This page covers LinkedIn's Privacy Policy, specifically the structured "Data we use and why" table that discloses LinkedIn's AI-related data-processing purposes. Across 5 scrapes spanning 2025-06-10 to 2025-11-04, this dataset contains 17 unique snippets, almost all of which are crops of this one large table (recognizable from the markdown pipe-delimited row formatting and <br><br> separators carried over from the source HTML). A fine-tune clause is captured for the first time on 2025-11-04.
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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.
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LinkedIn – Privacy Policy
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_Privacy_Policy.jsonl
Last updated: 2025-11-04
Overview
This page covers LinkedIn’s Privacy Policy, specifically the structured “Data we use and why” table that discloses LinkedIn’s AI-related data-processing purposes. Across 5 scrapes spanning 2025-06-10 to 2025-11-04, this dataset contains 17 unique snippets, almost all of which are crops of this one large table (recognizable from the markdown pipe-delimited row formatting and <br><br> separators carried over from the source HTML). A fine-tune clause is captured for the first time on 2025-11-04.
This is one of the most detailed Generative-AI data-use disclosures in the wiki. It names specific products (LinkedIn’s “InBart” GAI model for drafting recruiter messages, “Collaborative Articles,” “Account IQ”), describes concrete training pipelines (“train, fine-tune, evaluate and improve our Generative AI models used to create content”), and — notably — discloses that for UK users, member data is shared with parent company Microsoft specifically so Microsoft can train, fine-tune, and evaluate its own AI models, a cross-company AI-training data flow not found on any other platform page in this wiki. It also discloses a concrete, named opt-out mechanism (linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-ai-improvement) for the content-generating AI training use specifically — though no equivalent opt-out is mentioned for the Microsoft-sharing or trust/safety-AI-training use cases.
Flagged Keywords & Risks
train AI/models,generative AI— Disclose that LinkedIn trains content-generating GenAI models (drafting messages, suggesting post text, generating advertising copy) on profile data, conversational/prompt data, and member-generated content. Separately, LinkedIn also trains and fine-tunes models for trust-and-safety, content classification, and security threat detection. Why it matters: member profile content and AI-feature conversation logs become training data for LinkedIn’s own generative products, with only a narrow opt-out covering the content-generation use case specifically.improve services— Standard “ensure our products and Services function as intended” broad-purpose data use, here paired with AI-system refinement language (“training, pre-train, fine-tune, evaluate, and improve AI systems”). Why it matters: “improve services” framing is broad enough to justify ongoing data use for purposes well beyond what a user might expect from a single feature interaction.fine-tune— First captured 2025-11-04: explicit “train, fine-tune, evaluate, and improve” language applied both to LinkedIn’s own content-generating models and (for UK members) to parent company Microsoft’s AI models. Why it matters: “fine-tune” specifically describes adapting a pre-trained model using member data — a more invasive, ongoing process than a one-time training run, and here extended to a third-party corporate parent.
Legal Context & Research Significance
The fine-tune clause’s disclosure that, for UK members, LinkedIn shares posts, comments, and articles with parent company Microsoft “so that it can train, fine-tune, and evaluate, and otherwise improve Microsoft’s AI models” spans two of wearetosed’s six categories at once: “tracking & profiling” insofar as member-generated content becomes training data for generative models, and “data sharing & selling” insofar as that same data is transferred to a separate corporate entity for its own AI-development purposes. Javed and Sajid (2024) note that the privacy-policy literature they reviewed categorizes papers partly by sector, with social media among the most heavily studied; this page’s named-product specificity (InBart, Collaborative Articles, Account IQ) and concrete training-pipeline language (“train, pre-train, fine-tune, evaluate, and improve AI systems”) make it an unusually detailed disclosure by the standards that literature generally finds in practice. Soneji et al. (2025) found that only about 14% of the ToS;DR cases they surveyed were rated neutral, with the majority favoring the service provider; the narrow opt-out here — which covers content-generation training specifically but, per this page’s Overview, has no stated equivalent for the Microsoft-sharing or trust/safety-training uses — is consistent with that provider-favoring pattern even where a specific consumer control does exist.
Changes Summary
| Date | What changed |
|---|---|
| 2025-06-10 | Baseline version (first scrape in this dataset). |
| 2025-08-01 | No changes from previous version. |
| 2025-09-18 | No changes from previous version. |
| 2025-10-03 | No changes from previous version. |
| 2025-11-04 | Genuine new content: new fine-tune clause captured, including the Microsoft cross-company AI-training data-sharing disclosure for UK members. |
Version History
2025-06-10
- Explicit AI clause: YES
- Non-explicit predatory: NO
- Flagged keywords:
train AI/models,generative AI,improve services
Clause: train AI/models, generative AI
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: This is data that you or others provide in posts, comments, articles, or other content on our Services including search history, feed, content you read, content you share, who you follow or is following you, connections, participation, page visits, videos you watch, actions you take on ads (views and clicks) and your job searches
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
Inferences we make about you
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.
Clause: train AI/models, generative AI
have similar professional profile attributes.
Inferences we make about you including your city, country and continent based on IP address, your age range and gender, and inferred interests and traits
Actions by Members with similar profiles to yours
Third party requests to show ads to LinkedIn Members
Data relating to your use of our services, such as IP address, device ID, user agent, location data, browser type and versions, operating system and platform, and other online identifiers collected from Cookies and other similar technologies
You can amend your choices at any time
Learn more about the ad technologies we use, our advertising services and our advertising partners. | | To count ad clicks and conversions | To perform ads measurement of conversion counts and value for business reporting purposes and to demonstrate the performance of our ads services to ads customers. | To advance our mission to connect the world’s professionals and to make them more productive and successful.
To support our understanding of our advertising business and its effectiveness, allowing us to improve our business as a whole and advance our mission.
To support our advertising customers’ interests in: (i) understanding the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns, and (ii) advertising jobs, products or services to members that are likely to be interested in them, This enables them to conduct and grow their business. | Data about actions you took on LinkedIn: Ad impressions, dwell time on an ad, ad clicks, video as full views
Device information: App version, operating system
Conversion information from ads customers that does not identify you | | Our automated 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).
To power our Hiring Assistant AI features we process profile and resume data of members to help hirers using our Recruiter and Jobs products review and source potential candidates including through matching job qualifications to member data and providing AI generated summaries and explanations of a candidate potential match to a relevant position.
To train and improve our AI systems for purposes other than content creation (e.g., for security, trust, and content classification 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.
For our Hiring Assistant AI features: To make the recruiting and job seeking processes easier for customers and members, which helps LinkedIn conduct its business more effectively.
To enable our customers to organise information quickly and identify suitable candidates based on various criteria, benefiting member job seekers by connecting them with relevant opportunities and broadening the candidate pool.
To provide economic opportunities for every member of the global workforce.
So that members can exercise their right to free movement for work.
So that members can be discovered for appropriate job opportunities that match their skills and experience.
To increase access to the labour market and ensure that underrepresented groups with the required or desired skills are considered along with candidates who meet more traditional criteria. | 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
For our Hiring Assistant AI features: LinkedIn profile data (the following sections, if complete): work experience, location, education, skills, summary, certifications & licenses, volunteering experience, publications, and patents. Your Open to Work status and preferences. Your resumes (if you have made them available).
Clause: generative AI
skills (that you or others provide about you), profile location
Your activity data: This is data that we observe over time about your engagement with our Services, such as company page visits, videos you watch, actions you take on ads (views and clicks) and your participation in events on LinkedIn, as well as the profile data provided by members that “look like” you, i.e. have similar professional profile attributes.
Inferences we make about you including your city, country and continent based on IP address, your age range and gender, and inferred interests and traits
Actions by Members with similar profiles to yours
Third party requests to show ads to LinkedIn Members
Data relating to your use of our services, such as IP address, device ID, user agent, location data, browser type and versions, operating system and platform, and other online identifiers collected from Cookies and other similar technologies
You can amend your choices at any time
Learn more about the ad technologies we use, our advertising services and our advertising partners. | | To count ad clicks and conversions | To perform ads measurement of conversion counts and value for business reporting purposes and to demonstrate the performance of our ads services to ads customers. | To advance our mission to connect the world’s professionals and to make them more productive and successful.
To support our understanding of our advertising business and its effectiveness, allowing us to improve our business as a whole and advance our mission.
To support our advertising customers’ interests in: (i) understanding the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns, and (ii) advertising jobs, products or services to members that are likely to be interested in them, This enables them to conduct and grow their business. | Data about actions you took on LinkedIn: Ad impressions, dwell time on an ad, ad clicks, video as full views
Device information: App version, operating system
Conversion information from ads customers that does not identify you | | Our automated 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).
To power our Hiring Assistant AI features we process profile and resume data of members to help hirers using our Recruiter and Jobs products review and source potential candidates including through matching job qualifications to member data and providing AI generated summaries and explanations of a candidate potential match to a relevant position.
To train and improve our AI systems for purposes other than content creation (e.g., for security, trust, and content classification 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.
For our Hiring Assistant AI features: To make the recruiting and job seeking processes easier for customers and members, which helps LinkedIn conduct its business more effectively.
To enable our customers to organise information quickly and identify suitable candidates based on various criteria, benefiting member job seekers by connecting them with relevant opportunities and broadening the candidate pool.
To provide economic opportunities for every member of the global workforce.
So that members can exercise their right to free movement for work.
So that members can be discovered for appropriate job opportunities that match their skills and experience.
To increase access to the labour market and ensure that underrepresented groups with the required or desired skills are considered along with candidates who meet more traditional criteria. | 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
For our Hiring Assistant AI features: LinkedIn profile data (the following sections, if complete): work experience, location, education, skills, summary, certifications & licenses, volunteering experience, publications, and patents. Your Open to Work status and preferences.
Clause: generative AI
| 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
For our Hiring Assistant AI features: LinkedIn profile data (the following sections, if complete): work experience, location, education, skills, summary, certifications & licenses, volunteering experience, publications, and patents. Your Open to Work status and preferences. Your resumes (if you have made them available). Responses to screening questions (if you have made them available).
Learn more about our Hiring Assistants and how you can exercise your rights.
Your activity data: This is data that you or others provide in posts, comments, articles, or other content on our Services including search history, feed, content you read, content you share, who you follow or is following you, connections, participation, page visits, videos you watch, actions you take on ads (views and clicks) and your job searches
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: This is data that you or others provide in posts, comments, articles, or other content on our Services including search history, feed, content you read, content you share, who you follow or is following you, connections, participation, page visits, videos you watch, actions you take on ads (views and clicks) and your job searches
Your email address
Your connections and group memberships
Inferences we make about you
Personal demographic data
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.
Clause: improve 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: This is data that you or others provide in posts, comments, articles, or other content on our Services including search history, feed, content you read, content you share, who you follow or is following you, connections, participation, page visits, videos you watch, actions you take on ads (views and clicks) and your job searches
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, statistics/insights 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. | Personal demographic data
Your connections and group memberships
Inferences we make about you
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: This is data that you or others provide in posts, comments, articles, or other content on our Services including search history, feed, content you read, content you share, who you follow or is following you, connections, participation, page visits, videos you watch, actions you take on ads (views and clicks) and your job searches
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 | | For Personalised Ads in the Designated Countries:
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2025-08-01
- Explicit AI clause: YES
- Non-explicit predatory: NO
- Flagged keywords:
train AI/models,generative AI,improve services
All clauses unchanged from 2025-06-10 (see above).
2025-09-18
- Explicit AI clause: YES
- Non-explicit predatory: NO
- Flagged keywords:
train AI/models,generative AI,improve services
All clauses unchanged from 2025-08-01 (see above).
2025-10-03
- Explicit AI clause: YES
- Non-explicit predatory: NO
- Flagged keywords:
train AI/models,generative AI,improve services
All clauses unchanged from 2025-09-18 (see above).
2025-11-04
- Explicit AI clause: YES
- Non-explicit predatory: NO
- Flagged keywords:
train AI/models,generative AI,improve services,fine-tune
improve services unchanged from 2025-10-03.
Clause: train AI/models, generative AI, fine-tune
If the output of the GenAI model is used for relevancy or ranking purposes, to:
- Support relevancy, ranking, search, and similar functionalities on the LinkedIn platform. | To enable economic opportunity and help our Members and customers be more productive and successful.
To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of providing our Services.
To ensure that our products, features and Services are innovative, relevant and high quality. | Data that you or others provide in your LinkedIn profile: your name, photo, current position and work experience, education, location, skills, summary, certifications, licenses, volunteering experiences, publications, patents, endorsements, and recommendations
Your activity data: This is data that we observe over time about your engagement with our Services, such as company page visits, videos you watch, actions you take on ads (views and clicks) and your participation in events on LinkedIn
Conversation data that users input into our GAI features (prompts, search text, queries, chats, responses, and other input and output data)
Personal data manually input into an AI powered feature by Members
Member generated content (posts, articles, poll responses, contributions and comments)
Feedback you provide on AI features
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
Inferences we make about you | | To train our content-generating Generative AI systems | To train, fine-tune, evaluate and improve our Generative AI models used to create content (textual, audio, visual, and other media, or multimedia) on the LinkedIn platform (or elsewhere) and in LinkedIn’s lines of business. Content creation includes:
- Suggesting textual content to Members for those Members to use in a post or in their profiles.
- Preparing draft InMails or messages for Members or customer users to send (e.g., InBart (a LinkedIn GAI model), which was trained to create draft messages for recruiters).
- Creating content that LinkedIn directly publishes on the platform (e.g., Collaborative Articles, Account IQ).
- Suggesting advertising copy to LMS customers.
Clause: train AI/models
- Responding to Member and customer prompts through a conversational assistant. | To provide and improve assistant experiences offered to LinkedIn members, customers, and others, enabling them to find economic opportunity and be more productive and successful.
To ensure that LinkedIn’s foundation models are fair, safe, accurate, and effective in the LinkedIn professional context.
To provide a conversational assistant to assist members for a variety of beneficial tasks on the LinkedIn platform and to promote an accurate, responsive, safe, and responsible experience for members and customers. | Data that you or others provide in your LinkedIn profile: your name, photo, current position and work experience, education, location, skills, summary, certifications, licenses, volunteering experiences, publications, patents, endorsements, and recommendations
- Conversation data that users input into our GAI features (prompts, search text, queries, chats, responses, and other input and output data)
- Group activity and group messages
- Member generated content (posts, articles, poll responses, contributions and comments)
- Responses to screening questions and resumes that members provide add to their LinkedIn account on the LinkedIn platform for ongoing LinkedIn use
You can opt out of our use of your data to train our content-generating AI models at any time.
Learn more about our use of your data for Generative AI. | | To improve LinkedIn’s products and Services generally | To ensure our products and Services function as intended, to identify and resolve issues that may arise, and to evaluate the performance and reliability of new features, including gathering insights to inform product development, validating design assumptions, and understanding user preferences.
To engage in research activities—such as user studies and feedback collection—to assess satisfaction and identify areas for improvement across our offerings and brand experience (including using Members’ feedback to improve, correct or modify our Gen AI-powered features.
To train, pre-train, fine-tune, evaluate, and improve AI systems that support critical functions such as content classification, trust and safety enforcement, and security threat detection | To ensure that our products and Services function as intended.
Clause: train AI/models, fine-tune
| Data that you or others provide in your LinkedIn profile: your name, photo, current position and work experience, education, location, skills, summary, certifications, licenses, volunteering experiences, publications, patents, endorsements, and recommendations
- Conversation data that users input into our GAI features (prompts, search text, queries, chats, responses, and other input and output data)
- Group activity and group messages
- Member generated content (posts, articles, poll responses, contributions and comments)
- Responses to screening questions and resumes that members provide add to their LinkedIn account on the LinkedIn platform for ongoing LinkedIn use
You can opt out of our use of your data to train our content-generating AI models at any time.
Learn more about our use of your data for Generative AI. | | To improve LinkedIn’s products and Services generally | To ensure our products and Services function as intended, to identify and resolve issues that may arise, and to evaluate the performance and reliability of new features, including gathering insights to inform product development, validating design assumptions, and understanding user preferences.
To engage in research activities—such as user studies and feedback collection—to assess satisfaction and identify areas for improvement across our offerings and brand experience (including using Members’ feedback to improve, correct or modify our Gen AI-powered features.
To train, pre-train, fine-tune, evaluate, and improve AI systems that support critical functions such as content classification, trust and safety enforcement, and security threat detection | To ensure that our products and Services function as intended. This includes monitoring performance, identifying technical issues, and implementing fixes to maintain a consistent and reliable user experience.
To develop and improve our offerings, including testing new features, evaluating their effectiveness, and iterating based on performance and user interaction to ensure our products remain competitive and relevant.
To align product development with user needs and expectations to help us deliver features that are meaningful and valuable to our members and customers.
To better understand how our products are used and perceived so that we can make informed business decisions and enhance our brand reputation.
Clause: train AI/models, fine-tune
This may include your name, email address, LinkedIn account details, phone number, payment information and the details of your query or issue
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
Inferences we make about you
Please see the “Objecting to the use of your data” section below for information on how to object to the use of your data for general product improvement purposes.
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: This is data that you or others provide in posts, comments, articles, or other content on our Services including search history, feed, content you read, content you share, who you follow or is following you, connections, participation, page visits, videos you watch, actions you take on ads (views and clicks) and your job searches
Your email address
Your connections and group memberships
Inferences we make about you
Personal demographic data
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 | | If you are in the UK:
Sharing data with our parent company, Microsoft for its AI training purposes | To share certain member data with Microsoft so that it can train, fine-tune, and evaluate, and otherwise improve Microsoft’s AI models. | To enable Microsoft to train AI models to produce fair, accurate, and relevant information that is reflective of the diversity of the communities in which AI models are deployed, and so that these models work just as well for all users.
To enable Microsoft to improve its products and services for the benefit of its affiliates, including LinkedIn, and our members and customers. | Your posts, comments, articles, collaborative articles and LinkedIn video you create
LinkedIn Learning Videos and Transcripts
Company Page Data
Job Postings
You can opt out of our use of your data for this purpose any time. | #### 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.
Clause: train AI/models
| | 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: This is data that you or others provide in posts, comments, articles, or other content on our Services including search history, feed, content you read, content you share, who you follow or is following you, connections, participation, page visits, videos you watch, actions you take on ads (views and clicks) and your job searches
Your email address
Your connections and group memberships
Inferences we make about you
Personal demographic data
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 | | If you are in the UK:
Sharing data with our parent company, Microsoft for its AI training purposes | To share certain member data with Microsoft so that it can train, fine-tune, and evaluate, and otherwise improve Microsoft’s AI models. | To enable Microsoft to train AI models to produce fair, accurate, and relevant information that is reflective of the diversity of the communities in which AI models are deployed, and so that these models work just as well for all users.
To enable Microsoft to improve its products and services for the benefit of its affiliates, including LinkedIn, and our members and customers. | Your posts, comments, articles, collaborative articles and LinkedIn video you create
LinkedIn Learning Videos and Transcripts
Company Page Data
Job Postings
You can opt out of our use of your data for this purpose any time. | #### 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.
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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, and, where permitted, so that Microsoft can train and improve its AI models (in accordance with Microsoft’s privacy policies). 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 You can access, correct, rectify, delete your personal data, object to or ask us to restrict our processing or change your settings.
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skills (that you or others provide about you), profile location
Your activity data: This is data that we observe over time about your engagement with our Services, such as company page visits, videos you watch, actions you take on ads (views and clicks) and your participation in events on LinkedIn, as well as the profile data provided by members that “look like” you, i.e. have similar professional profile attributes.
Inferences we make about you including your city, country and continent based on IP address, your age range and gender, and inferred interests and traits
Actions by Members with similar profiles to yours
Third party requests to show ads to LinkedIn Members
Data relating to your use of our services, such as IP address, device ID, user agent, location data, browser type and versions, operating system and platform, and other online identifiers collected from Cookies and other similar technologies
You can amend your choices at any time
Learn more about the ad technologies we use, our advertising services and our advertising partners. | | To count ad clicks and conversions | To perform ads measurement of conversion counts and value for business reporting purposes and to demonstrate the performance of our ads services to ads customers. | To advance our mission to connect the world’s professionals and to make them more productive and successful.
To support our understanding of our advertising business and its effectiveness, allowing us to improve our business as a whole and advance our mission.
To support our advertising customers’ interests in: (i) understanding the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns, and (ii) advertising jobs, products or services to members that are likely to be interested in them, This enables them to conduct and grow their business. | Data about actions you took on LinkedIn: Ad impressions, dwell time on an ad, ad clicks, video as full views
Device information: App version, operating system
Conversion information from ads customers that does not identify you | | Our AI features generally: | 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).
To power our Hiring Assistant AI features we process profile and resume data of Members to help hirers using our Recruiter and Jobs products review and source potential candidates including through matching job qualifications to Member data and providing AI generated summaries and explanations of a candidate potential match to a relevant position.
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.
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| | To count ad clicks and conversions | To perform ads measurement of conversion counts and value for business reporting purposes and to demonstrate the performance of our ads services to ads customers. | To advance our mission to connect the world’s professionals and to make them more productive and successful.
To support our understanding of our advertising business and its effectiveness, allowing us to improve our business as a whole and advance our mission.
To support our advertising customers’ interests in: (i) understanding the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns, and (ii) advertising jobs, products or services to members that are likely to be interested in them, This enables them to conduct and grow their business. | Data about actions you took on LinkedIn: Ad impressions, dwell time on an ad, ad clicks, video as full views
Device information: App version, operating system
Conversion information from ads customers that does not identify you | | Our AI features generally: | 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).
To power our Hiring Assistant AI features we process profile and resume data of Members to help hirers using our Recruiter and Jobs products review and source potential candidates including through matching job qualifications to Member data and providing AI generated summaries and explanations of a candidate potential match to a relevant position.
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.
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| To advance our mission to connect the world’s professionals and to make them more productive and successful.
To support our understanding of our advertising business and its effectiveness, allowing us to improve our business as a whole and advance our mission.
To support our advertising customers’ interests in: (i) understanding the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns, and (ii) advertising jobs, products or services to members that are likely to be interested in them, This enables them to conduct and grow their business. | Data about actions you took on LinkedIn: Ad impressions, dwell time on an ad, ad clicks, video as full views
Device information: App version, operating system
Conversion information from ads customers that does not identify you | | Our AI features generally: | 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).
To power our Hiring Assistant AI features we process profile and resume data of Members to help hirers using our Recruiter and Jobs products review and source potential candidates including through matching job qualifications to Member data and providing AI generated summaries and explanations of a candidate potential match to a relevant position.
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.
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Your resumes (if you have made them available). Responses to screening questions (if you have made them available).
Learn more about our Hiring Assistants and how you can exercise your rights.
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
Inferences we make about you
Your activity data: This is data that you or others provide in posts, comments, articles, or other content on our Services including search history, feed, content you read, content you share, who you follow or is following you, connections, participation, page visits, videos you watch, actions you take on ads (views and clicks) and your job searches
Learn more about our use of your data for Generative AI. | | To offer our content-generating Generative AI features to Members | To provide our Generative AI-powered Services to LinkedIn Members, including through Generative AI processing of the data described in the “Data used” column of this row to:
- Suggest textual content to Members for those Members to use in a post or in their profiles.
- Prepare draft InMails or messages for Member or customer users to send.
- Create content that LinkedIn directly publishes on the platform (e.g., Collaborative Articles, Account IQ).
- Suggest advertising copy to LMS customers.
- Provide chatbot conversations to assist Members and customers in completing a task.
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To ensure that LinkedIn’s foundation models are fair, safe, accurate, and effective in the LinkedIn professional context.
To provide a conversational assistant to assist members for a variety of beneficial tasks on the LinkedIn platform and to promote an accurate, responsive, safe, and responsible experience for members and customers. | Data that you or others provide in your LinkedIn profile: your name, photo, current position and work experience, education, location, skills, summary, certifications, licenses, volunteering experiences, publications, patents, endorsements, and recommendations
- Conversation data that users input into our GAI features (prompts, search text, queries, chats, responses, and other input and output data)
- Group activity and group messages
- Member generated content (posts, articles, poll responses, contributions and comments)
- Responses to screening questions and resumes that members provide add to their LinkedIn account on the LinkedIn platform for ongoing LinkedIn use
You can opt out of our use of your data to train our content-generating AI models at any time.
Learn more about our use of your data for Generative AI. | | To improve LinkedIn’s products and Services generally | To ensure our products and Services function as intended, to identify and resolve issues that may arise, and to evaluate the performance and reliability of new features, including gathering insights to inform product development, validating design assumptions, and understanding user preferences.
To engage in research activities—such as user studies and feedback collection—to assess satisfaction and identify areas for improvement across our offerings and brand experience (including using Members’ feedback to improve, correct or modify our Gen AI-powered features.
To train, pre-train, fine-tune, evaluate, and improve AI systems that support critical functions such as content classification, trust and safety enforcement, and security threat detection | To ensure that our products and Services function as intended. This includes monitoring performance, identifying technical issues, and implementing fixes to maintain a consistent and reliable user experience.
To develop and improve our offerings, including testing new features, evaluating their effectiveness, and iterating based on performance and user interaction to ensure our products remain competitive and relevant.
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To improve operational efficiency and product performance by refining AI systems that support scalable enforcement and compliance across our Services.
To foster innovation and economic opportunity by advancing AI capabilities that power professional tools and Services for our Members and customers. | Data that you or others provide in your LinkedIn profile: your name, photo, current position and work experience, education, location, skills, summary, certifications, licenses , volunteering experiences, publications, patents, endorsements, and recommendations
Conversation data that users input into our GAI features (prompts, search text, queries, chats, responses, and other input and output data)
Your activity data: This is data that we observe over time about your engagement with our Services, such as company page visits, videos you watch, actions you take on ads (views and clicks) and your participation in events on LinkedIn
Your connections and group memberships
Your group activity and group messages
Member generated content (posts, articles, poll responses, contributions and comments)
Responses to screening questions and resumes that Members provide add to their LinkedIn account on the LinkedIn platform and for ongoing LinkedIn use
Feedback you provide on our Services (including about our AI powered features)
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
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
Inferences we make about you
Please see the “Objecting to the use of your data” section below for information on how to object to the use of your data for general product improvement purposes.
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: This is data that you or others provide in posts, comments, articles, or other content on our Services including search history, feed, content you read, content you share, who you follow or is following you, connections, participation, page visits, videos you watch, actions you take on ads (views and clicks) and your job searches
Your email address
Your connections and group memberships
Inferences we make about you
Personal demographic data
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 | | If you are in the UK:
Sharing data with our parent company, Microsoft for its AI training purposes | To share certain member data with Microsoft so that it can train, fine-tune, and evaluate, and otherwise improve Microsoft’s AI models. | To enable Microsoft to train AI models to produce fair, accurate, and relevant information that is reflective of the diversity of the communities in which AI models are deployed, and so that these models work just as well for all users.