8. GitHub Cookies

DDONALD-HOBDYUpdated 17 Oct 2025

This document outlines GitHub's use of cookies to provide and secure its websites, analyze usage, and enhance the user experience. It details the specific cookies employed by GitHub and various third-party providers, including their purpose and expiration, and directs users to the Privacy Statement for more information and cookie preference management.

GitHub Cookies

GitHub uses cookies to provide and secure our websites, as well as to analyze the usage of our websites, in order to offer you a great user experience. Please take a look at our Privacy Statement if you’d like more information about cookies, and on how and why we use them.

You can view the current list of cookies on GitHub, and sign up to receive cookie list updates, at https://github.com/privacy/cookies.

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GitHub provides a great deal of transparency regarding how we use your data, how we collect your data, and with whom we share your data. To that end, we provide this page which details how we use cookies.

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