Managing your sponsorship

You can manage who can see your sponsorship and whether you receive email updates from the sponsored account.

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Managing the privacy setting for your sponsorship

  1. On GitHub, navigate to the sponsored account's profile.
  2. Navigate to your sponsorship dashboard for the account.

    • If you're sponsoring a personal account, under the user's name, click Sponsoring.

      Screenshot of the sidebar of @octocat's profile page. A button, labeled with a heart icon and "Sponsoring", is outlined in dark orange.

    • If you're sponsoring an organization, to the right of the organization's name, click Sponsoring.

  3. Optionally, to manage a sponsorship on behalf of an organization, on the right side of the page, use the Sponsoring as dropdown menu, then click the organization.
  4. To the right of your current tier, click Manage.
  5. Choose who can see your sponsorship.
  6. Click Update sponsorship.

Managing email updates for your sponsorship

You can choose whether an account you sponsor can send you email updates about their work. The sponsored account will not have access to your email address.

You can designate which email address receives updates from the accounts your organization sponsors. For more information, see "Managing updates from accounts your organization sponsors."

  1. On GitHub, navigate to the sponsored account's profile.
  2. Navigate to your sponsorship dashboard for the account.

    • If you're sponsoring a personal account, under the user's name, click Sponsoring.

      Screenshot of the sidebar of @octocat's profile page. A button, labeled with a heart icon and "Sponsoring", is outlined in dark orange.

    • If you're sponsoring an organization, to the right of the organization's name, click Sponsoring.

  3. Optionally, to manage a sponsorship on behalf of an organization, on the right side of the page, use the Sponsoring as dropdown menu, then click the organization.
  4. To the right of your current tier, click Manage.
  5. Decide whether you want to receive email updates from the sponsored account, then select or deselect Receive email updates from ACCOUNT.
  6. Click Update sponsorship.

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