Part of our guide to personal reputation management — part of Privacy, People-Search Sites, and Data Brokers: Taking Your Details Back. This page answers one specific question from that guide.

How do I remove myself from people-search sites?

From the Personal Reputation Management team · Last updated October 19, 2026

We’re still writing this guide — here’s what we have so far. The short answer below is ready to use today, and the outline shows exactly what the finished guide will cover. In the meantime, the completed guides in the Knowledge Center cover the foundations.

Short answer: Find your exact listing on each major people-search site, follow that site's free opt-out or suppression steps precisely (usually confirming by email), and calendar a recheck in a month because listings reappear when brokers refresh data. Never pay the broker, and be skeptical of removal services that mostly submit these same free forms at a markup — pay, if at all, for monitored legwork with open eyes.

What this guide will cover

This article is in our writing queue. The outline below is the exact scope it will cover — no more, no less — and the short answer above is the honest summary you can use today.

Finding your listings across major brokers
Opt-out steps and confirmation traps
Recheck calendar and reappearing listings

The short version you can act on now

Find your exact listing on each major people-search site, follow that site's free opt-out or suppression steps precisely (usually confirming by email), and calendar a recheck in a month because listings reappear when brokers refresh data. Never pay the broker, and be skeptical of removal services that mostly submit these same free forms at a markup — pay, if at all, for monitored legwork with open eyes.

Honest by design — including what we don't do

What we do

Show you what people find, result by result, and ask you to confirm what's actually you.
Build your personal site from facts you approved — nothing is published without your approval.
Use licensed search data and official tools only. No scraping.
Keep watch weekly, in plain English, with one clear next step.

What we never do

No fake reviews, fake profiles, fake news, or bought links.
No bogus takedown notices, and no promises to remove results or guarantee rankings.
No searching for anyone but you, and we never sell your data.

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