service: name: LinkedIn
sector: Social
date: 01.02.2022
document: text: User
Agreement
Effective on February 1, 2022
Our mission is to connect the world’s professionals to allow
them to be more productive and successful. Our services are
designed to promote economic opportunity for our members
by enabling you and millions of other professionals to meet,
exchange ideas, learn, and find opportunities or employees,
work, and make decisions in a network of trusted relationships.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Obligations
3. Rights and Limits
4. Disclaimer and Limit of Liability
5. Termination
6. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution
7. General Terms
8. LinkedIn “Dos and Don’ts”
9. Complaints Regarding Content
10. How To Contact Us

Introduction
1.1 Contract
When you use our Services you agree to all of these terms.
Your use of our Services is also subject to our Cookie Policy
and our Privacy Policy, which covers how we collect, use,
share, and store your personal information.
You agree that by clicking “Join Now”, “Join LinkedIn”, “Sign Up” or
similar, registering, accessing or using our services (described
below), you are agreeing to enter into a legally binding contract with
LinkedIn (even if you are using our Services on behalf of a company). If
you do not agree to this contract (“Contract” or “User Agreement”),
do not click “Join Now” (or similar) and do not access or otherwise use
any of our Services. If you wish to terminate this contract, at any time
you can do so by closing your account and no longer accessing or
using our Services.
Services
This Contract applies to LinkedIn.com, LinkedIn-branded apps,
LinkedIn Learning and other LinkedIn-related sites, apps,
communications and other services that state that they are offered
under this Contract (“Services”), including the offsite collection of data
for those Services, such as our ads and the “Apply with LinkedIn” and
“Share with LinkedIn” plugins. Registered users of our Services are
“Members” and unregistered users are “Visitors”.

LinkedIn
You are entering into this Contract with LinkedIn (also referred to as
“we” and “us”).
We use the term “Designated Countries” to refer to countries in the
European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), and Switzerland.
If you reside in the “Designated Countries”, you are entering into this
Contract with LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (“LinkedIn Ireland”)
and LinkedIn Ireland will be the controller of your personal data
provided to, or collected by or for, or processed in connection with our
Services.
If you reside outside of the “Designated Countries”, you are entering
into this Contract with LinkedIn Corporation (“LinkedIn Corp.”) and
LinkedIn Corp. will be the controller of your personal data provided to,
or collected by or for, or processed in connection with our Services.
This Contract applies to Members and Visitors.
As a Visitor or Member of our Services, the collection, use and sharing
of your personal data is subject to this Privacy Policy (which includes
our Cookie Policy and other documents referenced in this Privacy
Policy) and updates.

1.2 Members and Visitors
When you register and join the LinkedIn Services, you become a
Member. If you have chosen not to register for our Services, you may
access certain features as a “Visitor.”
1.3 Change
We may make changes to the Contract.
We may modify this Contract, our Privacy Policy and our Cookies Policy
from time to time. If we make material changes to it, we will provide you
notice through our Services, or by other means, to provide you the
opportunity to review the changes before they become effective. We
agree that changes cannot be retroactive. If you object to any changes,
you may close your account. Your continued use of our Services after
we publish or send a notice about our changes to these terms means
that you are consenting to the updated terms as of their effective date.
2. Obligations
2.1 Service Eligibility

Here are some promises that you make to us in this
Contract:
You’re eligible to enter into this Contract and you are at least
our “Minimum Age.”
The Services are not for use by anyone under the age of 16.
To use the Services, you agree that: (1) you must be the "Minimum
Age"(described below) or older; (2) you will only have one LinkedIn
account, which must be in your real name; and (3) you are not already
restricted by LinkedIn from using the Services. Creating an account
with false information is a violation of our terms, including accounts
registered on behalf of others or persons under the age of 16.
“Minimum Age” means 16 years old. However, if law requires that you
must be older in order for LinkedIn to lawfully provide the Services to
you without parental consent (including using of your personal data)
then the Minimum Age is such older age.
2.2 Your Account
You will keep your password a secret

You will not share an account with anyone else and will
follow our rules and the law.
Members are account holders. You agree to: (1) use a strong password
and keep it confidential; (2) not transfer any part of your account (e.g.,
connections) and (3) follow the law and our list of Dos and Don’ts
and Professional Community Policies. You are responsible for anything
that happens through your account unless you close it or report
misuse.
As between you and others (including your employer), your account
belongs to you. However, if the Services were purchased by another
party for you to use (e.g. Recruiter seat bought by your employer), the
party paying for such Service has the right to control access to and get
reports on your use of such paid Service; however, they do not have
rights to your personal account
2.3 Payment
You’ll honor your payment obligations and you are okay with
us storing your payment information. You understand that
there may be fees and taxes that are added to our prices.
Refunds are subject to our policy.

If you buy any of our paid Services (“Premium Services”), you agree to
pay us the applicable fees and taxes and to additional terms specific to
the paid Services. Failure to pay these fees will result in the termination
of your paid Services. Also, you agree that:
Your purchase may be subject to foreign exchange fees or
differences in prices based on location (e.g. exchange rates).
We may store and continue billing your payment method (e.g.
credit card) even after it has expired, to avoid interruptions in
your Services and to use to pay other Services you may buy.
If you purchase a subscription, your payment method
automatically will be charged at the start of each subscription
period for the fees and taxes applicable to that period. To avoid
future charges, cancel before the renewal date. Learn how
to cancel or suspend your Premium Services.
All of your purchases of Services are subject to LinkedIn’s refund
policy.
We may calculate taxes payable by you based on the billing
information that you provide us at the time of purchase.
You can get a copy of your invoice through your LinkedIn account
settings under “Purchase History”.
2.4 Notices and Messages

You’re okay with us providing notices and messages to you
through our websites, apps, and contact information. If your
contact information is out of date, you may miss out on
important notices.
You agree that we will provide notices and messages to you in the
following ways: (1) within the Service, or (2) sent to the contact
information you provided us (e.g., email, mobile number, physical
address). You agree to keep your contact information up to date.
Please review your settings to control and limit messages you receive
from us.
2.5 Sharing
When you share information on our Services, others can see,
copy and use that information.
Our Services allow messaging and sharing of information in many
ways, such as your profile, articles, group posts, links to news articles,
job postings, messages and InMails. Information and content that you
share or post may be seen by other Members, Visitors or others
(including off of the Services). Where we have made settings available,
we will honor the choices you make about who can see content or
information (e.g., message content to your addressees, sharing content
only to LinkedIn connections, restricting your profile visibility from
search engines, or opting not to notify others of your LinkedIn profile
update). For job searching activities, we default to not notifying your

connections network or the public. So, if you apply for a job through our
Service or opt to signal that you are interested in a job, our default is to
share it only with the job poster.
We are not obligated to publish any information or content on our
Service and can remove it with or without notice.
Key terms
Minimum Age
Members who were below this new Minimum Age when they started
using the Services under a previous User Agreement which had
allowed certain persons under 16 to use the Services, may continue to
use the Services. As of June 2017 persons under the age of 16 are not
eligible to use our Services.
3. Rights and Limits
3.1. Your License to LinkedIn
You own all of the content, feedback and personal
information you provide to us, but you also grant us a non-

exclusive license to it.
We’ll honor the choices you make about who gets to see
your information and content, including how it can be used
for ads.
As between you and LinkedIn, you own the content and information
that you submit or post to the Services, and you are only granting
LinkedIn and our affiliates the following non-exclusive license:
A worldwide, transferable and sublicensable right to use, copy, modify,
distribute, publish and process, information and content that you
provide through our Services and the services of others, without any
further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or others. These
rights are limited in the following ways:
1. You can end this license for specific content by deleting such
content from the Services, or generally by closing your account,
except (a) to the extent you shared it with others as part of the
Service and they copied, re-shared it or stored it and (b) for the
reasonable time it takes to remove from backup and other
systems.
2. We will not include your content in advertisements for the
products and services of third parties to others without your
separate consent (including sponsored content). However, we
have the right, without payment to you or others, to serve ads
near your content and information, and your social actions may
be visible and included with ads, as noted in the Privacy Policy. If
you use a Service feature, we may mention that with your name

or photo to promote that feature within our Services, subject to
your settings.
3. We will get your consent if we want to give others the right to
publish your content beyond the Services. However, if you
choose to share your post as "public, everyone or similar", we
will enable a feature that allows other Members to embed that
public post onto third-party services, and we enable search
engines to make that public content findable though their
services. Learn More
4. While we may edit and make format changes to your content
(such as translating or transcribing it, modifying the size, layout
or file type or removing metadata), we will not modify the
meaning of your expression.
5. Because you own your content and information and we only
have non-exclusive rights to it, you may choose to make it
available to others, including under the terms of a Creative
Commons license.
You and LinkedIn agree that if content includes personal
data, it is subject to our Privacy Policy.
You and LinkedIn agree that we may access, store, process and use
any information and personal data that you provide in accordance with,
the terms of the Privacy Policy and your choices (including settings).
By submitting suggestions or other feedback regarding our Services to
LinkedIn, you agree that LinkedIn can use and share (but does not have

to) such feedback for any purpose without compensation to you.
You promise to only provide information and content that
you have the right to share, and that your LinkedIn profile will
be truthful.
You agree to only provide content or information that does not violate
the law nor anyone’s rights (including intellectual property rights). You
also agree that your profile information will be truthful. LinkedIn may be
required by law to remove certain information or content in certain
countries.
3.2 Service Availability
We may change or end any Service or modify our prices
prospectively.
We may change, suspend or discontinue any of our Services. We may
also modify our prices effective prospectively upon reasonable notice
to the extent allowed under the law.
We don’t promise to store or keep showing any information and content
that you’ve posted. LinkedIn is not a storage service. You agree that we
have no obligation to store, maintain or provide you a copy of any

content or information that you or others provide, except to the extent
required by applicable law and as noted in our Privacy Policy.
3 3 Other Content Sites and Apps
Your use of others’ content and information posted on our
Services, is at your own risk.
Others may offer their own products and services through
our Services, and we aren’t responsible for those third-party
activities.
By using the Services, you may encounter content or information that
might be inaccurate, incomplete, delayed, misleading, illegal, offensive
or otherwise harmful. LinkedIn generally does not review content
provided by our Members or others. You agree that we are not
responsible for others’ (including other Members’) content or
information. We cannot always prevent this misuse of our Services, and
you agree that we are not responsible for any such misuse. You also
acknowledge the risk that you or your organization may be mistakenly
associated with content about others when we let connections and
followers know you or your organization were mentioned in the news.
Members have choices about this feature.
LinkedIn may help connect Members offering their services (career
coaching, accounting, etc.) with Members seeking services. LinkedIn
does not perform nor employs individuals to perform these services.
You must be at least 18 years of age to offer, perform or procure these
services. You acknowledge that LinkedIn does not supervise, direct,

control or monitor Members in the performance of these services and
agree that (1) LinkedIn is not responsible for the offering, performance
or procurement of these services, (2) LinkedIn does not endorse any
particular Member’s offered services, and (3) nothing shall create an
employment, agency, or joint venture relationship between LinkedIn
and any Member offering services. If you are a Member offering
services, you represent and warrant that you have all the required
licenses and will provide services consistent with our Professional
Community Policies.
Similarly, LinkedIn may help you register for and/or attend events
organized by Members and connect with other Members who are
attendees at such events. You agree that (1) LinkedIn is not responsible
for the conduct of any of the Members or other attendees at such
events, (2) LinkedIn does not endorse any particular event listed on our
Services, (3) LinkedIn does not review and/or vet any of these events,
and (4) that you will adhere to these terms and conditions that apply to
such events.
3.4 Limits
We have the right to limit how you connect and interact on
our Services.
LinkedIn reserves the right to limit your use of the Services, including
the number of your connections and your ability to contact other
Members. LinkedIn reserves the right to restrict, suspend, or terminate
your account if you breach this Contract or the law or are misusing the

Services (e.g., violating any of the Dos and Don’ts or Professional
Community Policies).
3.5 Intellectual Property Rights
We’re providing you notice about our intellectual property
rights.
LinkedIn reserves all of its intellectual property rights in the Services.
Trademarks and logos used in connection with the Services are the
trademarks of their respective owners. LinkedIn, and “in” logos and
other LinkedIn trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used for
our Services are trademarks or registered trademarks of LinkedIn.
3.6 Automated Processing
We use data and information about you to make relevant
suggestions to you and others.
We use the information and data that you provide and that we have
about Members to make recommendations for connections, content
and features that may be useful to you. For example, we use data and
information about you to recommend jobs to you and you to recruiters.
Keeping your profile accurate and up to date helps us to make these
recommendations more accurate and relevant.

Key Terms
Affiliates
Affiliates are companies controlling, controlled by or under common
control with us, including, for example, LinkedIn Ireland, LinkedIn
Corporation, LinkedIn Singapore and Microsoft Corporation. 
Social Action
e.g. likes, comments, follows, share
4. Disclaimer and Limit of
Liability
4.1 No Warranty
This is our disclaimer of legal liability for the quality, safety, or
reliability of our Services.
LINKEDIN AND ITS AFFILIATES MAKE NO REPRESENTATION OR
WARRANTY ABOUT THE SERVICES, INCLUDING ANY

REPRESENTATION THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED
OR ERROR-FREE, AND PROVIDE THE SERVICES (INCLUDING
CONTENT AND INFORMATION) ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”
BASIS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE
LAW, LINKEDIN AND ITS AFFILIATES DISCLAIM ANY IMPLIED OR
STATUTORY WARRANTY, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF
TITLE, ACCURACY OF DATA, NON-INFRINGEMENT,
MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
4.2 Exclusion of Liability
These are the limits of legal liability we may have to you.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW (AND UNLESS
LINKEDIN HAS ENTERED INTO A SEPARATE WRITTEN AGREEMENT
THAT OVERRIDES THIS CONTRACT), LINKEDIN, INCLUDING ITS
AFFILIATES, WILL NOT BE LIABLE IN CONNECTION WITH THIS
CONTRACT FOR LOST PROFITS OR LOST BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES, REPUTATION (E.G., OFFENSIVE OR DEFAMATORY
STATEMENTS), LOSS OF DATA (E.G., DOWN TIME OR LOSS, USE OF,
OR CHANGES TO, YOUR INFORMATION OR CONTENT) OR ANY
INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE
DAMAGES.
LINKEDIN AND ITS AFFILIATES WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU IN
CONNECTION WITH THIS CONTRACT FOR ANY AMOUNT THAT
EXCEEDS (A) THE TOTAL FEES PAID OR PAYABLE BY YOU TO
LINKEDIN FOR THE SERVICES DURING THE TERM OF THIS
CONTRACT, IF ANY, OR (B) US $1000.

4.3 Basis of the Bargain; Exclusions
The limitations of liability in this Section 4 are part of the basis of the
bargain between you and LinkedIn and shall apply to all claims of
liability (e.g., warranty, tort, negligence, contract and law) even if
LinkedIn or its affiliates has been told of the possibility of any such
damage, and even if these remedies fail their essential purpose.
These limitations of liability do not apply to liability for death or personal
injury or for fraud, gross negligence or intentional misconduct, or in
cases of negligence where a material obligation has been breached, a
material obligation being such which forms a prerequisite to our
delivery of services and on which you may reasonably rely, but only to
the extent that the damages were directly caused by the breach and
were foreseeable upon conclusion of this Contract and to the extent
that they are typical in the context of this Contract.
5. Termination
We can each end this Contract, but some rights and
obligations survive.

Both you and LinkedIn may terminate this Contract at any time with
notice to the other. On termination, you lose the right to access or use
the Services. The following shall survive termination:
Our rights to use and disclose your feedback;
Members and/or Visitors’ rights to further re-share content and
information you shared through the Services;
Sections 4, 6, 7, and 8.2 of this Contract;
Any amounts owed by either party prior to termination remain
owed after termination.
You can visit our Help Center to close your account.
6. Governing Law and Dispute
Resolution
In the unlikely event we end up in a legal dispute, depending
on where you live, you and LinkedIn agree to resolve it in
California courts using California law, Dublin, Ireland courts
using Irish law, or in your local courts using local law.

If you live in the Designated Countries, the laws of Ireland govern all
claims related to LinkedIn's provision of the Services, but this shall not
deprive you of the mandatory consumer protections under the law of
the country to which we direct your Services where you have habitual
residence. With respect to jurisdiction, you and LinkedIn agree to
choose the courts of the country to which we direct your Services
where you have habitual residence for all disputes arising out of or
relating to this User Agreement, or in the alternative, you may choose
the responsible court in Ireland.
For others outside of Designated Countries, including those who live
outside of the United States: You and LinkedIn agree that the laws of
the State of California, U.S.A., excluding its conflict of laws rules, shall
exclusively govern any dispute relating to this Contract and/or the
Services. You and LinkedIn both agree that all claims and disputes can
be litigated only in the federal or state courts in Santa Clara County,
California, USA, and you and LinkedIn each agree to personal
jurisdiction in those courts
7. General Terms
Here are some important details about the Contract.
If a court with authority over this Contract finds any part of it
unenforceable, you and we agree that the court should modify the
terms to make that part enforceable while still achieving its intent. If the

court cannot do that, you and we agree to ask the court to remove that
unenforceable part and still enforce the rest of this Contract.
This Contract (including additional terms that may be provided by us
when you engage with a feature of the Services) is the only agreement
between us regarding the Services and supersedes all prior
agreements for the Services.
If we don't act to enforce a breach of this Contract, that does not mean
that LinkedIn has waived its right to enforce this Contract. You may not
assign or transfer this Contract (or your membership or use of
Services) to anyone without our consent. However, you agree that
LinkedIn may assign this Contract to its affiliates or a party that buys it
without your consent. There are no third-party beneficiaries to this
Contract.
You agree that the only way to provide us legal notice is at the
addresses provided in Section 10.
8. LinkedIn “Dos and Don’ts”
LinkedIn is a community of professionals. This list of “Dos
and Don’ts” along with our Professional Community Policies
limit what you can and cannot do on our Services.
8.1. Dos

You agree that you will:
1. Comply with all applicable laws, including, without limitation,
privacy laws, intellectual property laws, anti-spam laws, export
control laws, tax laws, and regulatory requirements;
2. Provide accurate information to us and keep it updated;
3. Use your real name on your profile; and
4. Use the Services in a professional manner.
8.2. Don’ts
You agree that you will not:
1. Create a false identity on LinkedIn, misrepresent your identity,
create a Member profile for anyone other than yourself (a real
person), or use or attempt to use another’s account;
2. Develop, support or use software, devices, scripts, robots or any
other means or processes (including crawlers, browser plugins
and add-ons or any other technology) to scrape the Services or
otherwise copy profiles and other data from the Services;
3. Override any security feature or bypass or circumvent any
access controls or use limits of the Service (such as caps on
keyword searches or profile views);
4. Copy, use, disclose or distribute any information obtained from
the Services, whether directly or through third parties (such as

search engines), without the consent of LinkedIn;
5. Disclose information that you do not have the consent to
disclose (such as confidential information of others (including
your employer));
6. Violate the intellectual property rights of others, including
copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets or other
proprietary rights. For example, do not copy or distribute (except
through the available sharing functionality) the posts or other
content of others without their permission, which they may give
by posting under a Creative Commons license;
7. Violate the intellectual property or other rights of LinkedIn,
including, without limitation, (i) copying or distributing our
learning videos or other materials or (ii) copying or distributing
our technology, unless it is released under open source licenses;
(iii) using the word “LinkedIn” or our logos in any business name,
email, or URL except as provided in the Brand Guidelines;
8. Post anything that contains software viruses, worms, or any
other harmful code;
9. Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decipher or
otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the Services or
any related technology that is not open source;
10. Imply or state that you are affiliated with or endorsed by
LinkedIn without our express consent (e.g., representing
yourself as an accredited LinkedIn trainer);
11. Rent, lease, loan, trade, sell/re-sell or otherwise monetize the
Services or related data or access to the same, without
LinkedIn’s consent;

12. Deep-link to our Services for any purpose other than to promote
your profile or a Group on our Services, without LinkedIn’s
consent;
13. Use bots or other automated methods to access the Services,
add or download contacts, send or redirect messages;
14. Monitor the Services’ availability, performance or functionality
for any competitive purpose;
15. Engage in “framing,” “mirroring,” or otherwise simulating the
appearance or function of the Services;
16. Overlay or otherwise modify the Services or their appearance
(such as by inserting elements into the Services or removing,
covering, or obscuring an advertisement included on the
Services);
17. Interfere with the operation of, or place an unreasonable load on,
the Services (e.g., spam, denial of service attack, viruses,
gaming algorithms); and/or
18. Violate the Professional Community Policies or any additional
terms concerning a specific Service that are provided when you
sign up for or start using such Service, and the Bing Maps
terms where applicable.
9. Complaints Regarding
Content

Contact information for complaint about content provided by
our Members.
We respect the intellectual property rights of others. We require that
information posted by Members be accurate and not in violation of the
intellectual property rights or other rights of third parties. We provide
a policy and process for complaints concerning content posted by our
Members.
10. How To Contact Us
Our Contact information. Our Help Center also provides
information about our Services.
For general inquiries, you may contact us online. For legal notices or
service of process, you may write us at these addresses.