We want to share with you that we have updated our Privacy Policy to keep up with the ever evolving data privacy laws and regulations concerning our global community of users and our sites. We also took the opportunity to review and remove language describing data usage that we currently do not apply, and data usages we have no plans to do in the future as our business evolves. We want to make sure to limit the scope of data usage included in our Privacy Policy, out of respect for you all and your privacy.
As our business grows, we have created a new policy structure with one foundational, summary Privacy Policy that applies across all our products and services, as well as product-specific sections of our Privacy Policy that describes how our Privacy Policy applies in the context of each of our products. We did this to provide greater transparency about what we do with your data when interacting with each of our products. We plan to keep this framework going forward for consistency and clarity. We also changed and added language within the Privacy Policy to be more clear and specific about how your data is used.
High level summary of the changes:
- We’ve restructured the privacy policy pages so that the language is clearer and more transparent
- There is a supplemental “Privacy Policy Notice” for each product area: Public Network, Talent & Jobs, and Teams: Basic, Business, and Enterprise.
- We’ve removed descriptions of data usage that no longer apply to our products and which we found we never applied to your data.
- We’ve updated the language to comply with evolving data privacy laws and requirements.
Our legal, community, product, and engineering teams worked diligently to make sure the new language and structure create clear, understandable policies. Going forward, we will not maintain the “Plain English” version of our Privacy Policy, to avoid trying to interpret policy for you all. That was never our intent with previous “Plain English” narratives, but the expanding and evolving set of privacy laws across countries and states only makes this that much more difficult.
As always, you have control over the data you share on our platform. As a reminder, you can view and update your profile settings here and control email preferences here.
