1.1 About Us and These API Terms of Use

You agree that by developing on the LinkedIn platform, you are entering into a legally binding agreement with LinkedIn Corporation (if you reside in the United States), 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, California 94043, USA or LinkedIn Ireland Limited (if you reside outside of the United States), Gardner House, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland (“we,” “us,” “our,” and “LinkedIn”).

By registering a software application, website, or product you create or a service you offer (an “Application”) at the LinkedIn Developer Network site (the “Developer Site”), you acknowledge that you are currently a member of LinkedIn and have read and understood and agree to be bound by these LinkedIn API Terms of Use (the “Terms”).

If you are developing on our platform on behalf of a company or other entity, you represent and warrant that you have full legal authority to register an Application on behalf of that entity and bind it to these Terms. If you are not authorized, you may not accept the Terms or register an Application for someone else.

1.2 Purpose

Our mission is to connect the world’s professionals to allow them to be more productive and successful. To achieve our mission, we make APIs available to third party developers such as you to create applications for our members and customers.

1.3 Scope and Intent

These Terms govern your use of our APIs unless you have executed another agreement with LinkedIn that expressly governs your use of our APIs.  

You may develop Applications using LinkedIn APIs as soon as your register an Application and you agree to follow these terms, if the Applications meet the eligibility criteria described below. Note, that upon prior approval, LinkedIn may enable you to access more LinkedIn data than is generally publicly available via the APIs.

LinkedIn also offers a (a) “Partner Program,” where you can apply to develop applications if they meet our Partner Program eligibility criteria and you have entered into a signed partnership agreement with LinkedIn, and (b) variety of plugins you can integrate into your website to allow visitors to access and view content on LinkedIn websites if you have agreed to be bound, in addition to these Terms, to the LinkedIn Plugins License Agreement.

As used in these Terms, “APIs” means programmatic web APIs and associated tools and documentation that LinkedIn makes available under these Terms.

1.4 Eligibility Criteria

Here is the eligibility criteria to determine if you may use the APIs pursuant to these Terms:

You may use our APIs if:

1. you are developing an Application designed to help LinkedIn members be more productive and successful across the web; for example, by augmenting their profile and professional brand in an Application for publishing, discussing and sharing content with like-minded professionals.
   
2. your Application is NOT expected to: have more than 250,000 lifetime members; make more than 500,000 daily calls to an API; make more than 500,000 lifetime people search calls to an API; or serve greater than 1 million daily plugin impressions.
   
3. your Application DOES NOT rely on access to the APIs as a fundamental aspect of your business.
   
4. your Application WILL NOT store or export any data from LinkedIn other than the LinkedIn Profile Data for the LinkedIn member that requested the data.  “Profile Data” means the name, photo, headline, contact information, experience, education, summary, and location of a LinkedIn member. Profile Data excludes connections, network updates, job listings, groups, companies, and any other content.
   
5. your Application DOES NOT target current or potential paying customers of LinkedIn products or people engaging in activities related to those products—in other words, Applications used for hiring, marketing, or selling. Here are some examples (and exceptions) of what we mean by hiring, marketing and selling:
   
   Hiring: Applications to find a job or fill a job, such as ones used to advertise, post, apply for, search for, recommend, refer, suggest, enhance listings for, or fill permanent jobs, contract positions, or volunteer opportunities, or for anything with a similar functionality (you can, however, use the APIs to develop an Application to let people apply for a job on your company’s career site, as long as it abides by the specification set forth here).
   
   Marketing: Applications used by marketers or their customers for marketing campaigns, lead generation, campaign analysis, or for anything with similar functionality (you can, however, use the APIs to develop an Application to let companies manage their social media presence on LinkedIn, as long as it abides by Section 4.5 below (“Social Media Management: Company Profile and Statistics Data”)).
   
   Selling: Applications used by sales or other outbound professionals for generating or finding prospects or leads, for sales intelligence or training, for relationship management, for systematic matching of individuals with their LinkedIn profiles, or for anything with similar functionality.

If your Application does not satisfy the above eligibility criteria, you may be eligible for the Partner Program. For more information about the Partner Program application process, eligibility criteria and the areas where we are looking for partners, click here. 

2.1   Developer Account

To begin using the APIs, you must first sign-in to LinkedIn using your real LinkedIn account user name and password and then register your Application by clicking My Apps and following the instructions provided thereafter. Both the Application registration and your LinkedIn member account must contain accurate and up-to-date information at all times, including your current title, company, and e-mail address. You agree that we can use, store, and share information submitted by you to LinkedIn in connection with your Application registration as permitted in our Privacy Policy.

2.2   Access Credentials

Once you have successfully registered an Application, you will be given Access Credentials for your Application. “Access Credentials” means the necessary security keys, secrets, tokens, and other credentials to access the APIs. The Access Credentials enable us to associate your API activity with your Application and the LinkedIn members using it. All activities that occur using your Access Credentials are your responsibility. Keep them secret. Do not sell, transfer, or sublicense them. Do not try to circumvent them and do not require your members to obtain their own Access Credentials to use your Application (for example, in an attempt to circumvent call limits).

2.3   Test Account

You may create up to five LinkedIn test accounts for purposes of testing your Application only. You must create the accounts manually and not via any automated means, such as scripts.

These test accounts must not interact with non-test accounts (for example, you can’t use test accounts to comment to posts on a Company Page and you can’t connect test accounts with non-test accounts, including your LinkedIn account), or override our API call limits. You must clearly identify the accounts as test accounts in the applicable account profile, and must identify these additional account profiles as “Developers” in your Application registration. You may not create any profile positions at real companies (besides your own) through the test accounts.

2.4   API License

As long as you follow these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-assignable, non-transferable license under LinkedIn’s intellectual property rights to use the APIs to develop, test, and support your Application, and to let your customers use your integration of the APIs within your Application.

3.1   Display and Use Data Properly

Members’ views of their LinkedIn networks are private to them, based on the connections they have. Each LinkedIn member must give you express permission to access their LinkedIn account and network through your Application and to share their profile data with third parties.  You must provide the LinkedIn member’s account and network information only to that LinkedIn member and no one else. In addition, your Application must not permit LinkedIn members to share their networks or data about their networks to anyone else.

3.2 Excluded Uses of Content

You must never do any of the following:

1. Use LinkedIn Content in any advertisements, or for purposes of targeting advertisements, in your Application or elsewhere. “Content” means any data or content from our Website or accessed via the APIs. Our “Website” means LinkedIn’s websites at www.linkedin.com, www.slideshare.net, and any other website or service owned or operated by LinkedIn.
2. Use the Content for any of the following: generating messages, promotions, offers, or mass messages or for any other purpose other than to allow your users to use the Content in your Application. This includes using the Content to send a mass message to LinkedIn members asking them to interact with each other, such as to rate each other.
3. Share (except to your Application's users), transfer, sublicense, sell or lease any Content or access to any Content, directly or indirectly (e.g., through multiple tiers of distribution), to anybody (e.g., you may not sell access to an aggregated collection of LinkedIn member profiles or the most relevant LinkedIn members for a position). That includes data brokers, salespeople, advertisers, social or professional networks, recruiters, or anyone besides yourself or the company on whose behalf you agreed to these Terms.
   
4. Commingle or supplement Content from the APIs with any other LinkedIn data. For example, you cannot supplement the data you have received via a LinkedIn API with data scraped from our Website (whether that scraping was done by you or someone else) or from any other source.  
5. Use someone’s Member Token or OAuth Token (as those terms are defined below) to show his or her Content to someone else (e.g., as part of search results). Each LinkedIn member must authenticate individually to retrieve his or her Content through the APIs.

3.3   Excluded Uses of the APIs

You must never do any of the following under these Terms:

1. Use the APIs in any Application that includes adult content, promotes gambling, involves the sale of tobacco or alcohol to persons under 21 years of age, or otherwise violates any applicable law or regulation.
2. Use the APIs to retrieve Content that is then aggregated with third party search results in such a way that an end user cannot attribute the Content to LinkedIn (i.e., aggregated search results).
   
3. Distribute or allow access to the stand-alone APIs to anyone other than the company on whose behalf you agreed to these Terms, or create an application programming interface that enables access to Content. Anyone who wants to access our APIs and Content must agree to be bound by the applicable terms of use.

4.1   No Storing Any Content

You must not copy or store any Content or capture or store any information expressed by the Content (such as hashed or transformed data), except to the extent permitted by these Terms.

4.2   You May Store Tokens

You may store the Application-specific alphanumeric user IDs that we provide to you for identifying users of your Application (“Member Tokens”) or the tokens that we provide to you when a LinkedIn member authenticates your Application to his or her LinkedIn account (“OAuth Tokens”).

4.3   Caching Content for Performance

To improve the user experience, you may cache the Content for up to 24 hours from a request for that Content through the APIs before being deleted. This limited permission to cache is for performance reasons only. You do not have any rights to store the Content beyond this limited 24-hour period.

4.4   LinkedIn Member Profile Data

You may store a LinkedIn member’s Profile Data if you have the consent of the LinkedIn member to do so; for example, so that a LinkedIn member applying for a job at your company can provide you with a copy of their profile.

The process for obtaining LinkedIn member consent must meet the specifications set forth here. If you want to refresh the LinkedIn member’s Profile Data, you may only do so when the member is actually using your Application and not on an automated schedule. You must use stored Profile Data solely for the benefit of the LinkedIn member that granted you permission to access it; for example, to evaluate that LinkedIn member for a position in your company.

4.5   Social Media Management: Company Profile and Statistics Data

You may store company page status updates, analytics on company page status updates, company follower analytics data, and text content of comments on company status updates received via the Company Share API (“Company Profile and Statistics Data”) on behalf of your company and clients (to the extent that your clients know that you are storing their data). Company Profile and Statistics Data excludes any personal information tied to members who posted comments on any company page. You must not commingle the Company Profile and Statistics Data with any of your data or with data belonging to any third party.

As soon as your client elects to stop receiving LinkedIn Content through your Application or upon such client’s request, you must permanently delete the client’s Company Profile and Statistics Data in 10 days or less. Upon termination of these Terms for any reason, you must permanently delete all Company Profile and Statistics Data for all clients.

4.6   Delete at LinkedIn Member Request

You must delete all Content collected with the LinkedIn member’s consent, including the Member Token and the OAuth Token, upon request by that LinkedIn member, when the LinkedIn member uninstalls your Application or when the LinkedIn member closes his or her account with you.  

The restrictions of this Section do not apply to data that LinkedIn members provide directly to you and that is separately entered or uploaded to you by the user of your Application.

4.7   Delete for Breach

You must immediately delete all Content if we terminate your use of the APIs for breach of these Terms, except when doing so would cause you to violate any law or obligation imposed by a governmental authority.

5.1   Your User Agreement and Privacy Policy

Your Application must include your own user agreement and privacy policy. Your user agreement and privacy policy must be prominently identified or located where members download or access your Application.  Your privacy policy must meet applicable legal standards and accurately describe the collection, use, storage and sharing of data.

You must promptly notify us of any breaches of your user agreement or privacy policy that impact or may impact LinkedIn members. Your privacy policy must be at least as stringent and user-friendly as LinkedIn’s.

5.2   LinkedIn Member Consent

Before obtaining information from LinkedIn members, you must obtain their informed consent by telling them what information you collect and how it will be used, stored or shared.

5.3   Application Restrictions

You and your Application must not do the following:

1. Implement features or business practices that harm the professional reputation, relationships, or professional ecosystem of LinkedIn members.
2. Use Content received from the APIs in any manner that facilitates bias or data "redlining," whether intentional or inadvertent, based on sensitive or protected categories or characteristics.  We want all LinkedIn members to enjoy access to the economic opportunities LinkedIn and the Applications have to offer.  
   
3. Impersonate a LinkedIn member or misrepresent any LinkedIn member or other third party when requesting or publishing information.
4. Obfuscate or hide any LinkedIn buttons, sign-in functionality, or consent or authorization flows from your users. In order to access LinkedIn member-specific Content through the APIs, your users must sign-in with their LinkedIn credentials and grant your Application access to their Content.
5. Proxy, request, or use LinkedIn account user names or passwords in any fashion for any reason. We want LinkedIn members to have safe and consistent experiences across all Applications.
6. Request from the APIs more than the minimum data fields and application permissions your Application needs.
7. Try to exceed or circumvent limitations on calls and use. This includes creating multiple Applications for identical, or largely similar, usage (e.g., having one Application per customer).
8. Download, scrape, post, or transmit, in any form or by any means, any part of our Website. This includes data retrieved by web browser plugins.
9. Copy, reformat, reverse-engineer, or otherwise modify the APIs, Access Credentials, our Website or any Content.
10. Interfere with or disrupt LinkedIn services or servers or networks connected to LinkedIn services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to LinkedIn services.

6.1   Brand Features License and Publicity Rights

Subject to these Terms, including the Branding Guidelines, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-assignable, non-sublicenseable, and non-transferable license during the Term to display our Brand Features to promote or advertise your integration of the APIs in your Application. “Brand Features” means any trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos and domain names that LinkedIn makes available to you.

You may promote your Application, including talking to traditional and online media and your users about your Application, so long as you do so truthfully and without implying that your Application is created or endorsed by LinkedIn (or otherwise embellishing your relationship with LinkedIn). However, you may not issue any formal press release via traditional or online media referring to LinkedIn without LinkedIn’s prior consent, unless expressly allowed in the Branding Guidelines.

6.2   LinkedIn Brand Use Restrictions

You must not:

1. Display our Brand Features in any way that is misleading, defamatory, infringing, libelous, disparaging, obscene, or otherwise objectionable to LinkedIn in its sole discretion; or
2. Remove any legal, copyright, trademark, watermark or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on Content or any other materials you receive or access pursuant to these Terms.

6.3   Publicity by Us

We may publicly refer to you, orally or in writing, as a licensee of the APIs. We may also publish your name and logo (with or without a link to your Application) on our Website, in press releases, and in promotional materials without additional consent.

7.1   Security Measures

Your network, operating system and the software of your web servers, databases, and computer systems (collectively, “Systems”) must be properly configured to securely operate your Application and store Content. Your Application must use reasonable security measures to protect the private information of your users. You must not architect or select Systems in a manner to avoid the foregoing obligation.

You must promptly report any security deficiencies in, or intrusions to, your Systems that you discover to LinkedIn in writing via email to security@linkedin.com or subsequent contact information posted in the Developer Site. You will work with LinkedIn to immediately correct any security deficiency, and will immediately disconnect any intrusions or intruder. In the event of any security deficiency or intrusion involving the Application, APIs or Content, you will make no public statements (e.g. press, blogs, social media, bulletin boards, etc.) without prior written and express permission from LinkedIn in each instance.

7.2   Monitoring

You agree to assist LinkedIn in verifying your compliance with these Terms by providing us with information about your Application and storage of Content, which may also include access to your Application and other materials related to your use of the APIs. If you do not demonstrate full compliance with these Terms, we may restrict or terminate your access to the APIs.

8.1   Support and Modifications

We may provide you with support or modifications for the APIs in our sole discretion and we may stop providing support or modifications to you at any time without notice or liability to you.

We may release subsequent versions of the APIs and require that you use those subsequent versions. Your continued use of the APIs following a subsequent release will be deemed your acceptance of modifications.

8.2   Fees

The APIs are currently provided for free, but LinkedIn reserves the right to charge for the APIs in the future. If we do charge a fee for use of the APIs or any developer tools and features, you do not have any obligation to continue to use LinkedIn’s developer resources.

8.3   LinkedIn Independent Development

You understand and acknowledge that LinkedIn may be independently creating applications, content, and other products or services that may be similar to or competitive with your Application. Nothing in these Terms will be construed as restricting or preventing LinkedIn from creating and fully exploiting any applications, content, and other items, without any obligation to you.

8.4   Developer Exception to our Privacy Policy

LinkedIn may reveal personal information about developers for attribution purposes, handling inquiries from members or potential members, and other purposes LinkedIn reasonably deems necessary under these Terms.

9.1   LinkedIn Property

As between you and us, we own all rights, title, and interest, including all intellectual property rights, in and to, the (1) APIs, and all elements, components, and executables of the APIs; (2) Content; (3) Website; and (4) Brand Features (clauses (1)-(4) collectively, the “LinkedIn Materials”). The only exception to this is Content which you as a LinkedIn member have licensed to LinkedIn under the User Agreement - the terms of the User Agreement govern that Content.

Except for the express licenses granted in these Terms, LinkedIn does not grant you any right, title, or interest in the LinkedIn Materials. You agree to take such actions as LinkedIn may reasonably request to perfect LinkedIn’s rights to the LinkedIn Materials.

9.2   Your Property

Except to the extent your Application contains LinkedIn Materials, LinkedIn claims no ownership or control over your Application.

During the term of these Terms you grant us a paid-up, royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable right and license, under all of your intellectual property rights, to: (1) use, perform, and display your Application and its content for purposes of marketing, demonstrating, and making your Application available to LinkedIn members; (2) link to and direct LinkedIn members to your Application; and (3) sublicense the foregoing rights to our affiliates.

9.3   Contributions to LinkedIn

By submitting suggestions or other feedback regarding the LinkedIn Materials to LinkedIn ("Contributions"), you acknowledge and agree that: (1) LinkedIn is not under any obligation of confidentiality with respect to the Contributions; (2) LinkedIn may use or disclose (or choose not to use or disclose) such Contributions for any purpose, in any way, in any media worldwide; (3) you irrevocably, non-exclusively license to LinkedIn rights to exploit your Contributions; and (4) you are not entitled to any compensation or reimbursement of any kind from LinkedIn under any circumstances.

10.1  Legal Compliance

You represent and warrant to LinkedIn that, excluding LinkedIn Materials, you have the right to use, reproduce, transmit, copy, publicly display, publicly perform, and distribute your Application, and that use of your Application by LinkedIn and its members will not violate the rights of any third party (e.g., copyright, patent, trademark, privacy, publicity or other proprietary right of any person or entity), or any applicable regulation or law, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the laws of any country in which your Application is made available and any applicable export laws.

10.2  Compliance with and Amendments to These Terms

You must comply with these Terms in order to use the APIs.  The most current version of these Terms can be reviewed on the Developer Site.

We reserve the right to modify, supplement, or replace the terms of these Terms, effective prospectively upon posting on the Developer Site or otherwise notifying you. For example, we may present a banner on the Developer Site when we have amended these Terms so that you may access and review the changes prior to your continued use of the APIs and Developer Site. If you do not want to agree to changes to these Terms, you can terminate these Terms at any time in accordance with Section 11.

10.3  Other Obligations

You and your Application must also comply with the following, which are hereby incorporated by reference:

1. The LinkedIn User Agreement;
2. The LinkedIn Privacy Policy;
3. The LinkedIn Cookie Policy; and
4. The Branding Guidelines.

In the event of any conflict between the content in this document and the above documents, this document controls your use of the APIs. If you disagree with any of the provisions in these Terms, do not access or use the APIs.

11.1  Term

The term of these Terms will commence on the date upon which you agree to these Terms and will continue until terminated as set forth below.

11.2  Your Termination Rights

You may terminate these Terms by discontinuing use of our APIs.

11.3  Suspension; Termination

We may suspend or terminate your use of all or any of the APIs at any time if we believe you have violated these Terms or if we believe the availability of the APIs in your Application is not in our or our members’ best interests.

We may discontinue the availability of some or all of the APIs at any time for any reason. We may also impose limits on certain features and services or restrict your access to some or all of the APIs or our Website. All of our rights in these Terms may be exercised without prior notice or liability to you.

11.4  Effect of Termination

Upon termination of these Terms:

1. all rights and licenses granted to you will terminate immediately;
2. you will promptly destroy LinkedIn confidential information in your possession or control;
3. neither party is liable to the other party just because these Terms have been terminated;
4. unless we agree otherwise in writing or as stated in these Terms, you must permanently delete all Content or other data which you stored pursuant to your use of the APIs. LinkedIn may request that you certify in writing your compliance with this section; and
5. LinkedIn will make commercially reasonable efforts to remove all references and links to your Application from the Website (LinkedIn has no other obligation to delete copies of, references to, or links to your Application).

11.5  Survival

The following sections of this Agreement shall survive any termination, Sections 3 (“Use of the APIs and LinkedIn Content”), 4.6 (“Delete at LinkedIn Member Request”), 4.7 (“Delete for Breach”), 5 (“Don’t Harm or Trick LinkedIn Members”), 6 (“Treat the LinkedIn Brand With Respect”), 7 (“Safety and Abuse”), 8.3 (“LinkedIn Independent Development”), 9 (“Ownership”), 10 (“Follow the Law and These Terms”), 11.4 (“Effect of Termination”), 11.5 (“Survival”), 12 (“Disclaimer of Warranties; Limitation of Liability; Indemnity”), 13 (“Dispute Resolution”) and 14 (“General Terms”).

12.1 Applicability of Disclaimer and Limitation

SOME COUNTRIES AND JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE DISCLAIMER OF CERTAIN IMPLIED TERMS OR EXCLUSIONS OF LIABILITY AND AS A RESULT THE CONTENTS OF THIS SECTION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

12.2 Disclaimer of Warranties

WE PROVIDE THE LINKEDIN MATERIALS AND ALL OTHER INFORMATION AND SERVICES ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS WITH NO WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OF ANY KIND. LINKEDIN DOES NOT CONTROL OR VET USER-GENERATED CONTENT FOR ACCURACY. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, LINKEDIN, ITS AFFILIATES AND SUPPLIERS DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, ACCURACY OF DATA, AND NONINFRINGEMENT.

LINKEDIN DOES NOT GUARANTEE THAT THE APIS, THE LINKEDIN SERVICE OR OTHER DEVELOPER RESOURCES IT PROVIDES WILL FUNCTION WITHOUT INTERRUPTION OR ERRORS IN FUNCTIONING. IN PARTICULAR, THE OPERATION OF THE LINKEDIN APIS MAY BE INTERRUPTED DUE TO MAINTENANCE, UPDATES, OR SYSTEM OR NETWORK FAILURES. LINKEDIN DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES CAUSED BY ANY SUCH INTERRUPTION OR ERRORS IN FUNCTIONING.

FURTHERMORE, LINKEDIN DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY MALFUNCTIONING, IMPOSSIBILITY OF ACCESS, OR POOR USE CONDITIONS OF THE LINKEDIN APIS DUE TO INAPPROPRIATE EQUIPMENT, DISTURBANCES RELATED TO INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS, TO THE SATURATION OF THE INTERNET NETWORK, AND FOR ANY OTHER REASON.

12.3 Limitation of Liability

NEITHER LINKEDIN NOR ANY OF OUR SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATED COMPANIES, OR SUPPLIERS (EACH A "LINKEDIN AFFILIATE"), AND OUR AND THEIR RESPECTIVE EMPLOYEES, SHAREHOLDERS, OR DIRECTORS, SHALL BE CUMULATIVELY LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR LOSS OF USE, PROFIT, REVENUE OR DATA TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PERSON ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF LINKEDIN MATERIALS ACCESSED THROUGH OR DOWNLOADED FROM LINKEDIN.  THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL:

1. APPLY REGARDLESS OF WHETHER (a) YOU BASE YOUR CLAIM ON CONTRACT, TORT, STATUTE, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, (b) WE KNEW OR SHOULD HAVE KNOWN ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR (c) THE LIMITED REMEDIES PROVIDED IN THIS SECTION FAIL OF THEIR ESSENTIAL PURPOSE; AND
2. NOT APPLY TO ANY DAMAGE THAT LINKEDIN MAY CAUSE YOU INTENTIONALLY OR KNOWINGLY IN VIOLATION OF THESE TERMS OR APPLICABLE LAW, OR AS OTHERWISE MANDATED BY APPLICABLE LAW THAT CANNOT BE DISCLAIMED IN THESE TERMS.

12.4 Your Indemnification Obligations

You will defend, hold harmless, and indemnify LinkedIn and the LinkedIn Affiliates (and our and their respective employees, shareholders, and directors) from any claim or action brought by a third party, including all damages, liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, to the extent resulting from, alleged to have resulted from, or in connection with: (1) your breach of your obligations herein; or (2) the violation of any copyright, trademark, service mark, trade secret or United States patent by the Application, Contributions or your brand features.

13.2  Arbitration Option

For any Claim (excluding claims for injunctive or other equitable relief) where the total amount of the award sought is less than $10,000, the party requesting relief may elect to resolve the Claim in a cost effective manner through binding non-appearance-based arbitration. In the event a party elects arbitration, they shall initiate such arbitration through an established alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”) provider mutually agreed upon by the parties.

The ADR provider and the parties must comply with the following rules:

1. the arbitration shall be conducted by telephone, online, and/or be solely based on written submissions, the specific manner shall be chosen by the party initiating the arbitration;
2. the arbitration shall not involve any personal appearance by the parties or witnesses unless otherwise mutually agreed by the parties; and
3. any judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator shall be final and may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

14.1  Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found to be illegal, void, or unenforceable, the unenforceable provision will be modified so as to render it enforceable to the maximum extent possible in order to effect the intention of the provision; if a term cannot be so modified, it will be severed and the remaining provisions of these Terms will not be affected in any way.

14.2  Language

Where LinkedIn has provided you with a translation of the English language version of these Terms or any document referenced in these Terms, you agree that the translation is provided for your convenience only and that the English language versions of any such document, will control.

14.3  Notices and Service of Process

We may notify you via postings on the Developer Site or via the email address associated with your Application or LinkedIn member account. You may contact us online or via mail or courier at: LinkedIn Corporation ATTN: Legal Department, 2029 Stierlin Court Mountain View, CA 94043 USA.  Additionally, LinkedIn accepts service of process at this address. Any notices that you provide without compliance with this section shall have no legal effect.

14.4  Entire Agreement

These Terms and any documents incorporated into these Terms by reference, constitute the entire agreement between you and LinkedIn regarding the APIs and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings, whether written or oral, or whether established by custom, practice, policy or precedent, with respect to the subject matter of these Terms.

14.5  No informal waivers, agreements or representations

Our failure to act with respect to a breach of these Terms by you or others does not waive our right to act with respect to that breach or subsequent similar or other breaches. No representations, statements, consents, waivers or other acts or omissions by any LinkedIn Affiliate shall be deemed legally binding on any LinkedIn Affiliate, unless documented in a physical writing hand signed by a duly appointed officer of LinkedIn.

14.6  No Injunctive Relief

In no event shall you seek or be entitled to rescission, injunctive or other equitable relief, or to enjoin or restrain the operation of the Developer Platform or any APIs, Content or other material used or displayed through the LinkedIn developer platform.

14.7  Beneficiaries

Entities other than LinkedIn Corporation and LinkedIn Ireland, Limited, that LinkedIn Corporation owns a 50% or greater interest in are not parties, but intended third party beneficiaries of these Terms, with a right to enforce these Terms directly against you.

14.8  Assignment and Delegation

You may not assign or delegate any rights or obligations under these Terms, including in connection with a change of control. Any purported assignment and delegation shall be ineffective. We may freely assign or delegate all rights and obligations under these Terms, fully or partially without notice to you. We may also substitute, by way of unilateral novation, effective upon notice to you, LinkedIn Corporation for any third party that assumes our rights and obligations under these Terms.

14.9 Potential Other Rights and Obligations

You may have rights or obligations under local law other than those enumerated here if you are located outside the United States.

14.10 How To Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about these LinkedIn API Terms of Use, please contact us online or by physical mail at:

LinkedIn Corporation
Attn: API Terms of Use Issues
2029 Stierlin Court
Mountain View, CA 94043
USA

LinkedIn Ireland Limited
Attn: API Terms of Use Issues
Wilton Place, Wilton Plaza
Dublin 2
Ireland