Advertisers are prohibited from targeting ads based on sensitive data and from transferring to LinkedIn any data collected from children under 16 or constituting sensitive data, including through installation of the LinkedIn Insight Tag on pages collecting medical or financial information. Re-identification of anonymized ad services data without explicit individual opt-in consent is also prohibited.
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This provision establishes specific restrictions on data transferred to LinkedIn through the Insight Tag and ad targeting systems, including a categorical prohibition on sensitive data targeting and child data transfers. LinkedIn reserves the right to check advertiser compliance with these restrictions from time to time.
Under this clause, advertisers are contractually required to ensure that the LinkedIn Insight Tag is not installed on pages collecting medical, financial, or other sensitive data about identifiable individuals, and are prohibited from targeting ads using sensitive data categories. The agreement also prohibits transfer to LinkedIn of any data collected from children under 16.
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"Without limiting the prohibitions in the Advertising Policies or User Agreement, you will not, and you will not enable or authorize any third party to, (a) except with the explicit opt-in consent of the applicable individual, associate any data obtained in connection with the Ad Services ('Ad Services Data') with data that either directly identifies an individual or can be used to identify an individual and is subject to protection under Applicable Law ('Personal Data') or otherwise re-identify such data, or (b) target Ads based on sensitive data (as addressed in our Advertising Policies or otherwise defined by Applicable Law) ('Sensitive Data'). You will also not transfer to LinkedIn any data that you know or reasonably should know was (1) collected from or about children under the age of 16, or (2) constitutes Sensitive Data, including by way of installing the Insight Tag on a page that collects medical, financial, or other Sensitive Data about identified or identifiable individuals.Excerpt from LinkedIn's Ads Agreement
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision directly engages GDPR (including special categories of personal data under Article 9), CCPA, COPPA (regarding child data), and applicable state privacy laws including the Illinois BIPA, Virginia CDPA, and Colorado …
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This provision establishes specific restrictions on data transferred to LinkedIn through the Insight Tag and ad targeting systems, including a categorical prohibition on sensitive data targeting and child data transfers. LinkedIn reserves the right to check advertiser compliance with these restrictions from time to time.
Under this clause, advertisers are contractually required to ensure that the LinkedIn Insight Tag is not installed on pages collecting medical, financial, or other sensitive data about identifiable individuals, and are prohibited from targeting ads using sensitive data categories. The agreement also prohibits transfer to LinkedIn of any data collected from children under 16.
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