# LinkedIn Privacy Settings

Go to Settings & Privacy.


## Account preferences

#### Syncing options
- Sync Contacts: Remove all

#### Partners & services
- Microsoft: Don't connect or remove if already connected
- Twitter: Don't connect or remove if already connected



## Sign-in & security

#### Where you're signed in
Check where you've signed in from and sign out of any unnecessecary/unused sessions.

#### Devices that remember your password
Remove any device you don't use.

#### Two-step verification
- Turn on
- Select Authenticator App. Never choose Phone Number (SMS)
- Don't use Microsoft Authenticator as instructed there. Instead use a privacy respecting authenticator app. Check out [recommendations, alternatives and reviews](https://github.com/the-weird-aquarian/privacy-settings#alternatives--reviews).



## Visibility

#### Visibility of your profile & network
- Who can see or download your email address >
  - Never select Anyone on LinkedIn
  - Allow your connections to download your email in their data export?: No

- Connections >
  - Allow your connections to see your connections list: No

#### Visibility of your LinkedIn activity
- Manage active status >
  - Who can see that you are currently active while you are using LinkedIn?: Your Connections only or No one



## Communications

#### Who can reach you
- Messages >
  - Allow LinkedIn partners to show you Sponsored Messages on LinkedIn?: No

- Research invites >
  - Allow LinkedIn or third-party partners to send you invitations for participating in product feedback surveys, market research, and other studies?: No

#### Messaging experience
- Messaging suggestions >
  - Allow LinkedIn to show you Messaging suggestions, some of which are personalized using automated systems to recognize patterns in messages?: No



## Data privacy

#### Job seeking preferences
- Job application settings >
  - Save and manage your resumes and answers: Off > Yes, delete

- Social, economic, and workplace research >
  - Can we enable trusted third-party partners to use data about you for social, economic, and workplace research?: No

#### Other applications
Remove anything not required anymore



## Advertising data

#### Third-party data
- Audience insights for websites you visit >
  - Can we use information (that does not identify you) about your visits to other websites to help them better understand their audiences?: No

- Ads outside of LinkedIn >
  - Can we show you personalized ads outside of LinkedIn?: No

- Ad-related actions >
  - Can we use your information (that does not identify you) about actions you took on ads to let advertisers know aggregate information about how their ad performed?: No