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<span class="preheader" style="color: transparent; display: none; height: 0; max-height: 0; max-width: 0; opacity: 0; overflow: hidden; mso-hide: all; visibility: hidden; width: 0;">Updated Terms of Service and new Site Policy repository</span>
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<h1 style="color: #111111 !important; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0 0 10px; font-size: 30px;">Updated Terms of Service and new Site Policy repository</h1>
<p style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 15px;">We're updating our <a href="https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0366d6; text-decoration: underline;">Terms of Service</a> and <a href="https://help.github.com/articles/github-corporate-terms-of-service/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0366d6; text-decoration: underline;">Corporate Terms of Service</a>. These revisions are the result of community feedback, along with clarifications and improvements to the readability of both documents. All changes are in separate pull requests in a new working repository, <a href="https://github.com/github/site-policy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0366d6; text-decoration: underline;">github/site-policy</a>. Here, you can view, comment, and suggest additional updates—or fork a copy to adapt for your own site.</p>
<p style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 15px;">Please submit your comments by 5:00 pm PST on Friday, July 28. After that, we’ll take a week to go through your comments and make changes to improve the Terms. The new Terms will become effective on Monday, August 7.</p>
<h2 style="color: #111111 !important; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0 0 10px; font-size: 24px;">Pull requests welcome</h2>
<p style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 15px;">We welcome you to look over our changes and share your input using the new Site Policy repository. Please follow our <a href="https://github.com/github/site-policy/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0366d6; text-decoration: underline;">Contributor Guidelines</a>, and let us know if you see anything you think should be different—whether it’s a missed typo or a rule that might have implications we haven’t thought of.</p>
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<p style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 15px;">Added a product description to the <a href="https://help.github.com/articles/github-business-plan-addendum/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0366d6; text-decoration: underline;">GitHub Business Plan Addendum</a></p>
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<p style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 15px;">Updated the <a href="https://help.github.com/articles/amendment-to-github-terms-of-service-applicable-to-u-s-federal-government-users/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0366d6; text-decoration: underline;">Amendment to GitHub Terms of Service Applicable to U.S. Federal Government Users</a> to reflect previous changes to notification policy</p>
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