Last updated January 28, 2026 
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How to opt out of PeopleLooker in 2026: detailed steps
| Removal difficulty: | Medium |
| Profile is removed within: | 4 weeks |
| Manual submission: | around 15 min |
| Removal requirements: | email, CAPTCHA |
What is PeopleLooker?
PeopleLooker.com is a people-search site that collects and shares personal data on the web. Inviting to “find information you may not get on Google” on its home page, a typical search on PeopleLooker does expose a lot of private details:
- Full name
- Home address and past locations
- Relatives
- Photos
- Legal records and more
To remove your data, you need to submit an opt-out request on the site and verify it via email.
Step-by-step PeopleLooker opt-out
In short (detailed steps below):
- Go to PeopleLooker’s opt-out page peoplelooker.com/svc/optout/search/optouts
- Look yourself up
- Locate your record and click “Proceed to Opt Out”
- Submit your email address
- Confirm your request via email
Step 1: Click on “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” in the PeopleLooker footer
Open PeopleLooker’s website, scroll the page all the way down, find the “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” link, and click on it.
Step 2: Search for yourself
Enter your first and last name, select your state, and click the “Search” button.
If you select CA, CO, CT, DE, IA, MT, NE, NH, NJ, OR, TX, UT, or VA as your state, an additional form might appear. You may either complete it to get to the search results, or you may select a different state initially and change it to yours during step 5.
Step 3: Locate your record and click on “Proceed to Opt Out“
Check the results to find your record. You may use the filter on the left to narrow down your search. When you locate the record you’d like to have removed, click on “Proceed to Opt Out.“
Step 4: Enter your email address and click on “Send Verification Email“
Type your email address, solve the CAPTCHA, and click the “Send Verification Email” button to submit your opt-out request.
Step 5: Confirm your opt-out request via email
Check your inbox to find a confirmation email. Open it and click on the “Verify Opt Out” button.
Your opt-out request has been received.
If you find several records under your name, you need to send an email to [email protected] and request their removal. In accordance with their policies, PeopleLooker.com doesn’t allow you to remove several profiles through their opt-out form.
How to contact PeopleLooker directly
In case you want to reach out to PeopleLooker.com with any concerns you have directly, you may do so by writing an email to [email protected], using the contact form on their website, or calling 1-800-592-7153 9am – 6pm EST.
Your data is still exposed on other brokers
Removing yourself from PeopleLooker.com takes you in the right direction, but it isn’t enough to keep your data private.
We recommend that you remove your data from these five next:
- How to remove yourself from InstantCheckmate.com
- How to remove yourself from TruthFinder.com
- How to remove yourself from ThatsThem.com
- How to remove yourself from SmartBackgroundChecks.com
- How to remove yourself from FastPeopleSearch.com
Go through this list and send opt-out requests manually to each data broker, or subscribe to Onerep to remove records automatically from 319 sites with just a few clicks.
Why remove yourself from PeopleLooker
It’s highly recommended that you remove your data from PeopleLooker.com because of:
- Site visits: around 3.4 million people look up others on PeopleLooker each month. (1)
- Exposure on Google: Google has already indexed around 200K PeopleLooker pages making your data easier to find through its search. (2)
- Depth of exposure: PeopleLooker shares address history, birth records, marriage and divorce records, property ownership records, police reports, warrants, bankruptcies, and more.
Sources:
1 – Silmilarweb
2 – Google
PeopleLooker quick links
About PeopleLooker
- Founded: 2016
- Headquarters: New York, NY
- Number of employees: 50-100
- Website URL: peoplelooker.com
- Contact email: [email protected]
- Phone number: 800-592-7153
FAQs
How do I remove information from PeopleLooker?
To remove your info from PeopleLooker, go to their opt-out page. Look up your listing, click the “Proceed to Opt Out” button when you find it, and confirm your request via email.
What is PeopleLooker?
PeopleLooker is a data broker providing name lookup, email lookup, and reverse phone and address search. Even though they claim to provide background reports, they are not a consumer reporting agency per the Fair Credit Reporting Act. That means the website can’t be used for employment, tenant, insurance, or consumer credit screening.
Is PeopleLooker legitimate?
PeopleLooker.com is a legit site. It provides people lookup, reverse address and phone search, and other services. Its operation is completely legal since they gather data from publicly open sources like government records and social media accounts.
Dimitri is a tech entrepreneur and founder of Onerep, the first fully automated data removal service. Top cybersecurity CEO of 2021 by The Software Report.