Grade B+ — Fair terms (score 80/100)
LinkedIn grants itself a broad, perpetual license to your content and reserves the right to modify terms without notice, but notably avoids forced arbitration and class action waivers.
Broad content license, unilateral changes, but no forced arbitration.
A worldwide, transferable and sublicensable right to use, copy, modify, distribute, publicly perform and display, host, and process your content and other information without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or others.
You grant LinkedIn a massive, perpetual-style license to your content that they can transfer to others without paying you.
However, we may not always provide prior notice of changes to these terms (1) when those changes are legally required to be implemented with immediate effect, or (2) when those changes relate to a newly launched service or feature.
LinkedIn can change the rules of the service without telling you in advance under several conditions.
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.
Even if LinkedIn causes you significant harm, their financial liability is capped at $1,000.
You can visit our Help Center to learn about how to close your account
You have a clear, self-serve mechanism to terminate your account and end the contract.
You can end this license for specific content by deleting such content from the Services, or generally by closing your account
You can revoke the license you granted to LinkedIn by deleting your content or closing your account.
Last reviewed 2026-07-25 under rubric v3.5.