PeopleLooker opt-out
peoplelooker.com How to remove yourself from PeopleLooker
Search your name on PeopleLooker's opt-out page, pick your record, then confirm through the email PeopleLooker sends. It's free. PeopleLooker says it takes about 24 hours. The online process removes one record; for more, email privacy@peoplelooker.com.
On average, Serus sends about 184 removal requests per person, 89% of them to data brokers, so expect PeopleLooker to be one of many.
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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
- peoplelooker.com
- Method
- Online form
- Privacy email
- privacy@peoplelooker.com
- What you need
- Email address
- Time to remove
- About 7 days
- Cost
- Free
- Phone
- (347) 931-2725
- Mailing address
- 48 W 38th Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY, 10018, United States
- Opt-out requests (2024)
- Complied with 83% of 657,801 (26% in part), median 10 days
- Deletion requests (2024)
- Complied with 98% of 31,905 (36% in part), median 3 days
- Last updated
Phone, address, request figures and data practices: as PeopleLooker reported them to the California data broker registry for 2024.
How to opt out of PeopleLooker
- 1
Open the opt-out page
Go to PeopleLooker's opt-out search. You don't need to be a member.
- 2
Search for your record
Search your name. Find the record that's you.
- 3
Select the record to opt out
Pick the record and PeopleLooker sends a verification email.
- 4
Click the link in the email
You then get a confirmation email that the record has been opted out.
- 5
Email for more records
PeopleLooker allows one record online. To remove several, email privacy@peoplelooker.com.
Watch out for
- The online process removes only one record, to prevent fraud. Do it by email.
- The opt-out covers People Search; your name may still appear in PeopleLooker's other search services.
- PeopleLooker can only remove data from its own site. The same information may be elsewhere.
Sources checked: support.peoplelooker.com, peoplelooker.com
Last verified against the official page:
Who runs PeopleLooker
PeopleLooker is run by BeenVerified. The same company also registers beenverified.com, numberguru.com, ownerly.com, neighborwho.com, peoplesmart.com, bumper.com, freephonetracer.com, emailfinder.com +4 more.
Our guides for its other sites: BeenVerified, Bumper, EmailFinder.com, FreePhoneTracer, MoneyBot5000, Neighbor Who, NumberGuru, Ownerly, PeopleSmart, ReversePhone
Source: California data broker registry
What PeopleLooker holds about you
- Full name and aliases
- Current address
- Phone numbers
- Email addresses
- Relatives
- Age and date of birth
- Court and criminal records
- Social media profiles
What PeopleLooker is known to collect, not a check of your listing.
Does it come back?
PeopleLooker says a new record that can't be matched to your opted-out one may appear later, and you can ask for it to be removed too. Worth a check.
Your rights
Judges, prosecutors, police and their immediate family can email privacy@peoplelooker.com instead of using the form (Daniel's Law). People outside the US can send a data subject request to that address with their full name and the data to remove.
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
How long does PeopleLooker take?
PeopleLooker says in most cases 24 hours.
Is the PeopleLooker opt-out free?
Yes. You don't need to be a member or pay.
Will my data come back?
A new record it can't match to your opt-out may appear; you can ask for that one to be removed too.
Can I remove more than one record?
Not online. Email privacy@peoplelooker.com.
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