City-Data.com opt-out
city-data.com How to remove yourself from City-Data.com
Also known as Advameg
City-Data.com has two routes: a form that hides your name from street-level property assessment pages, and a privacy form for deleting forum data. The property address itself stays on the page. Search engines can keep old copies.
On average, Serus sends about 184 removal requests per person, 89% of them to data brokers, so expect City-Data.com to be one of many.
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- Opt-out page
- city-data.com
- Method
- Online form
- Privacy email
- privacy@city-data.com
- What you need
- Email address
- Time to remove
- About 3 days (median for deletion requests, as CITYDATA reported to California for 2024)
- Cost
- Free
- Phone
- (650) 204-0028
- Mailing address
- 548 Market Street, San Francisco, CA, 94104, United States
- Deletion requests (2024)
- Complied with 100% of 58, median 3 days
- Says it collects
- Precise geolocation
- Last updated
Phone, address, request figures and data practices: as City-Data.com reported them to the California data broker registry for 2024.
How to opt out of City-Data.com
- 1
Decide what you want removed
City-Data separates name-to-address listings on property assessment pages from personal information on its forum.
- 2
For property pages, use the disassociation form
Submit the request to disassociate your name from a street-level assessment address. City-Data hides your name from the pages listing that address.
- 3
For forum data, use the privacy form
Use the privacy form. It asks for your full name, forum username and the email you registered with.
- 4
Verify
For the forum form, City-Data verifies by sending a code to your registration email or by having you log in and complete a task.
Watch out for
- Disassociating your name doesn't remove the property address or its related information. They display as before.
- City-Data says search engines such as Google may take a long time to drop cached copies, and it can't control that.
- Forum deletion de-identifies data: the username is changed, the email scrambled and the IP address replaced. It isn't a full erasure.
- People legally shielded, such as law enforcement officials, need extra verification.
Sources checked: city-data.com, citydata.ai
Last verified against the official page:
Who runs City-Data.com
City-Data.com is run by CITYDATA.
Our guides for its other sites: CITYDATA
Source: California data broker registry
What City-Data.com holds about you
- Full name and aliases
- Current address
- Property records
What City-Data.com is known to collect, not a check of your listing.
Does it come back?
City-Data doesn't publish a relisting policy. Its property pages draw on public assessment records, so check again after a few months.
Your rights
City-Data.com is run by Advameg, Inc. The California registry lists a different company, CITYDATA Inc. (CityData.ai), which handles mobile device data and takes opt-outs at citydata.ai/privacy.
California: CCPA. If you live in California, the CCPA lets you ask a business to delete the personal information it holds about you and to stop selling or sharing it. Businesses generally have 45 days to respond.
California: the Delete Act. Data brokers that hold information on Californians must register with the state. California residents can use DROP, the state's Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, to send one deletion request to every registered broker at once.
Other US states. Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Texas, Oregon and a growing list of other states give residents a similar right to delete. Vermont, Texas and Oregon also make data brokers register with the state. Where no state law applies, the broker's own opt-out above still works for most people.
General information, not legal advice.
Frequently asked
Does City-Data remove my property address?
No. The assessment form hides your name from address pages, and the property address and related information still display.
Is City-Data the same as CityData.ai?
No. CityData.ai is a separate company on the California registry. It works from mobile device identifiers and takes opt-outs on its own privacy page.
Can I delete my forum account?
Forum members report that you can't delete the account. The privacy form de-identifies your data by changing the username, scrambling the email and replacing the IP address.
Related guide How to delete yourself and your information from the internet 
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