How Apollo Collects, Sells, and Shares Your Personal Data
What is Apollo?
Apollo is a business‑to‑business (B2B) sales intelligence and engagement platform. It provides a large contact and company database, enrichment services, and outreach tools that help customers find, target, and engage with prospects. Their offerings are often used by sales and marketing teams for prospect discovery, email automation, and company profiling.
URL
www.apollo.io
Support
privacy@apollo.io
Type of Data Broker
Marketing/Lead Generation
Aggression level
High
What Apollo collects and why it puts your privacy at risk
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This company is listed in our Top 100 Most Aggressive Data Sellers based on sensitivity and reach.
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Collects and sells basic details like your name, address, phone number, and email address.
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Collects and shares information about your family members, relationships, and household makeup.
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Collects and monetizes data related to your income, spending habits, debts, and financial status.
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The company’s practices pose a heightened risk for identity theft, scams, discrimination, and profiling.
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Collects and distributes your work history, job titles, company affiliations, and professional connections.
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Tracks your browsing habits, online searches, shopping behaviors, and content preferences.
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Tracks and sells your location history, movements, and device-based geolocation data.
The risks shown are based on the types of personal data this company collects, sells, or shares.
Even limited data collection can expose you to serious privacy threats.
How to Opt Out and Remove Your Data from Apollo
You can request to remove your profile from Apollo.io or opt‑out of their database via their Privacy Center and submission form. The process is available but can be limited (for example requiring verification of business email or profile URL) and once removed you may still need to monitor because re‑ingestion of data from public sources is possible.
For detailed instructions, view our Opt-Out Guide.
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Apollo Privacy Risks and How to Remove Your Personal Data
They scrape and aggregate your personal data:
Apollo states they “collect a large dataset in four main ways: data contributor network, engagement suite, public data crawling, and vetted third‑party data providers.” They then aggregate and verify this data to build extensive business contact profiles, often combining signals to enrich or update information as roles change, companies merge, or new contacts emerge.
They engage in automatic data harvesting:
Apollo collects data using web crawling, third‑party providers, CRM integrations, and user-submitted lists. In addition to scraping public websites and APIs, Apollo uses AI-powered algorithms to extract, validate, and enrich contact data across millions of web pages and digital sources. These systems can infer missing information, link signals across platforms, and continuously rebuild business profiles over time.
Opting out is possible, but removal is difficult:
Apollo’s opt‑out and deletion tools allow users to request removal, but that doesn’t guarantee long‑term data privacy. Because Apollo uses AI‑driven systems to crawl websites, scan public data sources, and rebuild profiles, even deleted information can reappear if it becomes available again online. These models can regenerate data from minimal signals, making one-time removals incomplete. mePrism provides consistent monitoring and enforcement across multiple brokers to help prevent your business profile from being re‑created or redistributed without your consent.
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