TruthFinder Opt Out: How to Remove Your Listing

If you found your name, address, or relatives listed on TruthFinder and want it gone, the process is called "suppression," not deletion, and it runs through a form rather than a phone call or email thread. Here's what the truthfinder opt out process actually asks of you, how long it takes, and what to do when it doesn't stick.

How do I opt out of TruthFinder?

TruthFinder's own help center frames this directly: "Would you like to suppress your name and public information from the TruthFinder website?" and routes you to its Privacy Center to do it. The company's troubleshooting page points to the same destination, telling users to "click here" to have their public data removed from the platform, rather than offering a separate standalone form.

In practice, a secondary walkthrough describes the click path as: go to truthfinder.com, scroll to the footer, click "Exercise My Data Privacy Rights," then "View Public Data Tools," then "Manage My Suppression Rules," or skip the chain and go straight to the Suppression Center at suppression.peopleconnect.us, per iolo's walkthrough. TruthFinder's own footer uses that same "Exercise My Data Privacy Rights" label for both sale opt-outs and broader privacy-rights requests, so it's the one link to look for no matter which page you start on.

Once you're in the tool, expect to verify your identity before you can act on anything: the search for your own listing comes after that step, as below.

What information do I need to submit to opt out?

The Suppression Center asks for identity details before it will touch your listing. According to a breakdown of the tool, "you will need to confirm your identity with your full name, date of birth, and a phone number or email address you can verify," as described in a review of the PeopleConnect network's opt-out process. That means three things to have ready before you start:

Your full legal first and last name, as it would appear in public records
Your date of birth
An email address or phone number you can actually check, since the next step depends on it

After you submit those details, TruthFinder sends a verification message. You have to open it and click the link inside before the system will let you proceed to search for and flag your own record.

Once verification clears, you locate your profile in the search results and set it. The iolo walkthrough describes this as a manual action: "Select 'Suppressed' from the 'Desired Behavior' dropdown and click Save. This removes your profile from public view on TruthFinder and all PeopleConnect network sites," per iolo's step-by-step guide. If you skip that dropdown step, the suppression request doesn't actually apply.

If you live in California, Virginia, Connecticut, Utah, or Colorado, TruthFinder's help page notes you have extra legal leverage here: "These rights include the right to suppress that data and prevent the sale of that data," per TruthFinder's own help center.

How long does it take to remove my listing?

TruthFinder states plainly that "removal requests are processed by the TruthFinder support team, and records typically stop appearing in search results within a few days," a line repeated on both its main help page and its troubleshooting page. A few days, not hours, is the realistic window. If you haven't clicked the verification link, your request isn't moving at all.

Because one Suppression Center submission applies network-wide, the same timeline generally applies across TruthFinder's sister sites. The company behind all of them, PeopleConnect Inc., is a San Diego-based operator that "owns TruthFinder, Intelius, Instant Checkmate, USSearch, Zabasearch, and Classmates.com," according to Recording Law's breakdown of the PeopleConnect network. The Suppression Tool's own language confirms the scope: it "provides a free way to manage the display of your Background Report when searched by name on all people search sites in the PeopleConnect family including TruthFinder.com, InstantCheckmate.com, Intelius.com and USSearch.com, without needing to engage with our team." Two names are left out of that umbrella, though: Zabasearch and Classmates.com are explicitly excluded, so a TruthFinder suppression won't touch either one.

Can my information reappear on TruthFinder after I opt out?

Yes, and this is the part most people miss. Suppression hides a specific record; it doesn't delete the underlying data or permanently block TruthFinder from ever listing you again. TruthFinder's own framing calls it suppressing "your name and public information," not erasing it, per the help center.

There are two documented ways a listing can come back. First, mismatched details: "a listing can still resurface if PeopleConnect receives a new record from a data provider that does not exactly match your prior submission, for example a slightly different address or a name variant," according to Recording Law. Second, network cascade: because TruthFinder pulls from shared sources, "re-listing on one network site can cascade: a fresh data import to Intelius or Instant Checkmate may regenerate your TruthFinder profile even if you opted out of TruthFinder directly," per iolo's guide. TruthFinder also "refreshes its database from public records and partner data sources on a regular cycle," which is exactly how an old, suppressed listing can quietly get rebuilt from scratch.

If a listing reappears, the recommended move is to contact PeopleConnect directly rather than assume your original request failed, since a spelling or address mismatch is a common cause.

What should I do if TruthFinder opt-out doesn't work?

TruthFinder's troubleshooting page is explicit: "If you are still having issues removing your information please contact our customer care team." The contact details it lists are a phone line, "(855) 921-3711", available "Mon–Fri, 7am–4pm PT," per TruthFinder's troubleshooting page. Calling during those hours is the escalation path TruthFinder itself points to when the online form stalls.

There's also a regulatory backdrop worth knowing. TruthFinder and sister site Instant Checkmate "would pay $5.8 million to settle FTC charges" announced in 2023 over consumer-report law violations, according to Recording Law's review. That history is useful context if your complaint involves the company misusing your data for background-screening purposes rather than a routine suppression failure.

California residents have one more lever. The same Recording Law review notes that California runs a statewide deletion platform, the Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform (DROP), operated by the California Privacy Protection Agency, which has been accepting consumer deletion requests since the start of 2026. Registered data brokers are required to check that platform periodically, which gives California residents a statewide backstop beyond PeopleConnect's own tool.

Checklist: opting out of TruthFinder

Go to the TruthFinder footer and click "Exercise My Data Privacy Rights," or go directly to the Suppression Center linked from TruthFinder's Privacy Center page.
Search your own name to find the matching listing.
Submit your full legal name, date of birth, and a phone number or email you can access right away.
Check your inbox or phone for the verification message and click the link immediately, since this step is the main source of delay.
Find your listing again and set the "Desired Behavior" dropdown to "Suppressed," then click Save.
Wait a few days, then re-search your name on TruthFinder and its network sites — Intelius, Instant Checkmate, and US Search — to confirm the listing is gone.
If the listing is still live or reappears, call TruthFinder's customer care line at (855) 921-3711, weekdays 7am–4pm PT, rather than resubmitting the form.
If you're in California, consider also filing through the state's DROP platform for an added layer of coverage beyond PeopleConnect's tool.

TruthFinder is one listing among many. For a fuller map of which people-search sites carry your information, see our people-search tracker on removing yourself from the internet, and for the broader project of getting data brokers to stop selling your details in the first place, see our guide to removing yourself from data brokers.