Rules for your event(s)

•  All Events must be titled in the following way: LinkedIn Local – [location]. The bracketed “location” variable should be replaced with the name of the geographic area where the Event will be held. For example, “LinkedIn Local – London” or “LinkedIn Local – San Francisco.”

•  You are permitted to register a domain for your Event as long as it complies with the naming convention mentioned above. For example, www.linkedinlocal-sanfrancisco.com or www.linkedinlocalsanfrancisco.com. You may also create social media accounts and social media pages (such as on LinkedIn or Facebook, etc.) for your Event using the same naming conventions. In either case, however, you must cease all use of the domain name or social media account and cancel or otherwise relinquish your domain-name registration or account once the license terminates.

•  LinkedIn has designated a specific hashtag for Events that can be used across all channels: #LinkedInLocal. You may also use a geo-specific hashtag for your Event, like #LinkedInLocalSF.

•  The Events can’t be combined with other events, and LinkedIn doesn’t allow Events to be co-branded. If you have Event sponsors, their logos must be displayed in a way that doesn’t imply co-branding or association with LinkedIn.

•  Although LinkedIn authorizes you to use the LinkedIn Local™ trademark if you comply with these Terms, you are solely responsible for your Events and you may not state or imply that you are sponsored by, employed by, affiliated with, or a partner of LinkedIn. That means you must be clear that you – not LinkedIn – are the organizer and that LinkedIn is not responsible for Event activities.

•  You must include in all written materials promoting your Event the following notice and disclaimer: “LinkedIn Local™ is a trademark of LinkedIn Corporation and is used under license. However, this event is not sponsored or operated by LinkedIn.”

•  You can only use the “LinkedIn Local™” trademark and Logos if you comply with the terms of the license below.

•  You do not have exclusive rights to host Events in any geographic location. That means someone else (or LinkedIn) can host an Event in the same area that you have and they can even use the same Event title.

2. Quality, Subject Matter, Organization, and Content of Your Event

•  All Events must support the goals of the LinkedIn Local™ program: to strengthen existing connections and to build new ones.

•  An Event is a live, single-day, in-person event, targeting LinkedIn members from a particular geographic area.

•  To achieve the goals of the LinkedIn Local™ program, you may include content as part of the Event, such as speakers, panels, profile photo booths, and the like.

•  You may also charge a reasonable attendance fee and utilize third-party event-planning sites to register attendees.

You agree that the Event will be of high quality and that its content will not:

•  Violate applicable law (including privacy laws).
•  Operate without necessary permits and licenses (including those required to provide or sell food or alcohol).
•  Violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party.
•  Be defamatory or disparaging.
•  Include any pornographic, obscene, profane, or offensive content.
•  Include content that is unlawful, threatening, abusive, violent, harassing, discriminatory, or otherwise inappropriate.
•  Include content that encourages conduct that is unsafe or that could harm others, or that could give rise to criminal or civil liability.
•  Include any content that is inconsistent with the goals and values of the LinkedIn Local™ program.
•  Contain any other content that would harm LinkedIn or the LinkedIn Local™ mark, or bring LinkedIn or the LinkedIn Local™ mark into disrepute.

If you fail to abide by these Terms, LinkedIn reserves its right to terminate this license and to take any other action it deems necessary to protect its LinkedIn Local™ mark and Logos, including, without limitation, terminating your LinkedIn account.

License and Resources You Can Use Subject to These Terms

On this site, you’ll find a zip file with the LinkedIn Local™ logos (the “Logos”). You acknowledge that LinkedIn owns the LinkedIn Local™ mark and the Logos. LinkedIn grants you a limited, nonexclusive, royalty-free, revocable license to use the LinkedIn Local™ mark and the Logos, in unaltered form, solely in connection with the Event and related Event marketing materials for one year beginning on the day you first announce or otherwise publicize the Event (for example, by email or in a social media post). LinkedIn may, at its sole discretion, extend this deadline, provided that your use of the LinkedIn Local™ mark and Logos complies at all times with these Terms. All use by you of the LinkedIn Local™ mark and the Logos inures to the benefit of LinkedIn. You understand and agree that LinkedIn may terminate this license or your right to use the LinkedIn Local™ mark and the Logos at any time by providing notice to you, and you agree to immediately stop all use of the LinkedIn Local™ mark and the Logos upon receipt of such notice. You may not use any other LinkedIn trademarks or logos in connection with the Event. Except as expressly provided above in this paragraph, LinkedIn grants no other licenses. You will not use any trademarks of LinkedIn except as expressly licensed above.

Trademark Use Requirements

•  No modification: The LinkedIn Local™ mark and the Logos must be used as provided by LinkedIn with no modifications. Don’t remove, distort, or alter any element of the LinkedIn Local™ mark or the Logos, including changing any colors. Do not shorten, abbreviate, or create acronyms out of the LinkedIn Local™ mark or the Logos.

•  No confusingly similar marks: Don’t use the LinkedIn Local™ mark or the Logos in a manner that might create potential confusion as to the owner of the LinkedIn Local™ mark or the Logos, or imply that LinkedIn is the source of your products or services.

•  No incorporation: Don’t incorporate the LinkedIn Local™ mark or the Logos into your own product name, service names, trademarks, logos, company names, website title, publication title, application icon, favicon, or the like.

•  No generic use: Don’t use the LinkedIn Local™ mark or the Logos in a way that suggests a common, descriptive, or generic meaning.

•  No plural or possessive use: Never use the LinkedIn Local™ mark in the plural or possessive form.

Additional Terms and Conditions

LinkedIn reserves the right to modify these Terms at any time without notice, and you agree to comply with the most recent version of these Terms.

LinkedIn reserves the right to modify or terminate the LinkedIn Local™ program at any time without notice or liability to you.

LinkedIn may terminate your right to host Events, and to exercise any of the rights granted hereunder, at any time, for any reason, as LinkedIn at its sole discretion shall determine. Upon the earlier expiration of the license term or receipt of notice of termination, you shall immediately cease any further participation in this program, including hosting Events, using the LinkedIn Local™ mark and the Logos, and exercising any of the rights granted herein.

You understand and agree that you are solely liable for any Events that you host. You shall maintain reasonable insurance against loss or damage, of such types and in such amounts that are reasonable given the Events you host.

LINKEDIN IS PROVIDING THE LINKEDIN LOCAL™ PROGRAM (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE LOGOS AND MATERIALS) ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. LINKEDIN DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL EXPRESS AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NONINFRINGEMENT, SECURITY, ACCURACY, AND TIMELINESS, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PROVIDED BY LAW.

YOU AGREE TO ASSUME FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE EVENT AND FOR ANY AND ALL RISKS THAT MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH IT, AND FOR ANY AND ALL INJURIES OR DAMAGES YOU MAY SUSTAIN OR CAUSE OTHERS TO SUSTAIN IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING FROM YOUR EVENT. YOU HEREBY RELEASE AND HOLD HARMLESS LINKEDIN AND ITS OFFICERS, CORPORATE AFFILIATES, AND EMPLOYEES FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, DAMAGES, LOSSES, LIABILITIES, EXPENSES, INJURIES, AND ACCIDENTS (COLLECTIVELY, “CLAIMS”) IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING FROM YOUR EVENT. 

YOU ALSO AGREE TO INDEMNIFY, DEFEND, AND HOLD HARMLESS LINKEDIN AND ITS OFFICERS, CORPORATE AFFILIATES, AND EMPLOYEES FROM AND AGAINST ANY CLAIMS IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING FROM YOUR EVENT.

IN NO EVENT SHALL LINKEDIN BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING IN ANY MANNER FROM THE EVENT, WHETHER UNDER CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER CAUSE OF ACTION, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Nothing in these Terms will be construed as creating a partnership or joint venture of any kind between you and LinkedIn, and neither party will have the authority or power to bind the other party or to contract in the name of or create a liability against the other party in any way or for any purpose.

These Terms shall be governed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of California applicable to contracts executed and fully performed therein, and all disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms shall be brought in the state or federal courts of the State of California, in San Francisco or Santa Clara county.