Use & Processing · User right or choice
Members and visitors each have their own settings to opt out of targeted ads
You have choices about the personalized ads you may see, as described in Section 2.4 of LinkedIn’s Privacy Policy. LinkedIn Members can adjust their advertising settings, and visitors have separate visitor controls; both are linked from the policy under the heading “Opt out of targeted advertising”.
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you have choices regarding the personalized ads you may see.
LinkedIn Members can adjust their settings
Visitor controls can be found
Qualifications & exceptions
- Members and visitors use different controls.
- These controls are about personalized or targeted ads; the policy does not say they stop cookies being set for other purposes.
Not stated here
- Section 2.4 of the Privacy Policy, which describes these choices, was not supplied with this document.
- The settings pages themselves were not supplied, so what each control turns off is not covered here.
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Use & Processing · User right or choice
Device settings such as Android’s can limit mobile ad IDs for ad personalization
Some mobile operating systems, such as Android, let you control whether mobile advertising IDs are used for ad personalization. The policy points you to the device manufacturer’s website to learn how to use those controls.
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Some mobile device operating systems such as Android provide the ability to control the use of mobile advertising IDs for ads personalization. You can learn how to use these controls by visiting the manufacturer’s website.
Qualifications & exceptions
- Available only on mobile operating systems that offer such controls (“some”).
Not stated here
- The policy does not say how LinkedIn responds when you use these controls.
Use & Processing · Company practice
Cookies power site features and remember your browser, language and communications preferences
LinkedIn uses cookies and similar technologies to make its Services work, for example helping you fill out forms more easily and providing features, insights and customized content together with its plugins. It also uses them to remember information about your browser and your preferences, such as which language you prefer and your communications preferences. LinkedIn may also use local storage to speed up the site.
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We use cookies and similar technologies to enable the functionality of our Services, such as helping you to fill out forms on our Services more easily and providing you with features, insights and customized content in conjunction with our plugins.
We also use these technologies to remember information about your browser and your preferences.
For example, cookies can tell us which language you prefer and what your communications preferences are. We may also use local storage to speed up site functionality.
Qualifications & exceptions
- Remembering preferences covers information about your browser as well as your stated preferences.
Use & Processing · Company practice
Cookies can remember your past searches to show related information later
LinkedIn uses cookies and similar technologies to customize your experience on its Services. For example, it may use cookies to remember your previous searches so that when you come back it can offer more information related to them.
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We use cookies and similar technologies to customize your experience on our Services.
For example, we may use cookies to remember previous searches so that when you return to our services, we can offer additional information that relates to your previous search.
Qualifications & exceptions
- Remembering previous searches is given as an example (“may”), not a complete description.
Not stated here
- The policy does not say how long previous searches are remembered.
Use & Processing · Company practice
Cookies target ads on and off LinkedIn and track whether you later act on another site
Cookies and similar technologies help LinkedIn show you relevant advertising, both on and off its Services, and measure how those ads perform. LinkedIn uses them to learn whether content has been shown to you, or whether someone who saw an ad later came back and took an action on another site, such as downloading a white paper or making a purchase. LinkedIn’s partners or service providers may also use these technologies to find out whether LinkedIn showed an ad or post and how it performed, or to give LinkedIn information about how you interact with ads.
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Cookies and similar technologies help us show relevant advertising to you more effectively, both on and off our Services and to measure the performance of such ads.
We use these technologies to learn whether content has been shown to you or whether someone who was presented with an ad later came back and took an action (e.g., downloaded a white paper or made a purchase) on another site.
Similarly, our partners or service providers may use these technologies to determine whether we've shown an ad or a post and how it performed or provide us with information about how you interact with ads.
For further information regarding the use of cookies for advertising purposes, please see
Qualifications & exceptions
- Partners and service providers are described as using these technologies for ad and post measurement and for reporting your ad interactions to LinkedIn.
Not stated here
- The Privacy Policy, which this section points to for more detail, was not supplied with this document.
- The policy refers to Sections 1.4 and 2.4 of the Privacy Policy for more on advertising cookies; that text is not covered here.
Use & Processing · Company practice
Cookies track how you use LinkedIn, including from other sites, apps and devices, for analytics
Cookies and similar technologies help LinkedIn learn how well its Services and plugins perform in different locations. LinkedIn or its service providers use them to understand, improve and research products, features and services, including as you navigate LinkedIn’s sites or access LinkedIn from other sites, applications or devices. They also use them to measure how ads or posts perform on and off LinkedIn, to learn whether you have interacted with LinkedIn’s websites, content or emails, and to provide analytics based on those interactions.
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Cookies and similar technologies help us learn more about how well our Services and plugins perform in different locations.
We or our service providers use these technologies to understand, improve, and research products, features and services, including as you navigate through our sites or when you access LinkedIn from other sites, applications or devices.
use these technologies to determine and measure the performance of ads or posts on and off LinkedIn and to learn whether you have interacted with our websites, content or emails and provide analytics based on those interactions.
Qualifications & exceptions
- Service providers as well as LinkedIn use these technologies for analytics and research.