LinkedIn may use your personal data to develop and train AI models and to personalize its Services
LinkedIn may use your personal data to improve, develop and provide products and Services, to develop and train artificial intelligence (AI) models, to develop, provide and personalize its Services, and to gain insights with the help of AI, automated systems and inferences. How your data is actually used depends on which Services you use, how you use them and the choices you make in your settings. LinkedIn also uses your data to authorize access to the Services and honor your settings.
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We use your data to provide, support, personalize and develop our Services.
How we use your personal data will depend on which Services you use, how you use those Services and the choices you make in your
We may use your personal data to improve, develop, and provide products and Services, develop and train artificial intelligence (AI) models, develop, provide, and personalize our Services, and gain insights with the help of AI, automated systems, and inferences, so that our Services can be more relevant and useful to you and others.
We use your data to authorize access to our Services and honor your settings.
about how we use their data.
Qualifications & exceptions
The policy ties use to your settings choices but does not, in this passage, name a specific setting that controls AI training.
Visitors are described as having separate choices about how their data is used.
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The linked Responsible AI principles and generative AI help pages are not supplied.
Use & Processing · Company practice
Your profile, viewing history and uploaded address books are used to suggest connections and help others find you
LinkedIn uses data about you, such as your profile, profiles you have viewed, and data from address book uploads or partner integrations, to help others find your profile, to suggest connections for you and for others (for example, Members who share your contacts or job experiences), and to let you invite others to join and connect with you.
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We use data about you (such as your profile, profiles you have viewed or data provided through address book uploads or partner integrations) to help others find your profile, suggest connections for you and others (e.g. Members who share your contacts or job experiences) and enable you to invite others to become a Member and connect with you.
Qualifications & exceptions
Profiles you have viewed can feed suggestions made to other people, not only to you.
Use & Processing · User right or choice
You can opt in to let LinkedIn use your precise location or proximity for nearby suggestions, commutes and events
You can opt in to allow LinkedIn to use your precise location or proximity to others for certain tasks, such as suggesting nearby Members to connect with, calculating the commute to a new job, or notifying your connections that you are at a professional event.
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You can also opt-in to allow us to use your precise location or proximity to others for certain tasks (e.g. to suggest other nearby Members for you to connect with, calculate the commute to a new job, or notify your connections that you are at a professional event).
Qualifications & exceptions
This use is described as opt-in.
Use & Processing · Company practice
Ad targeting also uses your logged LinkedIn activity and information from ad partners, vendors and publishers
Continuing the list of ad-targeting data (used separately or combined): data from your use of the Services, including the usage logging described in Section 1.3 (visits, clicks on content and ads, searches, app installs, shares and job applications, identified through log-ins, cookies, device information and IP addresses); and information from advertising partners, vendors and publishers. Inferences drawn from all of this data are also used (see the related card).
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participation, page visits, videos you watch, clicking on an ad, etc.), including as described in Section 1.3;
We log usage data when you visit or otherwise use our Services, including our sites, app and platform technology, such as when you view or click on content (e.g., learning video) or ads (on or off our sites and apps), perform a search, install or update one of our mobile apps, share articles or apply for jobs.
Information from advertising partners, vendors and
about the ad technologies we use and our advertising services and partners. You can learn more about our compliance with laws in the Designated Countries or the UK in our
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LinkedIn points users in the Designated Countries or the UK to the separate European Regional Privacy Notice for its compliance with their laws; that notice is not supplied, so any regional differences in ad targeting are not analyzed here.
The linked pages on ad technologies, advertising services and partners are not supplied.
Members and Visitors have settings to limit use of certain data categories for more relevant ads
You have choices about LinkedIn's use of certain categories of data to show you more relevant ads. Members use their ad settings; Visitors have a separate setting.
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You have choices regarding our uses of certain categories of data to show you more relevant ads. Member settings
For Visitors,
Qualifications & exceptions
The choice covers certain categories of data, not all ad data; non-personalized ads cannot be opted out of.
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Which data categories the settings cover is on linked pages that are not supplied.
Use & Processing · Company practice
LinkedIn uses Members' data and content in invitations and promotions, such as telling connections you used a feature
Besides advertising its Services, LinkedIn uses Members' data and content for invitations and communications promoting membership, network growth, engagement and its Services, for example by showing your connections that you have used a feature.
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We promote our Services to you and others.
In addition to advertising our Services, we use Members’ data and content for invitations and communications promoting membership and network growth, engagement and our Services, such as by showing your connections that you have used a feature on our Services.
Use & Processing · Company practice
LinkedIn uses data, including public feedback, for research and development of its Services
LinkedIn uses data, including public feedback, to conduct research and development for its Services, to provide a better and more personalized experience, drive membership growth and engagement, and help connect professionals to each other and to economic opportunity.
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We develop our Services and conduct research
and development for our Services in order to provide you and others with a better, more intuitive and personalized experience, drive membership growth and engagement on our Services, and help connect professionals to each other and to economic opportunity.
Use & Processing · Company practice
LinkedIn may use your communications to investigate and resolve complaints and service issues
LinkedIn uses data, which can include your communications, to help you and fix problems: to investigate, respond to and resolve complaints, and for Service issues such as bugs.
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We use data to help you and fix problems.
We use data (which can include your communications) to investigate, respond to and resolve complaints and for Service issues (e.g., bugs).
Use & Processing · Context
Your data is processed inside and outside the US, possibly under less protective laws than your own country's
LinkedIn stores and uses your data outside your country. It processes data both inside and outside the United States and relies on legally provided mechanisms to transfer data across borders lawfully. Countries where it processes data may have laws that differ from, and may be less protective than, those of your own country.
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We store and use your data outside your country.
We process data both inside and outside of the United States and rely on legally-provided mechanisms to lawfully transfer data across borders.
Countries where we process data may have laws which are different from, and potentially not as protective as, the laws of your own country.
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The specific transfer mechanisms are on a linked page that is not supplied.
Use & Processing · Company practice
Automated systems suggest message replies and manage or block content that breaks LinkedIn's rules
LinkedIn uses automated systems to support and protect its site. For example, these systems suggest possible responses to messages and manage or block content that violates the User Agreement or the Professional Community Policies.
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to support and protect our site. For example, we use such systems to suggest possible responses to messages and to manage or block content that violates our User Agreement or
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The User Agreement and Professional Community Policies are referenced but not supplied here.
Use & Processing · Company practice
LinkedIn uses your data to recommend jobs to you and to recommend you to recruiters
Your profile can be found by people looking to hire, for a job or a specific task. LinkedIn will use your data to recommend jobs to you, to recommend you to recruiters, and to show you and others relevant professional contacts (for example, people at a company, in an industry, function or location, or with certain skills and connections). You can signal that you are interested in changing jobs and share information with recruiters. LinkedIn may use automated systems to provide content and recommendations to Members, Visitors and customers.
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Your profile can be found by those looking to hire (for a job or a
We will use your data to recommend jobs and show you and others relevant professional contacts (e.g., who work at a company, in an industry, function or location or have certain skills and connections).
in changing jobs and share information with recruiters. We will use your data to recommend jobs to you and you to recruiters. We may use automated systems to provide content and recommendations to help make our Services more relevant to our Members, Visitors and customers.
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The linked page about signaling interest in new jobs is not supplied, so who sees that signal is not detailed here.
Use & Processing · Company practice
If your settings allow, LinkedIn scans messages for tools that schedule, draft, summarize and suggest next steps
If your settings allow it, LinkedIn scans messages to provide "bots" or similar tools that help with tasks such as scheduling meetings, drafting responses, summarizing messages or recommending next steps.
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If your [settings](https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/) allow, we scan messages to provide “bots” or similar tools that facilitate tasks such as scheduling meetings, drafting responses, summarizing messages or recommending next steps.
Qualifications & exceptions
This scanning is conditioned on your settings. Section 1.6 separately says automated systems suggest possible responses to messages without stating that condition.
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Which setting controls this and its default are not stated in the policy.
Cross-references
contrast (model-proposed): Automated systems suggest message replies and manage or block content that breaks LinkedIn's rules — contrast: Section 2.1 conditions scanning messages to draft responses on your settings, while section 1.6 says automated systems suggest possible responses to messages without stating that condition. Reviewed tension: the two passages may describe different features; neither text resolves it.
Use & Processing · Restriction or exception
Tailored ads appear on and off LinkedIn; you have choices on personalized ads but cannot opt out of non-personalized ads
LinkedIn serves you tailored ads both on and off its Services. It offers choices about personalized ads, but you cannot opt out of seeing non-personalized ads.
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We serve you tailored ads both on and off our Services. We offer you choices regarding personalized ads, but you cannot opt-out of seeing non-personalized ads.
Use & Processing · Company practice
Ads are targeted using ad-tech tracking data, your profile details and your activity on LinkedIn, alone or combined
LinkedIn targets and measures ads to Members, Visitors and others, on and off its Services, directly or through partners, using data separately or combined. The listed sources include data collected by advertising technologies on and off LinkedIn (pixels, ad tags such as a LinkedIn tag an advertiser installs on its website, cookies and other device identifiers); Member-provided information (such as profile, contact information, title and industry); and data from your use of the Services (such as search history, feed, content you read, who you follow or who follows you, connections, groups participation, page visits, videos you watch and ad clicks). The list continues in the next section.
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We target (and measure the performance of) ads to Members, Visitors and others both on and off our Services directly or through a variety of partners, using the following data, whether separately or combined:
Data collected by advertising technologies on and off our Services using pixels, ad tags (e.g., when an advertiser installs a LinkedIn
on their website), cookies, and other device identifiers;
Member-provided information (e.g., profile, contact information, title and industry);
Data from your use of our Services (e.g., search history, feed, content you read, who you follow or is following you, connections,
Qualifications & exceptions
Member-provided contact information is listed as an ad-targeting input.