Tagged in “Data and Privacy”

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  • Third-party applications data use

    Data and Privacy

    Before connecting your LinkedIn account to a third-party application, you'll see details of what LinkedIn data you’ll be sharing with the application (including, for example, profile information and other data about your use of the LinkedIn network)…

  • Ad types in LinkedIn Ads (LinkedIn Marketing Solutions)

    Data and Privacy

    When you see ads on LinkedIn, we hope that you find them useful. LinkedIn serves ads that allow organizations and businesses of all sizes to connect with business professionals through a variety of ad products that we offer our advertising customers…

  • Ad tech for identity resolution off-LinkedIn

    Data and Privacy

    It’s valuable to our advertisers to be able to reach LinkedIn members on and off of LinkedIn and then measure the effectiveness of their ads.  If your ad settings allow, LinkedIn tries to serve you ads off LinkedIn and then provide our…

  • Data from others: LinkedIn Insight Tag and Website Actions

    Data and Privacy

    “LinkedIn Insight Tag” refers to a small piece of code (JavaScript) that LinkedIn makes available to its advertisers to add to their sites. This allows advertisers to track conversions (such as sales, subscriptions, sign-ups) from ads served by…

  • Ad measurement and reporting

    Data and Privacy

    Ads are important to enabling LinkedIn to provide many of our services to members without a fee. Advertising customers pay LinkedIn to surface ads to our members. Once LinkedIn members engage with an ad (view or click on the ad), LinkedIn logs this…

  • Understanding ad technology

    Data and Privacy

    At LinkedIn, our vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. To do this, we want everything you see on LinkedIn to be useful and relevant. Including ads. Ads help us keep most of our services free for our…

  • Personalized marketing of LinkedIn’s products and services

    Data and Privacy

    As noted in Section 2.5 of the LinkedIn Privacy Policy, LinkedIn markets its own products and services on and off the LinkedIn platform. These promotions may be personalized based on your activity on the LinkedIn platform and the profile data you…

  • Why am I seeing ads on LinkedIn?

    Data and Privacy

    Advertisers define their ad campaign potential audiences using member attributes such as general location, job title, or skills listed on their profile and more. Advertisers may also create a target audience using their own data that they share with…

  • How LinkedIn uses data from others for ads

    Data and Privacy

    Serving ads off LinkedIn If a member's ad settings allow us to serve them ads off LinkedIn, that will require we collect personal data from others in order to “find” the member on third-party sites and apps and serve them a personalized ad. To do…

  • Ads by LinkedIn (LinkedIn Marketing Solutions)

    Data and Privacy

    When you see ads delivered by LinkedIn, we hope that you find them useful. LinkedIn serves ads that allow organizations to connect with business professionals through a variety of ad products that we offer our advertising customers (advertisers)…

  • LinkedIn Ads and discrimination

    Advertising Guidelines and Data and Privacy

    LinkedIn’s advertising policies clearly state that we do “...not allow ads that advocate, promote or contain discriminatory hiring practices or denial of education, housing or economic opportunity based on age, gender, religion, ethnicity, race or…

  • LinkedIn Ads settings

    Data and Privacy

    As described in section 2.4 of our Privacy Policy (Advertising), we target ads to members on and off our services. We want our members to have control over how we use their data for ads, and so we offer our members a robust set of ad settings. Some…

  • Cookie and Ads Settings interaction

    Advertising Guidelines and Data and Privacy

    Manage how data is collected and used for advertising with your Ads and Cookie settings. You can also control the cookies that LinkedIn and others use to collect and use data related to you, using the cookie settings. The Cookie Settings control the…

  • Your profile information on LinkedIn AutoFill

    Data and Privacy

    LinkedIn AutoFill is a button that marketers can embed on their contact (e.g., lead generation) forms where they seek to collect the contact information of those who may be interested in their products or services. When members choose to share their…

  • Autofill for work emails on LinkedIn

    Data and Privacy

    With your consent, work emails are collected and used for autofill when using forms on LinkedIn. Enabling autofill allows you to interact with forms on LinkedIn faster. For example, we’ll automate providing your email address when you’re filling out…

  • Connecting to LinkedIn Services

    Data and Privacy

    If you're a member based in the European Economic Area or Switzerland, because of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), you will have an option to choose whether to connect your core LinkedIn professional networking experience with our Jobs, Marketing…

  • Recognize and report spam, inappropriate, and abusive content

    Data and Privacy

    At LinkedIn, we don't tolerate inappropriate activities or behavior such as spam, harassment, scams, and misinformation. Our Professional Community Policies outline acceptable and unacceptable activities and provide you guidance for reporting spam…

  • Two-step verification overview

    Data and Privacy

    Two-step verification (2FA) is a type of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) that requires a person to use more than one form of verification to access an account, usually by "knowing something" such as a password and by "having something" such as a…

  • Turn two-step verification on and off

    Data and Privacy and Account Access

    If you choose to add two-step verification as an additional layer of security, you'll be asked to select an option for the second type of verification method you prefer. There are two options for you to choose from: Authenticator App: This method…

  • Accept, ignore, or report Invitations as spam

    Invitations, Data and Privacy, and Networking

    We strongly recommend that you only accept invitations to connect from people you know, because 1st-degree connections are given access to any information you’ve displayed on your profile. You can control who can send you invitations from the Who…

  • Download your account data

    Data and Privacy

    The easiest and fastest way to obtain a copy of your LinkedIn data is to initiate a data download from your Settings & Privacy page: You can select specific categories of data or a larger download. If you select a specific type of data, we’ll…

  • Ways to protect your LinkedIn Page

    Admin, Data and Privacy, Manage Pages, Messages for Pages, and Report Pages

    At LinkedIn, we know that authenticity is key to creating meaningful interactions.You can create a LinkedIn Page for free, helping you represent and build your organization’s brand on LinkedIn. Pages help members learn more about your business or…

  • Digital Services Act transparency disclosures

    Data and Privacy

    LinkedIn is a real-identity online service for professionals to connect and interact with other professionals, learn, hire, and find jobs. LinkedIn’s vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Its mission is…

  • Redress rights

    Data and Privacy

    Our Professional Community Policies apply to all members. Members posting jobs must also follow our Jobs Policies and members posting ads must also follow our Ads Policies. Depending on the severity of violation, we may limit the visibility of…

  • How we help job seekers and hirers connect

    Data and Privacy

    LinkedIn’s products, and technology behind them, are designed to help job seekers and hirers connect. AI is not new to our products— we have long used AI to help our members connect, find opportunity, and achieve success in their careers. …

  • DSA Trusted Flaggers

    Data and Privacy

    Under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), providers of online platforms are required to ensure that reports about illegal content submitted by Trusted Flaggers are given priority and processed without undue delay.   Status as…

  • Researcher access to your data

    Data and Privacy

    LinkedIn’s mission is to connect the world’s professionals to allow them to be more productive and successful. From time to time, we may enable access to member data and content for research purposes either through supervised programs such as…

  • How LinkedIn handles abusive content

    Data and Privacy

    LinkedIn is committed to providing a safe environment for all our members. To help ensure that LinkedIn remains safe, trusted, and professional, all members must follow our Professional Community Policies, which outline the types of discussions and…

  • Learn more about the LinkedIn Professional Community Policies

    Data and Privacy

    We periodically update our Professional Community Policies to ensure that the millions of conversations taking place each day on our services help our members be more productive, successful, and free of inappropriate and unwanted content or behavior…

  • LinkedIn public profile visibility

    Your Profile, Settings, and Data and Privacy

    Your public profile displays a simplified version of your LinkedIn profile. Not all sections of your profile can be displayed publicly. On the Public profile settings page, you'll be able to see and adjust the sections of your profile that can be…

  • Control your public LinkedIn profile

    Your Profile, Settings, and Data and Privacy

    You can set limits on how much information is displayed to LinkedIn members and people who aren’t signed in to LinkedIn by editing your public profile settings. Note: Even if your profile is set to public, people who aren't LinkedIn members may be…

  • LinkedIn law enforcement data request guidelines

    Data and Privacy

    We know you count on us to safeguard your personal information, and to provide the transparency you’ve come to expect, even when it comes to law enforcement requests for member data. We respect the laws that apply to our business operations, but we…

  • Manage cookie preferences

    Data and Privacy

    If you are accessing LinkedIn from any one of the Designated Countries or another region, you can control the cookies that we use for purposes such as advertising, analytics and research, and to improve some of our features and services. You can…

  • Manage shared content and profile activity

    Data and Privacy

    You can view and delete content up to two years old from your profile Activity page.View your activityTo view your profile Activity page:Click the  Me icon or click on your profile picture at the top of your LinkedIn homepage.Click…

  • Sign-in security prompt for two-step verification

    Account Access and Data and Privacy

    LinkedIn is committed to account safety and security, and provides features to help ensure your account is always secure. One such feature is two-step verification. Enabling two-step verification can greatly reduce unauthorized access to most…

  • In-product feedback on LinkedIn

    Data and Privacy

    Throughout LinkedIn, you may be asked for feedback on your experience, including with new and existing product features. For example, after you interact with a feature (e.g., our search bar or an AI-powered experience), you may be able to choose a…

  • Digital Markets Act

    Data and Privacy

    We are making changes to LinkedIn for members in the European Economic Area or Switzerland to comply with new requirements imposed by the Digital Markets Act (DMA). We’re committed to complying with the DMA and following the local laws that…

  • Data sharing

    Data and Privacy

    Outside EU/EEA/Switzerland, LinkedIn shares your information with Microsoft so that Microsoft can provide you with more personalized ads when you use its services, such as Bing. We also market LinkedIn’s products and services to you on other sites…

  • How LinkedIn uses your personal demographic data

    Data and Privacy

    Our vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce, and we are working hard to ensure that all members have equal access to these opportunities. One way to make sure people have equal access is to understand the…

  • Off-LinkedIn visibility

    Data and Privacy

    Two of LinkedIn's goals are to help members be found for opportunities and to facilitate better informed professional communications, both on and off the site. For example, public profiles can be found through search engines. In addition, users of…

  • Manage your profile's visibility on and off LinkedIn

    Data and Privacy

    LinkedIn enables members to find their contacts and discover new people to connect with in many different ways. Your profile may appear in LinkedIn search results and on search engines or other permitted services off LinkedIn. To control if you're…

  • Hide your profile in your Enterprise Learning account

    Account Settings, Data and Privacy, and Learning Management

    For a variety of reasons (e.g., privacy, notification volume, a desire to subscribe as an individual after you have left an organization with an Enterprise account) you may want to unbind your Learning profile from your LinkedIn account. LinkedIn…

  • Delete your Learning activity as an individual subscriber

    Data and Privacy

    You might wish to remove previously added courses and learning paths from your LinkedIn Learning account in several scenarios, especially when: Notes: To remove courses or learning paths from your In Progress or Learning History tab: Learn…

  • Who's viewed your profile visibility settings

    Your Profile, Settings, and Data and Privacy

    There are three ways we show information on Who's Viewed Your Profile. Based on the profile viewer's privacy settings, you'll see one of these: You can control who can see if you’ve viewed their profile by updating your profile viewing options from…