Effectiveon June 7, 2017May 8, 2018We will update ourOur Privacy Policysoon. Pleasehas been updated. Click here to see a summary of changes. See a guided tour of thepreview.main changes. YOUR PRIVACY MATTERS LinkedIn’s mission is to connect the world’s professionals to allow them to be more productive and successful. Central to this mission is our commitment to be transparentwith youabout the data we collect aboutyou andyou, how it is used and with whom it is shared.By using our Services,This Privacy Policy applies when youconsent to ouruseof yourour Services (described below). We offer our users choices about the dataunderwe collect, use and share as described in this PrivacyPolicy.Policy, Cookie Policy, SettingsSettings are available to Members of LinkedIn, Settings for Slideshare Registered Users can be accessed by logging in and going to Account Settings, and Visitors are provided controls. Learn More and our Help Center. View our Privacy Policy video TABLE OF CONTENTS: IntroductionInformationData We Collect How We Use Your Data How We Share Information Your Choices & Obligations Other Important Information INTRODUCTION We are a social network and online platform for professionals. People use ourservicesServices to find and be found for business opportunities and to connect with others and information. Our Privacy Policy applies to any Member or Visitor tothe coveredour Services. Our registered users (“MEMBERS”) share their professional identities, engage with their network, exchange knowledge and professional insights, post and view relevant content, learn and find business and career opportunities. Content and data on some of ourservicesServices isavailableviewable to non-members (“VISITORS”).Data Controllers If you resideWe use the term “DESIGNATED COUNTRIES” to refer to countries in theUnited States, you are entering into the User Agreement with LinkedIn Corporation, who will be responsible for your personal data provided to, or collected by or for, our Services. If you reside outside the United States, you are entering into the User Agreement with LinkedIn Ireland U.C., who will be the controller of your personal data provided to, or collected by or for, our Services.European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), and Switzerland. Services This Privacy Policy, including our Cookie Policy applies to your use of our Services. This Privacy Policy applies to LinkedIn.com, LinkedIn-branded apps, Slideshare, LinkedIn Learning and other LinkedIn-related sites, apps, communications and services (“SERVICES”), including off-site Services, such as our ad services and the “Apply with LinkedIn” and “Share with LinkedIn” plugins, but excluding services that state that they are offered under a different privacy policy.If you use our Services, you consent to this Privacy Policy, including our Cookies Policy.DATA CONTROLLERS AND CONTRACTING PARTIESConsentIf you reside in the “Designated Countries”: LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (“LinkedIn Ireland”) will be the controller of your personal data provided to, or collected by or for, or processed in connection with our Services; you are entering into the User Agreement with LinkedIn Ireland. If youuse our Services, you consent toreside outside of thecollection, use and sharingDesignated Countries: LinkedIn Corporation will be the controller of your personal dataunder this Privacy Policy (which includesprovided to, or collected by or for, or processed in connection with, ourCookie PolicyThe Cookie Policy describes the use of cookies and similar technologies. and other documents referenced in this Privacy Policy) and agree toServices; you are entering into the UserAgreement. We provide you choices that allow you to opt-out or control how we use and share your data.Agreement with LinkedIn Corporation.If you useAs a Visitor or Member of ourServices after an updateServices, the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to this PrivacyPolicy, you consent to the changed policy.Policy (which includes our Cookie Policy and other documents referenced in this Privacy Policy) and updates. ChangeWe mayChanges to the Privacy Policy apply to your use of our Services after the “effective date.” LinkedIn (“we” or “us”) can modify this Privacy Policy, and if we make material changes to it, we will provide notice through our Services, or by other means, to provide you the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective. If you object to any changes, you may close your account.YourYou acknowledge that your continued use of our Services after we publish or send a notice about our changes to this Privacy Policy means thatyou are consentingthe collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to the updated Privacy Policy. 1.INFORMATIONDATA WE COLLECT 1.1INFORMATIONDATA YOU PROVIDE TO US You provide data to create an account with us. Registration To create an account you need to provide data including your name, email address and/or mobile number, and a password. If you register for a premium Service,we askyouforwill need to provide payment (e.g., credit card) and billing information. You create your LinkedIn profile (a complete profile helps you get the most from our Services). Profile You have choices about the information on your profile, such as your education, work experience, skills, photo, city or area and endorsements. SomeprofessionalsMembers may choose to complete a separate ProFinder profile.ProfileYou don’t have to provide additional information on your profile; however, profile information helps you to get more from our Services, including helping recruiters and business opportunities find you. It’s your choice whether to include sensitive informationWe do NOT requiremembersMembers to include sensitive data (e.g., race, ethnicity, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs,membership of atradeunion,union membership, physical or mental health, sexuallifeorientation or criminal record) in their LinkedIn profile. If you choose to post any such data, it is visible to others like the rest of the profile information you provide. on yourprofile. PLEASE DO NOT POST OR ADD PERSONAL DATA TO YOUR PROFILE THAT YOU WOULD NOT WANT TO BE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE.profile and to make that sensitive information public. Please do not post or add personal data to your profile that you would not want to be publicly available. You give other data to us, such as by syncing your address book or calendar. Posting And Uploading We collect personal data from you when you provide, post or upload it to our Services, such as when you fill out a form, (e.g., with demographic data or salary), respond to asurvey (e.g., Members’ salary),survey, or submit aresume and apply for or save jobs or send invitations.resume. If you opt to import your address book, we receive your contacts (including contact information your service provider(s) or app automatically added to your address book when you communicated with addresses or numbers not already in your list).If you sync your email or calendars with our Services, we will collect your “email header” and calendar meeting information (e.g. times, places, attendees and contacts).1.2 INFORMATIONIf you sync your contacts or calendars with our Services, we will collect your address book and calendar meeting information to keep growing your network by suggesting connections for you and others, and by providing information about them, e.g. times, places, attendees and contacts. You don’t have to post or upload personal data; though if you don’t, it may limit your ability to grow and engage with your network over our Services. 1.2 DATA FROM OTHERS Others may post or write about you. Content And News You and others may post content that includes information about youon our Services(as part ofblogarticles, posts,feed updates andcomments,videos).videos) on our Services. Unless you opt-out, we collect public information about you, such as professional-related news and accomplishments (e.g., patents granted, professional recognition, conference speakers, projects, etc.) and make it available as part of our Services (e.g. suggestions for your profile, or notifications of mentions in the news). Others may sync their contacts or calendar with our Services. Contact And Calendar Information We receive personal data (including contact information) about you when others import or sync theiraddress bookcontacts or calendar with our Services, associate their contacts with Member profiles, or send messages using our Services (including invites or connection requests). If you or others opt-in to sync email accounts with our Services, we will also collect “email header” information that we can associate with Member profiles. Customers and partners may provide data to us. PartnersWeWe receive personal data about you when you use the services of our customers and partners, such as employers, prospective employers and applicant tracking systems providing us job application data. Related Companies And Other Services We receive data about you when you use some of the other services provided by us or our affiliatesAffiliates are companies controlling, controlled by or under common control with us, including, for example, LinkedIn Ireland, LinkedIn Corporation, LinkedIn Singapore and Microsoft Corporation., including Microsoft. For example, you may choose to send information about your contacts in Microsoft apps and services, such as Outlook, to us for improved professional networking activities on our Services. 1.3 SERVICE USE We log your visits and use of our Services, including mobile apps. We log usage data when you visit or otherwise use our Services, including our sites, app and platform technology (e.g., our off-site plugins), 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. We use log-ins, cookies, device information and internet protocol (“IP”) addresses to identify you and log your use. 1.4 COOKIES, WEB BEACONS AND OTHER SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES We collect data through cookies and similar technologies. As further described in our CookiePolicy,PolicyThe Cookie Policy describes the use of cookies and similar technologies., we use cookies and similar technologies (e.g., web beacons, pixels, ad tags and device identifiers) to recognize you and/or your device(s) on, off and across different Services and devices. We also allow some others to use cookies as described in our Cookie Policy. You can control cookies through your browser settings and other tools. You can alsoopt outopt-out from our use of cookies and similar technologies that track your behavior on the sites of others for third party advertising. For Visitors, theopt outopt-out is here. 1.5 YOUR DEVICE AND LOCATION We receive data from your devices and networks, including location data. When you visit or leave our Services (including our plugins or cookies or similar technology on the sites of others), we receive the URL of both the site you came from and the one you go to next. We also get information about your IP address, proxy server, operating system, web browser and add-ons, device identifier and features, and/or ISP or your mobile carrier. If you use our Services from a mobile device, that device will send us data about yourlocation. Most devices allowlocation based on your phone settings. We will ask you toprevent location data from being sent to us andopt-in before wehonoruse GPS or other toolse.g. bluetooth to identify yoursettings.precise location. 1.6 MESSAGES If you communicate through our Services, we learn about that. We collect information about you when you send, receive, or engage with messages in connection with our Services. For example, if you get a LinkedIn connection request, we track whether you have acted on it and will send you reminders. We also use automatic scanning technology on messages. 1.7 WORKPLACE AND SCHOOL PROVIDED INFORMATION When your employer or school buys a premium Service for you touse at work,use, theymaygive us data about you.An employer (or other person or entity procuringOthers buying our Services for youruse) mayuse, such as your employer or your school, provide usinformationwith personal data about you and your eligibility to use the Services that they purchase for use by theiremployeesworkers, students orcontractors who make use of these Services.alumni. For example, we will get contact information for “Company Page” administrators and for authorizing users of our premium Services, such as our recruiting, sales or learning products. 1.8 SITES AND SERVICES OF OTHERS We get data when you visit sites that include our plugins, ads or cookies or log-in to others’ services with your LinkedIn account. We receive information about your visits and interaction with services provided by others when you log-in with LinkedIn or visit others’ services that include our plugins (such as “Share on LinkedIn” or “Apply with LinkedIn”), ads, cookies or similar technologies. 1.9 OTHER We are improving our Services, which means we get new data and create new ways to use data. Our Services aredynamicdynamic, and we often introduce new features, which may require the collection of new information. If we collect materially different personal data or materially change how we use your data, we will notify you and may also modify this Privacy Policy. 2. HOW WE USE YOUR DATA 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 settings. We use the data that we have about you toprovide, support, personalizeprovide andmakepersonalize, including with the help of automated systems and inferences we make, our Services (including ads) so that they can be more relevant and useful to you and others. 2.1 SERVICES Our Services help you connect with others, find and be found for work and business opportunities, stay informed, get training and be more productive. We use your data toauthenticate you andauthorize access to our Services. Stay Connected Our Services allow you to stay intouch, in communicationtouch and up to date with colleagues, partners, clients, and other professional contacts. To do so, you will “connect” with the professionals who you choose, and who also wish to “connect” with you.WhenSubject to your settings, when youconnect,connect with other Members, you will be able to search each others’ connections in order to exchange professional opportunities. We will 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 yourcontacts)contacts or job experiences) and enable you to invite others to become a Member and connect with you. You can alsooptopt-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 connectwith. Itwith, calculate the commute to a new job, or notify your connections that you are at a professional event). It is your choice whether to invite someone to our Services, send a connection request, or allow another Member to become your connection. When you invite someone to connect with you, your invitation will include your name, photo, network and contact information. We will send invitation reminders to the person you invited. You can choose whether or not to share your own list of connections with your connections. Visitors have choices about how we use their data. Stay Informed Our Services allow you to stay informed about news, events and ideas regarding professional topics you care about, and from professionals you respect. Our Services also allow you to improve your professional skills, or learn new ones. We use theinformationdata we have about you (e.g., data you provide, data we collect from your engagement with our Services and inferences we make from the data we have about you), to recommend relevant contentacrossand conversations on our Services, suggest skills you may have to add to your profile and skills that you might need to pursue your next opportunity. So, if you let us know that you are interested in a new skill (e.g., by watching a learning video), we will use this information to personalize content in your feed, suggest that you follow certain members on our site, or watch related learning content to help you towards that new skill. We use your content, activity and other data, including your name and picture, to provide notices to your network and others. For example, subject to your settings, we may notify others that you have updated your profile, posted a blog, took a social actione.g. like, comment, follow, share, made new connections or were mentioned in the news. Career Our Services allow you to explore careers, evaluate educational opportunities, and seek out, and be found for, career opportunities. Your profile can be found by those looking to hire (for a job or a specific task) or be hired by you. We will use your data to recommendjobs,jobs or mentees, show you and others who work at a company, in an industry, function or location or have certain skills and connections. You can signal that you are interested in changing jobs and share information with job recruiters. Wemaywill use yourprofile and activitydata to recommend jobs to you and you to recruiters. We may use automated systems to profile and provide recommendations to help make our Services more relevant to our Members, Visitors and customers. Keeping your profile accurate and up-to-date may help you better connect to others and to opportunities through our Services. Productivity Our Services allow you to collaborate with colleagues, search for potential clients, customers, partners and others to do business with. Our Services allow you to communicate with otherprofessionalsMembers and schedule and prepare meetings with them.Subject toIf yoursettings,settings allow, we scan messages to provide “bots” or similar tools that facilitate tasks such as scheduling meetings,draftdrafting responses,summarizesummarizing messages orrecommendrecommending next steps. Learn more. 2.2 PREMIUM SERVICES Our premium Services allow paying users to search for and contact Members through our Services, such as searching for and contacting job candidates, sales leads and co-workers, manage talent and promote content through social media. We sell premium Services that provide our customers and subscribers customized-search functionality and tools (including messaging and activity alerts) as part of our talent, marketing and sales solutions.These subscribersCustomers can export limited information from your profile, such as name, headline, current company, current title, and general location (e.g., Dublin), in order to manage sales leads or talent, unless youopt out.opt-out. We do not provide contact information tothese subscriberscustomers as part of these premium Services without your consent. A premium Servicessubscribercustomer can store information he/she has about you in our premium Services, such as a resume or contact information or sales history. The data provided about you by thesesubscriberscustomers is subject to the policies of thosesubscribers.customers. Other enterprise Services and features that use your data includeLinkedIn Referrals (job referrals), Lookup (enterprise directory)TeamLink and Elevate (social promotion of content).Learn more.2.3 COMMUNICATIONS We contact you and enable communications betweenmembers.Members. We offer settings to control what messages you receive and how often you receive some types of messages. We will contact you through email, mobile phone, notices posted on our websites or apps, messages to your LinkedIn inbox, and other ways through our Services, including text messages and push notifications. We will send you messages about the availability of our Services, security, or other service-related issues. We also send messages about how to use the Services, network updates, reminders, job suggestions and promotional messages from us and our partners. You may change your communication preferences at any time. Please be aware that you cannotopt outopt-out of receiving service messages from us, including security and legal notices. We also enable communications between you and others through our Services, including for example invitations, InMail, groups and messages between connections. 2.4 ADVERTISING We serve you tailored ads both on and offofour Services. We offer you choicesto opt out of interest basedregarding personalized ads, but you cannotopt outopt-out of seeinggenericother ads. We target (and measure the performance of) ads to Members, Visitors and others both on and offofour Services directly or through a variety of partnersPartners include adnetworksnetworks, exchanges andexchanges,others, using the following data, whether separately or combined: Data from advertising technologies on and offofour Services, like web beacons, pixels, ad tags, cookies, and 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, groups participation, page visits, videos you watch, clicking on an ad, etc.), including as described in Section 1.3; Information fromothers (e.g.advertisingpartners,partners and publishers [Learn More]; anddata aggregators);Information inferred from data described above (e.g., using job titles from a profile to inferage,industry, seniority, and compensation bracket; using graduation dates to infer age or using first names or pronoun usage to infer gender). We will show you ads called sponsored content which looklikesimilar to non-sponsored content, except that they are labeledads“ads” orsponsored.“sponsored.” If you take an action (such as like, comment or share) on these ads, your action is associated with your name and viewable by others, including thead provider.advertiser. Subject to your settings, if you take a social action on the LinkedIn Services, that actionFor example, when you like a company, we may include your name and photo when their sponsored content is shown to your connections. may be mentioned with related ads. Ad Choices We adhere to self-regulatory principles for interest-based advertising and participate in industryopt outsopt-outs from such ads. This does not opt you out of receivingadvertising -advertising; you will continue to getgeneric ads orother ads by advertisers not listed with these self regulatory tools. You can alsoopt outopt-out specifically frominterest-based advertising served throughourplatform for third parties.uses of certain categories of data to show you more relevant ads. Fornon-Members, thisVisitors, the setting is here. Info ToAdvertisersAd Providers We do not share your personal data with any third-party advertisers or(other thanad networks for their advertising except for: (i) hashed or deviceidentifiers, toidentifiers (to the extent they are personal data in somecountries) ad networks for their advertising withoutcountries); (ii) with your separatepermission.permission (e.g., lead generation form) or (iii) data already visible to any users of the Services (e.g. profile). However, if you view or click on anad,ad on or off our site or apps, the adposterprovider willknow youget a signal that someone visited the page thatyou clicked on. Also, advertisingdisplayed the ad, and they may through the use of mechanisms such as cookies determine it is you. Advertising partners can associate personal data collected by the advertiser directly from you with our cookies and similar technologies. In such instances, we seek to contractually require suchadvertisersadvertising partners to obtain your explicit, opt-in consent before doing so. 2.5 MARKETING We promote our Services to you and others. We use data and content about Members for invitations and communications promoting membership and network growth, engagement and our Services. 2.6 DEVELOPING SERVICES AND RESEARCH We develop our Services and conduct research. Service Development We use data, including public feedback, to conduct research and development for the further development of 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. Other Research We seek to create economic opportunity formembersMembers of the global workforce and to help them be more productive and successful. We use the personal data available to us to research social, economic and workplace trends such as jobs availability and skills needed for these jobs and policies that help bridge the gap in various industries and geographic areas. In some cases, we work with trusted third parties to perform this research, under controls that are designed to protect your privacy. We publish or allow others to publish economic insights, presented as aggregated data rather than personal data. Surveys Polls and surveys are conducted by us and others through our Services. You are not obligated to respond to polls orsurveyssurveys, and you have choices about the information you provide. You mayopt outopt-out of survey invitations. 2.7 CUSTOMER SUPPORT We use data to help you and fix problems. We use the data (which can include your communications)neededto investigate, respond to and resolve complaints and Service issues (e.g., bugs). 2.8 AGGREGATE INSIGHTS We use data to generate aggregate insights. We use yourinformationdata to produceaggregateand share aggregated insights that do not identify you. [Learn More]. For example we may use your data including inferences drawn from data about you such as your age or gender to generate statistics about ourusers,members, their profession or industry,the number ofto calculate ad impressions served or clicked on, orthe demographic distribution of visitorsto publish visitor demographics for asite.Service or demographic workforce insights. 2.9 SECURITY AND INVESTIGATIONS We use data for security, fraud prevention and investigations. We use your data (including your communications) if we think it’s necessary for security purposes or to investigate possible fraud or other violations of our User Agreement or this Privacy Policy and/or attempts to harm our Members or Visitors. 3. HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION 3.1 OUR SERVICES Anyinformationdata that you include on your profile and any content you post or social action (e.g. likes, follows, comments, shares) you take on our Services will be seen by others. Profile Your profile is fully visible to all Members and customers of our Services. Subject to your settings, it can also be visible to others on or off of our Services (e.g., Visitors to our Services or users of third- party search engines). As detailed in our Help Center, your settings, degree of connection with the viewing Member, the subscriptions they may have, their usage of our Services, access channels and search types (e.g., by name or by keyword) impact the availability of your profile and whether they can view certainfields.fields in your profile. Posts, Likes, Follows, Comments, Messages Our Services allow viewing and sharing information including through posts,follows, likeslikes, follows and comments. When you share an article or a post (e.g., an update, image, video orblog), the default (which youarticle) publicly it canchange) isbe viewed by everyone and re-shared anywhere (subject toshare it publicly. Others who are notyourconnectionssettings). Members, Visitors and others will be able to find(including through search engines)and see yourpost. Whenpublicly-shared content, including your name (and photo if youlike, comment on or share another’s post, others will see it, including the person who initiated the post.have provided one). In a group, posts are visible to others in the group. Your membership in groups is public and part of yourprofile unlessprofile, but you can changethe defaultvisibility in your settings. Any information you share through companies’ or other organizations’ pages on our Services will be viewable by it and others who visit those pages. When you follow a person or organization, you are visible to others and that “page owner” as a follower.We provide aggregate insights about the followers and viewers to the respective page owners.We let senders know when you act on their message, subject to your settings where applicable. Subject to your settings, we let a Member know when you view their profile. When you like or re-share or comment on another’s content (including ads), others will be able to view these “social actions” and associate it with you (e.g., your name, profile and photo if you provided it). Your employer can see how you use Services they provided for your work (e.g. as a recruiter or sales agent) and related information. We will not show them your job searches or personal messages. Enterprise Accounts Your employer may offer you access to our enterprise Services such as Recruiter, Sales Navigator,Elevate, Referrals, LookupLinkedIn Learning or our advertising Campaign Manager.They can also buy access for you to our online learning products.Your employer can review and manage your use of such enterprise Services. Depending on the enterprise Service, before you use such Service, we will ask for permission to share relevant data from your profile or use of our non-enterprise Services. For example, users of Sales Navigator will be asked to share their “social selling index”, a score calculated in part based on their personal account activity. We understand that certain activities such as job hunting and personal messages aresensitivesensitive, and so we do not share those with your employer unless you choose to share it with them through our Services (for example, by applying for a new position in the same company ormentionmentioning your job hunting in a message to a co-worker through our Services). 3.2 COMMUNICATION ARCHIVAL Regulated Members may need to store communications outside of our Service. Some Members (or their employers) need, for legal or professional compliance, to archive their communications and social media activity, and will use services of others to provide these archival services. We enablesucharchiving of messages by those Members outside of our Services. For example, a financial advisor needs to archive communications with her clients through our Services in order to maintain her professional financial advisor license. 3.3 OTHERS’ SERVICES You may link your account with others’ services so that they can look up your contacts’profiles orprofiles, post your shares on such platforms, or start conversations with your connections on such platforms. Excerpts from your profile will also appear on the services of others. Subject to yourpreference,settings, other services may look-up your profile.WhenWhen you opt to link your account with other services, personal data will become available to them. The sharing and use of that personal data will be described in, or linked to, a consent screen when you opt to link the accounts. For example, you may link your Twitter or WeChat account to share content from our Services into these other services, or your email provider may give you the option to upload your LinkedIn contacts into its own service. You may revoke the link with such accounts. Subject to your settings, excerpts from your profile will appear on the services of others (e.g., search engine results, mail and calendar applications that show a user a “mini” LinkedIn profile of the person they are meeting or messaging, social media aggregatorsFor example, company page administrators may manage their brand's online presence by aggregating users' comments and other social actions across social networks and see their basic profiles in that context., talent and lead managers). “Old” profile information remains on these services until they update their data cache with changes you made to your profile. 3.4 RELATED SERVICES We share your data across our different Services and LinkedIn-affiliated entities. We will share your personal data with ouraffiliatesAffiliates are companies controlling, controlled by or under common control with us, including, for example, LinkedIn Ireland UC, LinkedIn Corporation, LinkedIn Singapore and Microsoft Corporation.affiliates to provide and develop our Services. We may combine information internally across the different Services covered by this PrivacyPolicy.Policy to help our Services be more relevant and useful to you and others. For example, SlideShare will recommend better content to you based on your LinkedIn profile or the articles you read onPulse, andthe LinkedIncouldServices, and we can personalize your feed or job recommendations based on your learning video history, because we are able to identify you across different Services using cookies or similar technologies. 3.5 SERVICE PROVIDERS We may use others to help us with our Services. We use others to help us provide our Services (e.g., maintenance, analysis, audit, payments, fraud detection, marketing and development). They will have access to your information as reasonably necessary to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligatedtonot to disclose or use it for other purposes. 3.6 LEGAL DISCLOSURES We may need to share your data when we believe it’s required by law or to help protectyour and ourthe rights andsecurity.safety of you, us or others. It is possible that we will need to disclose information about you when required by law, subpoena, or other legal process or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to (1) investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government enforcement agencies; (2) enforce our agreements with you, (3) investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations, (4) protect the security or integrity of our Service (such as by sharing with companies facing similar threats); or (5) exercise or protect the rights and safety of LinkedIn, our Members, personnel, or others. We attempt to notify Members about legal demands for their personal data when appropriate in our judgment, unless prohibited by law or court order or when the request is an emergency. We may dispute such demands when we believe, in our discretion, that the requests are overbroad, vague or lack proper authority, but we do not promise to challenge every demand. To learn more see our Data Request Guidelines and Transparency Report. 3.7 CHANGE IN CONTROL OR SALE We may share your data when our business is sold to others, but it must continue to be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We can also share your personal data as part of a sale, merger or change in control, or in preparation for any of these events. Any other entity which buys us or part of our business will have the right to continue to use your data, but only in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy unless you agree otherwise. 4. YOUR CHOICES & OBLIGATIONS 4.1 DATA RETENTION We keep most of your personal data for as long as your account is open. We retaintheyour personal datayou providewhile your account is in existence or as needed to provide you Services. This includes data you or others provided to us and data generated or inferred from your use of our Services. Even if you only use our Services when looking for a new job every few years, we will retain your information and keep your profile open until you decide to close your account. In some cases we choose to retain certain information (e.g., visits to sites carrying our “share with LinkedIn” or “apply with LinkedIn” plugins without clicking on the plugin) in a depersonalized or aggregated form. 4.2 RIGHTS TO ACCESS AND CONTROL YOUR PERSONAL DATA You can access or delete your personal data. You have many choices about how your data is collected, used and shared. We provide many choices about the collection, use and sharing of your data, from deleting or correcting data you include in your profile and controlling the visibility of your posts to advertising opt-outs and communication controls. We offeraccessyou settings to control and manage the personal data we have about you (for SlideShare, please contact us). For personal data that we have about you: DELETE DATA: You can ask us to erase or delete all or some of your personal data (e.g., if it is no longer necessary to provide Services to you). CHANGE OR CORRECT DATA: You can edit some of your personal data through your account. You can also ask us to change, update or fix your data in certain cases, particularly if it’s inaccurate. OBJECT TO, OR LIMIT OR RESTRICT, USE OF DATA: You can ask us to stop using all or some of your personal data (e.g., if we have no legal right to keep using it) or to limit our use of it (e.g., if your personal data is inaccurate or unlawfully held). RIGHT TO ACCESS AND/OR TAKE YOUR DATA: You can askHow to do this: Members may go to their settings to make requests. us for a copy of your personal data and can ask for a copy of personal data you provided in machine readable form. Visitors can learn more about how to make these requests here. You may also contact us using the contact information below, and we will consider your request in accordance with applicable laws. Residents in the Designated Countries may have additional rights under their laws. Learn More. 4.3 ACCOUNT CLOSURE We keep some of your data even after you close your account. If you choose to close your Linkedin (or SlideShare) account, your personal data will generally stop being visible to others on our Services within 24 hours. We generally delete closed account information within 30 days of account closure, except as noted below. We retain your personal data even after you have closed your account if reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations (including law enforcement requests), meet regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our User Agreement, or fulfill your request to “unsubscribe” from further messages from us. We will retain de-personalized information after your account has been closed. Information you have shared with others (e.g., through InMail, updates or group posts) will remain visible after you closed your account or deleted the information from your own profile or mailbox, and we do not control data that other Members copied out of our Services. Groups content and ratings or review content associated with closed accounts will show an unknown user as the source. Your profile may continue to be displayed in the services of others (e.g., search engine results) until they refresh their cache. 5. OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION 5.1. SECURITY We monitor for and try to prevent security breaches. Please use the security features available through our Services. We implement security safeguards designed to protect your data, such as HTTPS. We regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks. However, we cannot warrant the security of any information that you send us. There is no guarantee that data may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. Please visit our Safety Center for additional information about safely using our Services, including two-factor authentication. 5.2. CROSS-BORDER DATA TRANSFERS We store and use your data outside your country. We process data both inside and outside of the UnitedStates.States and rely on legally-provided mechanisms to lawfully transfer data across borders. Learnmoremore. Countries where we process data may have laws which are different, and potentially not as protective, as the laws of your own country. 5.3 LAWFUL BASES FOR PROCESSING We have lawful bases to collect, use and share data about you. You have choices about our use of your data. At any time, you can withdraw consent you have provided by going to settings. We will only collect and process personal data about you where we have lawful bases. Lawful bases include consentWhere we process data based on consent, we will ask for your explicit consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time, but that will not affect thelegal mechanismslawfulness of the processing of your personal data prior to such withdrawal. Where we rely on contract, we will ask that you agree totransferthe processing of personal dataacross borders.that is necessary for entering into or performance of your contract with us. We will rely on legitimate interests as a basis for data processing where the processing of your data is not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. (where you have given consent), contract (where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you (e.g. to deliver the LinkedIn Services you have requested)) and “legitimate interests”. Learn more.LinkedIn participates inWhere we rely on your consent to process personal data, you have theEU-U.S.right to withdraw or decline your consent at any time andSwiss-U.S. Privacy Shield frameworks. To learn more, readwhere we rely on legitimate interests, you have the right to object. Learn More. If you have any questions about the lawful bases upon which we collect and use your personal data, please contact ourPrivacy Shield Statement.Data Protection Officer here.5.3.5.4. DIRECT MARKETING AND DO NOT TRACK SIGNALS Our statements regarding direct marketing and “do not track” signals. We currently do not share personal data with third parties for their direct marketing purposes without your permission. Learn more about this and about our response to “do not track” signals.5.4.5.5. CONTACT INFORMATION You can contact us or use other options to resolve any complaints. If you have questions or complaints regarding this Policy, please first contact LinkedIn online. You can also reach us by physical mail. If contacting us does not resolve your complaint, you have more options. Residents in the Designated CountriesWe use the term “Designated Countries” to refer to countries in the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), and Switzerland may also have the right to contact our Data Protection Officer here.
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