Github Terms Github Corporate Terms Of Service (GitHub)
This document outlines the GitHub Corporate Terms of Service, detailing the contractual relationship between GitHub and its business or institutional customers. It covers the use of GitHub's products, including the Service, Beta Previews, Support, and Professional Services, defining responsibilities, intellectual property rights, payment terms, and dispute resolution. This template is specifically for customers with executed agreements explicitly referencing these terms.
GitHub Corporate Terms of Service
Note
The GitHub Corporate Terms of Service were deprecated effective 30 November 2021, and are no longer used for new customers. The terms below apply only to those GitHub customers with executed agreements that explicitly reference the Corporate Terms of Service. All other business or institution customers are directed to the GitHub Customer Agreement terms available at github.com/customer-terms.
Version Effective Date: November 16, 2020
This Agreement applies to the following GitHub offerings, as further defined below (collectively, the “Products”):
The Service;
Any Beta Previews;
Any related Support; and
Any related Professional Services.
Definitions
“Affiliate” means any entity that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with a party where "control" means having more than fifty percent (50%) ownership or the right to direct the management of the entity.
“Agreement” means, collectively, all the terms, conditions, notices contained or referenced in this document and all other operating rules, policies and procedures that GitHub may publish from time to time on the Service. GitHub's site policies are available at https://docs.github.com/categories/site-policy.
“All Users” means, collectively, Customer’s Users and External Users who use the Service.
“Americas” means the United States, Canada, Mexico, or a country in Central or South America or the Caribbean.
"Beta Previews" mean software, services, or features identified as alpha, beta, preview, early access, or evaluation, or words or phrases with similar meanings.
"Confidential Information" means all non-public information disclosed by either Party to the others, whether in writing, orally or by other means, designated as confidential or that the receiving Party knows or reasonably should know, under the circumstances surrounding the disclosure and the nature of the information, is confidential to the disclosing Party. For the avoidance of doubt, no Content posted on the Service will be considered Confidential Information except for Customer Content stored solely in Customer’s Private Repositories. Confidential Information does not include any information that (i) was or becomes publicly known through no fault of the receiving party; (ii) was rightfully known or becomes rightfully known to the receiving Party without confidential or proprietary restriction from a source other than the disclosing party who has a right to disclose it; (iii) is approved by the disclosing Party for disclosure without restriction in a written document which is signed by a duly authorized officer of such disclosing Party; (iv) the receiving Party independently develops without access to or use of the other Party's Confidential Information; or (v) is or has been stored or posted on the Service and outside of Customer’s Private Repositories.
"Content" means, without limitation, code, text, data, articles, images, packages, photographs, graphics, software, applications, designs, features, and other materials that are featured, displayed, or otherwise made available through the Service.
"Corporate Account" means an account created by a User on behalf of an entity.
"Customer" means the company or organization that has entered into this Agreement with GitHub by clicking on the "I AGREE" or similar button or by accessing the Products.
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