This European Regional Privacy Notice (this “Notice”) supplements LinkedIn’s Privacy Policy and contains additional information for Members and Visitors located in the Designated Countries (as defined in the Introduction to the Privacy Policy) and the United Kingdom. If there is a discrepancy between the Privacy Policy and this Notice, the information in this Notice will apply to you.
Data Controller
As set out in our Privacy Policy, if you are located in the Designated Countries, LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company with its address at Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, is the data controller of your personal data. If you are located in the United Kingdom, LinkedIn Corporation with its address at 1000 W Maude Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, is the data controller of your personal data. When we refer to “LinkedIn” in this Notice we mean LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company or LinkedIn Corporation, as it applies to you.
Legal bases for processing your personal data
LinkedIn only processes your personal data when we have a legal basis. We set out in this section each of the legal bases we rely on, why and how we use your data, and the categories of personal data we process.
To perform our contract with you
LinkedIn processes personal data when it is necessary to perform our contract (the User Agreement) with our Members. Where we need your personal data to perform a contract with you and you do not provide the data, we will not be able to enter into the contract, or we may have to suspend or cancel any existing contract we have with you.
| Why and how we use your data | Data we use |
| To allow Members to register for and manage access to their LinkedIn account, to view the LinkedIn platform in their preferred language, and to receive the core Services under our User Agreement. | Your account information: your name, email address, login and two-step verification information, payment information (for paid Services), subscription information, and Member-chosen language.
Data relating to your use of our Services: IP address, device ID, user agent, location data, browser type and version, operating system and platform, and other online identifiers collected from Cookies and other similar technologies. |
Consent
LinkedIn processes personal data when Members give us consent, such as via their Account and Privacy Settings, by agreeing to our terms, and through in-product experiences. Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time, however this will not affect our use of your data up to that point.
| Why and how we use your data | Data we use |
| So Members can add information to their profiles and display it to their connections, network and Visitors on LinkedIn, and display it off LinkedIn on their publicly-visible profile and in the applications of Affiliates, partners, customers and developers. | Data that you or others provide in your LinkedIn profile: your name, photo, current position, education, location, skills, endorsements, recommendations, and contact details |
| To enable two-factor authentication for Members to protect their LinkedIn accounts, or recover access to their LinkedIn accounts. | Two-factor verification information (e.g., phone number) |
| To allow Members to make and accept new connections. | Connect functionality on Member profiles
Contact information (email, telephone, etc.) |
| So Members can show their profile alongside information about their company or institution, or their stated interests on LinkedIn. | Data that you or others provide in your LinkedIn profile: your name, photo, current position, education, location, skills, endorsements, recommendations, and contact details |
| So that Members can verify certain information about themselves, to include a verification and related information on their profile and elsewhere where their profile information appears, and, depending on the verification method, to receive and store verification data, and to use it for security purposes. | Verification data (work or educational institution email address, profile verification badge and information, Member ID, hashed unique identifier, country of issuance for government IDs used to obtain verification badge via our verification partner)
Name |
| So Members can interact with our platform functionality, features and tools, such as certain tools and solutions that leverage AI. | Member inputted information (e.g., learning goals, topics of interest, uploaded CVs)
Publicly-viewable information on Members
Data that you or others provide in your LinkedIn profile: your name, photo, current position, education, location, skills, endorsements, recommendations, and contact details |
| For LinkedIn or third parties to send Members marketing communications (e.g., emails or SMS messages) in order to market products, services and events. | Contact details (e.g., email address, phone number, InMail handle), location and current position
Other data submitted through Lead Generation Forms (e.g. name, company, answers to custom questions) |
| To enable Members to discover, signal interest in and apply for jobs and opportunities on LinkedIn; and to enable Members to be discovered by hirers for job and opportunities. | Location
Job search filters (e.g. industry, experience level, job type, remote status, salary, benefits etc.)
Job preferences (as set by Members), including "Open to Work"
Uploaded CVs
Member profile information submitted by Members as part of a job application
Job account information |
| For LinkedIn to use non-essential cookies and similar tracking technologies to identify Members, to deliver ads, and to conduct analytics related to user interaction with LinkedIn pages and ads. | Data relating to your use of our Services: IP address, device ID, user agent, location data, browser type and version, operating system and platform, and other online identifiers collected from Cookies and similar technologies |
| To perform analytics to provide aggregated workforce and salary insights to Members, customers and others based on Member-provided data. | Member provided demographic data (e.g. disability and gender) |
| For LinkedIn and its customers to use data we receive from third parties to display personalised advertisements to Members and Visitors.
When we use personal data provided by third parties such as LinkedIn customers to show you ads, we require opt-in consent. You can control how we use your personal data for this type of advertising here. | Data collected when Members and Visitors visit third party websites; IP address and browser ID
Information from advertising partners, vendors and publishers (e.g., LinkedIn advertiser customers who install a LinkedIn tag on their websites)
Learn more about the ad technologies we use, our advertising services and our advertising partners |
Legitimate Interest
When does LinkedIn rely on legitimate interests?
In some cases, the collection and processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interests and/or the legitimate interests of third parties (e.g., LinkedIn customers and our Members), provided that our interest in processing does not outweigh your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. These interests include commercial interests, the interests of our Members and broader societal benefits. In each instance, we have considered whether these interests are outweighed by your rights and freedoms, and have concluded, based on the limited impact of the processing, the strong safeguards we apply, and the controls we offer you over your data, that we can proceed with the processing.
If you have questions about how LinkedIn processes your personal data, you can view our Privacy Policy, the many articles and resources on our Help Centre or you can Contact us.
| How we use your data | Legitimate interests relied on | Personal data used | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety and security: | To help protect you, us, or others from threats, we log users' activity on LinkedIn to identify and investigate harmful or fraudulent behaviour that violates our User Agreement. Examples of the behaviour include: security threats, hacks, scraping, fake accounts and information, bots, malicious actors, or fraud.
To verify certain information you have provided e.g. your workplace, educational institution or your identity.
To share data with our Affiliates including our parent company, Microsoft, for security purposes, to prevent, detect investigate and address possible fraud or harmful behaviour or other violations of the law or our User Agreement, attempts to harm our Members, Visitors, our Affiliates or others, and to protect the security and integrity of our site.
To share data with other organisations for security purposes to prevent, detect, investigate and address threats, harmful behaviour, possible fraud or other violations of the law.
To use automated systems such as generative AI to detect and prevent harmful content on your feed and in messages, and train and improve our AI systems for these trust and security-related purposes.
To verify your account following account restriction or closure for breaches of our User Agreement. | To improve the safety, security, authenticity of our Services.
To better protect the personal data of our Members and Visitors.
To detect, investigate and address threats, bad actors and malicious activity on LinkedIn.
So that our Affiliates, including our parent company, Microsoft, can detect, investigate and address threats, possible fraud, bad actors, harmful behaviour and malicious activity against LinkedIn, Microsoft, our Affiliates, and others.
So that LinkedIn and other organisations can detect, investigate and address threats, possible fraud, bad actors and malicious activity online. | Data relating to your use of our Services: IP address, device ID, user agent, location data, browser type and version, operating system and platform, and other online identifiers collected from Cookies and other similar technologies
Your account information: your email address, login and two-step verification information, payment and subscription information
Data that you or others provide in your LinkedIn profile: your name, photo, current position, education, location, skills, endorsements, recommendations, and contact details
Your activity data including data that you or others provide in messages, posts, comments, articles, or other content on our services
Data that you provide when you contact us or request support via email, our ticket system or live chat. This may include your name, email address, LinkedIn account details, phone number, payment information and the details of your query or issue
Your connections and group memberships
Reports from you, or reports that others make about you relating to possible violations of LinkedIn's User Agreement or Professional Community Policies
Your verification badge and verification information when you have verified certain information on the platform
Where permitted, Government ID and other personal identification documentation for account recovery purposes |
| Business administration: | To enable or administer our business, such as for quality control, preparing consolidated reports on our business, and customer service.
To manage corporate transactions, such as mergers, acquisitions or sales.
To monitor the use of our Member and customer service offerings and perform analytics to produce reports on the effectiveness of our Member and Customer support services.
To perform analytics to produce reports and metrics on how our Services are used to help evaluate product performance, fix issues, improve and deliver our Services.
To understand and improve our business or customer relationships generally.
To make business and financial projections.
To Transfer Member and Customer data to be processed and stored on LinkedIn Corporation's data centres in the US.
To create reports and metrics based on your use of our products, such as interactions with ads, to enable us to invoice our customers for our products and services, and to understand usage of our Services. | To run our business efficiently and effectively.
To comply with laws regarding business operations, consumer protection and tax compliance.
To fulfil the expectations of our Members, Visitors, and customers about the high quality of our Services.
To enhance, grow, strengthen and otherwise manage our business and assets.
To meet the needs of our Visitors, Members and Customers, and better ensure that our Members, customers and Visitors receive quality services from LinkedIn. | Data relating to your use of our Services: IP address, device ID, user agent, location data, browser type and version, operating system and platform, and other online identifiers collected from Cookies and other similar technologies
Your account information including payment and subscription information
Data that you provide when you contact us or request support via email, our ticket system or live chat. This may include your name, email address, LinkedIn account details, phone number, payment information and the details of your query or issue
Information received by post at any of our LinkedIn offices worldwide
Data that you or others provide in your LinkedIn profile: your name, photo, current position, education, location, skills, endorsements, recommendations, and contact details
Your activity data including data that you or others provide in messages, posts, comments, articles, or other content on our Services
Your connections and group memberships
Reports from you, or reports that others make about you relating to possible violations of LinkedIn's User Agreement or Professional Community Policies
Data about your use of some of the other services provided by us or our Affiliates, including Microsoft |
| Personalising your LinkedIn experience: | To perform analytics LinkedIn uses information you've provided, and information inferred from you and your network to personalise content and recommendations. LinkedIn may use profiling techniques to achieve these purposes. These include seeing posts and people that we think might interest you on your LinkedIn feed.
To make suggestions for how you can expand your network by recommending connections, groups and topics you may like to follow or contribute to.
To recommend jobs.
To display personalised ads, as described in more detail below.
To provide personalised features to customers in LinkedIn subscription services such as LinkedIn Premium.
Allowing LinkedIn Customers to search for and contact Members that may be interested in purchasing products or services
To allow LinkedIn customers to search for and contact Members that may be interested in purchasing products or services.
To allow LinkedIn customers to search for job candidates who match their job criteria and contact Members directly about job opportunities. | To fulfil our mission to connect the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful.
To create economic opportunity for our Members, customers and Visitors.
To enable our Members and Visitors to make real world connections with each other, find jobs and economic opportunity, express opinions, exchange information, and conduct business.
To meet LinkedIn's customers' interests in ensuring they can advertise jobs, products or services to Members who may be interested in them.
To provide Members with access to business development opportunities derived from B2B marketing.
To connect Members with jobs and opportunities to match their skills, experience and career aspirations. | Data relating to your use of our Services: IP address, device ID, user agent, location data, browser type and version, operating system and platform, and other online identifiers collected from Cookies and other similar technologies
Data that you or others provide in your LinkedIn profile: your name, photo, current position, education, location, skills, endorsements, recommendations, and contact details
Your activity data including data that you or others provide in messages, posts, comments, articles, or other content on our Services
Your connections and group memberships
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| Law enforcement and legal requests: | 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 for any of the following reasons:
- To investigate, prevent or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government enforcement agencies;
- To enforce our agreements with you and our customers;
- To investigate and defend ourselves against any claims and allegations, including third-party claims;
- To protect the security or integrity of our Services (such as by sharing with companies facing similar threats);
- To exercise or protect the rights and safety of LinkedIn, our Members, personnel or others. | To advance the legitimate interests of LinkedIn and our wider community (including Members, Visitors and customers) to comply with the law.
To avoid sanctions for non-compliance.
To better protect against illegal or harmful activity in connection with our Services. | Data relating to your use of our Services: IP address, device ID, user agent, location data, browser type and version, operating system and platform, and other online identifiers collected from Cookies and other similar technologies
Data that you or others provide in your LinkedIn profile: your name, photo, current position, education, location, skills, endorsements, recommendations, and contact details
Your activity data including data that you or others provide in messages, posts, comments, articles, or other content on our Services
Your connections and group memberships
Your communications with LinkedIn, including information received by post at any of our LinkedIn offices worldwide |
| Legal advice and litigation: | We retain and share information with our lawyers and relevant experts when we seek legal advice or are involved in litigation. regulatory inquiries or disputes. | LinkedIn's interest to protect LinkedIn and its Affiliates, their brands, employees and business interests from legal challenges, regulatory investigations or criminal activity.
To better protect the interests of our Members, Visitors and customers by identifying and addressing illegal, unfair or harmful activity. | Any data relating to you that is relevant to the legal advice, possible litigation or ongoing litigation. This will depend on the nature of the legal issue and could involve any information related to your use of LinkedIn's products and the Services |
| Research development and addressing errors: | To review our products, conduct research and introduce new product features that help us better serve our Members and customers.
To generate metrics to understand how our Services are used, to inform and improve product direction and development. For example, we may measure how many users visit a certain page, how long they stay, or what actions they take on that page.
To undertake testing to evaluate the impact of new features.
To invite you to take surveys or provide feedback and analyse your responses to gain insights into users' views, preferences, needs, or experiences with our Services and to identify corrections and/or improvements for our products.
To produce aggregate insights to deliver data to Members, advertisers, and others relating to global workforce trends, to measure and improve equality of e.g. job opportunities.
To provide access to third party researchers who may conduct research regarding online safety and other areas where LinkedIn is required to allow access to certain data.
To identify and report aggregated trends like talent migration, hiring rates, and in-demand skills by region using LinkedIn's Economic Graph. | To help us connect people to economic opportunity in new ways and by partnering with governments and organisations around the world.
To fulfil our mission to connect the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful.
To create economic opportunity for our Members and Visitors.
To understand how people use our Services and what new features they like, so we can improve existing features and create more useful products in the future.
In furtherance of our legal and other obligations to provide safe, secure, fair and legal service. |
Your connections and group memberships
Data that you or others provide in your LinkedIn profile: your name, photo, current position, education, location, skills, endorsements, recommendations, and contact details
Your activity data including data that you or others provide in messages, posts, comments, articles, or other content on our Services
Data relating to your use of our Services: IP address, device ID, user agent, location data, browser type and version, operating system and platform, and other online identifiers collected from Cookies and other similar technologies |
| To display personalised ads: | To display certain ads that are relevant to your interests and preferences, based on the data we collect from our Services.
To show you ads while you visit websites or apps on the LinkedIn Audience Network. | To provide you with more personalized relevant ads, and to help our customers reach the right audience for their products and services.
To further our efforts to provide you with ads that are more likely to contain content you are interested in, which advances our legitimate interests and those of our Members in providing a revenue source that better enables us to offer many Services free of charge to our Members.
To meet our customers' interests in advertising jobs, products or services to Members that are likely to be interested in them. | Data that you or others provide in your LinkedIn profile: your name, photo, current position, education, location, skills, endorsements, recommendations, and contact details
Your activity data including data that you or others provide in messages, posts, comments, articles, or other content on our Services including: search history, feed, content you read, who you follow or is following you, connections, participation, page visits, videos you watch
Your connections and group memberships
Inferences we make about you including about your location, age and gender
Actions by Members with similar profiles to yours
Third party requests to show ads to LinkedIn Members
Information from advertising partners, vendors and publishers (e.g., LinkedIn advertiser customers who install a LinkedIn tag on their websites)
Data relating to your use of our services, such as IP address, device ID, user agent, location data, browser type and version, operating system and platform, and other online identifiers collected from Cookies and other similar technologies
Learn more about the ad technologies we use, our advertising services and our advertising partners. |
| To perform and provide analytics and insights: | To measure and optimise ad delivery and engagement so that we can create aggregated reports (that don't identify you) for our Customers on the performance and effectiveness of their ads and other informational and promotional activities on our services, and the characteristics of the audiences they reach.
To create aggregated reports for our Customers on how Members interact with their ads on and off LinkedIn and their informational and promotional activities on our services.
To create aggregated statistics about Members, their professions or industry, and to publish Visitor demographics for our Services.
Although the aggregated reports we provide to our customers do not identify you, customers can use these reports to inform their overall advertising strategies. | To help our customers measure the impact and relevance of their ads.
To support customers' interests in understanding the categories of professionals that engage with their content without identifying individual Members. In turn, this helps customers to adapt their content to make them more suitable for the types of professionals they are interested in connecting with. | Data relating to your use of our Services: IP address, device ID, user agent, location data, browser type and version, operating system and platform, and other online identifiers collected from Cookies and other similar technologies
Data that you or others provide in your LinkedIn profile: your name, photo, current position, education, location, skills, endorsements, recommendations, and contact details
Your activity data including data that you or others provide in messages, posts, comments, articles, or other content on our Services including: search history, feed, content you read, who you follow or is following you, connections, page visits, videos you watch
Your connections and group memberships
Data about actions you took in response to ads (visits to websites, ads you have clicked on or product purchases) |
| AI features: | Members or customers may provide personal data as an input to an AI or generative AI feature ("AI-powered feature"), which could result in personal data being included within output.
Automatically processing your data (including your profile data and posts) as an input for an AI-powered feature (e.g. providing more relevant responses to your queries or in connection with your inputs to a generative AI feature).
If you are in the Designated Countries, to train and improve our AI systems for purposes other than content creation (e.g., for security, trust, and content classification purposes).
If you are in the UK, to train and improve our AI systems for content creation (e.g., to improve AI-generated post suggestions and profile summaries) and non-content creation purposes.
Using Members' feedback to improve, correct or modify our products, including for AI-powered features.
Using automated techniques, including generative AI-powered tools as part of our online safety and security efforts. | To enable economic opportunity and help our Members and customers be more productive and successful.
To enhance the safety and security of our platform.
To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of providing our Services.
To ensure that our products, features and Services are innovative, relevant and high quality. | Personal data manually input into an AI powered feature by Members
Feedback you provide on AI features
Data that you or others provide in in a resume you provide or your LinkedIn profile: your name, photo, current position, education, location, skills, endorsements, recommendations, and contact details
Your connections and group memberships
Your activity data including data that you or others provide in messages, posts, comments, articles, or other content on our Services
Learn more about our use of your data for Generative AI. |
| Direct Marketing: | Where permitted, sending marketing emails and other marketing communications about LinkedIn content, products or offers that we think will interest you. LinkedIn may use profiling techniques to achieve this purpose.
Promoting LinkedIn subscription services and other products and features we think you'd like on and off LinkedIn. | To enable economic opportunity and help our Members be more productive and successful.
To enhance and grow our business, meet the needs of our Visitors, Members and customers, and better ensure that our Members, customers and Visitors receive the quality services from LinkedIn. | Data that you or others provide in your LinkedIn profile: your name, photo, current position, education, location, skills, endorsements, recommendations, and contact details
Your activity data including data that you or others provide in messages, posts, comments, articles, or other content on our Services
Your email address
Your connections and group memberships
Data relating to your use of our Services: IP address, device ID, user agent, location data, browser type and version, operating system and platform, and other online identifiers collected from Cookies and other similar technologies |
Compliance with Legal Obligations
LinkedIn processes information to comply with a legal obligation, such as preserving or disclosing certain information to adhere to a valid legal request from law enforcement agencies, courts or regulators, or to comply with financial or consumer law obligations. New legal obligations may arise over time requiring the processing of Member and Visitor personal data, below you can see examples of the types of obligations that apply to LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company. The data that we are required to process depends on e.g. the nature of the legal obligation or the legal request. See section 3.6 of our Privacy Policy for more information.
| Applicable laws | Our legal obligations |
| Civil and Commercial laws such as Regulation 2001/1206 on the Cooperation between the courts of the Member States in the taking of evidence in civil or commercial matters. | To comply with court orders requiring the processing of personal data. |
| Criminal laws such as the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act 2001. | To comply with search warrants and production orders requiring the processing of personal data. |
| Consumer laws such as the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014. | To comply with regulatory requests requiring the processing of personal data. |
| Company and Tax laws such as the Companies Act 2014. | To comply with regulatory requests requiring the processing of personal data. |
| Regulatory laws such as the General Data Protection Regulation, the Data Protection Act 2018, the ePrivacy Regulations. | To comply with regulatory requests or orders requiring the processing of personal data. |
Public Interest
LinkedIn will process personal data where is it is necessary to carry out a task in the public interest e.g. to protect children from harm. Where we rely on this legal basis you have the right to object to our processing by using this form.
| Why and how we use your data | Data we use |
| To detect and combat the spread of Child Sexual Abuse Material, LinkedIn analyses images and videos sent via messaging on our platform. | Images and video files content in Member messages. |
Data Sharing with Third Parties
In addition to Section 3 of our Privacy Policy, we have set our further information below on how LinkedIn may share your personal data for specific purposes with its partners, third-party service providers, customers, regulators and law enforcement agencies, other services such as online search result tools, and our Affiliates including our parent company, Microsoft, and other LinkedIn entities.
LinkedIn Developer Programs
Participants in LinkedIn’s Developer Programs can access limited Member personal data via LinkedIn’s Talent, Marketing, Sales and Learning Solutions APIs under our partnership agreements.
Third Party Service Providers
LinkedIn may also share your data with third-party service providers and processors. These include our parent company, Microsoft, cloud service providers, content delivery networks, telecommunications providers, maintenance providers, Member support providers, development service providers, market researchers, anti-fraud and anti-abuse services providers, marketing and analytics providers, payment processors, external auditors and advisors, managed services providers, consultancy and professional services firms, such as legal and tax advisors.
Regulators and Law Enforcement Agencies
In addition to the above, LinkedIn may also share your personal data with regulators and law enforcement agencies where it is required to do so by law. For more information on this, see section “Compliance with Legal Obligations” above.
Affiliates
Our parent company
LinkedIn shares data with our parent company Microsoft, as set out in our Privacy Policy and this Notice, to combat harmful or fraudulent behaviour, to protect the security and integrity of our site and the services of Microsoft and others.
LinkedIn Entities
LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company shares personal data of all of our Members and Visitors with LinkedIn Corporation in the United States for processing and storage at our data centres, and may share certain personal data with other LinkedIn entities for the LinkedIn group’s business and security purposes.
With other organisations for safety and security
We may also share personal data in order to protect the security or integrity of our Services (e.g. sharing examples of security or safety threats with other companies facing similar threats), or the rights and safety of LinkedIn, our Members, Visitors, and others.
How you can control your data
We offer a variety of ways for Members and Visitors to control their data. The easiest way to control how your data is processed if you are a Member is via your account settings and if you are a Visitor via your Guest settings.
If you are a Visitor and you would like to contact LinkedIn about processing of your data or exercising the rights outlined in this section, you can reach out using the details in the “Contact Us” Section below or by using this form.
Members can also object, correct inaccurate data, delete data, port data and in some cases restrict the use of their data as set out in this section:
Accessing your data
Members can access and download their data at any time. We will provide your data in a structured readable format. You can start the download process from the Data Privacy section of your Member Settings. You can learn more about how to download your data here.
Correct and rectify your data
When Members are signed in to our platform you can always review and update your profile information. You can also ask us to change, rectify or not use your data if it is not accurate. You can edit or correct most of your personal data at any time directly in your account settings. If there is any personal data not listed in your account settings that you would like to correct or update you can complete a data rectification form. You can learn more about how you can change or correct your personal data here.
Deleting your data
You can request that we delete your personal data. Most of your profile data can be deleted through your account settings. You can learn more about deleting your data here. For any data that cannot be deleted in your settings, you can submit a Data Deletion request form. If you would like to delete all your personal data from LinkedIn, you can always choose to close your account.
Restricting the use of your data
One of the ways you can restrict how your data is used is in your Data Privacy settings and your Advertising Data settings. You can also request that processing of your data is restricted if the data is inaccurate or if you believe that the processing is unlawful by using the details in the “Contact Us” Section below or by using this form.
Objecting to the use of your data
You also have the right to object to processing your data where legitimate interest or public interest is the legal basis for processing that data. To exercise your right to object you can contact us by using the details in the “Contact Us” Section below or complete our Data Processing Objection form.
Where you raise an objection, we will consider your request, our legal obligations, and whether we have a compelling interest in continuing to process your data. In certain cases, consistent with your legal rights and our obligations, we may not be able to fulfil your request—for example, we cannot stop processing your IP address when it is used to authenticate your login details, as this is a security measure that is essential to protect our site. In contrast, you can remove information about your education or work experience from your profile (although as a result, the job recommendations you receive may not be relevant to you) so that we don’t process it.
Where we use your data for direct marketing (e.g. to send you marketing emails) or profiling for the purposes of direct marketing, you always have the right to object and we will stop using your data for this purpose.
Portability
If we use your personal data to perform a contract with you, or with your consent, you have the right to receive your data and port it to another controller. You can download your data anytime in a structured readable format. You can start the download process from the Data Privacy section of your Member Settings and can learn more about how to download your data here. LinkedIn also provides an API program to enable third parties to build integrations with LinkedIn to port data on a Member’s consent in the EEA, EU and Switzerland only. You can find more details in the Member Portability APIs help centre article.
Withdrawing your consent
When you give us consent to use your personal data, you can withdraw that consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent via Member settings for certain processing, or by contacting us here. When you withdraw your consent, this won’t affect our use of your data up to that point.
Joint Controller Relationship
We share insights with entities who have LinkedIn Business Pages on our platform, which include certain Member profile information and interaction data. We are a joint controller with the organisation or legal entity who administers the Business Page for this purpose, and Members can find out more information about LinkedIn’s responsibilities here.
Data Retention
We generally retain your personal data as long as you keep your account open 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, unless you close your account. In some cases we choose to retain certain information (e.g., insights about Services use) in a depersonalised or aggregated form.
You can delete data from your profile or your activity on LinkedIn. If you close your account with LinkedIn, it is closed immediately. However, it may take up to 72 hours for your public profile to be removed from LinkedIn. Search engines like Bing, Google and Yahoo! may still display your information temporarily due to the way they collect and update their search data. Learn more about how your profile shows up in search engine results. Where we share your data with other third parties, as set out in our Privacy Policy, e.g. via the LinkedIn Developer Program, they may retain data in accordance with their own retention policies, or in line with our contractual agreements with them.
For data that LinkedIn collects using cookies, you can see how long LinkedIn processes it for by checking the expiration periods in our Cookie table. LinkedIn may also collect information about you from cookies on third party websites. For data collected from third party websites where a LinkedIn customer has installed LinkedIn’s tag, LinkedIn de-identifies your personal data after 7 days and permanently deletes it after 180 days.
There are a number of reasons why we might need to retain some of your data for longer than usual. These may include:
- Where LinkedIn has suspended your account for inappropriate, harmful or illegal activity that breaches our Professional Community Guidelines and/or we need to resolve complaints relating to your account.
- Where there is ongoing or potential legal or regulatory proceedings related to your account.
- Where we are required by law to retain your data. For more information on when we may be required to retain your data for these purposes, see the “Compliance with Legal Obligations” section above.
Transfers of your data outside the Designated Countries and the UK
LinkedIn may transfer personal data outside of the Designated Countries and the UK as part of its Services e.g. LinkedIn stores personal data on its servers located in the US, so data flows from the EU, EEA, United Kingdom and Switzerland to the US, and back. LinkedIn will always use a lawful transfer mechanism to transfer your data outside of the Designated Countries including transfers based on an adequacy decision by an approved authority, standard contractual clauses or, where appropriate, derogations permitted by law.
LinkedIn is certified to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, and you can find out more information about our participation in the Data Privacy Framework here.
LinkedIn also relies on the European Commission-approved Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers of certain personal data from the EU/EEA and Switzerland and on the UK Data Transfer Addendum for certain transfers from the UK. These clauses are contractual commitments between companies (e.g. between LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company and LinkedIn Corporation or suppliers). You can request a copy of LinkedIn’s Standard Contractual clauses here.
Contacting your Supervisory Authority
If you have a concern or complaint about the use of your personal data that you feel has not been addressed by us, you always have the right to raise a concern with the supervisory authority in your jurisdiction.
Contact Us
If you have a question about our practices or your choices, you can reach us in the following ways:
Online:
LinkedIn online support can be contacted using this form, or live chat for Members.
By Mail:
If you are in the Designated Countries:
℅ Data Protection Officer
LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company
Wilton Plaza
Dublin 2
Ireland
If you are in the UK:
℅ Data Protection Officer
1000 W Maude Avenue
Sunnyvale
CA
Data Protection Officer:
Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted directly using this form.