Updates to our Terms of Service

An early preview to understand your choices and the control you have over your data and content on LinkedIn.

Michelle Pais   Hi Michelle, We're updating our Terms of Service and wanted to give you an overview of some of what's new. These changes impact our User Agreement, Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy and Professional Community Policies and are effective May 8, 2018. Anytime we make updates, we hope to make it easy for you to understand your choices and the control you have over your data and content on LinkedIn. Check out my blog post for full details. Here's some of what's new: We make it even easier to understand the data we have about you, how you can correct it and how you can ask us to stop using it. Our new settings give you more control over ads you see and more transparency about the data shared with advertisers. Refreshed community policies make sure LinkedIn stays a platform where people act professionally. Built from our well-established community guidelines, these policies encourage discussions that can help our members be more productive and successful, and outline what activity may be stopped by LinkedIn. For example, harassment and hate speech are not welcome on our platform and could result in permanent restriction from LinkedIn. Also, if you are being paid to share or endorse a product or service, you need to disclose that you're being paid for your opinions or actions. Your privacy comes first in all of these updates. We now meet the high standard for data privacy introduced by the new European data protection law known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which goes into effect later in May. LinkedIn members around the world will benefit from many of these changes. To learn more, check out our GDPR Help Center. If for any reason you don't agree to our new terms and would rather close your account than opt out of specific new features, you can do so. Thanks for being a member, Sara Harrington, Vice President of Legal at LinkedIn This email was intended for Michelle Pais (HR Director at German Marshall Fund of the United States). Learn why we included this. © 2018 LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2. LinkedIn is a registered business name of LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company. LinkedIn and the LinkedIn logo are registered trademarks of LinkedIn.