Hunter.io opt-out
hunter.io How to remove yourself from Hunter.io
Hunter finds and sells professional email addresses. To remove yours, claim it at hunter.io/claim. Hunter says it then immediately deletes all data tied to that address, including the record of where it came from.
On average, Serus sends about 184 removal requests per person, 89% of them to data brokers, so expect Hunter.io to be one of many.
Reviewed by Anthon Wansland
Head of Product & Co-Founder
Serus is a privacy company with paid tools to find and remove your personal data. This guide shows the free way to do it yourself.
- Opt-out page
- hunter.io
- Method
- Online form
- Privacy email
- privacy@hunter.io
- What you need
- Email address
- Time to remove
- About 7 days
- Cost
- Free
- Phone
- (617) 631-0371
- Mailing address
- 2810 N Church St, Wilmington, Delaware, 50754, United States
- Says it sold or shared data with
- A foreign actor
- Last updated
Phone, address, request figures and data practices: as Hunter.io reported them to the California data broker registry for 2024.
How to opt out of Hunter.io
- 1
Go to hunter.io/claim
The page is headed "Claim your email address".
- 2
Enter the address you want removed
Do this for each work and personal address you suspect Hunter holds.
- 3
Complete the claim
Hunter says that once the address is claimed it immediately processes deletion of everything associated with it, including its original source.
- 4
Write to privacy@hunter.io for anything else
That's the privacy contact in the policy, for questions the claim page doesn't cover.
Watch out for
- Hunter also generates addresses by pattern from names and company affiliations, so an address you never published can be in its database. Claim every variant of your work email.
- If a public page still shows your address, Hunter can collect it again. Its policy says it keeps profiles only while the information is on public sources or until you ask for removal, and drops profiles within 3 months once they leave source pages.
Sources checked: hunter.io
Last verified against the official page:
Who runs Hunter.io
Hunter.io is run by Hunter Web Services.
Source: California data broker registry
What Hunter.io holds about you
- Full name and aliases
- Email addresses
- Phone numbers
- Employment and education
- Social media profiles
What Hunter.io is known to collect, not a check of your listing.
Does it come back?
Hunter keeps a profile as long as the details stay on public web pages, or until you ask for removal, and removes profiles within 3 months after they disappear from the source pages. A page that still publishes your address can bring it back.
Frequently asked
Do I need a Hunter account?
The claim page doesn't ask for one.
Does claiming delete the source of the email too?
Hunter says yes: it removes the reference to where the address came from.
Is Hunter the same as the people who emailed me?
No. Hunter's customers use its database to find addresses. Removing yours stops Hunter supplying it.
Related guide How to delete yourself and your information from the internet 
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