You must not:
Harm Members;
a. Provide the APIs or Access Credentials to unauthorized personnel;
b. Impersonate or misrepresent a Member;
c. Use the APIs or Content for illegal purposes;
d. Remove any proprietary notices from our materials;
e. Use more Content than your Application needs;
f. Distribute Content to anybody other than your Application’s users;
g. Use the Content for any other purpose other than for your users to use in your Application;
h. Use data from the APIs or Services for advertising or mass messaging;
i. Express or imply that your Application or your use of Content is sponsored by LinkedIn;
j. Use the APIs in an abusive way;
k. Disrupt the Services;
l. Interfere with the Services or our systems;
m. Obfuscate LinkedIn elements from your users;
n. Proxy LinkedIn usernames or passwords;
o. Modify any of our materials;
p. Use Content for credit scoring or other rating purposes;
q. Use Content to facilitate bias;
r. Use Content to facilitate government surveillance;
s. Exceed API call limits;
t. Allow access to the standalone APIs;
u. Combine any Content retrieved via the APIs with other LinkedIn content;
v. Attempt to re-identify anonymized data;
w. Access a Member’s network without their permission;
x. Permit a Member to share their network through your Application; or
y. Scrape Content from the Services.
3.1 General Restrictions
In addition to the other terms and conditions in these Terms, except as expressly set forth herein, you agree not to do the following:
a. Implement features or business practices, or use the APIs or Content in a way, that may harm the professional reputation, relationships or professional ecosystem of Members;
b. Disclose or provide the APIs or Access Credentials to any person or entity other than to your employees or independent contractors, provided (1) such employees or independent contractors enter into an agreement with you at least as protective of LinkedIn’s rights as this Agreement, and (2) you hereby agree to be responsible for, and liable to LinkedIn for, any breaches of such agreements by such employees or independent contractors;
c. Request or publish information impersonating a Member, misrepresent any user or other third party in requesting information or allow any third party, including other Members, to see information obtained from another Member’s network or through another Member’s view of the Services or Content;
d. Use the APIs or Content for any illegal purposes, or in any manner which would violate these Terms, or breach any laws or regulations regarding privacy or data protection, or violate the rights of third parties or expose LinkedIn or its users to legal liability;
e. Remove any legal, copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on materials you receive or access pursuant to these Terms, including, but not limited to, the APIs, the Developer Documentation, and the Content;
f. Obtain, display or use more Content than is minimally required by the Application;
g. Sell, lease, share (with the exception of making the Content available to users through the Application), transfer, sublicense or otherwise make available any Content, directly or indirectly, to any third party (e.g. you may not sell access to an aggregated collection of Member profiles or the most relevant Members for a position), including, but not limited to, any data broker, ad network, ad exchange, or other advertising monetization-related party;
h. Use the Content for any other purpose other than to allow your users to use the Content in your Application;
i. Use any Content in any advertisements or for purposes of targeting advertisements specifically to any individual user (whether such advertisements appear in the Application or elsewhere), or to generate mass messages, promotions or offers;
j. Make any statements or use any API or Content in a manner that expresses or implies that you, your Application or your use of the Content is sponsored or endorsed by LinkedIn (e.g., you must not state or in any way imply that LinkedIn has “verified” or “confirmed” the veracity of any Profile Data);
k. Use any API in any manner that, as determined by LinkedIn in its reasonable discretion, constitutes abusive usage;
l. Interfere with or disrupt the Services or servers or networks connected to the Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Services, or transmit any viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses, or any items of a destructive nature through your use of any API;
m. Obfuscate or hide your deployment or use of any LinkedIn buttons, sign-in functionality, consent or authorization flows from your users;
n. Provide functionality that proxies, requests or collects LinkedIn usernames or passwords;
o. Copy, adapt, reformat, reverse-engineer, disassemble, decompile, decipher, translate or otherwise modify any API, Access Credential, Content, Services, LinkedIn Brand Features or other information or service from LinkedIn, through automated or other means;
p. Use Content as an input to reports or scores that could be used for the purposes of determining eligibility for credit, insurance, employment or other business purposes, unless otherwise expressly permitted by LinkedIn, in writing, under separate terms;
q. Use Content in any manner that facilitates bias or discriminatory practices, including data "redlining," whether intentional or inadvertent, based on any sensitive or legally protected categories or characteristics;
r. Use Content in any manner that facilitates government surveillance (either directly or as a contractor for a government entity);
s. Try to exceed or circumvent limitations on API calls and use. This includes creating multiple Applications for identical, or largely similar, usage;
t. Distribute or allow third parties access to any stand-alone API;
u. Combine any Content with any other LinkedIn content (including content obtained through scraping, crawling, spidering or any other technology or software used to access LinkedIn content). This includes acquiring such LinkedIn content from third parties;
v. Attempt to re-identify any de-identified or anonymized data;
w. Access a Member’s network through your Application without their express permission;
x. Permit a Member to share their networks or data about their networks to anyone else through your Application; or
y. Access, store, display, or facilitate the transfer of any LinkedIn content obtained through the following methods: scraping, crawling, spidering or using any other technology or software to access LinkedIn content outside the APIs (such content, collectively, “Non-Official Content”). This restriction applies (1) whether the Non-Official Content was obtained directly or indirectly through a third party, such as a customer or third party developer, and (2) whether or not the Non-Official Content is stored or displayed in the Application or some other resource, product or service.