We have revised our User Agreement as of October 23, 2014. We made the revisions to make our User Agreement easier to read, much shorter, and more member-friendly. For example, we made the content license grant from you to us narrower so that it fits how we actually use member content and information. We also removed a number of legal obligations that members had under our old User Agreement.
This summary of changes is intended to help you understand the revisions we made and how they may impact you as a LinkedIn member. However, you should read the full User Agreement, as you will be bound by its terms when you view, access, or otherwise use LinkedIn.
We have rewritten this section to emphasize that you are entering into a binding legal agreement with either LinkedIn Corporation or LinkedIn Ireland, depending on your location. Additionally, our User Agreement includes our Privacy Policy, which we've also revised. You should review our revised Privacy Policy in full.
We made many changes to this section to simplify and clarify its language. The following changes impact your obligations:
Additionally, we deleted or moved certain text:
We deleted this section entirely. This section expressly granted members a limited license to use LinkedIn subject to their compliance with LinkedIn's User Agreement and required members to only use the Service as permitted by this Agreement. We deleted this section because it was for some aspects covered by an implied license and for other aspects redundant with other sections of the Agreement.
We moved the license to your content and information granted from you to LinkedIn to new Section 3.1 (formerly this was Section 2.2). We also made major changes to this license to make it clearer and narrower, consistent with our actual uses of member content (which were more limited than the rights granted under the old license):
Here is the previous license text if you'd like to compare it to the new license:
As between you and LinkedIn, you own the content and information you provide LinkedIn under this Agreement, and may request its deletion at any time, unless you have shared information or content with others and they have not deleted it, or it was copied or stored by other users. Additionally, you grant LinkedIn a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual, unlimited, assignable, sublicenseable, fully paid up and royalty–free right to us to copy, prepare derivative works of, improve, distribute, publish, remove, retain, add, process, analyze, use and commercialize, in any way now known or in the future discovered, any information you provide, directly or indirectly to LinkedIn, including, but not limited to, any user generated content, ideas, concepts, techniques and/or data to the services, you submit to LinkedIn, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or to any third parties.
We will respect the choices you make about who gets to see your information and content.
Pursuant to this license, LinkedIn may grant other Members and/or Visitors access and share rights to your content and information in accordance with this Agreement, your settings and degree of connection with them. With respect to your SlideShare content, you may choose to make it available to Members and Visitors under the Creative Commons license of your choice.
You promise to only provide us information and content that you have the right to give us and you promise that your LinkedIn profile will be truthful.
Any content or information you submit to us is at your own risk of loss. By providing content or information to us, you represent and warrant that you are entitled to submit it and that it is not confidential and not in violation of any law, contractual restrictions or other third party rights (including any intellectual property rights).
It is your responsibility to keep your LinkedIn profile information accurate and updated.
We also rewrote several subsections of Section 3 to make them shorter and easier to understand. This includes removing text that duplicated language contained in our Privacy Policy.
We combined former Sections 5 and 6 of the Agreement and rewrote the disclaimer of warranties and limitation of liability to make them shorter and easier to understand. We made no material changes to these provisions.
We revised this section to remove the option to force arbitration. Under the revised User Agreement, all legal claims will be litigated in a court of law unless the parties agree otherwise.
We shortened the following sections, but made no substantive changes: