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@@ -5,6 +5,15 @@ documentation, we welcome our community to be involved in this project.
 
 Please read through this document before submitting any issues or pull requests to ensure we are able to help you and all members of the community as effectively as possible.
 
+## Code of conduct
+This project has adopted the [Amazon Open Source Code of Conduct](https://aws.github.io/code-of-conduct).
+For more information see the [Code of Conduct FAQ](https://aws.github.io/code-of-conduct-faq) or contact
+opensource-codeofconduct@amazon.com with any additional questions or comments.
+
+
+## Security issue notifications
+If you discover a potential security issue in this project we ask that you notify AWS/Amazon Security via our [vulnerability reporting page](http://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting/). Please do **not** create a public github issue.
+
 
 ## Submitting a bugs/feature request
 Have a bug to report or feature to request? Follow these steps:
@@ -53,16 +62,6 @@ All pull requests must be approved by our review team before it can be merged in
 Looking at the existing issues is a great way to find something to contribute on. As our projects, by default, use the default GitHub issue labels (enhancement/bug/duplicate/help wanted/invalid/question/wontfix), tackling open 'help wanted' issues is a great place to start.
 
 
-## Code of conduct
-This project has adopted the [Amazon Open Source Code of Conduct](https://aws.github.io/code-of-conduct).
-For more information see the [Code of Conduct FAQ](https://aws.github.io/code-of-conduct-faq) or contact
-opensource-codeofconduct@amazon.com with any additional questions or comments.
-
-
-## Security issue notifications
-If you discover a potential security issue in this project we ask that you notify AWS/Amazon Security via our [vulnerability reporting page](http://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting/). Please do **not** create a public github issue.
-
-
 ## Licensing
 The FreeRTOS kernel is released under the MIT open source license, the text of which can be found [here](https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS/blob/master/FreeRTOS/License/license.txt)