LinkedIn enables members to find their contacts and discover new people to connect with in many different ways. Your profile may appear in LinkedIn search results and on search tools or other services off LinkedIn.
Members can search for your profile from the LinkedIn search bar the top of every page. They can search by first name, last name, company, or other search fields to find the people they know and discover new people to connect with.
We don't allow members to search for an email address directly on LinkedIn to discover a member's profile.
Some sections of your profile may appear off LinkedIn when people search for you using search tools, like Google or Bing. Additionally, some sections of your profile may appear in approved services—for example, to display information from member profiles to users with whom they exchange emails. Learn more about how to control your profile visibility off LinkedIn below:
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Search tools- You can opt out of appearing on search tools or you can determine what sections of your profile are eligible to appear through your public profile. Users of search tools can enter search terms such as your name and company to discover you.
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Other services off LinkedIn - We enable certain affiliates, partners, customers, and other permitted developers to display member profile information. This helps users learn more about people they're interacting with by showing elements of members' profiles. You can control if other users are able to look up your profile from your email address or phone number using your discover by email setting and your discover by phone setting. To control if your profile is visible at all off LinkedIn, you can edit your Profile discovery and visibility setting.
Note: Changing the Profile discovery and visibility setting doesn’t limit visibility of your public profile (for example, on search tools), which can be controlled by the public profile setting. It also doesn’t limit the ability for Page owners to export your profile data and individual interactions with their Page, if you permit such access via the Page owners exporting your data setting.
To control if you're able to be discovered based on your email address or phone number within your settings:
To control if you're able to be discovered based on your email address or phone number within your settings:
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Click the
Me icon at the top of your LinkedIn homepage. -
Select Settings & Privacy from the dropdown.
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Click Visibility on the left rail.
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Under Visibility of your profile & network section, click Change next to Profile discovery using email address or Profile discovery using phone number.
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Select from Anyone, 1st-degree connections, 2nd-degree connections, 1st and 2nd-degree connections, or Nobody (Options may vary).
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Your changes will be saved automatically.
To control if you're able to be discovered based on your email address or phone number within your settings:
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Tap your
profile photo.
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Tap Settings.
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Tap Visibility.
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Under Visibility of your profile & network section, tap Profile discovery using email address or Profile discovery using phone number.
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Select from Anyone, 1st-degree connections, 2nd-degree connections, 1st and 2nd-degree connections, or Nobody (Options may vary).
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Your changes will be saved automatically.
Note: If you disable discover by email or discover by phone number lookup, others using permitted services off LinkedIn can still discover your profile based on your name and your organization. If you don't wish your profile to be discovered in off-LinkedIn services, edit your off-LinkedIn visibility setting instead.
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