WebSights Lite Terms of Use

By clicking “Accept” with regard to these Terms of Use (the “Terms” or the “Agreement”) or by registering for, accessing, installing, or using the WebSights Lite software (the “Software”) and/or WebSights Lite services (the “Services”) (collectively, “WS Lite”) you are entering into a legally binding agreement with ZoomInfo (defined in Section 13.1). By accessing, installing, or using WS Lite on your website (the “Website”), you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by and comply with these Terms.

SUMMARY OF CERTAIN TERMS

This brief summary of some of the terms of this Agreement is for illustrative purposes and to make the Agreement easier to understand. Please note you must read, understand, and agree to this Agreement in its entirety, and to the extent any of the express terms in Sections 1 through 15 below conflict with this summary or any portion thereof, expressly or by implication, the term stated in Section 1 through 15 shall prevail. Please note the following provisions of this Agreement:

  • If you use WS Lite, ZoomInfo may access information about visitors to your Website, like their IP addresses and the domain of any company associated with them, browsing history, website URLs they have visited, information about webpages they have viewed, information from forms they have completed on your Website, browsing metrics, metadata, and other similar website visitor-related information. By using WS Lite, you are saying that you have the right to share this information either on your own, or with your employer’s permission. Do not use WS Lite unless you have the right or permission to install the software on your Website and to share information about your Website and its visitors with ZoomInfo.
  • We use automated computer processes to identify and extract the information described in these Terms. In exchange for your access to WS Lite, you are contributing data from your Website and about your website visitors to ZoomInfo for ZoomInfo to use for its own purposes, including supplementing the ZoomInfo database. 
  • You agree not to violate the law or the rights of any person when using WS Lite. You agree not to hack or scrape WS Lite or ZoomInfo. You agree not to give the information you get through WS Lite to anyone else or to use it in a commercial product.
  • You agree not to use WS Lite for any purpose except in support of business-to-business sales, marketing, recruiting, or business development. 
  • You agree to disclose your use of the Software in your Website’s privacy policy, or through whatever means may be required by applicable law. 
  • We reserve the right to modify or discontinue WS Lite at any time, and we reserve the right to terminate your access to WS Lite at any time for any reason. We also reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time, and you agree to be bound by the modified Terms if you continue to use WS Lite after receiving notice of the changes. If you do not agree to these Terms, either now or later if they are modified, you may not use and must stop using WS Lite and uninstall WS Lite from your Website.

1. LICENSE

Subject to the conditions and terms hereof, ZoomInfo grants you a non-exclusive, non- assignable, revocable license (the “License”) to access and use WS Lite during the term hereof. 

2. WS LITE COMMUNITY

2.1 By accepting this Agreement and installing or otherwise connecting the Software on your Website, and as a condition to accessing and using WS Lite, you authorize the Software to access information about visitors to the Website, including IP addresses and the domain of any company associated with them, URLs visited, information about webpages viewed, browsing history and metrics, related metadata, information (such as email addresses) from forms the visitor completes on your Website, and similar website visitor-related information (collectively “Visitor Data”). You acknowledge, understand, and agree that after this permission is granted and until it is revoked, the Software will use automated algorithms to automatically parse this information and extract Visitor Data, and you will be part of the WebSights Lite Community (the “Community”). ZoomInfo may perform qualification checks on your account and may remove you from the Community at any point, at its sole discretion, without any explanation or compensation. 

2.2 If you have any concerns about adding the Software to your Website or making such contributions, or, where applicable, if you have reason to believe your employer does not permit you to take such actions or make such contributions, do not accept these Terms and do not access or use WS Lite. If such concerns arise after permission has been granted, immediately cease using WS Lite and revoke the access permissions granted to the Software by uninstalling it or otherwise revoking permissions. 

2.3 By continuing to access or use WS Lite and granting access permission to the Software, you grant ZoomInfo and any of its affiliates the following licenses: (i) a license to access Visitor Data that you transmit to ZoomInfo by way of the Software until you revoke the Software’s permission to access your Website and (ii) an irrevocable license to reproduce, distribute, publish, perform, make derivative works of, or display the Visitor Data or any portion thereof, and sell, transfer, assign, sublicense, disclose, or make available the Visitor Data or any portion thereof to any third party, including ZoomInfo’s customers, contractors, strategic partners, agents, and service providers. The foregoing license grant to ZoomInfo shall be worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, fully paid-up, and royalty-free, and ZoomInfo shall have the right to sublicense, assign, or transfer such licenses in its sole and absolute discretion.

2.4 In exchange for providing ZoomInfo with access to the Visitor Data, as described above, and granting the aforementioned licenses to the Visitor Data, you will be entitled to use WS Lite, which permits you to access information about a designated number of visitors to your Website, such as the businesses they are associated with (the “Licensed Materials”), for so long as you have granted access permissions to the Software and contribute Visitor Data, as provided herein. 

3. USER CONDUCT

3.1 In using WS Lite, you agree that you will not:

  1. violate any applicable international, federal or state laws, regulations or rules or any securities exchange requirements (collectively, “Laws”), including, but not limited to, any law regarding electronic communications;
  2. make any Visitor Data available to ZoomInfo if doing so would violate any Laws, industry or professional codes or standards, contractual or fiduciary obligations, confidentiality obligations, or employer policies or other requirements by which you are bound;
  3. use the Licensed Materials or WS Lite to transmit any information, data, images, or other materials that are unlawful, harmful, threatening, harassing, libelous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene or otherwise objectionable or that may invade another’s right of privacy or infringe any intellectual property right, including patent, trademark, service mark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any third party;
  4. impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
  5. violate or attempt to violate the security of WS Lite, including, but not limited to, by: logging in to a server or account that you are not authorized to access; attempting to test, scan, probe or hack a vulnerability of WS Lite or any network used by WS Lite or to breach security, encryption or other authentication measures; or attempting to interfere with WS Lite by overloading, flooding, pinging, mail bombing or crashing it;
  6. reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of WS Lite; or
  7. “scrape” information from WS Lite, or use or attempt to use any engine, software, tool, agent or other device or mechanism (including browsers, spiders, robots, avatars or intelligent agents) to navigate or search any portion of WS Lite.

3.2 You further agree to: (i) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself and your Website if prompted by the registration form; and (ii) maintain and update this information to keep it true, accurate, current, and complete.

3.3 You agree to comply with all applicable Laws, including but not limited to privacy and/or data protection Laws, when providing us with access to Visitor Data and when using WS Lite or any information you access via WS Lite.

3.4 You agree not to use WS Lite or Licensed Materials for any purpose except in support of business-to-business sales, marketing, recruiting, or business development activities. You are solely responsible for any communications between you and any companies or individuals you contact in relation to the information you access through WS Lite. 

3.5 You agree to make all necessary disclosures and obtain consent, as necessary, related to your use of the Software, the data collected thereby, and the applicability of this data collection to visitors to your Website, through whatever means may be required by applicable law. At a minimum, you agree to make such disclosures in your Website’s privacy policy or privacy notice. 

4. ADDITIONAL RESTRICTIONS

You may not develop or derive for commercial sale any data in any form that incorporates or uses any of the Licensed Materials. Except with the prior written consent of ZoomInfo, you may not transfer or disclose any Licensed Materials to anyone else. You may not use WS Lite in a commercial service bureau environment, including, but not limited to, any provision or export of Licensed Materials to third parties in any form whatsoever. You are authorized to use WS Lite solely for your internal business purposes, subject to the limitations set forth herein.

5. SUBMISSIONS

5.1 You are solely responsible for the content of any submission you make to ZoomInfo. ZoomInfo reserves the right, but does not assume any obligation, to delete messages or other content that ZoomInfo, in its sole discretion, deems abusive, defamatory, obscene, in violation of copyright or trademark laws, or otherwise unacceptable.

5.2 ZoomInfo does not want to receive confidential or proprietary information from you. You acknowledge that any information or material you send to ZoomInfo will be presumed not to be confidential unless otherwise provided in a written agreement between you and ZoomInfo. Unless otherwise provided in a written agreement between you and ZoomInfo, by sending ZoomInfo any information or other material, you grant ZoomInfo a nonexclusive, unrestricted, irrevocable, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide, assignable, transferrable, sublicensable, right and license, in all formats or media, whether now known or hereafter devised or discovered, to use, reproduce, display, transmit, translate, rent, sell, modify, disclose, publish, create derivative works from, and distribute that material or information, and you also agree that ZoomInfo is free to use any ideas, concepts, knowhow or techniques that you send us for any purpose. You further agree to indemnify and defend ZoomInfo and hold ZoomInfo harmless from and against any liability arising from (a) your use of WS Lite and (b) ZoomInfo’s use or distribution of any such material or information.

6. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS

6.1 You agree that, as between you and ZoomInfo, ZoomInfo and/or its licensors own WS Lite and Licensed Materials, including all software and other technology provided or employed by ZoomInfo in connection with WS Lite, and the contents, design, layout, functions, appearance and other intellectual property comprising or contained within WS Lite, including all copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade secrets, patents and other intellectual property rights inherent therein or appurtenant thereto. Without limitation of the foregoing, as between ZoomInfo and you, ZoomInfo shall retain all right, title and interest in and to the compiled visitor identification and company data and all other materials accessible by means of WS Lite, including, if applicable, news articles, company summaries, company descriptions, people summaries and contact information, and the selection, coordination and arrangement of such content, and you shall not acquire ownership in any of the Licensed Materials by reason of the License. You shall abide by all additional copyright notices or restrictions contained in any content accessed through the Site.

6.2 By furnishing Licensed Materials or access to any software in connection with WS Lite, ZoomInfo does not grant any licenses to any copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets or other intellectual property rights other than the limited rights to use WS Lite, as set forth herein. All rights not expressly granted herein under the License are reserved by ZoomInfo.

7. PROVISION OF SERVICES

7.1 ZoomInfo may make improvements or changes in WS Lite at any time without notice.

7.2 ZoomInfo shall not be responsible for any failure to remove, or delay in removing, harmful, inaccurate, unlawful, or otherwise objectionable content originating with or otherwise provided by third parties, except to the extent provided by applicable law.

7.3 ZoomInfo shall not be liable for any loss or damage resulting from total or partial loss of any data you transfer using WS Lite. Data can get lost or become corrupt as a result of a number of causes, including hardware failures, software failures or bugs, or communications failures. ZoomInfo recommends that you periodically back up your information onto media not associated with ZoomInfo.

7.4 You understand and agree that WS Lite is provided on an “as available” basis; ZoomInfo will use reasonable commercial efforts to provide WS Lite on a 24/7 basis, but it shall not be liable for any disruption in service, regardless of length.

8. TERM; TERMINATION

The term hereof will commence when you first accept these Terms or otherwise register for, access, install, or use WS Lite, and continue in effect until terminated by either party, provided that your License may sooner expire or be terminated as provided herein. Either party may terminate this Agreement any time without prior notice to the other party. ZoomInfo may terminate this Agreement by terminating your access to the Service. You may terminate these Terms at any time by uninstalling the Software. Upon termination hereof for any reason, the License will automatically be terminated, and you shall immediately cease using WS Lite, including the Licensed Materials.

9. LINKS

The Service may contain links to websites that ZoomInfo does not operate. ZoomInfo is not responsible for the content of these websites, and you should direct any concerns regarding these websites to their respective site administrators or webmasters.

10. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES; INDEMNITY

10.1 You represent, warrant and covenant that:

  1. no information of any kind submitted through your use of WS Lite will (i) violate, plagiarize, or infringe upon the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy or other personal or proprietary rights; or (ii) contain libelous or otherwise unlawful material;
  2. you are at least eighteen (18) years old; and
  3. you are authorized by your employer, if applicable, to sign up for WS Lite and participate in the Community, to install the Software on the Website, to share the Visitor Data with ZoomInfo in exchange for your access to WS Lite, and that you are not prohibited by any contract, policy, rule, or regulation from doing so.

10.2 You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless ZoomInfo and its successors or assigns, and all officers, directors, owners, agents, information providers, affiliates, licensors and licensees of the foregoing (collectively, the “Indemnified Parties”) from and against any and all liability and costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, incurred by the Indemnified Parties in connection with any claim arising out of any breach by you (or any user of your account) of these Terms or the foregoing representations, warranties, or covenants. You agree to cooperate as fully as reasonably necessary in the defense of any such claim.

11. DISCLAIMERS; LIMITATIONS

11.1 YOU ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK FOR YOUR USE OF WS LITE. WS LITE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NONINFRINGEMENT, OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. WITHOUT LIMITATION OF THE FOREGOING, ZOOMINFO EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTY THAT WS LITE SHALL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE. ZOOMINFO DOES NOT ASSUME ANY LEGAL LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR USEFULNESS OF ANY INFORMATION MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH WS LITE.

11.2 IN NO EVENT SHALL ZOOMINFO BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH YOUR USE OF, DELAY IN USING, OR INABILITY TO USE WS LITE. ZOOMINFO’S LIABILITY FOR ANY DIRECT DAMAGES SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT OF FEES YOU HAVE PAID FOR WS LITE FOR THE THEN CURRENT PERIOD. SOME STATES OR JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES AND THUS THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OR THE EXCLUSION OF WARRANTY SET FORTH ABOVE IS HELD INAPPLICABLE OR UNENFORCEABLE FOR ANY REASON, ZOOMINFO’S MAXIMUM LIABILITY FOR ANY TYPE OF DAMAGES SHALL BE LIMITED TO $100.

12. CHANGES TO THE TERMS

ZoomInfo may modify these Terms, provided however that (i) such changes will become effective and binding after ZoomInfo provides notice to you that these Terms have changed and you first use WS Lite following the date of such posting, and (ii) the changes will only apply with respect to your use of WS Lite after such changes become effective. If at any time you find these Terms unacceptable and do not agree with them, you agree to cease accessing WS Lite and uninstall or deactivate the Software.

13. CONTRACTING PARTY, GOVERNING LAW, AND JURISDICTION

13.1 If you are located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, “ZoomInfo” means ZoomInfo UK Ltd., a UK limited company located at 280 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4AG. If you are located anywhere else, “ZoomInfo” means ZoomInfo Technologies LLC, a Delaware limited liability company located at 805 Broadway St., Suite 800, Vancouver, WA 98660.

13.2  If an issue arises under these Terms and: (a) the contracting ZoomInfo entity is ZoomInfo Technologies LLC, then these Terms are governed by the laws of the United States of America and the State of Washington and any action or proceeding (including those arising from non-contractual disputes or claims) related to these Terms will be brought in a state or federal court in the State of Washington; or (b) the contracting ZoomInfo entity is ZoomInfo UK Ltd., then these Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and any action or proceeding (including those arising from non-contractual disputes or claims) related to these Terms will be brought in London, England.  Each party irrevocably submits to the jurisdiction and venue of the applicable courts.

14. EEA & UK USERS

If you are located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, then the WS Lite Joint Controller Addendum applies to you and is hereby expressly incorporated into these Terms by reference. 

15. MISCELLANEOUS

15.1 Relationship. No joint venture, partnership, employment, fiduciary, or agency relationship exists between you and ZoomInfo as a result of these Terms and/or your use of WS Lite.

15.2 Authority. The person accepting these Terms on behalf of each party represents and warrants that he or she has been duly authorized by that party to accept the Agreement and thereby bind it to these Terms. The parties agree that these Terms shall be effective as of the date accepted by you.

15.3 Entire Agreement. These Terms, including any addendum or supplement expressly incorporated into them by reference within this document, represent the entire binding agreement between you and ZoomInfo with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersede any and all prior understandings, statements, or representations, whether electronic, oral or written, regarding Services.

15.4 Assignment and Waiver. ZoomInfo may assign its rights under this Agreement without your consent. You may not assign your rights under this Agreement in whole or in part to anyone else without ZoomInfo’s prior express written consent. No waiver of any obligation or right of either party shall be effective unless in writing, executed by the party against whom it is being enforced.

15.5 Equitable Relief. In addition to money damages, ZoomInfo shall be entitled to seek equitable relief where appropriate if you breach any of these Terms.

15.6 Severability. The unenforceability or invalidity of any clause in this Agreement shall not have an impact on the enforceability or validity of any other clause. Any unenforceable or invalid clause shall be regarded as removed from this Agreement to the extent of its unenforceability and invalidity. Therefore, this Agreement shall be interpreted and enforced as if it did not contain the said clause to the extent of its unenforceability and invalidity.

15.7 Legal Expenses. The prevailing party in any legal action brought by one party against the other that arises out of this Agreement shall be entitled, in addition to any other rights and remedies it may have, to reimbursement for its legal expenses, including court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees.

15.8 Construction. The titles and subtitles in these Terms are used for convenience only and are not to be considered in construing it. All references herein to “including” and variations thereof shall be deemed to mean, “including, but not limited to.”

15.9 Notices. Notices required or permitted hereunder that are intended for you personally and not all users of WS Lite may be sent to you at the most recent email address on file with ZoomInfo. Notices to ZoomInfo shall be sent by email to legal@zoominfo.com or by mail to ZoomInfo, 805 Broadway St., Suite 800, Vancouver, WA 98660.

Effective: March 13th, 2025