PeopleWin opt-out
spokeo.com How to remove yourself from PeopleWin
Also known as Spokeo, Inc.
PeopleWin is one of the sites Spokeo, Inc. lists in its California data broker filing. Opt out through Spokeo's form at spokeo.com/optout: paste your listing URL, enter an email address and click the confirmation link. Spokeo reports answering opt-out requests in about 1 day.
On average, Serus sends about 184 removal requests per person, 89% of them to data brokers, so expect PeopleWin 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
- spokeo.com
- Method
- Online form
- What you need
- Listing URL, Email address
- Time to remove
- About 1 day (median for opt-out requests, as Spokeo reported to California for 2024)
- Cost
- Free
- Phone
- (626) 396-9499
- Mailing address
- 199 S. Los Robles Ave Ste 711, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
- Opt-out requests (2024)
- Complied with 100% of 3.8 million, median 1 day
- Deletion requests (2024)
- Complied with 100% of 8 (all in part), median 1 day
- Says it collects
- Government ID numbers
- Says it sold or shared data with
- The federal government, other state governments, law enforcement (without a subpoena or court order)
- Regulated by
- GLBA
- Last updated
Phone, address, request figures and data practices: as PeopleWin reported them to the California data broker registry for 2024.
How to opt out of PeopleWin
- 1
Find your PeopleWin listing
Search your name on peoplewin.com and open the listing that is you. Copy its URL from the address bar.
- 2
Open Spokeo's opt-out form
Go to spokeo.com/optout. PeopleWin is run by Spokeo, Inc., and Spokeo's California filing says an opt-out at that address covers its public sites except ThatsThem.com.
- 3
Paste the URL and enter your email
Paste the listing URL into the form and enter an email address. Spokeo's help center says the address is used to verify the request.
- 4
Click the confirmation link
Open the email from Spokeo and click the link. Spokeo's instructions for its own listings say nothing is removed until you do.
- 5
Repeat for any other listing
If you appear under more than one listing, submit each URL as its own request.
Watch out for
- Opting out of PeopleWin goes through Spokeo, so you'll be dealing with Spokeo's form and Spokeo's email, not a PeopleWin one.
- ThatsThem.com is the exception: Spokeo's filing says it has its own opt-out at thatsthem.com/optout.
- Spokeo's California filing reports an average response time of 1 day to opt-out requests.
Sources checked: cppa.ca.gov, peoplewin.com, oag.ca.gov
Last verified against the official page:
Who runs PeopleWin
PeopleWin is run by Spokeo. The same company also registers Freepeopledirectory.com, Thatsthem.com, Anywho.com, Family.me.
Our guides for its other sites: AnyWho, Free People Directory, Spokeo, ThatsThem
Source: California data broker registry
What PeopleWin holds about you
- Full name and aliases
- Current address
- Phone numbers
- Email addresses
- Property records
What PeopleWin is known to collect, not a check of your listing.
Sister sites
These are run by the same company. Removing yourself from PeopleWin doesn't remove you from them, so check each one.
Does it come back?
PeopleWin doesn't publish a relisting policy. Search your name again every few months, since new public records can produce a new listing.
Your rights
Spokeo, Inc. is registered as a data broker in California, which gives California residents the right to ask it to delete and to stop the sale of their data.
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
Is PeopleWin owned by Spokeo?
Yes. Spokeo, Inc. lists Peoplewin.com among its DBAs in its California data broker registration.
Do I need a separate opt-out for PeopleWin?
No separate PeopleWin form is listed. The route goes through spokeo.com/optout.
Does this remove me from ThatsThem?
No. Spokeo's filing says ThatsThem.com needs its own opt-out at thatsthem.com/optout.
Related guide How to delete yourself and your information from the internet 
Something changed? If these steps no longer match the PeopleWin opt-out, tell us and we'll re-check it.
