Checkpeople Opt Out & Remove Your Info

The CheckPeople opt-out process is pretty quick and easy compared to most other people search sites. You can opt out in as little as 5 minutes if you follow our step-by-step instructions below. 

Unfortunately, if you want to keep your data from ending right back on the website soon, you’ll have to complete the process regularly. We also recommend you do the same with other websites selling your personal information to ensure your data stays off the market.

If you don’t have the time to do this yourself but are still concerned about your online privacy, try Incogni. We remove your data from dozens of data brokers automatically. 

Federico Morelli

Updated on: 09 June, 2026

Here’s how to opt out of CheckPeople in three steps:

1. Go to checkpeople.com/opt-out and submit your email.
2. Click the verification link in the email CheckPeople sends you.
3. Enter your first name, last name, city, and state, then select your listing to remove.

That last part trips people up. CheckPeople sells paid background-check subscriptions, so the homepage is full of payment prompts. The opt-out is separate from all of that—it lives at its own URL and never asks for billing info.

Keep reading for a more detailed opt-out procedure with screenshots.

We’ve written around 85 data broker opt-out guides to make manual data removal easy. Check them out!

What to expect after opting out

Once you submit the request, give it a full week.

Some listings disappear sooner, but CheckPeople gives itself 5–7 business days to process removals. Search engines can take longer. 

Even after CheckPeople clears your profile, Google may still show the old cached page until it re-crawls the result.

So don’t just check once.

After a week, search your name on CheckPeople again. 

If your listing doesn’t appear, you’re off the site. Save the confirmation page or email anyway—you’ll want it if the same listing comes back later.

And this is where the distinction matters—

Opting out of CheckPeople doesn’t erase the source records. 

It only removes your listing from CheckPeople’s results. 

Court records, property records, voter rolls, and other public records stay where they are, and other data brokers can still collect them.

It also won’t change an official background check.

If you’re worried about an employment, tenant, credit, or insurance background check, CheckPeople removal won’t affect what an FCRA-compliant screening provider returns. 

Those checks use separate legal processes and different data sources. 

CheckPeople opt-out is a privacy step, not a way to change official records.

Finally, yes, your listing can come back.

CheckPeople refreshes its database from public-record sources, so a removed profile can reappear weeks or months later. 

Set a reminder to check again every few months. If you find yourself listed again, re-submit through the same opt-out form.

Troubleshooting

You landed on a paywall instead of the opt-out form

CheckPeople’s homepage is built to sell subscriptions, so if you search your name from the front page, you’ll hit a paid-report wall.

Don’t go through the search. Go directly to checkpeople.com/opt-out, or use the footer link. The opt-out form is separate from the paid product and never asks for a credit card.

You can’t find your listing

Try variations of your name first—middle initial vs no middle initial, maiden name, common nicknames. CheckPeople matches against the exact name it has on file.

If multiple cities are involved, try each one separately. The form filters by location, so a listing tied to a past address may not show up under your current city.

The verification email never arrives

Check your spam folder. If nothing’s there after 10 minutes, the address may have been filtered out—try a different provider (Gmail, Outlook, ProtonMail) and resubmit.

Your listing came back

Re-submit through the same form. CheckPeople re-scrapes public records, so a reappearance usually means a fresh source pass brought your data back in—not that the original removal failed.

If the same listing keeps coming back within days of removal, email [email protected] with your original confirmation. As a last resort, file a BBB complaint or contact your state attorney general’s consumer protection office.

Other data brokers that may have your data

CheckPeople is only one stop in the people-search maze.

The same public records that feed CheckPeople also feed dozens of other brokers. Remove yourself from one, and the others stay exactly where they are.

That’s the frustrating part—

You keep finding the same data, repackaged by a different site, with a different paid-report button and a different opt-out form hidden somewhere in the footer.

The full list runs into the hundreds. Manual opt-outs don’t scale. 

Incogni is built for the repeat work: sending requests across 420+ brokers in its coverage, checking whether your data comes back, and following up when it does.

CheckPeople opt-out video guide