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This page bundles LinkedIn's Developer Agreement / API Terms — restrictions and licenses governing third-party Applications that integrate with LinkedIn's APIs. LinkedIn_Community_Guidelines.jsonl and LinkedIn_Content_Policy.jsonl are both empty and have not been ingested (no corresponding pages exist for those document types). Across 5 scrapes spanning 2022-07-11 to 2025-10-23, this file contains 21 unique snippets. Most "new" snippets are crop-window variants of the same handful of underlying clauses rather than distinct provisions; genuine wording changes are confirmed only at 2023-06-16 (a markdown-formatting cleanup plus a slight loosening of the test-profile realism requirement, from "be standard LinkedIn member profiles" to "generally appear to be standard LinkedIn Member profiles").

What this wiki found — complete, every page

AI trainingRoyalty-freeSublicensablePerpetual / irrevocableTransferableDerivative works

Presence facts, not verdicts — each flagged term links to its definition and the exact clause on this page. Absence of a badge means the term isn't currently flagged here, not that the page is risk-free.

Independent reviews, where they had something to say

LinkedIn – Other

Dataset: PGAv2 (Platform Governance Archive v2) — 25 platforms, 2022–2026

PGAv2 (Platform Governance Archive v2) is this wiki’s legacy dataset: pre-tagged JSONL records covering 25 major social-media, messaging, and content-sharing platforms, with risk scores and keywords assigned via systematic extraction of 1,736 high-risk clauses from each platform’s Terms of Service, Privacy Policies, and Community Guidelines, spanning 2022–2026.

Note: This page contains documented policy clauses. Risk assessment is qualitative and context-dependent. For analysis of patterns across platforms, see:

Source: sources/jsonl/LinkedIn_Other.jsonl Last updated: 2025-10-23

Overview

This page bundles LinkedIn’s Developer Agreement / API Terms — restrictions and licenses governing third-party Applications that integrate with LinkedIn’s APIs. LinkedIn_Community_Guidelines.jsonl and LinkedIn_Content_Policy.jsonl are both empty and have not been ingested (no corresponding pages exist for those document types). Across 5 scrapes spanning 2022-07-11 to 2025-10-23, this file contains 21 unique snippets. Most “new” snippets are crop-window variants of the same handful of underlying clauses rather than distinct provisions; genuine wording changes are confirmed only at 2023-06-16 (a markdown-formatting cleanup plus a slight loosening of the test-profile realism requirement, from “be standard LinkedIn member profiles” to “generally appear to be standard LinkedIn Member profiles”).

Most detailed anti-scraping/anti-discrimination restriction list in this wiki: the Developer Agreement’s “Things You Cannot Do” section bans not just scraping/crawling but also using LinkedIn Content “as an input to reports or scores that could be used for the purposes of determining eligibility for credit, insurance, employment or other business purposes,” using Content “in any manner that facilitates bias or discriminatory practices, including data ‘redlining,’” and using Content “in any manner that facilitates government surveillance.” These are unusually specific, public-interest-oriented restrictions not found in any other platform’s Developer Agreement tracked in this wiki — though note they restrict third-party developers, not LinkedIn’s own use of the same data.

Data-quality note (unconfirmed — no raw source available for this document type): the scrape keyword tag stops appearing in this dataset after 2022-09-20. Unlike the equivalent finding on LINE_Terms_of_Service.md, there is no sources/raw/LinkedIn/Other/ folder to cross-check whether the underlying anti-scraping clause was genuinely removed or whether the scraper simply stopped capturing it — this should be treated as an open question, not a confirmed removal.

Flagged Keywords & Risks

Legal Context & Research Significance

Under Atkinson (2025), the Developer Agreement’s ban on accessing LinkedIn content “through the following methods: scraping, crawling, spidering or using any other technology or software to access LinkedIn content outside the APIs” gives any developer or bot that reads these Terms actual notice of the restriction — the same notice-based mechanism Atkinson argues makes such scraping prohibitions enforceable as contract terms regardless of robots.txt compliance. This clause, together with the ban on using Content “in any manner that facilitates bias or discriminatory practices, including data ‘redlining’” and “government surveillance,” falls under wearetosed’s “rights & liability waivers” category since it restricts what third-party developers may do with data LinkedIn licenses to them, while the perpetual, irrevocable Feedback clause — granting LinkedIn “a royalty-free, worldwide, sublicenseable, transferable, non-exclusive, perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use Feedback” with no compensation — falls under “unilateral control,” since LinkedIn retains indefinite reuse rights over developer input with no reciprocal obligation. Soneji et al. (2025)‘s finding that over half of surveyed ToS;DR clauses favor the service provider is consistent with that asymmetry: developers give up Feedback rights permanently and irrevocably, while LinkedIn’s own license to developers’ Applications is narrow and limited to the agreement’s Duration.

Changes Summary

DateWhat changed
2022-07-11Baseline version (first scrape in this dataset).
2022-09-20scrape clause wording lightly rephrased (cosmetic); all other clauses unchanged.
2023-06-16Genuine substantive edits: royalty-free/irrevocable clause restructured (markdown formatting cleanup); sublicensable/transferable/assignable test-profile clause loosened slightly (“generally appear to be standard LinkedIn Member profiles” replaces “be standard LinkedIn member profiles”). scrape tag stops being captured from this date onward (see data-quality note in Overview).
2024-05-31Two additional crop-window variants of the sublicensable/transferable/assignable API License clause captured; no confirmed wording change to the underlying restriction itself.
2025-10-23No changes from previous version.

Version History

2022-07-11

Clause: royalty-free, irrevocable

9.1 All Rights Reserved As between the parties, we own all rights, title, and interest in and to the (a) APIs, and all elements, components, and executables of the APIs, (b) Content; (c) Services; and (d) Our Brand Features (clauses (a)-(d) collectively, the “LinkedIn Materials”), and, subject to the foregoing, you own all rights, title, and interest in and to the Application and Your Brand Features. Except to the limited extent expressly provided in these Terms, neither party grants, nor shall the other party acquire, any right, title or interest (including any implied license) in or to any property of the first party under these Terms. All rights not expressly granted in these Terms are withheld. You grant LinkedIn a limited license to use your Application during the term of these Terms. 9.2 License to Your Application For the Duration you grant us a paid-up, royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable right and license, under all of your intellectual property rights, to: (a) use, perform, and display your Application and its content for purposes of marketing, demonstrating, and answering inquiries; (b) link to and direct Members to your Application; and (c) sublicense the foregoing rights to LinkedIn Affiliates (as defined in Section 12.3 below). Either party is free to use suggestions or feedback that is provided by the other party. 9.3 Feedback Either party may from time to time elect, in its sole discretion, to provide suggestions, comments, improvements, ideas or other feedback to the other party related to the other party’s products and services (”Feedback”). Feedback is provided on an “as is” basis with no warranties of any kind and the receiving party will have a royalty-free, worldwide, sublicenseable, transferable, non-exclusive, perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use Feedback. Each party agrees not to provide Feedback that it knows is subject to any intellectual property claim by a third party or any license terms which would require products or services derived from that Feedback to be licensed to or from, or shared with, any third party.

Clause: royalty-free, transferable, irrevocable

9.2 License to Your Application For the Duration you grant us a paid-up, royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable right and license, under all of your intellectual property rights, to: (a) use, perform, and display your Application and its content for purposes of marketing, demonstrating, and answering inquiries; (b) link to and direct Members to your Application; and (c) sublicense the foregoing rights to LinkedIn Affiliates (as defined in Section 12.3 below). Either party is free to use suggestions or feedback that is provided by the other party. 9.3 Feedback Either party may from time to time elect, in its sole discretion, to provide suggestions, comments, improvements, ideas or other feedback to the other party related to the other party’s products and services (”Feedback”). Feedback is provided on an “as is” basis with no warranties of any kind and the receiving party will have a royalty-free, worldwide, sublicenseable, transferable, non-exclusive, perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use Feedback. Each party agrees not to provide Feedback that it knows is subject to any intellectual property claim by a third party or any license terms which would require products or services derived from that Feedback to be licensed to or from, or shared with, any third party. 10. Follow the Law and These Terms ----------------------------------- You represent that your Application will not violate any third party rights or any law. 10.1 Legal Compliance You represent and warrant to LinkedIn that: (a) you have the right to use, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, and distribute your Application (excluding LinkedIn Materials); (b) use of your Application by LinkedIn and its Members in accordance with the Application’s terms of use will not violate the rights of any third party (e.g., copyright, patent, trademark, privacy, publicity or other proprietary right of any person or entity), or any applicable regulation or law, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the laws of any country in which your Application is made available and any applicable export laws; and (c) you will comply with all applicable local, state, federal, and foreign laws, including, without limitation, any laws or regulations relating to privacy and data protection in connection with its performance under these Terms To use the APIs, you must comply with these Terms, which may be amended from time to time. If you don’t agree to the changes, you may stop using the APIs.

Clause: sublicense

“Access Credentials” means the necessary security keys, secrets, tokens, and other credentials to access the applicable APIs. The Access Credentials enable us to associate your API activity with your Application and the Members using it. All activities that occur using your Access Credentials are your responsibility. Keep your Access Credentials secret. Do not sell, share, transfer, or sublicense them to any other party other than your employees or independent contractors in accordance with Section 3.1 below. Do not try to circumvent them and do not require your users to obtain their own Access Credentials to use your Application (for example, in an attempt to circumvent call limits). You may create LinkedIn test profiles to test your Application, provided that they do not interact with real Members or company or other organization pages on LinkedIn. 2.3 Test Profiles You may create up to five test LinkedIn profiles for purposes of testing your Application only. You must create the profiles manually and not via automated means, such as scripts.

Clause: sublicense, scrape

Attempt to re-identify anonymized data; w. Access a Member’s network without their permission; x. Permit a Member to share their network through your Application; or y. Scrape Content from the Services. 3.1 General Restrictions In addition to the other terms and conditions in these Terms, except as expressly set forth herein, you agree not to do the following: a. Implement features or business practices, or use the APIs or Content in a way that may harm the professional reputation, relationships or professional ecosystem of Members; b. Disclose or provide the APIs or Access Credentials to any person or entity other than to your employees or independent contractors, provided (1) such employees or independent contractors enter into an agreement with you at least as protective of LinkedIn’s rights as this Agreement, and (2) you hereby agree to be responsible for, and liable to LinkedIn for, any breaches of such agreements by such employees or independent contractors; c. Request or publish information impersonating a Member, misrepresent any user or other third party in requesting information or allow any third party, including other Members, to see information obtained from another Member’s network or through another Member’s view of the Services or Content; d. Use the APIs or Content for any illegal purposes, or in any manner which would violate these Terms, or breach any laws or regulations regarding privacy or data protection, or violate the rights of third parties or expose LinkedIn or its users to legal liability; e. Remove any legal, copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on materials you receive or access pursuant to these Terms, including, but not limited to, the APIs, the Developer Documentation, and the Content; f. Obtain, display or use more Content than is minimally required by the Application; g. Sell, lease, share (with the exception of making the Content available to users through the Application), transfer, sublicense or otherwise make available any Content, directly or indirectly, to any third party (e.g. you may not sell access to an aggregated collection of Member profiles or the most relevant Members for a position), including, but not limited to, any data broker, ad network, ad exchange, or other advertising monetization-related party; h. Use the Content for any other purpose other than to allow your users to use the Content in your Application; i. Use any Content in any advertisements or for purposes of targeting advertisements specifically to any individual user (whether such advertisements appear in the Application or elsewhere), or to generate mass messages, promotions or offers; j. Make any statements or use any API or Content in a manner that expresses or implies that you, your Application or your use of the Content is sponsored or endorsed by LinkedIn (e.g., you must not state or in any way imply that LinkedIn has “verified” or “confirmed” the veracity of any Profile Data); **k. ** Use any API in any manner that, as determined by LinkedIn in its reasonable discretion, constitutes abusive usage; l. Interfere with or disrupt the Services or servers or networks connected to the Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Services, or transmit any viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses, or any items of a destructive nature through your use of any API; m. Obfuscate or hide your deployment or use of any LinkedIn buttons, sign-in functionality, consent or authorization flows from your users; n. Provide functionality that proxies, requests or collects LinkedIn usernames or passwords; o. Copy, adapt, reformat, reverse-engineer, disassemble, decompile, decipher, translate or otherwise modify any API, Access Credential, Content, Services, LinkedIn Brand Features or other information or service from LinkedIn, through automated or other means; p. Use Content as an input to reports or scores that could be used for the purposes of determining eligibility for credit, insurance, employment or other business purposes, unless otherwise expressly permitted by LinkedIn, in writing, under separate terms; q. Use Content in any manner that facilitates bias or discriminatory practices, including data “redlining,” whether intentional or inadvertent, based on any sensitive or legally protected categories or characteristics; r. Use Content in any manner that facilitates government surveillance (either directly or as a contractor for a government entity); s. Try to exceed or circumvent limitations on API calls and use. This includes creating multiple Applications for identical, or largely similar, usage; t. Distribute or allow third parties access to any stand-alone API; u. Combine any Content with any other LinkedIn content (including content obtained through scraping, crawling, spidering or any other technology or software used to access LinkedIn content). This includes acquiring such LinkedIn content from third parties; v. Attempt to re-identify any de-identified or anonymized data; w. Access a Member’s network through your Application without their express permission; x. Permit a Member to share their networks or data about their networks to anyone else through your Application; or y. Access, store, display, or facilitate the transfer of any LinkedIn content obtained through the following methods: scraping, crawling, spidering or using any other technology or software to access LinkedIn content outside the APIs (such content, collectively, “Non-Official Content”).

Clause: sublicense

Except to the limited extent expressly provided in these Terms, neither party grants, nor shall the other party acquire, any right, title or interest (including any implied license) in or to any property of the first party under these Terms. All rights not expressly granted in these Terms are withheld. You grant LinkedIn a limited license to use your Application during the term of these Terms. 9.2 License to Your Application For the Duration you grant us a paid-up, royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable right and license, under all of your intellectual property rights, to: (a) use, perform, and display your Application and its content for purposes of marketing, demonstrating, and answering inquiries; (b) link to and direct Members to your Application; and (c) sublicense the foregoing rights to LinkedIn Affiliates (as defined in Section 12.3 below). Either party is free to use suggestions or feedback that is provided by the other party. 9.3 Feedback Either party may from time to time elect, in its sole discretion, to provide suggestions, comments, improvements, ideas or other feedback to the other party related to the other party’s products and services (”Feedback”). Feedback is provided on an “as is” basis with no warranties of any kind and the receiving party will have a royalty-free, worldwide, sublicenseable, transferable, non-exclusive, perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use Feedback. Each party agrees not to provide Feedback that it knows is subject to any intellectual property claim by a third party or any license terms which would require products or services derived from that Feedback to be licensed to or from, or shared with, any third party. 10.

Clause: sublicensable, transferable, assignable

Test profiles must: (a) be standard LinkedIn member profiles; (b) not interact with non-test profiles (for example, you cannot use test accounts to comment on posts and you cannot connect test profiles with non-test profiles, such as your own personal LinkedIn profile); and (c) not override our API call limits. You must clearly identify the profiles as test profiles, and you must identify these additional account profiles as “developers” in your Application registration. You may not create any profile positions at real companies (besides your own) for the test profiles. If you agree to and follow these Terms, you are permitted to use our APIs in connection with your Application. 2.4 API License Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable (except to independent contractors so they may host, develop, test, operate, modify or support your Application in accordance with Section 3.1), non-transferable, non-assignable license under LinkedIn’s intellectual property rights during the Duration (as defined in Section 11.1, below) (a) to use the APIs to develop, test, operate and support your Application; (b) to distribute or allow access to your integration of the APIs within your Application to end users of your Application; and (c) to display the Content accessed through the APIs within your Application. You have no right to distribute or allow access to the stand-alone APIs. 3. Use of APIs and LinkedIn Content ------------------------------------ You must not: a. Harm Members; b.

Clause: sublicensable, transferable, assignable

“Our Brand Features” means any trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos and domain names that LinkedIn makes available to you. You agree not to display Our Brand Features (a) in any way that violates applicable law, including laws regarding libel, slander, obscenity and infringement or (b) in any way that is misleading, implies that your Application is approved, created or endorsed by LinkedIn (or otherwise embellishing your relationship with LinkedIn) or in a way that is otherwise objectionable to LinkedIn in its sole discretion. If you are planning any formal, proactive press outreach, you will submit the content (press release, blog post, etc.) to us for prior written approval (email acceptable), unless expressly allowed in our Branding Guidelines. Any good will in Our Brand Features resulting from your use will inure solely to LinkedIn. You grant us a limited, non-exclusive, non-assignable, non-sublicensable, and non-transferable license during the Duration to display your trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos and domain names (collectively, “Your Brand Features”) to promote or advertise your use of the APIs in your Application. Any good will in Your Brand Features resulting from our use will inure solely to you. We may, without your consent, publicly refer to you, orally or in writing, as a licensee of the APIs and/or user of the Content. We may also publish your name and logo (with or without a link to your Application) on our Services, in press releases, and in promotional materials without additional consent or notice to you. 7.

Clause: transferable, assignable

The consent must be freely given (in accordance with applicable law) and given by a statement or a clear affirmative action. When a particular Member’s Member Token and OAuth Access Token expires, you must obtain that Member’s consent again in order to continue to collect and store their data. 6. Brand Use ------------- Each party grants to the other a limited right to use its brands to promote or advertise your Application’s integration of the APIs. 6.1 Brand Features License and Publicity Rights Subject to these Terms (including our Branding Guidelines), we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-assignable, non-sublicenseable, and non-transferable license during the Duration to display Our Brand Features within the Application and to accurately promote or advertise your integration of the APIs in your Application. “Our Brand Features” means any trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos and domain names that LinkedIn makes available to you. You agree not to display Our Brand Features (a) in any way that violates applicable law, including laws regarding libel, slander, obscenity and infringement or (b) in any way that is misleading, implies that your Application is approved, created or endorsed by LinkedIn (or otherwise embellishing your relationship with LinkedIn) or in a way that is otherwise objectionable to LinkedIn in its sole discretion. If you are planning any formal, proactive press outreach, you will submit the content (press release, blog post, etc.) to us for prior written approval (email acceptable), unless expressly allowed in our Branding Guidelines. Any good will in Our Brand Features resulting from your use will inure solely to LinkedIn.

Clause: automated means

Do not try to circumvent them and do not require your users to obtain their own Access Credentials to use your Application (for example, in an attempt to circumvent call limits). You may create LinkedIn test profiles to test your Application, provided that they do not interact with real Members or company or other organization pages on LinkedIn. 2.3 Test Profiles You may create up to five test LinkedIn profiles for purposes of testing your Application only. You must create the profiles manually and not via automated means, such as scripts. Test profiles must: (a) be standard LinkedIn member profiles; (b) not interact with non-test profiles (for example, you cannot use test accounts to comment on posts and you cannot connect test profiles with non-test profiles, such as your own personal LinkedIn profile); and (c) not override our API call limits. You must clearly identify the profiles as test profiles, and you must identify these additional account profiles as “developers” in your Application registration. You may not create any profile positions at real companies (besides your own) for the test profiles. If you agree to and follow these Terms, you are permitted to use our APIs in connection with your Application. 2.4 API License Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable (except to independent contractors so they may host, develop, test, operate, modify or support your Application in accordance with Section 3.1), non-transferable, non-assignable license under LinkedIn’s intellectual property rights during the Duration (as defined in Section 11.1, below) (a) to use the APIs to develop, test, operate and support your Application; (b) to distribute or allow access to your integration of the APIs within your Application to end users of your Application; and (c) to display the Content accessed through the APIs within your Application.

2022-09-20

royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable, assignable, irrevocable, automated means unchanged from 2022-07-11.

Clause: sublicense, scrape

Attempt to re-identify anonymized data; w. Access a Member’s network without their permission; x. Permit a Member to share their network through your Application; or y. Scrape Content from the Services. 3.1 General Restrictions In addition to the other terms and conditions in these Terms, except as expressly set forth herein, you agree not to do the following: a. Implement features or business practices, or use the APIs or Content in a way that may harm the professional reputation, relationships or professional ecosystem of Members; b. Disclose or provide the APIs or Access Credentials to any person or entity other than to your employees or independent contractors, provided (1) such employees or independent contractors enter into an agreement with you at least as protective of LinkedIn’s rights as this Agreement, and (2) you hereby agree to be responsible for, and liable to LinkedIn for, any breaches of such agreements by such employees or independent contractors; c. Request or publish information impersonating a Member, misrepresent any user or other third party in requesting information or allow any third party, including other Members, to see information obtained from another Member’s network or through another Member’s view of the Services or Content; d. Use the APIs or Content for any illegal purposes, or in any manner which would violate these Terms, or breach any laws or regulations regarding privacy or data protection, or violate the rights of third parties or expose LinkedIn or its users to legal liability; e. Remove any legal, copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on materials you receive or access pursuant to these Terms, including, but not limited to, the APIs, the Developer Documentation, and the Content; f. Obtain, display or use more Content than is minimally required by the Application; g. Sell, lease, share (with the exception of making the Content available to users through the Application), transfer, sublicense or otherwise make available any Content, directly or indirectly, to any third party (e.g. you may not sell access to an aggregated collection of Member profiles or the most relevant Members for a position), including, but not limited to, any data broker, ad network, ad exchange, or other advertising monetization-related party; h. Use the Content for any other purpose other than to allow your users to use the Content in your Application; i. Use any Content in any advertisements or for purposes of targeting advertisements specifically to any individual user (whether such advertisements appear in the Application or elsewhere), or to generate mass messages, promotions or offers; j. Make any statements or use any API or Content in a manner that expresses or implies that you, your Application or your use of the Content is sponsored or endorsed by LinkedIn (e.g., you must not state or in any way imply that LinkedIn has “verified” or “confirmed” the veracity of any Profile Data); k. Use any API in any manner that, as determined by LinkedIn in its reasonable discretion, constitutes abusive usage; l. Interfere with or disrupt the Services or servers or networks connected to the Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Services, or transmit any viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses, or any items of a destructive nature through your use of any API; m. Obfuscate or hide your deployment or use of any LinkedIn buttons, sign-in functionality, consent or authorization flows from your users; n. Provide functionality that proxies, requests or collects LinkedIn usernames or passwords; o. Copy, adapt, reformat, reverse-engineer, disassemble, decompile, decipher, translate or otherwise modify any API, Access Credential, Content, Services, LinkedIn Brand Features or other information or service from LinkedIn, through automated or other means; p. Use Content as an input to reports or scores that could be used for the purposes of determining eligibility for credit, insurance, employment or other business purposes, unless otherwise expressly permitted by LinkedIn, in writing, under separate terms; q. Use Content in any manner that facilitates bias or discriminatory practices, including data “redlining,” whether intentional or inadvertent, based on any sensitive or legally protected categories or characteristics; r. Use Content in any manner that facilitates government surveillance (either directly or as a contractor for a government entity); s. Try to exceed or circumvent limitations on API calls and use. This includes creating multiple Applications for identical, or largely similar, usage; t. Distribute or allow third parties access to any stand-alone API; u. Combine any Content with any other LinkedIn content (including content obtained through scraping, crawling, spidering or any other technology or software used to access LinkedIn content). This includes acquiring such LinkedIn content from third parties; v. Attempt to re-identify any de-identified or anonymized data; w. Access a Member’s network through your Application without their express permission; x. Permit a Member to share their networks or data about their networks to anyone else through your Application; or y. Access, store, display, or facilitate the transfer of any LinkedIn content obtained through the following methods: scraping, crawling, spidering or using any other technology or software to access LinkedIn content outside the APIs (such content, collectively, “Non-Official Content”). This restriction applies (1) whether the Non-Official Content was obtained directly or indirectly through a third party, such as a customer or third party developer, and (2) whether or not the Non-Official Content is stored or displayed in the Application or some other resource, product or service.

2023-06-16

Clause: royalty-free, irrevocable

You own your Application and Your Brand Features. Except to the limited extent expressly provided in these Terms, as between the parties, we reserve all intellectual property rights, title, and interest in and to the (a) APIs, and all elements, components, and executables of the APIs, (b) Content; (c) LinkedIn Services; and (d) Our Brand Features (clauses (a)-(d) collectively, the “LinkedIn Materials”), and, subject to the foregoing, you reserve all intellectual property rights, title, and interest in and to the Application and Your Brand Features. All rights not expressly granted in these Terms are withheld. 9.2 License to Your Application You grant LinkedIn a limited license to use your Application during the term of these Terms. For the Term, you grant us a paid-up, royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable right and license, under all of your intellectual property rights, to: (a) use, perform, and display your Application and its content for purposes of marketing, demonstrating, answering inquiries related to your Application, and verifying your compliance with these Terms; (b) link to and direct Members to your Application; and (c) sublicense the foregoing rights to LinkedIn Affiliates (as defined in Section 12.3 below). 9.3 Feedback Either party is free to use suggestions or feedback that is provided by the other party. Either party may from time to time elect, in its sole discretion, to provide suggestions, comments, improvements, ideas or other feedback to the other party related to the other party’s products and services (”Feedback”). Feedback is provided on an “as is” basis with no warranties of any kind and the receiving party will have a royalty-free, worldwide, sublicensable, transferable, non-exclusive, perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use Feedback. Each party agrees not to provide Feedback that it knows is subject to any intellectual property claim by a third party or any license terms which would require products or services derived from that Feedback to be licensed to or from, or shared with, any third party.

Clause: royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable, irrevocable

For the Term, you grant us a paid-up, royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable right and license, under all of your intellectual property rights, to: (a) use, perform, and display your Application and its content for purposes of marketing, demonstrating, answering inquiries related to your Application, and verifying your compliance with these Terms; (b) link to and direct Members to your Application; and (c) sublicense the foregoing rights to LinkedIn Affiliates (as defined in Section 12.3 below). 9.3 Feedback Either party is free to use suggestions or feedback that is provided by the other party. Either party may from time to time elect, in its sole discretion, to provide suggestions, comments, improvements, ideas or other feedback to the other party related to the other party’s products and services (”Feedback”). Feedback is provided on an “as is” basis with no warranties of any kind and the receiving party will have a royalty-free, worldwide, sublicensable, transferable, non-exclusive, perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use Feedback. Each party agrees not to provide Feedback that it knows is subject to any intellectual property claim by a third party or any license terms which would require products or services derived from that Feedback to be licensed to or from, or shared with, any third party. 10. Follow the Law and These Terms ----------------------------------- 10.1 Legal Compliance You represent that your Application will not violate any third party rights or any law. You represent and warrant to LinkedIn that: (a) you have the right to use, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, and distribute your Application (excluding LinkedIn Materials); (b) use of your Application by LinkedIn and its Members in accordance with the Application’s terms of use will not violate the rights of any third party (e.g., copyright, patent, trademark, privacy, publicity or other proprietary right of any person or entity), or any applicable regulation or law, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the laws of any country in which your Application is made available; and (c) you will comply with all applicable local, state, federal, and foreign laws, including, without limitation, any export laws or regulations, and any laws or regulations relating to privacy and data protection in connection with your performance under these Terms. 10.2 Compliance with and Amendments to These Terms To use the APIs, you must comply with these Terms, which may be amended from time to time.

Clause: sublicense

“Access Credentials” means the necessary security keys, secrets, tokens, and other credentials to access the applicable APIs. The Access Credentials enable us to associate your API activity with your Application and the Members using it. All activities that occur using your Access Credentials are your responsibility. Keep your Access Credentials secret. Do not sell, share, transfer, or sublicense them to any other party other than your employees or independent contractors in accordance with Section 3.1 below. Do not try to circumvent them and do not require your Users to obtain their own Access Credentials to use your Application (for example, in an attempt to circumvent call limits). 2.3 Test Profiles You may create LinkedIn test profiles to test your Application, provided that they do not interact with real Members or company or other organization pages on LinkedIn. You may create up to five test LinkedIn Member profiles for purposes of testing your Application only. You must create the profiles manually and not via automated means, such as scripts.

Clause: sublicense

Pre-fill content for a User (such as in a form) unless you provide a clear and prominent notice that any pre-filled content is subject to your privacy policy and you give Users the ability to edit such pre-filled content; 5. Use, distribute, or transfer the APIs or Content for any illegal purposes, or in any manner which would violate these Terms, or breach any laws or regulations regarding privacy or data protection, or violate the rights of third parties or expose LinkedIn or its Members to legal liability; 6. Remove any legal, copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on materials you receive or access pursuant to these Terms, including the APIs, the Developer Documentation, and the Content; 7. Request or obtain more Content than is minimally required by the Application to provide a high quality experience to Users; 8. Sell, rent, lease, disclose, distribute, share (with the exception of making the Content available to Users through the Application), transfer, sublicense, communicate, or otherwise make available, any Content, directly or indirectly, to any third party (e.g. you may not sell access to an aggregated collection of Member profiles, the most relevant Members for a position, or any social activity, such as posts, likes, or shares by Members); 9. Use, distribute, or transfer the Content for any purpose other than to allow your Users to use the Content in your Application; 10. Use any Content in any advertisements or for purposes of targeting advertisements specifically to any individual User (whether such advertisements appear in the Application or elsewhere), or to generate mass messages, promotions or offers; 11. Make any statements or use, distribute, or transfer any API or Content in a manner that expresses or implies that you, your Application or your use of the Content is sponsored or endorsed by LinkedIn (e.g., you must not state or in any way imply that LinkedIn has “verified” or “confirmed” the veracity of any Profile Data); 12.

Clause: sublicense

Except to the limited extent expressly provided in these Terms, as between the parties, we reserve all intellectual property rights, title, and interest in and to the (a) APIs, and all elements, components, and executables of the APIs, (b) Content; (c) LinkedIn Services; and (d) Our Brand Features (clauses (a)-(d) collectively, the “LinkedIn Materials”), and, subject to the foregoing, you reserve all intellectual property rights, title, and interest in and to the Application and Your Brand Features. All rights not expressly granted in these Terms are withheld. 9.2 License to Your Application You grant LinkedIn a limited license to use your Application during the term of these Terms. For the Term, you grant us a paid-up, royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable right and license, under all of your intellectual property rights, to: (a) use, perform, and display your Application and its content for purposes of marketing, demonstrating, answering inquiries related to your Application, and verifying your compliance with these Terms; (b) link to and direct Members to your Application; and (c) sublicense the foregoing rights to LinkedIn Affiliates (as defined in Section 12.3 below). 9.3 Feedback Either party is free to use suggestions or feedback that is provided by the other party. Either party may from time to time elect, in its sole discretion, to provide suggestions, comments, improvements, ideas or other feedback to the other party related to the other party’s products and services (”Feedback”). Feedback is provided on an “as is” basis with no warranties of any kind and the receiving party will have a royalty-free, worldwide, sublicensable, transferable, non-exclusive, perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use Feedback. Each party agrees not to provide Feedback that it knows is subject to any intellectual property claim by a third party or any license terms which would require products or services derived from that Feedback to be licensed to or from, or shared with, any third party. 10.

Clause: sublicensable, transferable, assignable

Test profiles must: (a) generally appear to be standard LinkedIn Member profiles; (b) not interact with non-test profiles (for example, you may only share Content with other test profiles, you cannot use test profiles to comment on posts, and you cannot connect test profiles with non-test profiles, such as your own personal LinkedIn profile); (c) not use a stock photo or any photo that is not your own; and (d) not override our API call limits. You must clearly identify the profiles as test profiles using your company’s name (if applicable) in the headline “Test Profile at [insert real company name]”. You may not: (1) use a test profile to manage your Application; (2) create any profile positions at real companies (besides your own) for the test profiles; or (3) create any test companies. 2.4 API License If you agree to and follow these Terms, you are permitted to use our APIs in connection with your Application. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable (except to independent contractors so they may host, develop, test, operate, modify or support your Application in accordance with Section 3.1), non-transferable, non-assignable license under LinkedIn’s intellectual property rights during the Term (as defined in Section 11.1, below) (a) to use the APIs to develop, test, operate and support your Application; (b) to distribute or allow access to your integration of the APIs within your Application to Users of your Application; (c) to display the Content accessed through the APIs within your Application; and (d) to access and use LinkedIn’s sample code or sample applications for the purposes of integrating the APIs within your Application (subject to any additional terms that apply to such sample code and applications). You have no right to distribute or allow access to the stand-alone APIs. 3. Use of APIs and LinkedIn Content ------------------------------------ 3.1 General Restrictions You must not nor may you allow your Users to use the APIs or Content except as expressly allowed in the Terms. In addition to the other terms and conditions in these Terms, except as expressly set forth herein, you agree not to, nor to authorize your Users to, do the following: 1.

Clause: sublicensable, transferable, assignable

When a particular Member’s Member Token and OAuth Access Token expires, you must obtain that Member’s consent again in order to continue to collect and store their data. In the event of any material change to the scope of your use or disclosure of Profile Data, you must notify Members of, or obtain Member consent to, the change in scope to the extent required under applicable law. 6. Brand Use ------------- 6.1 Brand Features License and Publicity Rights Each party grants to the other a limited right to use its brands to promote or advertise your Application’s integration of the APIs. Subject to these Terms (including our Branding Guidelines), we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-assignable, non-sublicensable, and non-transferable license during the Term to display Our Brand Features solely within the Application to identify the LinkedIn integration. “Our Brand Features” means any trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos and domain names that LinkedIn makes available to you. No license is granted to you to use Our Brand Features external to the Application for any reason, including advertising or promotion of the Application. You must submit to LinkedIn for prior approval samples of all marketing, advertising or promotional announcements, materials, press releases or blogs, or any other materials external to the Application that include Our Brand Features, along with a description of the planned promotional activities. Please submit any such material to Trademark@LinkedIn.com and to your employee contact at LinkedIn, if applicable.

Clause: sublicensable, transferable, assignable

You must submit to LinkedIn for prior approval samples of all marketing, advertising or promotional announcements, materials, press releases or blogs, or any other materials external to the Application that include Our Brand Features, along with a description of the planned promotional activities. Please submit any such material to Trademark@LinkedIn.com and to your employee contact at LinkedIn, if applicable. You agree not to display Our Brand Features (a) in any way that violates applicable law, including laws regarding libel, slander, obscenity and infringement or (b) in any way that is misleading, implies that your Application is approved, created, or endorsed by LinkedIn (or otherwise embellishing your relationship with LinkedIn) or in a way that is otherwise objectionable to LinkedIn in its sole discretion. Any good will in Our Brand Features resulting from your use will inure solely to LinkedIn. You grant us a limited, non-exclusive, non-assignable, non-sublicensable, and non-transferable license during the Term to display your trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos and domain names (collectively, “Your Brand Features”) to promote or advertise your use of the APIs in your Application. Any good will in Your Brand Features resulting from our use will inure solely to you. We may, without your consent, publicly refer to you, orally or in writing, as a licensee of the APIs and/or user of the Content. We may also publish your name and logo (with or without a link to your Application) on the LinkedIn Services, in press releases, and in promotional materials without additional consent or notice to you. 7.

Clause: automated means

Do not try to circumvent them and do not require your Users to obtain their own Access Credentials to use your Application (for example, in an attempt to circumvent call limits). 2.3 Test Profiles You may create LinkedIn test profiles to test your Application, provided that they do not interact with real Members or company or other organization pages on LinkedIn. You may create up to five test LinkedIn Member profiles for purposes of testing your Application only. You must create the profiles manually and not via automated means, such as scripts. Test profiles must: (a) generally appear to be standard LinkedIn Member profiles; (b) not interact with non-test profiles (for example, you may only share Content with other test profiles, you cannot use test profiles to comment on posts, and you cannot connect test profiles with non-test profiles, such as your own personal LinkedIn profile); (c) not use a stock photo or any photo that is not your own; and (d) not override our API call limits. You must clearly identify the profiles as test profiles using your company’s name (if applicable) in the headline “Test Profile at [insert real company name]”. You may not: (1) use a test profile to manage your Application; (2) create any profile positions at real companies (besides your own) for the test profiles; or (3) create any test companies. 2.4 API License If you agree to and follow these Terms, you are permitted to use our APIs in connection with your Application. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable (except to independent contractors so they may host, develop, test, operate, modify or support your Application in accordance with Section 3.1), non-transferable, non-assignable license under LinkedIn’s intellectual property rights during the Term (as defined in Section 11.1, below) (a) to use the APIs to develop, test, operate and support your Application; (b) to distribute or allow access to your integration of the APIs within your Application to Users of your Application; (c) to display the Content accessed through the APIs within your Application; and (d) to access and use LinkedIn’s sample code or sample applications for the purposes of integrating the APIs within your Application (subject to any additional terms that apply to such sample code and applications).

2024-05-31

royalty-free, sublicense, irrevocable, automated means unchanged from 2023-06-16.

Clause: sublicensable, transferable, assignable

When a particular Member’s Member Token and OAuth Access Token expires, you must obtain that Member’s consent again in order to continue to collect and store their data. In the event of any material change to the scope of your use or disclosure of Profile Data, you must notify Members of, or obtain Member consent to, the change in scope to the extent required under applicable law. 6. Brand Use ------------- 6.1 Brand Features License and Publicity Rights Each party grants to the other a limited right to use its brands to promote or advertise your Application’s integration of the APIs. Subject to these Terms (including our Branding Guidelines), we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-assignable, non-sublicensable, and non-transferable license during the Term to display Our Brand Features solely within the Application to identify the LinkedIn integration. “Our Brand Features” means any trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos and domain names that LinkedIn makes available to you. No license is granted to you to use Our Brand Features external to the Application for any reason, including advertising or promotion of the Application. You must submit to LinkedIn for prior approval samples of all marketing, advertising or promotional announcements, materials, press releases or blogs, or any other materials external to the Application that include Our Brand Features, along with a description of the planned promotional activities. Please submit any such material to Trademark@LinkedIn.com and to your employee contact at LinkedIn, if applicable.

Clause: sublicensable, transferable, assignable

You must submit to LinkedIn for prior approval samples of all marketing, advertising or promotional announcements, materials, press releases or blogs, or any other materials external to the Application that include Our Brand Features, along with a description of the planned promotional activities. Please submit any such material to Trademark@LinkedIn.com and to your employee contact at LinkedIn, if applicable. You agree not to display Our Brand Features (a) in any way that violates applicable law, including laws regarding libel, slander, obscenity and infringement or (b) in any way that is misleading, implies that your Application is approved, created, or endorsed by LinkedIn (or otherwise embellishing your relationship with LinkedIn) or in a way that is otherwise objectionable to LinkedIn in its sole discretion. Any good will in Our Brand Features resulting from your use will inure solely to LinkedIn. You grant us a limited, non-exclusive, non-assignable, non-sublicensable, and non-transferable license during the Term to display your trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos and domain names (collectively, “Your Brand Features”) to promote or advertise your use of the APIs in your Application. Any good will in Your Brand Features resulting from our use will inure solely to you. We may, without your consent, publicly refer to you, orally or in writing, as a licensee of the APIs and/or user of the Content. We may also publish your name and logo (with or without a link to your Application) on the LinkedIn Services, in press releases, and in promotional materials without additional consent or notice to you. 7.

2025-10-23

All clauses unchanged from 2024-05-31 (see above).