diff --git a/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.adoc b/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.adoc
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+= Contributor Code of Conduct
+
+As contributors and maintainers of this project, and in the interest of fostering an open
+and welcoming community, we pledge to respect all people who contribute through reporting
+issues, posting feature requests, updating documentation, submitting pull requests or
+patches, and other activities.
+
+We are committed to making participation in this project a harassment-free experience for
+everyone, regardless of level of experience, gender, gender identity and expression,
+sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age,
+religion, or nationality.
+
+Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:
+
+* The use of sexualized language or imagery
+* Personal attacks
+* Trolling or insulting/derogatory comments
+* Public or private harassment
+* Publishing other's private information, such as physical or electronic addresses,
+  without explicit permission
+* Other unethical or unprofessional conduct
+
+Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments,
+commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this
+Code of Conduct, or to ban temporarily or permanently any contributor for other behaviors
+that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.
+
+By adopting this Code of Conduct, project maintainers commit themselves to fairly and
+consistently applying these principles to every aspect of managing this project. Project
+maintainers who do not follow or enforce the Code of Conduct may be permanently removed
+from the project team.
+
+This Code of Conduct applies both within project spaces and in public spaces when an
+individual is representing the project or its community.
+
+Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported by
+contacting a project maintainer at spring-code-of-conduct@pivotal.io . All complaints will
+be reviewed and investigated and will result in a response that is deemed necessary and
+appropriate to the circumstances. Maintainers are obligated to maintain confidentiality
+with regard to the reporter of an incident.
+
+This Code of Conduct is adapted from the
+http://contributor-covenant.org[Contributor Covenant], version 1.3.0, available at
+http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/3/0/[contributor-covenant.org/version/1/3/0/]
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 Spring Session is released under the Apache 2.0 license. If you would like to contribute
 something, or simply want to hack on the code this document should help you get started.
 
-
+== Code of Conduct
+This project adheres to the Contributor Covenant link:CODE_OF_CONDUCT.adoc[code of conduct].
+By participating, you  are expected to uphold this code. Please report unacceptable behavior to spring-code-of-conduct@pivotal.io.
 
 == Using GitHub issues
 
diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
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@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ Spring Session aims to provide a common infrastructure for managing sessions. Th
 ** Pluggable strategy for determining the session id
 ** Easily keep the HttpSession alive when a WebSocket is active
 
+== Code of Conduct
+This project adheres to the Contributor Covenant link:CODE_OF_CONDUCT.adoc[code of conduct].
+By participating, you  are expected to uphold this code. Please report unacceptable behavior to spring-code-of-conduct@pivotal.io.
+
 = Spring Session Project Site
 
 You can find the documentation, issue management, support, samples, and guides for using Spring Session at http://projects.spring.io/spring-session/