PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated April 23, 2024
This privacy notice for LinkedIn TLDR ("we," "us," or "our"), describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share ("process") your information when you
use our services ("Services"), such as when you:
- Engage with us in other related ways, including any sales, marketing,
or events
Questions or concerns? Reading this privacy notice
will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not
agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services.
SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS
This summary provides key points from our privacy notice, but you
can find out more details about any of these topics by clicking the
link following each key point or by using our
table of contents below to find the section you are looking for.
What personal information do we process? When you visit,
use, or navigate our Services, we may process personal information depending
on how you interact with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the
products and features you use. Learn more about
personal information you disclose to us.
Do we process any sensitive personal information? We do not process sensitive personal
information.
Do we receive any information from third parties? We do not receive any information
from third parties.
How do we process your information? We process your information
to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for
security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process
your information for other purposes with your consent. We process your information
only when we have a valid legal reason to do so. Learn more about
how we process your information.
What are your rights? Depending on where you are located
geographically, the applicable privacy law may mean you have certain rights
regarding your personal information. Learn more about
your privacy rights.
How do you exercise your rights? The easiest way to exercise
your rights is by submitting a data subject access request, or by contacting us. We will
consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data
protection laws.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
4. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Personal information you disclose to us
In Short:We collect personal information that you provide to us.
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us
when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our
products and Services, when you participate in activities on the
Services, or otherwise when you contact us.
Personal Information Provided by You. The personal information
that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and
the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use.
The personal information we collect may include the following:
Sensitive Information. We do not process sensitive
information.
All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete,
and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal
information.
Information automatically collected
In Short:Some information — such as your Internet Protocol (IP)
address and/or browser and device characteristics — is
collected automatically when you visit our Services.
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or
navigate the Services. This information does not reveal your specific
identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device
and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device
characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs,
device name, country, location, information about how and when you use
our Services, and other technical information. This information is
primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Services,
and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
The information we collect includes:
- Log and Usage Data. Log and usage data is service-related, diagnostic,
usage, and performance information our servers automatically collect when
you access or use our Services and which we record in log files. Depending
on how you interact with us, this log data may include your IP address,
device information, browser type, and settings and information about your
activity in the Services(such
as the date/time stamps associated with your usage, pages and files
viewed, searches, and other actions you take such as which features
you use), device event information (such as system activity, error
reports (sometimes called "crash
dumps"), and hardware
settings).
2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We process your information to provide, improve, and
administer our Services, communicate with you, for security
and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also
process your information for other purposes with your consent.
We process your personal information for a variety of reasons,
depending on how you interact with our Services, including:
3. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
In Short:
We may share information in specific situations described in this
section and/or with the following third parties.
We may need to share your
personal information in the following situations:
- Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your
information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger,
sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion
of our business to another company.
4. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this
privacy notice unless otherwise required by law.
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is
necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice, unless a
longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax,
accounting, or other legal requirements).
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your
personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this
is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been
stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information
and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
5. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short: You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time.
Withdrawing your consent: If we are relying
on your consent to process your personal information, which may be express and/or implied
consent depending on the applicable law, you have the right to
withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent
at any time by contacting us by using the contact details provided
in the section "HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?" below.
However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of
the processing before its withdrawal nor, when applicable law allows, will it affect the processing
of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing
grounds other than consent.
6. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile
applications include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature
or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to
have data about your online browsing activities monitored and
collected. At this stage no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals
has been finalized. As such, we do not
currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that
automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If
a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the
future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version
of this privacy notice.
7. DO UNITED STATES RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short: If you are a resident of California, you are granted
specific rights regarding access to your personal information.
What categories of personal information do we collect?
We have collected the following categories of personal information
in the past twelve (12) months:
| Category | Examples | Collected |
A. Identifiers | Contact details, such as real name, alias, postal address,
telephone or mobile contact number, unique personal
identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address,
email address, and account name |
|
B. Personal information as defined in the California
Customer Records statute | Name, contact information, education, employment,
employment history, and financial information |
|
We will use and retain the collected personal
information as needed to provide the Services or
for:
- Category A - As long as the user has an account with us
C. Protected
classification characteristics under state or
federal law | Gender and date of birth |
|
D. Commercial
information | Transaction information, purchase history,
financial details, and payment information |
|
E. Biometric
information | Fingerprints and voiceprints |
|
F. Internet or
other similar network activity | Browsing history, search history, online behavior, interest data, and interactions
with our and other websites, applications,
systems, and advertisements |
|
G.
Geolocation data | Device location |
|
H. Audio, electronic, visual,
thermal, olfactory, or similar
information | Images and audio, video or call
recordings created in connection with
our business activities |
|
I. Professional or
employment-related information | Business contact details in order
to provide you our Services at a
business level or job title, work
history, and professional
qualifications if you apply for a
job with us |
|
J. Education Information | Student records and directory
information |
|
K. Inferences drawn from
collected personal information | Inferences drawn from any of
the collected personal
information listed above to
create a profile or summary
about, for example, an
individual’s preferences and
characteristics |
NO |
| L. Sensitive
personal Information | |
NO
|
We may also collect other personal information outside of these
categories through instances where you interact with us in person,
online, or by phone or mail in the context of:
- Receiving help through our customer support channels;
- Participation in customer surveys or contests; and
- Facilitation in the delivery of our Services and to respond to
your inquiries.
How do we use and share your personal information?
Will your information be shared with anyone else?
We may use your personal information for our own business purposes,
such as for undertaking internal research for technological development
and demonstration. This is not considered to be "selling" of your personal information.
We have not disclosed, sold, or shared any personal information to
third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding
twelve (12) months. Wewill
not sell or share personal information in the future belonging to
website visitors, users, and other consumers.
California Residents
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The Light" law permits our users who are California
residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information
about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties
for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties
with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar
year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request,
please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided
below.
If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a
registered account with the Services, you have the right to request removal
of unwanted data that you publicly post on the Services. To request removal
of such data, please contact us using the contact information provided below
and include the email address associated with your account and a statement
that you reside in California. We will make sure the data is not publicly
displayed on the Services, but please be aware that the data may not be
completely or comprehensively removed from all our systems (e.g., backups, etc.).
CCPA Privacy Notice
This section applies only to California residents. Under the California
Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), you have the rights listed below.
The California Code of Regulations defines a "residents" as:
(1) every individual who is in the State of California for other than a
temporary or transitory purpose and
(2) every individual who is domiciled in the State of California who is
outside the State of California for a temporary or transitory purpose
All other individuals are defined as "non-residents."
If this definition of "resident" applies to you, we must adhere
to certain rights and obligations regarding your personal information.
Your rights with respect to your personal data
Right to request deletion of the data — Request to delete
You can ask for the deletion of your personal information. If you ask
us to delete your personal information, we will respect your request and
delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions provided
by law, such as (but not limited to) the exercise by another consumer of
his or her right to free speech, our compliance requirements resulting
from a legal obligation, or any processing that may be required to
protect against illegal activities.
Right to be informed — Request to know
Depending on the circumstances, you have a right to know:
- whether we collect and use your personal information;
- the categories of personal information that we collect;
- the purposes for which the collected personal information is used;
- whether we sell or share personal information to third parties;
- the categories of personal information that we sold, shared, or
disclosed for a business purpose;
- the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was
sold, shared, or disclosed for a business purpose;
- the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or
sharing personal information; and
- the specific pieces of personal information we collected about you.
In accordance with applicable law, we are not obligated to provide or
delete consumer information that is de-identified in response to a
consumer request or to re-identify individual data to verify a consumer
request.
Right to Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of a Consumer’s Privacy
Rights
We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy
rights.
Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information
We do not process consumer's sensitive personal information.
Verification process
Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to
determine you are the same person about whom we have the information in
our system. These verification efforts require us to ask you to provide
information so that we can match it with information you have previously
provided us. For instance, depending on the type of request you submit,
we may ask you to provide certain information so that we can match the
information you provide with the information we already have on file, or
we may contact you through a communication method (e.g., phone or email) that you have previously provided to us. We may also
use other verification methods as the circumstances dictate.
We will only use personal information provided in your request to
verify your identity or authority to make the request. To the extent
possible, we will avoid requesting additional information from you for
the purposes of verification. However, if we cannot verify your identity
from the information already maintained by us, we may request that you
provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your
identity and for security or fraud-prevention purposes. We will delete
such additionally provided information as soon as we finish verifying
you.
Other privacy rights
- You may object to the processing of your personal information.
- You may request correction of your personal data if it is incorrect
or no longer relevant, or ask to restrict the processing of the
information.
- You can designate an authorized agent to
make a request under the CCPA on your behalf. We may deny a request from
an authorized agent that does not submit
proof that they have been validly authorized to act
on your behalf in accordance with the CCPA.
- You may request to opt out from future selling or sharing of your
personal information to third parties. Upon receiving an opt-out
request, we will act upon the request as soon as feasibly possible,
but no later than fifteen (15) days from the date of the request
submission.
or by referring to the contact details at the bottom of this document. If you
have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from
you.
8. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?
In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as
necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.
We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated
version will be indicated by an updated "Revised" date and
the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we
make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either
by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending
you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently
to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
9. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?
If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may contact us by post at:
__________
__________
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10. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA
WE COLLECT FROM YOU?
Based on the applicable
laws of your country, you may have the right to request
access to the personal information we collect from you,
change that information, or delete it. To request to review,
update, or delete your personal information, please fill out and submit a
data subject access request.