Updates to User Agreement and Privacy Policy
Last updated: 2 months agoWe periodically update our User Agreement and Privacy Policy to help ensure our Members and Visitors to our services understand their rights and responsibilities when they use LinkedIn services and provide them updates on how we collect, use and protect personal data.
Effective November 3rd, 2025, we’ve updated these terms in the following ways:
- User Agreement:
- We’ve sought to make this more readable by clarifying some language and moving some defined terms such as “Affiliates” nearer to the top of the User Agreement.
- An “Affiliate” is a term that refers to a family of companies that are related by ownership. LinkedIn Ireland and LinkedIn Corp. are affiliates and so is Microsoft and its subsidiaries (e.g., Github, Inc.).
- We’ve updated when and how we will provide notice about update to these terms.
- For members who purchase services from us, we’ve made it clearer when we use any secondary payment methods that a member may have provided to us.
- We’ve clarified that deep fakes and other wrongful impersonations are not allowed on our Services, and augmented our recommendation that members verify information they find on the service before they rely on it.
- We’ve provided a link to more information on how and when members have a right of redress for decisions made by LinkedIn that may impact them.
- We’ve sought to make this more readable by clarifying some language and moving some defined terms such as “Affiliates” nearer to the top of the User Agreement.
- Global Privacy Policy:
- We provide more clarity about our use of data from Affiliates, and for some regions, we are expanding the types of data that we share with Microsoft (a LinkedIn affiliate) for their ad services.Learn more. In our 2024 Privacy Policy update, we made clear to our members that LinkedIn may share your public content (such as your public LinkedIn posts) with our Affiliates, including Microsoft, to provide or develop their services.
- Our US State Regional Privacy included updates on targeted advertising.
- OurEuropean Regional Privacy Notice was updated with more information about our use of data for training GenAI models, including identifying legitimate interest as our legal basis for this processing of personal data.
We understand that our success in achieving our mission of connecting the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful is based on the trust our members have placed in LinkedIn. We strive to foster this trust by being open and transparent. We encourage members to read the revisedUser Agreement andPrivacy Policy.
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Some other recent updates to the User Agreement:
- 2024: Updates include:
- More detail on the information submitted to create an account
- Examples to illustrate the data sharing described in Section 3
- Links to existing resources for how our users can exercise their rights
- More examples and details to clarify how we use personal data to develop and provide AI-powered services and share data with our affiliates with additional links to information that may be relevant to individuals in certain regions
- Additional details on our generative AI features
- More explanation on how we recommend and moderate content
- Changes to the license for member content provided to us
- 2022: Updates included clarifications to how and where we will resolve any disputes that may arise with our members.
- 2020: Updates included theremoval of references to the SlideShare business which we no longer operate.