Additional Terms for the LinkedIn Job Posting API Program

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As a developer using the LinkedIn Job Posting API, you’ll be able to build applications that integrate with LinkedIn’s job posting services to enable your customers to reach the right candidates with the power of LinkedIn’s professional network. When you develop using the LinkedIn Job Posting API technology, you agree to be bound by the following terms, so please take a few minutes to review them. 

Last revised on December 18, 2023.

1.1 About these Additional LinkedIn Job Posting API Program Terms

By using the APIs, software, documentation, tools, and data that LinkedIn makes available to you as part of the LinkedIn Job Posting Program ("JP Program”), you are agreeing to be bound by these Additional Terms for the LinkedIn Job Posting API Program (“JP Terms”) that are incorporated into the LinkedIn API Terms of Use (“API Terms of Use”) as “Additional Terms” (collectively, these “Terms”). All capitalized terms not defined herein will have the meaning given to them under the API Terms of Use. Any summaries of these JP Terms included in the highlighted boxes reference only some of the key provisions of these JP Terms and are not a substitute for them. As used in these JP Terms, “Job Posting API” means API, software, documentation, tools, and other functionality that LinkedIn makes available as part of the JP Program.

1.2 Description of the JP APIs

As part of the JP Program, LinkedIn is granting approved developers the ability to integrate the Job Posting APIs into their job posting management applications or APIs (each, a “Job Posting Application”) in order to: (a) make various LinkedIn job posting services (“Job Posting Services”) available via their Job Posting Management Applications to clients that have entered into contracts with the relevant developer for the provision of such Job Posting Services (each, a “Client”); and (b) obtain data from Job Posting APIs relating to such Job Posting Services (“Job Posting Data”) for the purpose of making it available to their Clients. The Job Posting API (and Job Posting Services) currently available under the JP Program (as further described below) is the Unified Job Posting API.  

1.3 Relationship to the LinkedIn API Terms of Use

To the extent there is a conflict between these JP Terms and the API Terms of Use, these JP Terms will control. For the JP Program, any reference in the API Terms of Use to: (a) “Content” (or Content made available from or through the APIs) will apply to Job Posting Data; (b) “Application” will apply to each Job Posting Application; (c) “Terms” will apply to the API Terms of Use with these JP Terms incorporated therein; and (d) “API” will apply to each Job Posting API.

1.4 Account Managers and Authorized Clients

The Job Posting API allows your Clients to manage accounts on certain LinkedIn Services (“LinkedIn Accounts”), such as page accounts, or Member profiles, via your Job Posting Application.  

a. Overview of LinkedIn Page, and Profile Accounts. A LinkedIn page account allows organizations to educate and engage with Members through their LinkedIn page (“Page”), which includes a high-level summary of the subject organization and posts by Page administrators. A LinkedIn profile account allows Members to create a profile on the LinkedIn Services (“Member Profile”) with personal and professional details for the purposes of managing their personal brand, networking, and creating and engaging with content on the LinkedIn Services. 

b. Account Manager. An “Account Manager” is any individual or entity that controls a LinkedIn Account, including Job Posting Data relating to any such LinkedIn Account.  

c. Authorized Client. An “Authorized Client” is any Client that is an Account Manager or that is authorized by an Account Manager to access the Account Manager’s LinkedIn Account (or Job Posting Data relating to any such account). Examples of Authorized Client is an applicant tracking system, clients, job distributors, and recruitment agencies that the Account Manager utilizes. For clarity, if these JP Terms indicate that any Job Posting Service or Job Posting Data must only be made available to Authorized Clients, the reference is to the specific Authorized Client(s) permitted to access the Job Posting Service or Job Posting Data by the relevant Account Manager.  

1.5 Descriptions of Job Posting API and Job Posting Services

Job Posting APIs & Services 

a. Job Posting. Using the Unified Job Posting API, Authorized Clients can use Job Posting Applications to post jobs directly to LinkedIn on behalf of their customers.

b. Account Manager. An “Account Manager” is any individual or entity that controls a LinkedIn Account, including Job Posting Data relating to any such LinkedIn Account.  

c. Authorized Client. An “Authorized Client” is any Client that is an Account Manager or that is authorized by an Account Manager to access the Account Manager’s LinkedIn Account (or Marketing Data relating to any such account). An example of an Authorized Client is an external advertising or social media management agency that the Account Manager hires. For clarity, if these LMA Terms indicate that any Marketing Service or Marketing Data must only be made available to Authorized Clients, the reference is to the specific Authorized Client(s) permitted to access the Marketing Service or Marketing Data by the relevant Account Manager.  

1.6 Creation of a LinkedIn Job Post

You acknowledge and agree that any Client that creates a LinkedIn Job Post must consent to the LinkedIn Jobs Terms and Conditions (“Jobs T&Cs”), currently located here. 

If your Job Posting Application enables a Client to create a LinkedIn job listing you represent and warrant that: (a) you have the authority to bind (and hereby bind) the relevant Client to the Job T&Cs; or (b) you will require your Client to agree, by written contract (including click-through terms), to the Job T&Cs.

1.7 Use of Job Posting API for Internal Purposes

If you’re using any Job Posting API in connection with any LinkedIn Account for which you are the Account Manager, in connection with such use: (a) any reference to an Account Manager, Authorized Client, or Client in these JP Terms refers to you; and (b) you hereby agree to the Jobs T&Cs in connection with your creation of a LinkedIn Job Post.

2.1 Requesting Access to the Job Posting API

Your Job Posting Application and your integration of the Job Posting API, Job Posting Data, and/or Job Posting Service into your Job Posting Application (collectively, your “Job Posting API Integration”) must be approved by LinkedIn. LinkedIn’s approval will be subject to you successfully completing its developer and application vetting (including a review of your privacy and security practices). You must ensure that all information you provide to LinkedIn in connection with such vetting processes is accurate and complete. In particular, you are not authorized to use any Job Posting API (or Job Posting Data) for any use case other than the one(s) you specify in connection with your request for access (including via an access request form) to the relevant Job Posting API. While LinkedIn will make reasonable efforts to respond to access requests, LinkedIn is not committing to any timeframe for such response.

2.2 Changes to your Job Posting API Integration

If you change your Job Posting API Integration, you must notify LinkedIn of any change that results in: (a) any information you provided to LinkedIn as part of the developer and application vetting processes becoming inaccurate or incomplete; or (b) differences in how you use, store, delete, distribute, or otherwise make available Job Posting Data.

2.3 Monitoring your Job Posting API Integration

Even if LinkedIn approves your Job Posting API Integration (including during the vetting processes), you are responsible for ensuring that your Job Posting API Integration (including all use, disclosure, and storage of Job Posting Data) is, at all times, in compliance with: (a) these Terms (including the Developer Documentation); and (b) all other requirements or restrictions that LinkedIn separately communicates to you (e.g. during or after the relevant vetting processes). LinkedIn retains all of its rights under these Terms (including its right to suspend or discontinue your access to the Job Posting API and/or Job Posting Data for non-compliance with these Terms). 

LinkedIn (and/or its third-party service providers) reserves the right to monitor and audit all Job Posting API Integrations at any time, at LinkedIn's discretion, including to confirm your compliance with these Terms. You will: (i) cooperate with any such review, including reasonable requests by LinkedIn for access to your Job Posting Application and access (including physical access) to other materials, information, records, or Systems relating to such review; and (ii) accommodate modifications to your Job Posting API Integrations required by LinkedIn as a result of its review.

3.1 Specific Data Restrictions

Without limiting the generality of any other restrictions in these Terms, you must comply with the following data requirements and restrictions to the extent that you receive access to the indicated type of Job Posting Data or Job Posting API:    

a. Analytics Data. You may only use, distribute, or otherwise make available Analytics Data to provide reporting and billing to Authorized Clients. Such reporting shall relate to the performance, effectiveness, and optimization of the relevant LinkedIn Job Posting. “Analytics Data” means analytics on LinkedIn Accounts and on LinkedIn Job Posting made on behalf of a LinkedIn Account (along with your analysis, insights, and derivatives thereof, including Aggregated Job Posting Data as defined below).

You may aggregate Analytics Data from LinkedIn Accounts controlled by different Account Managers (“Aggregated Job Posting Data”); provided that: (i) you maintain the specific, segregated data regarding each Account Manager’s LinkedIn Accounts as confidential and you do not disclose it to any third party (other than Authorized Clients); (ii) such Aggregated Job Posting Data does not include any Member Data (as defined below); (iii) such Aggregated Job Posting Data would not allow any third party to identify or infer any Account Manager or any user of any LinkedIn Service (or data specific to any Account Manager or user of any LinkedIn Service); (iv) you use and disclose such Aggregated Job Posting Data only for the purpose of providing reporting to your Clients relating to optimization of LinkedIn Job Posting from LinkedIn Accounts; and (v) any such use or disclosure is agreed to by the Account Manager that controls the relevant LinkedIn Accounts. 

If Analytics Data includes any of the data types described in Sections 3.1(c) (“Organization Profile Data and Standardized Data”) or 3.1(d) (“Member Data”), any such data is subject to the restrictions included in those sections, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 3.1(a).  

b. Data Transferred to LinkedIn. You represent and warrant that you have all necessary rights and a legal basis under all applicable privacy and data protection laws and regulations for the transfer of any data to LinkedIn in connection with your Job Posting API Integration. 

c. Organization Profile Data and Standardized Data. If you receive access to any organization profile data from a Page (“Organization Profile Data”), including logo, location, industry, or size of the subject organization, or any LinkedIn standardized data (“Standardized Data”), including standardized locations, industries, degrees, job functions, and other fields as specified in the Developer Documentation, you may only use and display such data via your Job Post Application to support the relevant Job Posting Services for which the data was made available to you. You must not: (i) export, transfer, or distribute any Organization Profile Data or Standardized Data to any third party (other than as necessary to transfer reporting data from LinkedIn Accounts to Authorized Clients); (ii) create any derivative of Organization Profile Data or Standardized Data (e.g. by modifying such data or by combining it with other data); (iii) misrepresent the origin of any Organization Profile Data or Standardized Data; or (iv) use any Organization Profile Data or Standardized Data for the purpose of building any product or service unrelated to your Job Posting API Integration. In addition, if you have access to any Microsoft Bing Maps location data, you hereby also agree: (1) to Microsoft Bing Maps and MapPoint Web Service End User Terms of Use and Embedded Maps Service Terms of Use and the Microsoft Privacy Statement (collectively, the “Microsoft Terms”) in connection with your use of such data; and (2) that the Microsoft Terms shall govern in the event of a conflict with these Terms.  

d. Member Data. If you receive access to Job Posting Data that is Personal Information (as defined in the LinkedIn Data Processing Agreement for Business Development Agreements) and/or that relates to any individual user’s activities on any LinkedIn Service (collectively, “Member Data”), you may only display the Member Data via your Job Posting Application to support the Job Posting Services for which the Member Data was made available to you. The relevant Job Posting Services are: (i) to enable an Authorized Client to create accounts or profiles on your Job Posting Application using their own Member Data; (ii) to enable an Authorized Client to engage with Members on the LinkedIn Services; or (iii) to enable an Authorized Client to assess the candidacy of a Member for a LinkedIn Job Posting. You must not however: (1) export, transfer, or distribute any Member Data (other than to Authorized Clients in connection with the candidacy of a Member for a LinkedIn Job Posting) to any third party, including to any Authorized Client; (2) create a database of Member Data collected from multiple unaffiliated LinkedIn Accounts; (3) commingle or combine any Member Data with any other Personal Information, including for the purpose of supplementing, verifying, or appending to user profiles, leads, or portions thereof; (4) commercialize or sell any Member Data or make any Member Data available to any data broker, information reseller, information broker, data monetization service, or similar service; (5) use Member Data for advertising, sales, or recruiting use cases (including to identify sales or marketing prospects or prospective talent for hire, for lead creation, to enhance candidate or customer data in a CRM, recruitment marketing or marketing automation platform, to build an audience list, to build talent pools, or for ad targeting purposes); or (6) use Member Data to derive sensitive information on the relevant Member (including racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, mental or physical health conditions, citizenship or immigration status, or sexual orientation). For clarity, Member Data includes: (x) LinkedIn profile data of Members who create (or interact with) posts on the LinkedIn Service and the content or information provided by the Member (e.g. a Member’s post, comment, or reaction); and (y) Member identifiers (including person URNs/uniform resource names that are unique to your Job Posting Application).

3.2 Additional API and Data Restrictions

You agree not to do the following:   

a. Make the Job Posting API, Job Posting API Integrations, or Job Posting Data available to any third party other than your Clients;  

b. Make any Job Posting Application or Job Posting Data available to any developer to integrate into a product, service, or application that the developer makes available to unaffiliated customers (as opposed to internal users affiliated with the developer’s organization);   

c. Transfer to any Client more Job Posting Data than it needs to optimize LinkedIn Job Postings by the relevant Page or Member Profile accounts;    

d. Access, collect, use, store, transfer, process, or make available Job Posting Data in any manner unless: (i) you have obtained the relevant rights from your Clients; and (ii) you are operating in accordance with the directions you have received from your Clients and your agreements with your Clients; 

e. Disclose the identity of Account Managers without their prior written consent; 

f. Collect Job Posting Data after the Authorized Client ceases to receive services from you relating to such Job Posting Data or requests that you no longer access such Job Posting Data;  

g. Allow any of your affiliates to access Job Posting Data in any manner other than via your Job Posting Application as a Client in accordance with these Terms;  

h. Make any statement, representation, or warranty to any third party, either directly or indirectly: (i) indicating that you have any authority to act for or on behalf of LinkedIn or to obligate or bind LinkedIn in any way; (ii) that relates to LinkedIn, its Services, the JP Program, Job Posting API, or the Job Posting Data and that is inaccurate, fraudulent, or misleading; or (iii) suggesting that you are LinkedIn’s strategic, certified, or preferred partner (other than as expressly permitted in writing by LinkedIn); or 

i. Unless covered by a separate Agreement, use the Job Posting API in conjunction with LinkedIn Accounts for which you are the Account Manager to provide services (on a resale basis or otherwise) to your Clients.

3.3 Suspension of Client Access

You will, at LinkedIn’s request (email acceptable), suspend or terminate any Client’s access to or use of your Job Posting API Integration or any or all Job Posting Data (including Stored JP Data, as defined below) if: (a) LinkedIn suspends or terminates the Client’s (or the relevant Account Manager’s) access pursuant to their agreements with LinkedIn; or (b) LinkedIn, in its sole discretion, determines that providing the Client access to Job Posting Services or Job Posting Data is not in LinkedIn’s or its Members’ best interests.  

In addition, you will notify LinkedIn, and, at LinkedIn’s request (email acceptable), suspend or terminate any Client’s access to all Job Posting Data, if you become aware that the Client is using the Job Posting Data in an illegal manner or in violation of the restrictions included in these Terms. 

4.1 Right to Store Job Posting Data 

You must not store or cache any Job Posting Data, except: (a) to the extent expressly permitted by the Developer Documentation (including the Data Storage Requirements); and (b) Aggregated Job Posting Data. Any data that may be stored pursuant to this Section 4.1 is “Stored Job Posting Data”. You will take appropriate measures given the nature of the Stored Job Posting Data to ensure that it is kept up to date (including ingestion of all compliance events). Any Stored Job Posting Data remains subject to these Terms.

4.2 Deletion of Stored Job Posting Data

You will permanently delete (in ten (10) days or less) any Stored Job Posting Data that was stored on behalf of a Client: (a) if the Client ceases to receive services from you relating to such Stored Job Posting Data and the Stored Job Posting Data is no longer necessary to fulfill the Client’s business need or data retention obligations; or (b) upon the Client’s (or Account Manager’s) request. In addition, you will permanently delete: (i) any or all Stored Job Posting Data in accordance with LinkedIn’s request (email acceptable); and/or (ii) all Stored Job Posting Data that is Member Data immediately upon termination of these JP Terms. LinkedIn may require you to certify that you have complied with the deletion requirements applicable to the Stored Job Posting Data.

5.1 Reporting, Training, and Fees

If your Job Posting Application allows your Clients to access aggregate data (for example, metrics and reporting relating to job posts) across various digital channels on and off of LinkedIn, your Job Posting Application must allow your Clients to separately view Job Posting Data. You will use commercially reasonable efforts to train your sales and support teams on Job Posting Services. You may not charge, either directly or indirectly through distribution channels, Clients any incremental fees in connection with the JP API Integration.  The foregoing does not preclude you from charging Clients for the Job Posting Application.

5.2 Security

You will maintain physical, technical, and administrative safeguards that are designed to keep all Job Posting Data secure and that meet or exceed industry standards for this type of data. Any request to access Job Posting Data on behalf of an Authorized Client must comply with all LinkedIn technical and security requirements, and LinkedIn reserves the right to deny such access in its sole discretion.

6.1 Duration of JP Terms

These JP Terms will commence on the date you agree to them or the date you start using the Job Posting API (whichever occurs first) and continue until: (a) you discontinue use of the Job Posting API; (b) the API Terms of Use terminate; or (c) these JP Terms are terminated pursuant to Section 6.2 (“Termination for Convenience”). For clarity, any termination of these JP Terms will not automatically terminate the API Terms of Use but any termination of the API Terms of Use will automatically terminate these JP Terms.  Neither party will be liable for any costs, expenses, or damages solely as a result of termination of these JP Terms.

6.2 Termination for Convenience

Either party may terminate these JP Terms for convenience for any reason at any time upon thirty (30) days’ prior written notice to the other party.

6.3 Survival

Upon termination of these JP Terms, all rights granted under these JP Terms will immediately terminate. The following sections will survive termination of these JP Terms: all definitions, Sections 1.3 (“Relationship to the LinkedIn API Terms of Use”), 3 (“Use of Job Posting APIs and Job Posting Data”), 4 (“Storage of Job Posting Data”), 5.2 (“Security”), 6.3 (“Survival”), 7 (“Confidentiality”), 8 (“Indemnification”), and 9 (“Miscellaneous”). Upon request, each party will promptly destroy all Confidential Information (as defined below) of the other party in its possession, custody, or control provided that Confidential Information contained in backup media can remain in such backup media for up to thirty (30) days or until it is deleted as part of the relevant party’s standard deletion processes, whichever occurs first. Notwithstanding the preceding requirement, each party may retain a copy of the other party’s Confidential Information as reasonably required for legal and auditing purposes.  LinkedIn may request that you certify in writing your compliance with this Section.

7.1 Confidential Information

If either party (“Receiving Party”) under these JP Terms gains access to Confidential Information of the other party (“Disclosing Party”), then the terms of this Section will apply. “Confidential Information” means all information disclosed under these JP Terms that is marked or designated as confidential by the Disclosing Party or that due to the nature of the information should reasonably be known to be confidential by the Receiving Party. Each party agrees that it will not: (a) use any of the other party’s Confidential Information in any way for its own benefit or the benefit of any third party, except as expressly permitted by, or as required to implement, these JP Terms; or (b) disclose the other party’s Confidential Information to any third party except as expressly permitted by these JP Terms or to independent contractors who: (i) have a need to know it in order for the Receiving Party to perform its obligations or exercise its rights under these JP Terms; and (ii) are under written confidentiality and non-use obligations at least as restrictive as those set forth in these JP Terms and which can extend to the Confidential Information. Each party will take reasonable precautions to protect the confidentiality of the other party’s Confidential Information that are at least as stringent as it takes to protect its own Confidential Information. Information will not be deemed Confidential Information under these JP Terms if: (1) it was publicly available or was known to the Receiving Party prior to its receipt from the Disclosing Party from a source other than one having an obligation of confidentiality to the Disclosing Party; (2) it has become publicly known, except through a breach of these JP Terms by the Receiving Party; (3) it was rightfully communicated to the Receiving Party free of any obligation of confidence to the Disclosing Party subsequent to the time it was communicated by the Disclosing Party; or (4) it has been entirely independently developed by the Receiving Party without use of or reference to the Disclosing Party’s Confidential Information. For clarity, the fact that Job Posting Data is available through LinkedIn Services shall not constitute “publicly available” or “publicly known” under Subsection (1) or Subsection (2). Notwithstanding the above, the Receiving Party may disclose the Disclosing Party’s Confidential Information, without violating these JP Terms, to the extent such disclosure is required by a valid order of a court or other governmental body having jurisdiction, provided that the Receiving Party gives the Disclosing Party reasonable prior written notice of such disclosure and makes a reasonable effort to obtain, or to assist the Disclosing Party in obtaining, a protective order preventing or limiting the disclosure and/or requiring that the Confidential Information so disclosed be used only for the purposes for which the order was issued.

7.2  Residuals

The employees of the Receiving Party who have received or have been exposed to the Disclosing Party’s Confidential Information may further develop their general knowledge, skills, and experience (including general ideas, concepts, know-how, and techniques), which may be based on such Confidential Information. The restrictions in Section 7.1 (“Confidential Information”) will not apply to the subsequent use, and disclosures incidental to such use, by such employees of such general knowledge, skills, and experience, as unintentionally retained in their unaided memories. The receipt of or exposure to a party’s Confidential Information under these JP Terms will not in any way limit or restrict the work assignments of any of the Receiving Party’s employees or contractors.

8.1 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 relating to your interactions with your Clients or with Account Managers or interactions between your Clients and Account Managers (including any claim that any contract between any of the preceding parties has been breached).

9.1 Communications

You agree to receive communications from LinkedIn relating to the JP Program via e-mail, regular mail, and/or postings on the Developer Site, including communications regarding your access to the JP Program, the Job Posting API, and your Job Posting Application. If you share any third party’s contact information with LinkedIn in connection with the JP Program, you agree that you have the right to authorize LinkedIn (and hereby authorize LinkedIn) to use that information to contact the third party regarding the JP Program.

9.2 General Terms

These Terms (including the Developer Documentation) supersede any and all prior agreements, proposals (oral and written), understandings, representations, conditions, warranties, covenants, and other communications between the parties which relate to the subject matter of these Terms. Where written approval is required under these Terms, such approval must be by a duly authorized representative of the consenting party.