Published August 19, 2024 
6 min read
ClustrMaps opt out & removal guide [2024]
| Removal difficulty: | Medium |
| Profile is removed within: | 4 weeks |
| Manual submission: | around 15 min |
| Removal requirements: | email account |
What is ClustrMaps?
ClustrMaps is a massive data broker site that collects and shares personal information online. In addition to sharing private details, a ClustrMaps search reveals such data as neighborhood infrastructure, property history, area issues, and more.
This information can be used by fraudsters for text scam, fake calls, stalking, harassment, and other malicious activities. It’s advisable to remove your personal information from ClustrMaps to protect your privacy. To do that, you need to fill out a removal form on their website.
How to opt out of ClustrMaps
In short:
- Access clustrmaps.com and look up your profile
- When you locate your profile, click “View details”
- Copy the profile URL
- Open Clustrmaps’ opt-out page clustrmaps.com/bl/opt-out
- Complete and submit the opt-out form
- Select the details you want to have removed and click “Apply”
How do I opt out of Clustrmaps manually?
Step 1: Open ClustrMaps.com
In order to begin your opt-out process, go to ClustrMaps.
Step 2: Search for your record
Either enter your full address in the address tab or enter your full name in the people tab, and click the “Find” button.
Step 3: Open your record
Check the appearing results to find your listing. If you searched by name, you may narrow down the results by specifying the location using the state filter and the map on the right. Once you locate your record, click on the “View Details” button.
Step 4: Copy the record URL
Look through the profile to see if this is really your record. Then copy its URL as you will later paste it into the opt-out form.
Step 5: Go to ClustrMaps’ opt-out form
To submit a removal request, navigate to the opt-out page.
Step 6: Fill in the Removal Request form
Enter your full name exactly as it is written in the record, a valid email address, the record URL you copied earlier, and your home address. Then click the “Next Step” button.
Step 7: Select the details you want to have removed
On the appearing page tick the personal details you want to have removed from your record. We recommend that you tick all of the listed boxes and leave no personal information on the website. Once done, click on “Apply.“
Your removal request has been submitted.
Note that removing your profile from data brokers does not equal immediate removal from Google. The links to your removed profiles can remain visible in Google search results for some time after they have been deleted from a people-search site. It takes up to several days for Google to update its search results and exclude links to your deleted listings. You can speed things up by using Google’s outdated content removal tool.
ClustrMaps opt-out video guide
We’ve created a video version of the guide above for your convenience. Watch this tutorial to ensure success of your opt-out request to ClustrMaps.
How to contact ClustrMaps directly
ClustrMaps does not provide support over the phone. If you are looking to reach out to ClustrMaps, send them an email to [email protected], or fill out the contact form on their website.
Your data is still exposed on other brokers
Although you have completed the ClustrMaps opt-out, there are many other people-search websites exposing your data. While removing yourself from ClustrMaps.com takes you in the right direction, it isn’t enough to keep your data private.
We recommend that you do these four first:
- How to remove yourself from MyLife.com
- How to remove yourself from FastPeopleSearch.com
- How to remove yourself from Whitepages.com
- How to remove yourself from PeekYou.com
Go through this list and send opt-out requests manually to each data broker, or subscribe to Onerep to remove records automatically from 212 sites with just a few clicks.
Why remove yourself from ClustrMaps
It’s highly recommended that you remove yourself from ClustrMaps.com first-hand as your data’s visibility is at its highest on this site:
- Site visits: around 7.7 mln. people look someone’s personal information up on ClustrMaps each month.(1)
- Massive database: ClustrMaps has a massive database of 200 million people and 107 million addresses.
- Information exposed: ClustrMaps shares names, home address, estimated rent value, education level, occupation, phone numbers, email addresses, associates, and property info for free with no sign-up required.
- Exposure on Google: Google has already indexed over 2 mln ClustrMaps pages making your data easier to find through its search.(2)
Sources:
1 – Silmilarweb
2 – Google
Who sees your data on ClustrMaps
| Demographic group | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Male | 46.14% |
| Female | 53.86% |
| 18–24 years old | 8.09% |
| 25–34 years old | 16.87% |
| 35–44 years old | 18.58% |
| 45–54 years old | 21.22% |
| 55–64 years old | 21.75% |
| 65+ years old | 13.49% |
ClustrMaps quick links
About ClustrMaps
- Founded: 2005
- Headquarters: 995 Market St, San Francisco, CA
- Website URL: clustrmaps.com
- Contact email: [email protected]
- Phone number: (516) 342-6387
FAQ
What is ClustrMaps?
ClustrMaps is a people, company and address search website. They have over 200 million people listings and 23 million business listings. The information they share includes address history, phone numbers, email addresses, known associates and relatives, employment history, neighbors, and more. ClustrMaps also provides detailed website visitor information, audience geolocation heatmaps, and visitor behavior.
How do I remove information from ClustrMaps?
The fastest way to remove your information from ClustrMaps.com is to go directly to their website and search for either your name or address. Locate your record and click on it. Copy the URL of your record, go to their opt-out form (clustrmaps.com/bl/opt-out), and follow the prompts.
Is ClustrMaps accurate?
Not totally. ClustrMaps.com claims to rely on official information obtained from government agencies and companies from nationwide-level to county-level data. They state that since most of the information is received from third parties, they cannot guarantee 100% accuracy.
Is ClustrMaps legal and safe?
ClustrMaps.com is a legit website that operates legally within the regulations of data privacy laws. However, there are many ClustrMaps complaints - being a people finder website, it is often criticized for breaching people’s privacy by sharing their information. As for the searches conducted on ClustrMaps, the website doesn’t notify in any way people who’ve been looked up.
Why am I on ClustrMaps?
ClustrMaps.com is a data broker that gathers private information of US citizens from different sources and publishes these details on its website. It’s often used to run a search on any person and see their background. Basically, any American above the age of 18 might have their private information posted on ClustrMaps.
Who owns ClustrMaps?
ClustrMaps.com was founded by Marc Eisenstadt and is currently owned by Idriss Suleiman.
Dimitri is a tech entrepreneur and CEO at Onerep. He is keen on sharing his expertise in cybersecurity and privacy matters and is regularly published on various platforms.