ZoomInfo is a B2B contact-database company (ZoomInfo Technologies Inc., a public company on NASDAQ: GTM/ZI, headquartered in Vancouver, WA) that builds profiles of business professionals for sales, marketing and recruiting customers. Its privacy policy discloses that it compiles data via web-scraping ('Search Technology'), user/customer contributions, licensed third-party data, in-house research, and a program called 'ZoomInfo Lite,' in which a subscriber installs software or grants email-account access that lets ZoomInfo harvest contact and email-signature data about every person in that subscriber's email directory and contact book — people who never signed up for ZoomInfo themselves. California's Data Broker Registry lists ZoomInfo Technologies, LLC directly as a registered broker. ZoomInfo's own 10-K discloses that it is defending a September 2024 putative class action (ZoomInfo Publicity Litigation, W.D. Washington) alleging its use of individuals' names on public-facing web pages violates the Washington Personality Rights Act, plus similar pending suits in Quebec and Colorado, and separately references a prior, already-settled 'Class Action' whose settlement charges appear in its financial statements without further identification in this filing.
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ZoomInfo's privacy policy states it collects data about people and companies through multiple channels: 'the web, information provided by our users and customers, information licensed from other companies, and research from our in-house research team' — a broad, largely third-party-sourced model where most profiled individuals have no direct relationship with ZoomInfo.
SEC EDGAR confirms ZoomInfo Technologies Inc. (CIK 0001794515) is a Delaware-incorporated public company headquartered at 330 W Columbia Way, Vancouver, WA, filing regular 10-K annual reports with the SEC.
California's Data Broker Registry lists 'ZoomInfo Technologies, LLC' as a registered data broker at 330 W Columbia Way, Floor 8, Vancouver, WA, with its own listed privacy contact and privacy policy URL — independent government-registry confirmation of the same operating entity and address disclosed in SEC filings.
ZoomInfo's privacy policy states: 'We share Business Information and other information with our customers for their business-to-business sales, marketing, recruiting, and business development activities' — disclosure of compiled personal business-contact profiles to any paying customer is the company's core commercial model. The same policy also states California residents who set a browser opt-out preference signal are automatically opted out of 'the sale or sharing of the device and browsing information' with third parties, a self-declared CCPA sale/share of website-visitor data.
ZoomInfo's own FY2025 Form 10-K discloses that on September 5, 2024, a putative class action was filed against ZoomInfo Technologies LLC in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington alleging its use of individuals' names in public-facing web pages violates the Washington Personality Rights Act; the same filing discloses similar pending putative class actions in Quebec (filed March 17, 2025, alleging violations of Quebec privacy statutes) and Colorado (filed April and June 2025 against ZoomInfo and its subsidiary Datanyze LLC, alleging telemarketing-consent violations), all described as being 'vigorously' defended and unresolved as of the filing date.
ZoomInfo's privacy policy describes 'ZoomInfo Lite,' under which a subscribing user installs the 'ZoomInfo Contact Contributor' software or grants ZoomInfo access to their email account; doing so 'allows ZoomInfo to access and collect certain Business Information stored in the user's email application and other connected applications and systems, including information about contacts from the user's email directory, contact book,' and data parsed from email signature lines — harvesting identifying data about third parties who never interacted with ZoomInfo directly. The same policy states ZoomInfo's 'Search Technology... scans the web and gathers publicly available information.'