Cookie Policy

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context

The policy covers LinkedIn products and services that link to it or incorporate it

This Cookie Policy, effective June 3, 2022, applies to any LinkedIn product or service that links to it or incorporates it by reference. It describes how LinkedIn uses cookies and similar technologies as part of its “Services”. The policy borrows that term from LinkedIn’s Privacy Policy and says it includes LinkedIn’s sites, communications, mobile applications and off-site Services, such as its ad services and the “Apply with LinkedIn” and “Share with LinkedIn” plugins or tags.

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Effective on June 3, 2022

This Cookie Policy applies to any LinkedIn product or service that links to this policy or incorporates it by reference.

as part of our Services, as defined in our Privacy Policy (“Services”) and which includes our sites, communications, mobile applications and off-site Services, such as our ad services and the “Apply with LinkedIn” and “Share with LinkedIn” plugins or tags.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Coverage of a particular LinkedIn product or service turns on whether it links to this policy or incorporates it by reference.
• “Services” reaches beyond linkedin.com: it includes off-site Services such as LinkedIn ad services and the Apply with LinkedIn and Share with LinkedIn plugins or tags.

Not stated here

• The full definition of “Services” is in the Privacy Policy, which was not supplied with this document.
• Which specific LinkedIn products link to or incorporate this policy is not listed.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Permission or license

Continuing to visit or use LinkedIn counts as agreeing to its cookie use

The policy states that if you continue to visit or use LinkedIn’s Services, you are agreeing to LinkedIn’s use of cookies and similar technologies for the purposes this policy describes. The agreement is tied to those described purposes, not to any purpose at all. The policy separately describes settings and browser controls you can use to limit cookies and targeted ads.

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By continuing to visit or use our Services, you are agreeing to the use of cookies and similar technologies for the purposes described in this policy.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The agreement covers use for the purposes described in this policy.
• The Your Choices section describes ad settings, visitor controls, device ad-ID controls and browser controls that can limit cookies or personalized ads.

Not stated here

• This text does not describe a cookie banner, consent prompt or any region-specific consent mechanism.

Cross-references

• contrast (model-proposed): LinkedIn does not generally respond to Do Not Track signals — Consent is inferred from continued use, while a browser Do Not Track signal, a stated wish not to be tracked, is generally not acted on.
• defined by (model-proposed): “Cookies” in this policy also means pixels, local storage, mobile ad IDs and other trackers — The umbrella definition of “cookies” sets what the acceptance-by-use statement covers: pixels, local storage, mobile ad IDs and other tracking technologies as well as cookies.
• qualified by (model-proposed): You can limit cookies, but you may lose personalization and saved settings like login information — Agreement by continued use sits alongside stated choices to limit cookies, with the trade-off that limiting may reduce personalization and saved settings.
• qualified by (model-proposed): Most browsers let you control, review and erase cookies, including LinkedIn’s — Browser settings are described as a way to reflect your consent to cookies and to erase LinkedIn cookies, a control beside the acceptance-by-use statement.