How to remove yourself from SearchPeopleFree

SearchPeopleFree publishes name, age, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses. Here is the opt-out that works, and what to expect afterwards.

Same operator as USPhonebook and FastPeopleSearch. All three run on Enformion, and their opt-out instructions are word for word identical. That does not mean one request covers the others: each brand takes its own. It does mean that once you have done this one, the other two take about a minute each, so do them in the same sitting. USPhonebook, FastPeopleSearch.

What SearchPeopleFree publishes about you

SearchPeopleFree lists name, age, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses. 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.

The removal session lasts 30 minutes and then expires, so do not start this if you are about to be interrupted. A green bar under the header tells you the session is live. The emailed link itself also expires after 24 hours.

How to opt out, step by step

1. Find your listing on SearchPeopleFree. Search your own name, and check every variation you have used. SearchPeopleFree publishes name, age, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses, and people with common names often have more than one listing.
2. Open the opt-out page. Go to https://www.searchpeoplefree.com/opt-out. Email first. They send a link, and clicking it puts your browser into a timed record-removal mode in which you search for and remove your record.
3. 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.
4. Complete the confirmation. Expect an emailed link, then a confirmation page and email. The request usually does nothing until this step is finished, and this is where most people drop off.
5. Check back. Removal is quoted by them as 3 days from the moment you submit the form. Diarise a check at 30 and 90 days, because broker profiles are rebuilt from fresh public records.

What to expect afterwards

Removal is quoted by them as 3 days from the moment you submit the form. 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