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## Our Pledge ## Our Pledge
We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation We are committed to creating an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive,
in our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless healthy and respectful community.
of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex
characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience,
education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance,
race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open,
welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.
## Our Standards ## Our Standards
Examples of behavior that contributes to a positive environment for Examples of behavior that contributes to a positive environment for our
our community include: community include:
* Demonstrating empathy and kindness toward other people.
* Demonstrating empathy and kindness toward other people * Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences.
* Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences * Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback.
* Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback
* Accepting responsibility and apologizing to those affected by our * Accepting responsibility and apologizing to those affected by our
mistakes, and learning from the experience mistakes, and learning from the experience.
* Focusing on what is best not just for us as individuals, but for the * Focusing on what is best not just for us as individuals, but for the
overall community overall community.
Examples of unacceptable behavior include:
Examples of unacceptable behavior include without limitation:
* The use of sexualized language or imagery, and sexual attention or * The use of sexualized language or imagery, and sexual attention or
advances of any kind advances of any kind.
* The use of violent, intimidating or bullying language or imagery.
* Trolling, insulting or derogatory comments, and personal or * Trolling, insulting or derogatory comments, and personal or
political attacks political attacks.
* Public or private harassment * Public or private harassment.
* Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or email * Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or email
address, without their explicit permission address, without their explicit permission.
* Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in * Spamming community channels and members, such as sending repeat messages,
a professional setting low-effort content, or automated messages.
* Phishing or any similar activity;
* Distributing or promoting malware;
* Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a
professional setting.
* Please also see the Tailscale Acceptable Use Policy, available at
[tailscale.com/tailscale-aup](https://tailscale.com/tailscale-aup).
## Enforcement Responsibilities Please also see the Tailscale Acceptable Use Policy, available at
[tailscale.com/tailscale-aup](https://tailscale.com/tailscale-aup).
Community leaders are responsible for clarifying and enforcing our # Reporting Incidents
standards of acceptable behavior and will take appropriate and fair
corrective action in response to any behavior that they deem
inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.
Community leaders have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior
or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other may be reported to Tailscale directly via info@tailscale.com, or to
contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, and will the community leaders or moderators via DM or similar.
communicate reasons for moderation decisions when appropriate. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly.
We will respect the privacy and safety of the reporter of any issues.
## Scope Please note that this community is not moderated by staff 24/7, and we
do not have, and do not undertake, any obligation to prescreen, monitor,
This Code of Conduct applies within all community spaces, and also edit, or remove any content or data, or to actively seek facts or
applies when an individual is officially representing the community in circumstances indicating illegal activity. While we strive to keep the
public spaces. Examples of representing our community include using an community safe and welcoming, moderation may not be immediate at all hours.
official e-mail address, posting via an official social media account, If you encounter any issues, report them using the appropriate channels.
or acting as an appointed representative at an online or offline
event.
## Enforcement ## Enforcement
Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior Community leaders and moderators are responsible for clarifying and
may be reported to the community leaders responsible for enforcement enforcing our standards of acceptable behavior and will take appropriate
at [info@tailscale.com](mailto:info@tailscale.com). All complaints and fair corrective action in response to any behavior that they deem
will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly. inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.
All community leaders are obligated to respect the privacy and Community leaders and moderators have the right and responsibility to remove,
security of the reporter of any incident. edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other
contributions that are not aligned to this Community Code of Conduct.
Tailscale retains full discretion to take action (or not) in response
to a violation of these guidelines with or without notice or liability
to you. We will interpret our policies and resolve disputes in favor of
protecting users, customers, the public, our community and our company,
as a whole.
## Enforcement Guidelines ## Enforcement Guidelines
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### 1. Correction ### 1. Correction
**Community Impact**: Use of inappropriate language or other behavior Community Impact: Use of inappropriate language or other behavior
deemed unprofessional or unwelcome in the community. deemed unprofessional or unwelcome in the community.
**Consequence**: A private, written warning from community leaders, Consequence: A private, written warning from community leaders,
providing clarity around the nature of the violation and an providing clarity around the nature of the violation and an
explanation of why the behavior was inappropriate. A public apology explanation of why the behavior was inappropriate. A public apology
may be requested. may be requested.
### 2. Warning ### 2. Warning
**Community Impact**: A violation through a single incident or series Community Impact: A violation through a single incident or series
of actions. of actions.
**Consequence**: A warning with consequences for continued Consequence: A warning with consequences for continued
behavior. No interaction with the people involved, including behavior. No interaction with the people involved, including
unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, for unsolicited interaction with those enforcing this Community Code of Conduct,
a specified period of time. This includes avoiding interactions in for a specified period of time. This includes avoiding interactions in
community spaces as well as external channels like social community spaces as well as external channels like social
media. Violating these terms may lead to a temporary or permanent ban. media. Violating these terms may lead to a temporary or permanent ban.
### 3. Temporary Ban ### 3. Temporary Ban
**Community Impact**: A serious violation of community standards, Community Impact: A serious violation of community standards,
including sustained inappropriate behavior. including sustained inappropriate behavior.
**Consequence**: A temporary ban from any sort of interaction or Consequence: A temporary ban from any sort of interaction or
public communication with the community for a specified period of public communication with the community for a specified period of
time. No public or private interaction with the people involved, time. No public or private interaction with the people involved,
including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct,
Conduct, is allowed during this period. Violating these terms may lead is allowed during this period. Violating these terms may lead to a permanent ban.
to a permanent ban.
### 4. Permanent Ban ### 4. Permanent Ban
**Community Impact**: Demonstrating a pattern of violation of Community Impact: Demonstrating a pattern of violation of community
community standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior, standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior, harassment of
harassment of an individual, or aggression toward or disparagement of an individual, or aggression toward or disparagement of
classes of individuals. classes of individuals.
**Consequence**: A permanent ban from any sort of public interaction Consequence: A permanent ban from any sort of public interaction
within the community. within the community.
## Acceptable Use Policy
Violation of this Community Code of Conduct may also violate the
Tailscale Acceptable Use Policy, which may result in suspension or
termination of your Tailscale account. For more information, please
see the Tailscale Acceptable Use Policy, available at
[tailscale.com/tailscale-aup](https://tailscale.com/tailscale-aup).
## Privacy
Please see the Tailscale [Privacy Policy](http://tailscale.com/privacy-policy)
for more information about how Tailscale collects, uses, discloses and protects
information.
## Attribution ## Attribution
This Code of Conduct is adapted from the [Contributor This Code of Conduct is adapted from the [Contributor