Radaris Opt Out & Data Removal Guide
Our guide will take you through the Radaris opt out process step by step. It should only take you 10 – 15 minutes to remove yourself.
Opt-out process: 10 – 15 minutes
Removal Requirements: Email, Cell phone number
Updated: February 6, 2024
How to opt out of Radaris and remove your info for free
In short, here’s how to opt out of Radaris and remove your info:
- Go to https://radaris.com/ and click “control your info” to start the opt-out process.
- Read the instructions and click “continue” on each of the first three screens.
- Enter your name on the fourth page and click “search.”
- Find your listing and select it by clicking “control info.”
- Create a Radaris account and click “sign up.”
- Claim your profile by entering your name and phone number and clicking “send code.”
- Enter the verification code Radaris sends you and click “submit.”
- Click “view profile” in the pop-up window.
- Click the arrow button and select “control info.”
- Click the “manage info” button.
- Click on “make profile private” to suppress your record on Radaris.
- Remove your info from all the public records, data brokers, people search sites, search engines, and social media sites Radaris uses to collect your data.
Keep reading for the full opt-out procedure with screenshots.
We’ve written around 85 data broker opt-out guides to make manual data removal easy. Check them out!
Step-by-step Radaris opt-out guide
Total Time: 10 minutes
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Go to https://radaris.com/ and click “control your info”
Access the Radaris homepage by going to radaris.com. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and click on “control your info.”
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Read the instructions and click “continue” on the first three screens
You’ll be redirected to the opt-out instructions for Radaris. The first page lists public and governmental sources they use to obtain your public records. The second page lists data brokers, search engines, and social media sites. The third page lists the people search sites.
Read the instructions and click “continue” to move past the first three pages.
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Enter your name and click “search”
On the fourth page, enter your first and last name and click “search.”
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Find your listing and click “control info”
Scroll through the search results page to find your listing. Once you locate your record, click “control info.”
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Create an account and click “sign up”
Although possibly illegal, you’re required to create an account in order to opt out of Radaris. Click on “new user? sign up.”
Fill in your name and email address and choose a password. Then untick the option to stay signed in on your device, tick the box to accept the terms and conditions, and tick the box to verify that you are human. Complete the CAPTCHA challenge that pops up and click “sign up.”
TIP: This kind of requirement is often used to swindle people into revealing more private data—do not use the “login with Facebook” or “login with Google” options and use a throwaway or masked email address to protect your privacy.
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Claim your profile
If you used a different name to sign up, enter the name that appears in your listing. Enter your cell phone number and click on “send code.”
TIP: In spite of Radaris’ promises, you can’t be sure it won’t collect, sell, or share your phone number. We recommend using a burner phone or unregistered SIM, if legal in your state.
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Enter the verification code and click “submit”
Radaris will send a verification code to your phone. Enter the verification code and click “submit.”
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Click “view profile” on the pop-up message
A message will pop up to confirm that you have successfully claimed your profile. Click “view profile.”
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You’ll be taken back to your profile, but now you’ll have some new options available to you.
Click on the arrow next to the “background & contact info” button and select “control info.” -
Click “manage info”
On the next screen, click on “manage info.” Alternatively, you could select “delete specific records” at this point to leave your profile online, but remove some details.
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Click “make profile private”
Finally, click “make profile private” to suppress your personal information on Radaris.
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Remove your personal information from all the sources Radaris collects your data from
Radaris collects your personal information from a variety of sources. If you want to keep your data off Radaris (and your data private), you’ll also have to remove your information from those sources. You can use some of our other guides to help you opt out from these websites or sign up for our personal information removal service to take your data off almost all of these sites in one go.
People search sites and data brokers Radaris collects your data from:
Experian: Opt out of experian
Acxiom: Opt out of Acxiom
LexisNexis: Opt out of LexisNexis
Transunion
Dun & Bradstreet
Datalogix
Epsilon
Equifax
Reed Elsevier
Rapleaf
Intelius: Opt out of Intelius
USPTO
Beenverified.com: Opt out of Beenverified
Instantcheckmate.com: Opt out of Instantcheckmate
Truthfinder.com: Opt out of Truthfinder
Spokeo.com: Opt out of Spokeo
Whitepages.com: Opt out of Whitepages
Peekyou.com: Opt out of Peekyou.com
PeopleFinder.com
PeopleFinders.com: Opt out of PeopleFinders.com
PeopleLookup.com
Familytreenow.com: Opt out of Familytreenow.com
PeopleSmart.com: Opt out of PeopleSmart.com
Yatedo.com
PeopleWise.com
Nuwber.com: Opt out of Nuwber.com
MyRelatives.com
RealDirect.com
Publicrecords.directory
Telephonedirectories.us
Number2name.com
Everify.com
Check-caller.com
People-finders.ws
Instantpeoplefinder.com
Callersmart.com
Hauziz.com
Datagovus.com
Truepeoplesearch.com: Opt out of Truepeoplesearch.com
Allareacodes.com
PublicRecords360.com
Peoplebyname.com: Opt out of Peoplebyname.com
Voterrecords.com: Opt out of Voterrecords.com
Ancestry.com: Cancel Ancestry.com
PrivateEye.com: Opt out of PrivateEye.com
USA-People-Search.com: Opt out of USA-People-Search.com
Spokeo.com: Opt out of Spokeo
PublicRecords.com: Opt out of PublicRecords.com
CheckThem.com
DOBSearch.com
MyLife.com: Opt out of MyLife
IDtrue.com: Opt out of IDtrue
411.com: Opt out of 411We recommend you either make your social media profiles private, remove any information you don’t want to share publicly, or delete the accounts you no longer need or use. Radaris collects your data from Facebook and LinkedIn.
Follow our guide to remove results from Google from most other search engines, you’ll have to contact the webmaster of each result that comes up in the search.
If your case is more urgent (you’re a victim of identity theft or in physical danger), you should contact the search engine’s customer support, the Federal Trade Commission, and your local law enforcement.
13) Continue your data removal journey
That might not have taken long, but it wasn’t painless, either. Plus, you had to deal with the fact that Radaris requires you to set up an account and really wants to know your email address and phone number.
But this is just the tip of the iceberg. If you’re serious about taking back control over your personal data, there are two things you need to know: your data can always reappear on data broker sites like Radaris, even after you opt out, and there are hundreds of other data brokers that could have your data.
Searching for your name online will let you pick the low-hanging fruit of people search sites that let their profiles get indexed by search engines. Doing a little research into data brokers that operate in your area will give you some idea of what other companies might have your personal information.
You can then send opt-out requests to both the data brokers you know have your data and the ones who are likely to have it. This means you’ll probably have dozens of opt-out processes to go through—some easier than the Radaris one, many much more difficult.
Or you can subscribe to Incogni’s automated data removal service. We’ll deal with dozens of major data brokers on your behalf, submitting opt-out requests and handling rejection appeals so you don’t have to.
Alternative Radaris opt-out methods
Radaris doesn’t accept removal requests other than through the procedure described above. If you run into any problems while opting out, though, you can contact the data broker directly:
Phone: (855) 723-2747
Email: customer-service@radaris.com
Contact form: https://radaris.com/page/contact
FAQ
What is Radaris?
Radaris is a data broker and people search site—they publicly display and trade personal information. They gather data such as names, addresses, phone numbers, and even marital statuses. You can delete your data from Radaris by submitting a request or using a dedicated service that does it for you.
The “public records search engine” boasts having a repository of 183 million unique names, 224 million phone numbers, and over 110 million properties.
How long does it take to opt out of Radaris?
It should take you around 10 – 15 minutes to fill out the Radaris opt-out form and complete the data removal process.
When will Radaris delete my information?
Radaris will change your profile to “private” immediately, meaning that you shouldn’t show up in any people or reverse phone searches on Radaris from the minute you click “make profile private.”
How does Radaris get my data?
Like most data brokers, Radaris crawls and scrapes the internet for public records and organizes what it finds into profiles and individuals. It also draws data from private databases and other data brokers.
Public records that Radaris admits to using include those from district courts, local government, county registries, police reports, criminal records, license registries, deed registries, and local and state phone directories.
These are just some of the data sources Radaris uses:
– LexisNexis
– ChoicePoint
– Rapleaf
– Datalogix
– Epsilon
– Transunion
– Reed Elsevier
– Spokeo
– Intelius
– Acxiom
– Experian
– Equifax
– USPTO
– IMDB
– Amazon
– WhitePages
– USsearch
– Bing
– Classmates
– Google
– PeopleSearch
– PeopleFinders
– PeopleWise
– ZabaSearch
– Facebook
– LinkedIn
– Wink
Use our guides to remove yourself from many of these and other major data brokers. Sign up to Incogni to have us send out, monitor, and follow up on dozens of opt-out requests at a time.
Can Radaris add my information again, even after they approve my opt-out request?
Yes, Radaris can add your information again even after you successfully opt out. This is a big problem with most data brokers. Incoming personal information isn’t always properly matched to your opted-out profile, so a new listing is created under your name.
The chances of this happening increase when you change a key piece of information used by data brokers to identify you, like your name or address. Check back with Radaris and other data brokers every once in a while to make sure your listing hasn’t reappeared after opting out.
Simply repeat the opt-out process to remove yourself from Radaris again each time your profile reappears. One huge advantage of using an automated data removal service like Incogni is that we’ll regularly restart dozens of opt-out procedures at a time to ensure your data stays private.
Does Radaris have the right to use my data?
How to opt out from Radaris without creating account?
To opt out of Radaris without creating an account, you’ll need to email your opt-out request to customer-service@radaris.com. Whether you choose to email your request or create an account with Radaris and fill in the opt-out form, we recommend you use a masked or throwaway email address.
What kind of info does Radaris have on me?
Anyone with an account can quickly and easily find private information like your:
– First and last name
– Age
– Phone numbers
– Current mailing address
– Resumes and work experience
– Marriages and divorces
– Death certificates and other public records
– Relatives’ names
– Social media profiles
– Sexual offenses
– Criminal records and mugshots
– Photographs and videos
