How to remove yourself from CheckPeople
CheckPeople publishes name, age, address history, phone numbers and relatives. Here is the opt-out that works, and what to expect afterwards.
Go to https://www.checkpeople.com/opt-out, find your own listing, submit the removal request, then complete an email confirmation. Removal is usually within a few days. It is free, and the listing can reappear later because brokers rebuild profiles from fresh public records.
What CheckPeople publishes about you
CheckPeople lists name, age, address history, phone numbers and relatives. None of it is secret on its own. What makes a broker profile different is that it assembles scattered public records into one page that anyone can read in ten seconds, and that page is indexed.
One of the more straightforward ones. The form is where you expect it and the process is short.
How to opt out, step by step
- Find your listing on CheckPeople. Search your own name, and check every variation you have used. CheckPeople publishes name, age, address history, phone numbers and relatives, and people with common names often have more than one listing.
- Open the opt-out page. Go to https://www.checkpeople.com/opt-out. A direct opt-out form on their site.
- Submit the request. Give only what the form requires. You will normally need to identify the exact listing you want removed rather than just your name.
- Complete the confirmation. Expect an email confirmation. The request usually does nothing until this step is finished, and this is where most people drop off.
- Check back. Removal is usually within a few days. Diarise a check at 30 and 90 days, because broker profiles are rebuilt from fresh public records.
What to expect afterwards
Removal is usually within a few days. Once the page is gone, the search result for it disappears when search engines next crawl, which usually takes days rather than weeks.
Then it can come back. Brokers buy and scrape fresh public records continuously, and a new record with your name and address can generate a new profile that has nothing to do with the one you removed. This is not a failure of the opt-out. It is how the industry works, and it is why we treat this as maintenance.
Use a dedicated email address for these requests. You will be handing your address to a company whose business is collecting addresses, and you do not want those confirmations in your main inbox.
Do this across every broker, not one
Removing one profile while a dozen others carry the same data changes very little. The list is long but finite, and many brokers draw from a small number of upstream suppliers, so working the big ones first has an outsized effect. Start with the full opt-out directory.
If the problem is bigger than data brokers, and there is a news article, a review or a court record involved, that is a different job. See how to remove your name from Google search.
Common questions
Is opting out of CheckPeople free?
Yes. Never pay a broker to remove a listing it will remove on request. If a site charges for removal, that is a signal about the site.
Will the listing come back?
It can, and often does. Recheck at 30 and 90 days, then periodically. Profiles are rebuilt from new public records rather than restored from the old one.
Does this remove me from Google?
It removes that page once Google recrawls. For a private individual, broker profiles are frequently most of what ranks for their name, so the effect can be large. It does not touch news coverage, court records or other brokers.
Do I have a legal right to this?
In several states you do. California, Colorado, Virginia, Connecticut and a growing list give consumers deletion rights against businesses holding their data, and brokers fall within scope. Citing the applicable statute in your request tends to get faster and more complete compliance.
Doing this across every broker is a job.
We map every site carrying your details, work the removals, and monitor for the profiles that come back. The scan is free and tells you exactly what is out there before you spend anything.
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