Retention & Deletion · Company practice
After cancellation GitHub retains information as needed, then deletes your profile and repository Content within 90 days
GitHub will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with its legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce its agreements. Barring legal requirements, it will delete your full profile and the Content of your repositories within 90 days of cancellation or termination, though some information may remain in encrypted backups. This information cannot be recovered once your Account is canceled. GitHub will not delete Content you contributed to other Users' repositories or that other Users have forked.
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We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements, but barring legal requirements, we will delete your full profile and the Content of your repositories within 90 days of cancellation or termination (though some information may remain in encrypted backups). This information cannot be recovered once your Account is canceled.
We will not delete Content that you have contributed to other Users' repositories or that other Users have forked.
Qualifications & exceptions
- Deletion within 90 days is stated “barring legal requirements.”
- Some information may remain in encrypted backups.
- Content contributed to other Users' repositories, or forked by others, is not deleted.
Not stated here
- The text does not state how long retained legal, dispute or enforcement information is kept, or how long encrypted backups persist.