Zoom Information Inc. Privacy Policy 3.18.2011

Zoom Information Inc. (ZoomInfo) is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent organization whose mission is to build user's trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. This privacy statement covers the site www.zoominfo.com. Because this website wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe. The TRUSTe program covers only information that is collected by Zoom Information, and does not cover information that is volunteered by ZoomInfo users to be displayed on our web site as a part of their Public Profile.

If you do not receive acknowledgment from ZoomInfo about your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should contact TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php. TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns.

Zoom Information Inc. Privacy Policy 3.18.2011

ZoomInfo understands that you care about how information about you is used. This privacy policy explains how we collect information pertaining to businesses and business people (“Information”) through our website and online services (the “Site”); how we maintain, use and share that Information; and how you can manage the way Information about you is handled.

Where does ZoomInfo get the Information for its Public Profiles?

ZoomInfo creates profiles of business people and companies, which we call “Public Profiles,” from different sources. Once we have collected Information about a person or company, we combine multiple mentions of the same person or company into a Public Profile. The resulting directory of Public Profiles (the “Directory”) is then made available to the users of the Site and our customers and strategic partners.

ZoomInfo obtains the data for its Public Profiles in three ways:

1. Our search technology scans the web and gathers publicly-available Information.
2. We license Information from other companies.
3. Users contribute Information about themselves or other people and companies. (See “ZoomInfo Contact Contributor,” below)

How does the ZoomInfo Contact Contributor Work?

ZoomInfo offers a service called ZoomInfo Community Edition.

To subscribe to ZoomInfo Community Edition, you are required to install software offered on the Site, known as the ZoomInfo Contact Contributor (the “Software”). When you install the Software on your computer, you allow ZoomInfo to access certain Information stored by the application that your computer uses to manage your email and contacts, known as an “email client” (e.g., Microsoft Outlook). We use this Information to improve the size and quality of our Directory. In exchange for allowing this access, you receive a subscription to ZoomInfo Community Edition at no charge under specified terms and conditions (available at www.zoominfo.com/terms).

From the contacts within your email client and “signatures” within email messages, we collect the following Information, if available, for each person:

• Name
• Email address
• Job title and department
• Business phone numbers (general, direct and fax)
• Company name
• Postal address of company
• Business related postal address of person
• Corporate website URLs
• Social Networking URLs
• Manager's Name
• Assistant's Name

From the headers of your emails, we collect:

• The date the email message was sent or received
• Email addresses, names and job titles of recipients and senders

To ensure the integrity of the directory, we take the following steps:

• Business Information Only - ZoomInfo only wants business-related information. Therefore, any contacts that have an address from a consumer-oriented service such as Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo are disregarded.
• Anonymity - We do not disclose who contributed particular Information using the ZoomInfo Contacts Contributor. (The only exceptions: See "Disclosures to Service Providers," "Disclosures for Legal Reasons," and "Disclosures to a Buyer of the Company," below.)
• Opt Out - Anyone added to the Directory may request to be removed at any time, via email, web or a toll-free number. We promptly honor such requests.

ZoomInfo does not "read" the content of your email messages; our technology automatically extracts from the messages only the data we describe in this Privacy Policy. We do not collect data from custom fields or notes in your email client.

Information from your email client will continue to be shared as described above as long as the Software remains installed. If you choose to stop sharing Information from your email client with ZoomInfo, you can uninstall the Software at any time. You may not, however, retroactively "unshare" the Information you have already with ZoomInfo.

How else does ZoomInfo Collect and Use Information?

Visitors to our Site may choose to submit their name, email address and/or other Information so that they can learn more about our services, register to take part in a ZoomInfo-sponsored event, or participate in a survey, contest or sweepstakes.

In order to use certain ZoomInfo products and services, you may be required to register as a user. From time to time, we may use your email address to send you information and keep you informed of products and services in which you might be interested. You will always be provided with an opportunity to opt out of receiving such information. Your contact Information may also be used to reach you regarding issues concerning your use of our Site, including changes to this privacy policy.

If you choose to use our referral service to invite a friend to join ZoomInfo, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the Site. ZoomInfo will use this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and will not store your friend’s name or email address.

ZoomInfo may aggregate Information in a form that does not allow users to be personally identified for the purpose of understanding our customer base and enhancing the services that we and our strategic partners and customers can provide you.

If you purchase one of our online subscription-based services, you will need to provide credit card information. We will use that information solely for the purpose of fulfilling your ZoomInfo purchase request. We will store credit card information in an encrypted form and will not sell, share or use it again without your prior consent. (The only exceptions are described in the sections below on “Disclosures to Service Providers,” “Disclosures for Legal Reasons,” and “Disclosures to a Buyer of the Company”).

We also collect information using cookies, as described below.

Cookies

Most websites, including our Site, use a feature of your browser to set a small text file called a “cookie” on your computer. The site placing the cookie on your computer can then recognize the computer when you revisit the site to allow auto log in and track how you are using the site.

When you visit our Site, our servers and/or those of our service providers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends, such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, referring/exit pages and URLs, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed, time and date of use and other information.

The Information we collect using cookies does not allow you to be personally identified; but we may link this Information to Information that you submit while on our Site, which does allow you to be personally identified.

You are free to decline cookies. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, erase cookies or notify you when a cookie is set.

ZoomInfo may adopt other technologies that serve similar functions as cookies. If we do so, we will disclose it in this privacy policy.

When does ZoomInfo Share Information?

Disclosures of Public Profiles

We may make any Information that our users contribute for inclusion in our Directory, that we collect from public web sources or that we license from third parties available to users of the Site, to our strategic partners and to our customers.

Disclosures to Service Providers

ZoomInfo may from time to time disclose Information to service providers, solely for providing functions related to our operation of the Site and for no other purpose. For example:

• ZoomInfo uses service providers to process credit card payments on our Site. When you use a credit card to pay for ZoomInfo services, Information such as your name, billing address, phone number, email address and credit card Information will be submitted to service providers for verification and to manage any recurring payments.
• ZoomInfo uses software hosted by a service provider to provide us with information regarding our visitors' activities on our Site. When you visit our Site, that service provider may set cookies on our behalf and may receive information about your browsing activity on our Site.

Disclosures for Legal Reasons

We may disclose Information to a third party if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary or desirable: (i) to comply with a law, regulation, governmental or securities exchange requirement, court order, judicial proceeding or legal process, such as a subpoena or a search warrant, (ii) to address a violation of the law, (iii) to protect the rights, property or safety of ZoomInfo, its users or the public, or (iv) to allow ZoomInfo to exercise its legal rights or respond to a legal claim.

Disclosures to a Buyer of the Company

If our company or substantially all of our assets are acquired, or in the event of a merger or bankruptcy, your Information may be among the transferred assets.

Other Disclosures

If you register for a ZoomInfo event with a third-party speaker, your Information will generally be shared with the speaker.

If you provide Information in creating or updating your Public Profile, that Information will be included in the Directory and thus can be viewed by third parties.

We post customer testimonials on our Site which may contain the customer's name. We always get consent from the customer prior to posting any testimonial.

How Can You Change or Delete Your Information?

If you register for a ZoomInfo account and your Information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may update or delete your Information by logging in with your username and password and making the change.

If you would like us to remove the Public Profile in your name from our service, you can either use the online tool at http://www.zoominfo.com/lookupEmail or send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with your request and the web address of your Public Profile. Once we have received your request, we will gladly remove your Information. You may also communicate your request to change or delete Information in your Public Profile by telephone, email or postal mail by using the contact information at the end of this privacy policy.

NOTE: ZoomInfo collects much of its Information from the web. Because we search millions of new and old web pages every day, Information about you may be acquired again by our service, or contributed by our users, without your knowledge. We recommend that you check back periodically to ensure that your Public Profile contains only the Information you choose to have displayed. The best way to avoid having your Information found by our search engine (or any other search engine) is to contact the operator of the website that contains the original source(s) of the Information and ask for the operator to remove the displayed Information from the web.

How Can You Opt Out of Certain Uses of Your Information?

ZoomInfo gives you the opportunity to “opt out” of having your Information used for certain purposes.

If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by visiting http://www.zoominfo.com/unsubscribe. After we receive your request, we will send you an email message to confirm that you have been unsubscribed.

ZoomInfo will not share Information that you submit when you register for our services with third parties for promotional uses unless you opt in to such sharing within your ZoomInfo account or ZoomInfo has separately acquired such Information from other sources, in which case ZoomInfo will give you the opportunity to opt out via email.

If you have registered for a ZoomInfo account and opted in to share your Information with ZoomInfo subscribers, you may opt out by signing in to your ZoomInfo account and changing your preferences by clicking "Edit" next to your conatct information on the Profile page.

When ZoomInfo adds a profile to its Directory that includes an email address, it sends a message to that email address, offering an opportunity to opt out of inclusion in the Directory.

How Do We Keep Your Information Secure?

The security of your Information is important to us. When you enter sensitive Information (such as a credit card number) on our registration forms, we encrypt that Information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the Information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of Internet transmission or electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

You may also communicate your opt-out request to ZoomInfo by telephone or postal mail by using the contact information at the bottom of this privacy policy.

Links to Other Sites

This Site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by ZoomInfo. We, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.

We encourage when you leave our Site to be aware and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.

This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Site.

Children

The products and services of ZoomInfo are not targeted to or intended for children under the age of 18. If you are under 18, you may not submit information about yourself to ZoomInfo. ZoomInfo reserves the right to modify or remove any information on its Site at its own discretion.

Safe Harbor Framework

ZoomInfo complies with the Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use and retention of personal information from the European Union.

Changes to this Policy

ZoomInfo reserves the right to modify this privacy policy from time to time, so please review it regularly. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, and/or by means of a notice on our homepage.

Contact Us

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact:

Zoom Information Privacy Site Coordinator
307 Waverley Oaks Road
Waltham, MA 02452
Phone: 781.693.7500
Fax: 781.693.7510
Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

If your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should contact TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php. TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns.

Last updated on 3.18.2011