CheckPeople Opt Out: How to Remove Your Listing

If you found your name, address, or relatives listed on CheckPeople.com and want it gone, the company does offer a way to opt out — but the path there isn't through the homepage search box. CheckPeople opt-out requests go through a dedicated tool buried in the site footer, and the form now opens with an email verification step. Here's what CheckPeople itself says about removing a listing, step by step.

Where is the CheckPeople opt-out form?

CheckPeople's privacy page says its official exit point is the footer link labeled "Do Not Sell or Share my Personal Information", which leads to the company's Data Privacy Rights page. That page explains that "a request to opt-out will remove your data from our people search results, whether or not you are a member of the website," and it links directly to the opt-out tool at checkpeople.com/opt-out.

What information does CheckPeople's opt-out form ask for?

The live opt-out page is now branded a "Suppression Center," and its first and only visible field is an email address. CheckPeople's own page reads: "Actively manage the display of your public information on people search websites owned by CheckPeople.com," followed by the prompt "Enter your email address," according to CheckPeople's opt-out page. Before anything is sent, you have to check a box agreeing to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and consenting to receive transactional emails about the suppression tool.

Submitting your email triggers a verification email that lets you proceed to the next step, per that same page. Once you click through, the process continues on a later screen. According to recent step-by-step guides that walked through the full flow, that next stage asks you to search for your listing using your full name, city, and state, plus a CAPTCHA — Minc Law's documented walkthrough describes entering your "full name, city, and state" and completing "the security CAPTCHA" before clicking "Search." A separate guide from Onerep also shows a name, city, state, and CAPTCHA step, followed by a second form asking for your name and email again. Those later screens sit behind the email verification, so they are documented by third parties rather than by CheckPeople itself — treat the name/city/state/CAPTCHA sequence as the expected next step, not a company guarantee.

Step-by-step: removing your listing

1. Go to checkpeople.com/opt-out directly, or find the "Do Not Sell or Share my Personal Information" link in the site footer and click through from the Data Privacy Rights page.
2. Enter your email address in the Suppression Center field.
3. Check the box agreeing to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and consenting to transactional emails about the tool.
4. Open your inbox and find the verification email CheckPeople sends to continue the process.
5. Click the link in that email and, per documented versions of this step, search for your record using your full name, city, and state, then complete the CAPTCHA.
6. Select the listing that matches you and click the Opt-Out (or similar) button to submit the removal request.
7. Watch for a follow-up confirmation email and click any "Confirm Request" link inside it — guides describe this as the step that actually completes the removal, not just the initial submission.
8. Wait the stated 5–7 day window, then search CheckPeople again to confirm the listing is gone.

How long does CheckPeople removal take?

CheckPeople states the timeline in two places. Its Data Privacy Rights page says "Opt-Out requests can take 5-7 days to take effect. It may take longer for results to be removed from search engines," according to CheckPeople's privacy rights page. The opt-out page itself repeats a similar figure in its own description: "Most requests will take effect within 5-7 days of submission," per checkpeople.com/opt-out. So budget at least a week, and longer if you're checking how your listing appears in Google search results rather than directly on CheckPeople.

How do I know my listing was successfully removed from CheckPeople?

The most direct check is to search your own name on CheckPeople again after the 5–7 day window has passed. Minc Law's guide puts it plainly: "Your information should be removed from the CheckPeople website within 5-7 days. To verify the removal, search for your name on CheckPeople after this time period has passed," per Minc Law's opt-out guide.

Don't stop at the on-screen message that appears right after you submit the form. Onerep's walkthrough notes that the site "will state that your record has been successfully removed" immediately after submission, "but there is one more important step to take to complete the process" — clicking "Confirm Request" in the follow-up email, according to Onerep's CheckPeople opt-out guide. Skipping that confirmation email is one of the easiest ways to think you're done when you're not.

What should I do if my CheckPeople listing reappears?

CheckPeople's own privacy policy explains why removal isn't always permanent. The company says it "is in the business of selling information and reports obtained from public records, which are aggregated and provided to Company by its Third-Party 'Data Providers,'" meaning your listing can be refreshed from the same public-record sources that generated it in the first place, according to CheckPeople's privacy policy. The same policy also warns that once information is submitted as "Public Information," "neither you nor Company are able to control how it may be copied, shared, or used by third parties, even if you and/or Company later delete such Public Information."

Even a clean opt-out has limits. One guide notes that after removal, "your name could pop up in someone else's records listed as a relative or neighbor," per Onerep's guide. If your own record resurfaces, repeating the opt-out steps above, or contacting the company directly, is the available recourse.

Alternative ways to reach CheckPeople

If the Suppression Center form stalls or you'd rather not wait on email links, CheckPeople lists direct contact channels on its privacy rights page: a support address at [email protected] and a toll-free line, "Toll Free: 1-800-267-2122," according to CheckPeople's Data Privacy Rights page.

• By phone: Call CheckPeople's customer service line and ask for your information to be deleted, providing your contact details and the URL of your listing so staff can find it, per DeleteMyInfo's removal guide. Onerep lists the hours for cancellation and removal calls as Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm, though no time zone is given, according to Onerep's guide.
• By email: Send a request to [email protected] including "your full name, date of birth, present and previous addresses, and the URL of the record you want to have deleted," per DeleteMyInfo.

CheckPeople isn't the only site carrying this kind of listing. For the full rundown of removal steps across more than 20 other people-search sites, see the People-Search Opt-Out Tracker hub, and for a broader strategy beyond any single site, see how to remove yourself from people-search sites in general.