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ZoomInfo

A marketingsite that exposes your name, address, phone, and relatives. Here's what they collect, how to opt out, and why it matters if you're on the job.

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What ZoomInfo collects

  • Full name
  • Work email and direct work phone
  • Job title and employer
  • Work address
  • Sometimes personal phone numbers
  • Professional history (LinkedIn-style)

How to opt out yourself

Direct opt-out: https://www.zoominfo.com/privacy-center/update/remove

  1. Confirm the current removal URL first; ZoomInfo has changed these paths before.
  2. Open the removal page and enter your work email to request a verification code.
  3. Enter the verification code ZoomInfo emails you.
  4. Check the box to delete your information and solve the CAPTCHA.
  5. Submit. ZoomInfo's process is slower than most brokers; expect roughly two weeks.

What ZoomInfo knows about you

ZoomInfo sells work-contact data to sales teams. A typical record holds your full name, work email, direct office phone, job title, and employer. Some records also carry a personal phone number tied to your work profile.

ZoomInfo builds these records by scraping public professional profiles and company sites, buying commercial data feeds, and pulling contacts from the inboxes of people who install its free email plugin.

Why it matters if you're on the job

This is work data, not your home address, so on its own ZoomInfo is a lower-risk site than a consumer people-search broker. If your workplace is already public, such as a department, courthouse, or hospital, a ZoomInfo listing does not add much. It matters more for roles where work and personal life have to stay separate, such as undercover, federal, or protective assignments.

The steadier risk is targeted contact. A record that pairs your name, title, and direct line gives anyone a credible way to reach you at work. That is the raw material for phishing emails and pretext phone calls aimed at you or your co-workers. If a personal number is attached to the record, it can also be a bridge from your work identity to your private one.

How to opt out

Submit a removal request through ZoomInfo's privacy center. Confirm the current URL before you start, since ZoomInfo has changed these paths before. As of this writing the removal page is at https://www.zoominfo.com/privacy-center/update/remove.

  1. Open the removal page.
  2. Enter your work email and request a verification code.
  3. Enter the code ZoomInfo emails you.
  4. Check the box to delete your information and solve the CAPTCHA.
  5. Submit. ZoomInfo's process is slower than most brokers; expect roughly two weeks.

How long until you're back

B2B contact data refreshes less often than consumer people-search data, so relisting tends to be slower here than on a typical broker. It can still happen when ZoomInfo re-scrapes a source that carries your details, such as a public profile or a company directory. Removal from ZoomInfo is not permanent, so the listing needs monitoring.

What we do

We file the ZoomInfo removal request for you and handle the verification steps. We keep checking for your listing to come back, and we refile when it does. If a step needs something only you can provide, we tell you clearly.

Who owns it

ZoomInfo Technologies Inc.

Public company on Nasdaq under the ticker GTM (changed from ZI in May 2025). Zoom Information began in 2000; DiscoverOrg acquired it in February 2019 and rebranded as ZoomInfo Technologies. The company went public on Nasdaq in June 2020 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Washington. ZoomInfo says it profiles hundreds of millions of business professionals and millions of companies.

Lawsuits

  • Ramos et al. v. ZoomInfo Technologies, LLC
    N.D. Ill. (1:21-cv-02032) · 2024 · About $29.55M right-of-publicity class action settlement; final approval granted November 13, 2024

    Right-of-publicity claims that ZoomInfo used people's names and professional details without consent to advertise its subscriptions. The settlement covered four statewide classes — California, Illinois, Indiana, and Nevada — under those states' publicity laws.

Where the data comes from

  • Web crawling of professional profilesLinkedIn, company websites, corporate directories.
  • Community Edition email pluginUsers install a free plugin that grants ZoomInfo access to extract contact data from their inboxes. This is a source of much of the personal-phone and direct-line data.
  • Corporate data partnerships
  • User-contributed corrections

Doing this for one broker is straightforward. Doing it for 200, on a continuous basis, is what we do.

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