Companies have used skilled contact listings to achieve their markets for generations, relationship again to the times when a cellphone ebook arrived at the doorstep with a thump. 

In our digital world, the place hundreds of thousands of enterprise contacts are altering by the minute, ZoomInfo simplifies that age-old course of for businesspeople who don’t have any time to lose. Merely put, we assist folks join with one another to conduct enterprise. 

The mixture of our best-in-class enterprise contact information and industry-leading software program helps clients outline their market, ship their message, and shut extra offers. This environment friendly and efficient edge is what each enterprise is searching for and why the typical SalesOS buyer willingly pays greater than $30,000 a yr for it. 

However for nonprofits, startups, and small companies, this form of funding may be prohibitively costly. Our resolution for these potential clients is ZoomInfo’s Group Version (CE), which offers entry to our enterprise information and insights — for gratis to its subscribers. Every subscriber accesses the identical information set as our SalesOS clients, opening up new markets for smaller organizations.

In alternate without spending a dime entry, CE customers share enterprise contact data from their electronic mail accounts with ZoomInfo. The kind of data shared is what you’d discover on a resume or enterprise card: firm, job title, electronic mail addresses, and cellphone numbers. Consumer contributions and participation make our enterprise information higher for everybody. Additionally they make CE extra invaluable for the subsequent particular person seeking to be a part of.

Nevertheless, we perceive that even when the information gathered is low-risk, we’re accumulating and offering it at scale. Information privateness is a prime precedence at ZoomInfo. We’ve funneled huge quantities of time, assets, and power into frequently bettering our privateness requirements. We make sure that information sharing by CE complies with our industry-leading privateness practices. 

Let’s break down precisely how CE opens up markets for small companies whereas retaining your privateness protected.

Privateness is a Precedence

Greater than 100,000 small and medium-sized companies make the most of our CE, which connects them with their subsequent finest prospect eight occasions extra steadily than outdated handbook strategies, equivalent to net searches.

As a result of our focus is on serving to businesspeople join with one another to do enterprise, we restrict the information collected by CE subscribers to skilled contact and profession profile data. We’re not interested by any particular person’s shopping for habits or delicate private information. CE customers run an utility in their very own setting that identifies, filters, and extracts the business-related data of their electronic mail contact record, electronic mail headers, and electronic mail signature blocks, and shares that information — and solely that information — with ZoomInfo. 

ZoomInfo takes privateness very critically, and we maintain ourselves accountable for upholding the very best {industry} requirements. We observe relevant legal guidelines within the areas the place we acquire and obtain information and the place folks entry our platform. This contains adherence to legal guidelines such because the EU’s Common Information Safety Regulation (GDPR) and the California Client Privateness Act (CCPA) in California.

We’re devoted to being an {industry} chief in information privateness and safety, which is acknowledged in our memberships and certifications with trusted third-party information privateness and safety organizations, equivalent to ISO,  TrustArc and SAFECode.

We count on CE subscribers to fulfill these identical excessive requirements. Earlier than registering, each person should comply with our Group Version Phrases of Use, which requires subscribers to make use of the information they get from ZoomInfo lawfully, respecting the rights of each particular person on our platform.

This settlement additionally applies to the data customers share with ZoomInfo. It requires new subscribers to verify that they’ve the appropriate to offer ZoomInfo with data — each from their employer and from a authorized standpoint. Nobody can subscribe to CE with a private electronic mail, which helps make sure that solely business-related data is offered to ZoomInfo.

In the event you really feel these actions aren’t sufficient, you even have a say in how we share your data.

You Have Management of Your Information

ZoomInfo helps people sustaining management over their information, in addition to the way it’s distributed and used. That begins by letting folks know their data has been added to our database.

We promptly notify people all over the world when their data is added to ZoomInfo’s database, no matter whether or not native legal guidelines require us to offer this discover. It is a stage of dedication to information transparency hardly ever seen amongst different corporations in our {industry}. 

Since 2021, we’ve despatched greater than 100 million privateness notices. In 2022, we took privateness notification a step additional with a re-notification program, emailing people so they continue to be conscious of their continued presence on ZoomInfo and their skill to choose out. 

Our devoted electronic mail administration group is all the time bettering its processes to make sure that not solely are these emails being despatched, however that they arrive efficiently within the appropriate inboxes.

Lots of our clients additionally use the GDPR as a benchmark for international privateness compliance, and our notifications are designed to be GDPR-compliant, whatever the information topic’s location. We make each particular person conscious of what data we course of and why, the place the data got here from, and the way lengthy we’ll maintain it. 

Our notifications additionally embrace clear directions on easy methods to modify or take away the contact data that has been collected. Many of the opt-out requests we obtain are processed in a couple of hours.

Nonetheless Have Questions?

We work onerous to create a product that helps information minimization, emphasizes privateness, and offers actual worth to our subscribers. We wish to be as clear as attainable and are glad to reply any questions. You probably have a query, please don’t hesitate to get in contact at zoominfohelp@zoominfo.com.