Questions about data-broker opt-outs, answered plainly.

A company that collects details about people and sells them on. People-search sites are the kind most people meet: type in a name, and a report comes back. They build it from public records, other brokers and public social profiles. Most people never gave any of it to them.

Usually your age or birth date, former names, current and past addresses, phone numbers, and relatives’ names, sometimes with their addresses. Some add property, work or court records. Anyone willing to pay can buy the report.

Read the FTC’s guide to people-search sites

Three plain reasons. Your home address is harder to find, which matters most to anyone avoiding a person. Your birth year, old addresses and relatives are common account-recovery answers, so you are harder to impersonate. And there is one less place to buy a report about you. Removal does not stop spam or scams, and sites can add details back, so we ask again four times a year.

Our public catalog lists 190 broker organizations. A listing is not a request we can send. The plan sends requests to every site we cover, four times a year, and your dashboard names each one.

No — no service controls a broker’s final response or timing, and it won’t stop spam or robocalls either. We keep “submitted” and “confirmed” as separate states.

No. We never sell, rent, or trade your data, have no financial ties to any broker, and that rule would bind a future owner too.

No Social Security number or government ID, for any workflow — those fields are barred outright, even for a broker form that asks. Self-serve data export, any time, from the account's Data & privacy page. Self-serve account deletion, separate from cancelling the plan — no support conversation required.

That we submitted your request with acceptable evidence. It does not prove the broker matched or deleted your record.

Four times a year, roughly quarterly, to every site we cover. A site that still holds an earlier request is skipped that time, and your dashboard shows why. Sites can refresh their sources afterward, which is why we don’t promise permanent removal.

After you add your details and sign the broker permission, one thing. Some sites reply with an email that asks you to confirm. We tell you which site sent it, what the email looks like, and what to click. Everything else is ours to do.

Court, arrest, inmate, mugshot, voter, parcel, and state-resident directories — removing a broker’s copy doesn’t erase the original record. Several brands can also share one suppression action, counted once, not per brand.

Yes. Broker opt-out pages are free, Google offers a Results about you removal, and eligible California residents can use the state’s free DROP platform.

No. The offer covers one individual, so identity, consent, receipts, and notifications stay separate per person.

Start with the state’s free DROP platform — we don’t own it, charge for it, or count its request as our own submission.

Data Broker Remover Inc., a company in North Fork, California. Support is by email at support@databrokerremover.com. It is not staffed around the clock, and we do not promise a response time.

Yes. Create an account and confirm your email, then review the renewal terms at checkout. Stripe collects your card on its own secure page; we never see it. After payment you add your details and sign the broker permission, and your first requests are scheduled.