diff --git a/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md b/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7246f53e333..00000000000
--- a/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-All participants in the PyGMT community must abide by
-the [Generic Mapping Tools organization Code of Conduct](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/.github/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 6b926e1bc26..6ff94b2505e 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ exclude .gitignore
 exclude .pre-commit-config.yaml
 exclude .readthedocs.yaml
 exclude AUTHORSHIP.md
-exclude CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
 exclude CONTRIBUTING.md
 exclude Makefile
 exclude environment.yml
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c415f5052df..7fd56461d74 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 [![Digital Object Identifier for the Zenodo archive](https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/3781524.svg)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3781524)
 [![PyOpenSci](https://tinyurl.com/y22nb8up)](https://github.com/pyOpenSci/software-review/issues/43)
 [![GitHub license](https://img.shields.io/github/license/GenericMappingTools/pygmt?style=flat-square)](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/blob/main/LICENSE.txt)
-[![Contributor Code of Conduct](https://img.shields.io/badge/Contributor%20Covenant-v2.1%20adopted-ff69b4.svg)](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md)
+[![Contributor Code of Conduct](https://img.shields.io/badge/Contributor%20Covenant-v2.1%20adopted-ff69b4.svg)](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/.github/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md)
 
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