Reddit vs LinkedIn

Anything you post can be used by Reddit worldwide, forever, and sublicensed to others, including for AI training. You keep ownership, but you give up control over how the content is reused.

Reddit can remove content, deny monetization, or revoke moderation privileges at its sole discretion, and even overturn moderator actions. Users and moderators have limited practical control over enforcement decisions.

Reddit reserves the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue the service at any time, with or without notice. That means features can disappear or change abruptly without compensation.

The Terms disclaim most warranties and cap liability at the greater of $100 or what you paid in the prior six months. If something goes wrong, recovery from Reddit is likely limited.

Reddit says it collects minimal identifying information by default and lets people browse without creating an account or using their real name. That lowers the friction and privacy cost of casual use.

Reddit states it does not sell personal data to third parties, including data brokers. That is a meaningful privacy protection, though it still shares data for ads and other purposes.

Users can request access to their data, correction, deletion/account deletion, and related rights, subject to verification. This gives users a formal path to inspect and remove some of their information.

You must defend and indemnify Reddit for claims tied to your use, your violations, or your content. Practically, that can shift legal costs to users in disputes involving their own activity.

The policy explicitly gives EEA, Swiss, UK, and Brazilian users data portability rights in certain circumstances. That can make it easier to move or reuse personal data elsewhere.

Reddit emphasizes that posts, comments, usernames, and profile details are public and may appear in search engines or be reshared. This is not a hidden data practice, but it is important because many users may underestimate the visibility of their activity.

LinkedIn collects not just profile data, but usage, device, location, message metadata, partner data, employer/school data, and off-site interaction data. This creates a detailed profile of your professional activity and browsing-related behavior.

Your profile, activity, inferred traits, and tracking technologies may be used to target and measure ads both on LinkedIn and elsewhere. There are settings to limit some ad uses, but the advertising system is broad by default.

If LinkedIn causes harm, its direct liability is generally capped at the fees you paid or US$1,000, and it excludes many indirect damages. That can significantly limit practical remedies for account, data, or service problems.

Users can request deletion, correction, restriction, objection, access, and a machine-readable copy of their data. These are meaningful privacy controls, especially for users in stronger-rights jurisdictions.

LinkedIn states that closed-account data is generally deleted within 30 days and the profile usually becomes hidden within 24 hours. That is more concrete than many platforms’ vague retention language.

LinkedIn says it may use personal data to develop, improve, and train AI models and generate inferences about you. That can include activity and other service data beyond what users may expect from a networking platform.

You keep ownership of your posts, but LinkedIn gets a worldwide, transferable, sublicensable license to use, modify, distribute, and display them without compensation. Some copies or sublicensed uses may persist after deletion.

Paid subscriptions renew automatically unless you cancel before the renewal date. LinkedIn may also continue billing stored payment methods and fall back to secondary payment methods if provided.

The supplied terms point disputes to courts rather than mandatory arbitration. EU/EEA/Swiss users also keep local consumer protections, which is more favorable than many large tech platforms’ dispute clauses.

LinkedIn can change its terms and privacy policy, and continued use counts as acceptance. It promises no retroactive changes and usually gives notice of material changes, which softens the risk somewhat.

Even after account closure, some content may remain visible to others, search caches may persist, and LinkedIn may retain data for legal, security, fraud, or de-identified uses. Users should not assume total erasure of everything they shared.

LinkedIn says it does not share personal data with non-affiliated advertisers except in limited cases such as hashed identifiers, user permission, or already-public profile data. This is better than an outright statement of selling full personal data to advertisers.