How to Remove Yourself From CheckPeople

To opt out of CheckPeople, go to checkpeople.com, follow the opt-out or “Do Not Sell” link in the site footer, and use that page to find your record and request its removal. You’ll usually be asked for an email address so the site can confirm the request, and the request isn’t finished until you respond to that email. The opt-out is free, each record needs its own request, and you should search again every few months because new data can create a new record.

CheckPeople works differently from free people-search sites. A search shows a teaser, and the full background report sits behind a payment. That makes it easy to assume nothing is visible, but the teaser alone can confirm your age, your city and the names of relatives. This guide covers the checkpeople opt out, what it does and doesn’t remove, and the routine that keeps you off the site. For a plan covering many sites at once, see our guide to removing yourself from people-search sites.

What CheckPeople shows about you

CheckPeople is a paid background-check and people-search site. Like most sites in this category, it assembles reports from public records, such as property and court records, and from commercial data sources. A report can include current and past addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, relatives and associates, and sometimes criminal or court records where they exist.

The free part of a search usually shows enough to identify you: a name, an age, a list of cities and a few relatives’ names. Anyone willing to pay can then see the rest. So even if you’ve never bought a report, your record can still be doing work for a stranger who is trying to find you.

Sites in this category typically state in their terms that they aren’t consumer reporting agencies under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which means their reports aren’t supposed to be used for hiring, tenant screening or credit decisions. That rule limits how the reports may lawfully be used. It doesn’t stop the site from showing them.

Before you start

• Create a separate email address for privacy requests. Opt-outs almost always ask for one, and a dedicated address keeps your main inbox out of yet another database.
• List your identifiers. Every name you’ve used (maiden name, nicknames, with and without a middle initial), each state you’ve lived in over the last decade, and your current and old phone numbers.
• Type the address yourself. Go to checkpeople.com directly instead of clicking an ad. Some sites with similar names charge for “removal” they can’t actually perform.
• Keep a simple log. Note each record you find, the date you asked for removal and the date you checked it.

Step by step: the CheckPeople opt-out

1. Find the official opt-out page. Scroll to the footer of checkpeople.com and look for a link labeled opt-out, privacy, or “Do Not Sell My Personal Information”. The privacy policy also describes how to make a removal request.
2. Search for your record. Enter your name and state. Add a city or age if the form allows it, so the list is short enough to check properly.
3. Check the details before you pick one. Match the age, past cities and relatives against your own list, so you don’t remove a stranger’s record and leave yours.
4. Select your record and submit the request. Follow the prompts on the page. If the form asks you to confirm that the record is yours, do so.
5. Confirm by email. Open the message from CheckPeople and click the confirmation link or follow its instructions. Check spam and promotions folders if nothing arrives within a few minutes. Don’t leave it for days, because confirmation links can expire.
6. Repeat for every record. Search your name variations and old states, and submit each matching record separately.
7. Check it worked. After a few days, search yourself again. Your record should no longer appear, or should appear without your details.

Labels and layouts on opt-out pages change from time to time. The sequence (find the official page, locate your record, submit, confirm by email, check again) is what stays constant, so follow the site’s current prompts rather than worrying if a button name doesn’t match.

If the opt-out form doesn’t work

Sometimes the search won’t find your record, the captcha keeps failing, or the confirmation email never arrives. Try another browser and pause any VPN or strict content blocker for the page. If that doesn’t help, use the contact or privacy email listed in CheckPeople’s privacy policy.

A short written request is enough. Keep it factual and give only the details already on your record, so the site can match it without you handing over anything new.

Subject: Request to remove my record. Please remove my personal information from CheckPeople and stop displaying and selling it. My name is [full name], age [age], and my record lists [city, state]. Please confirm by reply when this has been done.

If you live in a state with a comprehensive consumer privacy law, such as California, you may also have a legal right to request deletion of your personal information from a business covered by that law. The privacy policy usually explains how to make that kind of request. A deletion request can reach further than a simple display opt-out, although what a business must do depends on the law and on exemptions such as public records.

What the opt-out covers and what it doesn’t

Item	Removed by the opt-out?
The record you submitted and confirmed	Yes, once the request is processed.
Other CheckPeople records for you	No. Each record needs its own request.
Reports someone already bought	No. Anything already viewed or downloaded can’t be recalled.
Other background-check and people-search sites	No. Each site runs its own opt-out.
The original public records	No. Court and property records stay with the courts and counties that hold them.
The Google result pointing to your old record	Not straight away. Google updates it after recrawling, or sooner with a refresh request.

Why your CheckPeople record can come back

Background-check sites refresh their data from their sources. When you move, change your phone number or change your name, that new information may not join the record you removed. Instead, it can form a new record with the new details. The opt-out didn’t fail. There’s simply a new record to deal with.

• Search yourself on CheckPeople every three to four months.
• Search again a few weeks after a move, a new phone number or a name change.
• Use the same name variations and states you used the first time.
• Add each new record to your log and remove it the same way.

If repeating this across many sites every few months sounds like a lot, it is. That’s why some people pay for a removal service. Our guide on whether data removal services are worth it explains what they cover and where they fall short. For what two well-known services charge, see our DeleteMe pricing and Incogni pricing guides.

Where to go after CheckPeople

Paid background-check sites draw on overlapping sources, so if you appear on CheckPeople you’re very likely on others. Work through the free sites first, because anyone can see those without paying, then the paid report sites.

Our data broker opt-out list sets out the order we’d tackle them in. Guides for sites that often show the same data include how to opt out of Instant Checkmate and how to opt out of Intelius, which can also cover several related brands in one request.

Clean up the Google result too

People-search pages often rank on Google for a person’s name, and the snippet can still show your age, city or relatives after the page has changed. Once your record is gone from CheckPeople, use Google’s “Refresh outdated content” tool to ask Google to update or drop the result.

Google’s “Results about you” tool can also alert you when your phone number, home address or email appears in search results and let you ask Google to remove those results. Removing the source and fixing the search result are two separate jobs, and you need both.

A worked example

This is an illustrative scenario, not a real client.

Dolores, a retired nurse, gets a call from someone who knows her new address in Arizona, a place she moved to only last year. She searches her name and finds a CheckPeople teaser listing her age, two Arizona towns and her son’s name.

• She sets up a new email address for privacy requests and opens the opt-out link from CheckPeople’s footer.
• She finds two records: one under her married name in Arizona and one under her maiden name in Oregon, where she lived for thirty years. She submits both and confirms each email.
• The Oregon record doesn’t show up in the opt-out search at first, so she emails the privacy contact with the name, age and city shown on the record. A few days later it’s gone.
• She checks Google, finds an old snippet still listing her towns, and submits a refresh request.
• She sets a reminder to search again in four months, and starts on the free people-search sites next.

Removing only the Arizona record would have left thirty years of address history visible under her maiden name.

Common mistakes

• Assuming a paywall means privacy. The free teaser often confirms who and where you are.
• Stopping at the first record. Search maiden names, middle initials and every state you’ve lived in.
• Forgetting the confirmation email. An unconfirmed request usually isn’t processed.
• Paying a look-alike site. The real opt-out is free. Type the address yourself.
• Using your main email. It gives a data business a confirmed, active address. Use a separate one.
• Treating it as done forever. Put a recurring reminder in your calendar.

If safety is the reason you’re doing this

If someone is using your address to threaten or follow you, opt-outs help but they aren’t a safety plan. Save evidence of the threats, report them to local police, and ask about your state’s address confidentiality program if you’re a survivor of domestic violence, stalking or a similar crime. Our guide on what to do if you’ve been doxxed covers the wider steps. For protective orders or other legal action, talk to a lawyer or a local victim advocate.

When to get help

You can do all of this yourself, and most people should. Help makes sense when your details are spread across dozens of sites, when a safety concern means it needs to be done quickly and checked often, or when people-search records are only part of a bigger problem with what appears for your name. Our personal reputation management service handles opt-outs, re-checks and the wider cleanup. We’ll tell you plainly what can be removed and what will need ongoing monitoring.

Frequently asked questions

Is the CheckPeople opt-out free?

Yes. You shouldn’t have to buy a report or create an account to remove your record. If a page asks for payment to remove your CheckPeople listing, it isn’t CheckPeople’s own opt-out page.

How long does CheckPeople take to remove my record?

It depends on the site’s processing, but confirmed requests typically go through within days rather than weeks. Google may keep showing an old result for longer until it recrawls the page or you submit a refresh request.

Does the CheckPeople opt-out remove my criminal or court records?

No. It stops CheckPeople from displaying your record, but the underlying records stay with the courts that hold them. Sealing or expunging a record is a separate legal process, and a lawyer can tell you whether you qualify.

Why did my information come back on CheckPeople?

Usually because new data, such as a new address or phone number, created a new record rather than updating the one you removed. Search again, submit the new record and confirm by email.