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When you communicate with us, such as via emails, customer service requests, survey responses, website chats or social media posts, likes, or messages, we collect the content of your communication.
When you use our Services, you may provide us with certain Data, including metadata accompanying user-generated content, audiovisual clips segmentation, annotation, frame or text extraction, object and image recognition symbolling, aggregated classification tagging...
We collect payment and billing information when you register for certain paid Services. We use external secure payment processing services to collect and process payment information, such as payment card details.
"We collect information about you when you communicate with others through our Services (e.g., when you send, receive, or engage with messages, events, or connection requests, including our marketing communications).Excerpt from LinkedIn's Privacy Policy
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The clause states: “We collect information about you when you communicate with others through our Services (e.g., when you send, receive, or engage with messages, events, or connection requests, including our marketing communications).”
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