Connect your LinkedIn account, without giving anyone your password

The first thing most LinkedIn tools ask for is your password, and the first thing LinkedIn restricts for is a session that logs in from somewhere new. Both are avoidable, and the connection step here is built around avoiding them.

What happens when you connect

• From /account, press Connect LinkedIn. A page opens on LinkedIn's own sign-in, served by the session provider, not by us.
• Sign in there, with two-factor if you have it. Your password and the code go to LinkedIn and nowhere else.
• The session is pinned to one address in the country you logged in from, and it never moves. A session that travels is what LinkedIn calls a checkpoint.
• Back on /account the page reads your connection count, whether the account is Premium, and starts the warm-up clock. Nothing is sent yet.

What we hold

An opaque account id, the session's status, your connection count and whether you are on Premium. We cannot read your password because we never had it. If you disconnect, the session is revoked at the provider and the id is deleted.

If it asks you to sign in again

LinkedIn sometimes ends a session itself, after a password change or a security review. The account page says so, sending stops, and the same Connect button starts a new session. Nothing queued is lost; it waits.

What the product does after you connect is on the what-you-get page. The limits it sends under are on the limits page.