LinkedIn Page Privacy Rules
Our commitment to protecting your privacy and ensuring a safe professional networking experience
Last updated: June 15, 2023
Information We Collect
We collect information to provide better services to all our users. The types of information we collect depend on how you use our platform.
Profile Information: When you create a LinkedIn account, you provide us with personal information such as your name, email address, professional details, employment history, and educational background.
Content You Provide: We collect the content you create, upload, or receive from others when using our services, including messages, posts, comments, and documents.
Networking Information: We collect information about your connections, groups, and interactions with other LinkedIn members.
Important
We do not sell your personal data to third parties. We use your information to improve your LinkedIn experience and provide relevant professional opportunities.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to provide, maintain, and improve our services, develop new ones, and protect LinkedIn and our users.
- Personalize your experience: We use information about you to provide personalized content and recommendations.
- Connect you with opportunities: We use your profile information to suggest jobs, connections, and professional content relevant to you.
- Communicate with you: We may contact you about service updates, offers, and professional opportunities.
- Improve our services: We analyze how our services are used to improve their functionality and develop new features.
- Ensure security: We use information to verify accounts, monitor suspicious activity, and keep our platform secure.
Privacy Controls & Settings
LinkedIn provides you with controls to manage your privacy and visibility on our platform.
Profile Visibility Settings
You can control who sees your profile information, including:
- Public profile visibility (what non-connected members see)
- Connection visibility (what your connections see)
- Profile viewing options (whether you appear anonymously when viewing others' profiles)
- Contact information visibility
Communication Preferences
Manage how LinkedIn communicates with you through:
- Email notification settings
- Push notification preferences
- Advertising preferences
- Messages and connection request filters
Tip: Regularly review your privacy settings to ensure they match your current preferences. You can access these settings from your account's "Settings & Privacy" page.
Information Sharing
We do not share your personal information with companies, organizations, or individuals outside of LinkedIn except in the following circumstances:
- With your consent: We will share personal information outside of LinkedIn when we have your consent.
- For external processing: We provide personal information to trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy.
- For legal reasons: We will share personal information if we believe that access, use, preservation, or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request.
- To protect rights: We may share information when we believe it's necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of LinkedIn, our users, or the public.
Aggregated or de-identified information: We may share information that has been aggregated or anonymized so that it cannot reasonably be used to identify you.
International Data Transfers
LinkedIn operates globally, which means we may transfer your personal information to countries outside your country of residence. These countries may have data protection laws that are different from the laws of your country.
When we transfer personal information outside of the European Economic Area, UK, or Switzerland, we implement safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses to ensure your information remains protected.
Your Rights & Choices
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including:
- Access: You can request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
- Correction: You can update or correct your profile information at any time.
- Deletion: You can request deletion of your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Export: You can request an export of your data in a machine-readable format.
- Objection: You can object to certain processing of your personal information.
- Restriction: You can request that we restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
How to Exercise Your Rights
You can exercise many of these rights directly through your LinkedIn account settings. For other requests, you can contact our Data Protection Officer using the contact information in the sidebar.
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