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How to Remove Yourself from BeenVerified

BeenVerified is one of the biggest background check and people-search services in the United States. Landlords, employers, and curious strangers use it to pull up your addresses, phone numbers, and relatives. Here is how to remove your listing from BeenVerified for free, step by step.

What BeenVerified shows about you

A BeenVerified profile can show your full name, age, current and past home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, relatives, and links to your social media profiles. The full paid report goes further. BeenVerified builds these profiles from public records and data bought from other brokers. You never created an account, and you were never asked for permission.

BeenVerified also runs a family of sister sites on the same platform, including PeopleLooker, PeopleSmart, and NeighborWho. The opt-out below is the network opt-out: one confirmed request takes down the listing the network holds on you, which is why this guide belongs near the top of any removal list.

Step 1: Find your listing

Go to beenverified.com/app/optout/search. This is BeenVerified's own opt-out search, separate from the paid search on its homepage. Search your full name, and narrow by city and state if you get several matches. Find the record that matches you and open it to confirm it is really yours: check the age, a past address, or a relative's name before you claim it.

Step 2: Submit the opt-out

On your record, choose the opt-out control and enter the email address where BeenVerified should send the confirmation. Use an email you actually check, and consider using one that is not your primary address, since the point of this exercise is handing out less of your information, not more. Submit the request.

Step 3: Click the confirmation email

BeenVerified sends a confirmation email with a link. The removal does not start until you click it. If the email does not arrive within a few minutes, check your spam folder. Once confirmed, BeenVerified says most listings come down within about 24 hours. Allow a few days, then search your name on the opt-out search again to confirm the record is gone.

Extra or duplicate records

If you find a second record for yourself, for example under a previous name or an old address, run the same opt-out for it. Each record is removed separately. If a record will not come down through the form, or the form cannot find you even though the paid search can, email [email protected] with your name, the profile URL, and a short request to remove it. Keep the reply as your record of the request and its date.

Why your listing comes back

BeenVerified ingests fresh public records and broker data on an ongoing basis, and a profile removed today can be rebuilt when new data arrives, typically within a few months. This is not a failure of the opt-out. It is how the business works. Set a calendar reminder to re-run the opt-out search every 3 to 6 months and repeat the request whenever your record is back. Each round takes a few minutes, because you already know the form.

What opting out does and does not do

Opting out removes your public listing from BeenVerified and its sister sites. It does not delete the underlying public records, and it does not remove you from other brokers. Whitepages, Spokeo, TruthFinder, and dozens of others hold the same data, and each one needs its own opt-out. The full list, with the exact link for each broker, is in our DIY guide to removing yourself from data brokers.