Is zoominfo.com Safe?

Owned by "ZoomInfo", this site is technically safe for your computer; but ... ZoomInfo is a data miner which assumes that any data it can acquire belongs to it. Its collected data is not necessarily accurate and may include proprietary details not intended for the public. It transmits sensitive personal data over unsecured connections. It pretends to offer a way to rectify or remove your information - actually to acquire more of your data - but then denies such requests by blaming inaccuracies on the third-party sources from which ZoomInfo scraped the data. References: _https://www.complaintsboard.com/zoominfocom-b116762# _https://www.complaintsboard.com/us/ma/waltham/zoominfocom-170-tracer-ln#c1270019 _https://www.complaintsboard.com/zoominfocom-remove-my-personal-information-from-your-data-base-you-thieves-c1229951 _http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/zoominfocom-c199552.html

This site is designed to bait you in by obtaining personal data about people, then making it hard to remove it. Further they attempt to force you into installing their software. DO NOT TRUST THEIR SOFTWARE. Write your lawmakers, get real privacy laws passed to stop this disgusting, unscrupulous practice of buying and selling personal data.

When trying to view more details about a company, it immediately, and without asking for permission, downloads an executable, with a clear UX for users to "click run". This is a really bad experience that teaches users to download malware. Their privacy policy also states that business contacts, headers, signature blocks, etc. will be shared. Really fishy!

This site gathers and stores personal data without asking for one's permission. "Profiles in the ZoomInfo Directory are created in an automated process using publicly available information on web sources and contributions from the ZoomInfo community. "

Zoominfo has scraped and copied the content of my website and published it in an apparently randomly generated company profile. This profile contains fictitious employee details and shows a completely incorrect company address and phone number, as well as stolen site text and registered trade marks in contravention of clearly stated copyright notices. Repeated requests to have these removed from zoominfo have been ignored. It seems zoominfo have no respect for copyright or individuals' personal information and are uninterested in differentiating personal details (of both adults and minors, presumably) from that of companies. Frankly, I'm amazed that zoominfo has been given a scorecard with a green background - one look at other contributers' comments will tell you there's something going on here that is not right. WOT needs to investigate this.

How WOT can say this site is trustworthy is beyond me. We get spam from them every few days with stupid stuff like "Are you having trouble logging in?" logging in is a link. #1- we don't have an account with them and #2 they use my email address, but in the body use my employer's name. When you ask to be removed you just get stupid unrelated emails and more of them. They also want to collect your contacts so they can spam them also. 100% trustworthy my foot. WOT needs to have their heads examined if they consider zoominfo.com trustworthy. With all the poor ratings they have on WOT how could zoom info be considered 100% trustworthy; maybe they are paying off WOT!! I am so fed up with spammers that I've contacted our attorneys as it is illegal in California. Check to see the laws in your state at ***** If enough people file complaints or prosecute untrustworthy sites maybe they will disappear forever and spam will again be a meat only.

When their bot visits your site, it makes it look like its a new search engine, but their site is all about SEO, or "Extreme Targeting and Lead Generation". Nothing about searching. The URL in their bot tells you nothing about what they are scraping your site for, and they ignore your robots file. gw2.zoominfo.com - - [23/Sep/2013:12:59:55 -0400] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 8407 "-" "NextGenSearchBot 1 (for information visit http://www.zoominfo.com/About/misc/NextGenSearchBot.aspx)" gw2.zoominfo.com - - [23/Sep/2013:12:59:56 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 503 43 "-" "NextGenSearchBot 1 (for information visit http://www.zoominfo.com/About/misc/NextGenSearchBot.aspx)"