Companies have used skilled contact listings to succeed in their markets for generations, courting again to the times when a telephone ebook arrived at your step 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 haven’t any time to lose. Merely put, we assist individuals join with one another to conduct enterprise. 

The mixture of our best-in-class enterprise contact knowledge 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 in search of and why the typical SalesOS buyer willingly pays greater than $30,000 a yr for it. 

However for nonprofits, startups, and small companies, this kind of funding might be prohibitively costly. Our resolution for these potential clients is ZoomInfo’s Neighborhood Version (CE), which supplies entry to our enterprise knowledge and insights — for free of charge to its subscribers. Every subscriber accesses the identical knowledge set as our SalesOS clients, opening up new markets for smaller organizations.

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

Nonetheless, we perceive that even when the info gathered is low-risk, we’re gathering and offering it at scale. Information privateness is a high precedence at ZoomInfo. We’ve funneled huge quantities of time, sources, and vitality into frequently enhancing our privateness requirements. We be sure that knowledge sharing via CE complies with our industry-leading privateness practices. 

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

Privateness is a Precedence

Greater than 100,000 small and medium-sized companies benefit from our CE, which connects them with their subsequent finest prospect eight instances extra regularly than outdated guide strategies, comparable to net searches.

As a result of our focus is on serving to businesspeople join with one another to do enterprise, we restrict the info collected by CE subscribers to skilled contact and profession profile data. We’re not all in favour of any particular person’s shopping for habits or delicate private knowledge. CE customers run an utility in their very own surroundings that identifies, filters, and extracts the business-related data of their e mail contact listing, e mail headers, and e mail signature blocks, and shares that knowledge — and solely that knowledge — 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 gather and obtain knowledge and the place individuals entry our platform. This contains adherence to legal guidelines such because the EU’s Common Information Safety Regulation (GDPR) and the California Shopper Privateness Act (CCPA) in California.

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

We anticipate CE subscribers to fulfill these similar excessive requirements. Earlier than registering, each person should conform to our Neighborhood Version Phrases of Use, which requires subscribers to make use of the info they get from ZoomInfo lawfully, respecting the rights of each individual on our platform.

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

If you happen to 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 knowledge, in addition to the way it’s distributed and used. That begins by letting individuals know their data has been added to our database.

We promptly notify people around the globe 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 degree of dedication to knowledge transparency not often 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 capacity to decide out. 

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

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

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

Nonetheless Have Questions?

We work arduous to create a product that helps knowledge minimization, emphasizes privateness, and supplies actual worth to our subscribers. We wish to be as clear as attainable and are blissful to reply any questions. When you have a query, please don’t hesitate to get in contact at zoominfohelp@zoominfo.com.