“Affiliates” includes Microsoft and its subsidiaries
Affiliates are defined as companies controlling, controlled by or under common control with LinkedIn, and the examples include LinkedIn Ireland, LinkedIn Corporation, LinkedIn Singapore and Microsoft Corporation or any of its subsidiaries such as GitHub, Inc. Affiliates receive the content license and share the liability limits and disclaimers described elsewhere.
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Affiliates are companies controlling, controlled by or under common control with us, including, for example, LinkedIn Ireland, LinkedIn Corporation, LinkedIn Singapore and Microsoft Corporation or any of its subsidiaries (e.g., Github, Inc.)
You grant LinkedIn and our
LINKEDIN AND ITS AFFILIATES WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU
Qualifications & exceptions
The list of affiliates is given as examples (“including, for example”), not as a complete list.
What you share can be seen, copied and used by others, on or off LinkedIn
The agreement states that information you share on the Services, including through profiles, posts, articles, group posts, links, job postings, messages and InMails, may be seen by other Members, Visitors or others on or off the Services, depending on the feature and your choices. Others can see, copy and use it. Where LinkedIn has made settings available it says it will honor your choices about who can see content, such as sending message content only to addressees, sharing only with connections, restricting profile visibility from search tools, or not notifying others of profile updates.
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When you share information on our Services, others can see, copy and use that information.
information that you share may be seen by other Members, Visitors, or others (on or off of the Services)
Where we have made settings available, we will honor the choices you make about who can see content or other information
through your profile, posts, articles, group posts, links to news articles, job postings, messages, and InMails
(e.g., message content to your addressees, sharing content only to LinkedIn connections, restricting your profile visibility from search tools, or opting not to notify others of your LinkedIn profile update)
Qualifications & exceptions
Depends on the feature and your settings; the promise applies where settings have been made available.
Job-search activity defaults to not notifying connections or the public
For job searching activities, the default is not to notify your connections or the public. If you apply for a job through the Services or signal that you are interested in a job, the default is to share that only with the job poster.
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For job searching activities, we default to not notifying your connections or the public.
if you apply for a job through our Services or opt to signal that you are interested in a job, our default is to share it only with the job poster
Public posts can be made available off LinkedIn and to search tools
LinkedIn says it will honor audience choices such as “Connections only”. If you share a post to “Anyone on or off LinkedIn” (or similar), it may make the post available off LinkedIn, let others publicly share it onto third-party services (for example by embedding), and let search tools make that public content findable through their services.
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We will honor the audience choices for shared content (e.g., “Connections only”).
if you choose to share your post to "Anyone on or off LinkedIn” (or similar): (a) we may make it available off LinkedIn
(b) we may enable others to publicly share onto third-party services (e.g., a Member embedding your post on a third party service)
(c) we may enable search tools to make that public content findable though their services
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies when you choose a public audience such as “Anyone on or off LinkedIn”.