How ZoomInfo Collects, Sells, and Shares Your Personal Data
ZoomInfo
ZoomInfo specializes in compiling detailed professional profiles, including names, work emails, phone numbers, employment history, company affiliations, and buyer intent signals. Businesses use ZoomInfo's database to target individuals for sales, marketing, and recruiting campaigns, often without the individual's direct consent. Their aggressive data aggregation methods and difficulty of full removal make them one of the more dangerous data brokers for working professionals.
URL
zoominfo.com
Support Email
stateremoval@zoominfo.com
Type of Data Broker
Marketing
Aggression level
Critical
What ZoomInfo 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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Collects health-related information such as medical conditions, prescriptions, and wellness habits.
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Collects and distributes your work history, job titles, company affiliations, and professional connections.
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The company’s practices pose a heightened risk for identity theft, scams, discrimination, and profiling.
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Gathers and monetizes information about your political views, religious affiliations, and causes you support.
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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 ZoomInfo
ZoomInfo offers an opt-out process for individuals seeking to remove their personal data. However, the process often requires providing additional sensitive information, and there is no guarantee that your data will remain private over time. Manual opt-outs are time-consuming, inconsistent, and often ineffective.
For detailed instructions, view our Opt-Out Guide.
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ZoomInfo Privacy Risks and How to Remove Your Personal Data
They scrape and aggregate your personal data:
ZoomInfo collects and sells personal and professional information not only from public sources (like company websites and LinkedIn profiles) but also by purchasing additional data from third-party vendors, business partners, and crowd-sourced databases. Much of this information is gathered without direct consent, making it even more critical to remove your information from this broker.
They engage in automatic data harvesting:
Through ZoomInfo’s browser extensions, email tools, and CRM integrations, the company has been criticized for harvesting users' contact lists, email metadata, and other private information. This type of automatic collection poses a serious data broker privacy risk, especially for professionals unaware their networks are being exposed.
Opting out is possible, but removal is difficult:
While ZoomInfo offers a process to request the removal of your data, it requires providing additional sensitive information to verify your identity. Even after completing the removal process, there is a significant risk that your profile could reappear later due to ongoing data collection practices. If you want to fully protect yourself, using a professional service like mePrism to remove your information from this broker and hundreds of others is the safest and most effective strategy.
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