy, authenticity, spam, and site access. The policy aims to ensure users can collaborate effectively and safely while complying with applicable laws and regulations.
Acceptable Use Policies
This document is taken from the GitHub website - more information about GitHub and its functions can be found at https://github.com/. Please note that many of the included provisions are designed for GitHub or similar site (such as for building and developing software with online communities), so they are not relevant to all types of business.
You can amend this document to be suitable for your own Community and purposes using the smart fields and customizing the bracketed sections. We recommend adding hyperlinks to your own policies and website pages - make sure your business has in place all the policies referred to here. The definition of 'Service' can be provided in your terms of service or defined separately here - GitHub defines Service as 'applications, software, products, and services provided by GitHub, including any Beta Previews'.
Please find the other specific GitHub Acceptable Use Policies in this 'GitHub Site Policies for Startups' repository.
[We host a wide variety of collaborative projects from all over the world, and that collaboration only works when our users are able to work together in good faith. ]While using the Service, you must comply with our Acceptable Use Policies, which include some restrictions on content and conduct on [company name] related to user safety, intellectual property, privacy, authenticity, and other limitations. In short, be excellent to each other.
Capitalized terms used but not defined in these Acceptable Use Policies have the meanings assigned to them in your main agreement with us — the [company name] Terms of Service or [company name] Customer Agreement, or the [company name] Corporate Terms of Service or other legacy [company name] contract, or a Microsoft volume licensing agreement. For customers subject to the legacy Corporate Terms of Service, "you" and "your" refer to "Customer" or "Users". "We", "us", and "our" refer to "[company name]".
Compliance with Laws and Regulations
You are responsible for using the Service in compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and all of our Acceptable Use Policies. These policies may be updated from time to time and are provided below.
User Safety
We do not allow content or activity on [company name] that:
is unlawful or promotes unlawful activities;
is sexually obscene or relates to sexual exploitation or abuse, including of minors;
is libelous, defamatory, or fraudulent;
is discriminatory or abusive toward any individual or group;
is false, inaccurate, or intentionally deceptive information and likely to adversely affect the public interest (including health, safety, election integrity, and civic participation);
harasses or abuses another individual or group, including our employees, officers, and agents, or other users;
threatens or incites violence toward any individual or group, especially on the basis of who they are;
gratuitously depicts or glorifies violence, including violent images; or
is off-topic, or interacts with platform features in a way that significantly or repeatedly disrupts the experience of other users.
Intellectual Property, Authenticity, and Private Information
We do not allow content or activity on [company name] that:
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