How to opt out of TruePeopleSearch and remove your listing

The process starts with your email, not your listing. TruePeopleSearch needs to verify who you are before it shows you the full opt-out form.

Alternative opt-out methods

The form is the fast way. But if it keeps throwing CAPTCHAs or the email never lands, you’ve got a backup.

If your state gives you a right to delete—California’s CCPA is the widest—you can email TruePeopleSearch a privacy request and tell them to delete your data. 

Put it in writing, name the listing, keep a copy. 

Slower than the form, but it leaves a paper trail.

One thing to be clear about—

TruePeopleSearch treats your listing as public-records data, which sits outside most state privacy laws. 

So it honors a deletion request as a courtesy, not a legal obligation, and your data can resurface later from fresh records. 

Not sure what to write? Copy this and fill in the brackets:

Send it from an email you control, and hold onto a copy—that’s your proof if the listing lingers or comes back.

What to expect after opting out

It’s usually faster than 72 hours. But don’t assume—search your name on the site again after a day or two to confirm the listing’s actually gone.

One thing the opt-out won’t do is clear Google. 

Your old listing can hang around in search results from Google’s cache after it’s gone from the site itself. 

That clears on its own as Google re-crawls the page. 

In a hurry? 

You can ask Google to drop the outdated page through its own cache-removal tool.

Troubleshooting

Most removals go through clean. When one doesn’t, here’s how to fix it.

Clicking “submit” does nothing? 

This is usually a browser issue, not a problem with your request. Try switching to a different browser, like Chrome or Firefox, or clear your current browser’s cookies and cache, then go back to truepeoplesearch.com/removal and start the form over.

No confirmation email? 

It usually lands within minutes, so check your spam folder first. If it’s still missing after an hour, the link may have expired—start the removal again and watch for the new email. The link only stays live for a short window, so confirm the same day.

Listing still there after 72 hours? 

Search your name on the site again to be sure it didn’t already drop. If it’s genuinely still up, file the request again, or use one of the channels in the section above—the privacy rights page, the phone line, or email—and keep a copy.

Listing came back later? 

That’s normal. TruePeopleSearch pulls from public records, so a fresh source can put you back up weeks or months on. Re-check every few months and remove it again.

More than one listing? 

TruePeopleSearch often groups family members together, so one search can show several profiles—yours and your relatives’. Each is a separate removal, but you can use the same email for all of them. Do them one at a time and confirm each.

Other sites that have the same data

If you don’t feel like going through the official Clearing TruePeopleSearch doesn’t clear the rest.

FastPeopleSearch, Nuwber, and a long list of look-alikes scrape the same public records and rebuild the same profile. 

Same data, different domain, separate form.

And here’s the part that wears people down—they re-list you. Pull your data off one site today, and it can be back next month from a fresh source.

So here’s the faster way—let others handle it for you. 

Incogni sends removal requests across 420+ data brokers and people search sites, then re-submits them every 30 to 60 days as your data reappears. 

You take down the one in front of you; it keeps the rest from creeping back.