We’re updating our Terms of Service on November 3, 2025. We’re also making changes to how we use and share data with our “Affiliates.†See what’s new for your region and how you can control the use of your data. We encourage you to read the revised User Agreement and Privacy Policy and visit your settings to make the choices that work best for you.
Note: An “Affiliate†is a term that refers to a family of companies that are related by ownership. At LinkedIn, this means LinkedIn Ireland and LinkedIn Corp. and also our parent company, Microsoft, and its subsidiaries.
Here’s what’s changing:
- Updates to our Global Privacy Policy. In our Privacy Policy update, we provide more clarity about our use of data from Affiliates, and for some regions, we are expanding the types of data that we share with Microsoft (a LinkedIn Affiliate) for their ad services. As explained in more detail below, members in the relevant regions will also be provided an opt-out setting.
- Members in the US can visit our US State Regional Privacy notice for updates on targeted advertising.
- Members in the EU, EEA, Switzerland and UK can visit our European Regional Privacy Notice for more information on our legal basis for processing data for training the content-generating AI models used in our products.
- Updates to our User Agreement. In our updated User Agreement, we’ve made some changes to make it more readable, and to make some defined terms such as “Affiliate†more prominent. We also added details about when we won’t be able to provide you the typical prior notice about changes to these terms (i.e., because laws change or a new product is launched). We’ve also added more information about when we will use secondary payment methods you may have provided to us, clarified that deep fakes and other wrongful impersonations violate our Terms, and provided more information about how you can appeal LinkedIn decisions that impact your use of our Services. Learn more.
What’s not changing:
- We will continue to honor all of your prior setting choices.
- We offer you robust control over how we use your data, including for ads.
- No settings are being removed for any members in any regions.
See updates specific to your region below.
Note: Not all features are offered globally at the same time, which may impact the settings available to you. In some regions, members may also notice changes to the names or descriptions of their ad settings for clarity, consistency, and accessibility. Learn more.
Generative AI Model Training: We are now including these regions in the locations where we use member data and content to train generative AI models that create content.
On November 3, 2025, we’ll start to use some data from members in these regions to train content-generating AI models that enhance your experience and better connect our members to opportunities. Our GenAI features can help hirers find and reach you more easily, and assist members in creating content such as profile updates, messages, and posts. This may include data like details from your profile, and public content you post on LinkedIn; it does not include your private messages. Learn more.
We rely on legitimate interest to process your data for this purpose. You can opt out anytime in your settings if you’d prefer not to have your data used in this way.
If you’ve already submitted the Data Processing Objection Form, please check your settings value to make sure your choice to opt out is shown. You are free to make changes to this setting at any time. Your setting choice does not change the access you have to GenAI products and features offered on LinkedIn.
Ads: We are not making any changes to our ad practices in these regions, so there are no new ad settings in these regions. If this changes in the future, we will offer appropriate controls.
Generative AI Model Training: We are now including these regions in the locations where we use and share member data and content to train generative AI models that create content.
Starting on November 3, 2025, we’ll start to use some data from members in these regions to train these content-generating AI models that enhance your experience and better connect our members to opportunities. Our GenAI features can help hirers find and reach you more easily, and assist members in creating content such as profile updates, messages, and posts. This may include data like details from your profile, and public content you post on LinkedIn; it does not include your private messages. Learn more.
We rely on legitimate interest to process your data for this purpose. You can opt out anytime in your settings if you’d prefer not to have your data used in this way. This setting also controls whether LinkedIn can share this member data and content to our Affiliate Microsoft for their model training activities.
If you’ve already submitted the Data Processing Objection Form, please check your settings value to make sure your choice to opt out is shown. You are free to make changes to this setting at any time. Your setting choice does not change the access you have to GenAI products and features offered on LinkedIn.
Ads: We are not making any changes to our ad practices in these regions, so there are no new ad settings in these regions. We are making changes to some of the names and descriptions of the ad settings in your region. Learn more.
Ads: As part of this update, we are making changes to our ad practices in these regions.
(1) Data to our Affiliate Microsoft for ads: Starting November 3, 2025, we will share additional data about members in your region with our Affiliate Microsoft so that the Microsoft family of companies can show you more personalized and relevant ads. This data may include your LinkedIn profile data, feed activity data, and ad engagement data; it does not include any data that your settings do not allow LinkedIn to use for ad purposes. Learn more.
You can opt out anytime in your settings if you’d prefer to not have your data used in this way.
Whatever you choose, you will still see ads shown by Microsoft, but they will not be personalized with your LinkedIn data. To learn more about how Microsoft uses data for ads and the controls provided by Microsoft for ads, see Microsoft's help center.
(2) Data from our Affiliate Microsoft for ads: LinkedIn already offers you control over how LinkedIn uses data from others for ads. If you do not want LinkedIn to use data from others (including Microsoft) for ads, you can use these settings:
- Ads off LinkedIn
- When this setting is ON, LinkedIn can use data from Microsoft and others to show you ads off LinkedIn.
- Data from others for ads
- When this setting is ON, LinkedIn can use data about your engagement on other sites, including the sites of our and our Affiliates’ advertisers, to show you more personalized ads. We do not use this data to infer persistent “Interests and Traits†about you.
- Measure ad success
- When this setting is ON, LinkedIn can use data from Microsoft and others to generate aggregate reports for our advertisers about how ads delivered by LinkedIn performed.
- When this setting is ON, LinkedIn can use data from Microsoft and others to generate aggregate reports for our advertisers about how ads delivered by LinkedIn performed.
Generative AI Model Training: We are now including these regions in the locations where we use and share member data and content to train generative AI models that create content.
Starting on November 3, 2025, we’ll start to use some data from members in these regions to train these content-generating AI models that enhance your experience and better connect our members to opportunities. Our GenAI features can help hirers find and reach you more easily, and assist members in creating content such as profile updates, messages, and posts. This may include data like details from your profile, and public content you post on LinkedIn; it does not include your private messages. Learn more.
You can opt out anytime in your settings if you’d prefer not to have your data used in this way. This setting also controls whether LinkedIn can share this member data and content to our Affiliate Microsoft for their model training activities.
If you’ve already submitted the Data Processing Objection Form, please check your settings value to make sure your choice to opt out is shown. You are free to make changes to this setting at any time. Your setting choice does not change the access you have to GenAI products and features offered on LinkedIn.
Ads: As part of this update, we are making changes to our ad practices in these regions.
(1) Data to our Affiliate Microsoft for ads: Starting November 3, 2025, we will share additional data about members in your region with our Affiliate Microsoft so that the Microsoft family of companies can show you more personalized and relevant ads. This data may include your LinkedIn profile data, feed activity data, and ad engagement data; it does not include any data that your settings do not allow LinkedIn to use for ad purposes. Learn more.
You can opt out anytime in your settings if you’d prefer to not have your data used in this way.
Whatever you choose, you will still see ads shown by Microsoft, but they will not be personalized with your LinkedIn data. To learn more about how Microsoft uses data for ads and the controls provided by Microsoft for ads, see Microsoft's help center.
(2) Data from our Affiliate Microsoft for ads: LinkedIn already offers you control over how LinkedIn uses data from others for ads. If you do not want LinkedIn to use data from others (including Microsoft) for ads, you can use these settings:
- Ads off LinkedIn
- When this setting is ON, LinkedIn can use data from Microsoft and others to show you ads off LinkedIn.
- Data from others for ads
- When this setting is ON, LinkedIn can use data about your engagement on other sites, including the sites of our and our Affiliates’ advertisers, to show you more personalized ads. We do not use this data to infer persistent “Interests and Traits†about you.
- Measure ad success
- When this setting is ON, LinkedIn can use data from our Microsoft and others to generate aggregate reports for our advertisers about how ads delivered by LinkedIn performed.
Generative AI Model Training: There are currently no changes to GenAI training in these regions arising from this Terms of Service update. Our existing settings continue to give you control over how Linkedin uses your data for GAI model training.
By continuing to use our Services after November 3, 2025, you are agreeing to these updated Terms of Service. If you do not agree to the new terms, you can choose to discontinue using the products and services, and close your LinkedIn account before these terms become effective.