How to Remove Yourself from MyLife (2026 Guide)

Quick answer: Go to www.mylife.com/privacyrequest, fill out the privacy request form with the profile URL and your details, then click the verification link MyLife emails you. Free, about 10 to 15 minutes. Listings usually come down within 7 to 15 days.

What is MyLife?

MyLife is a people search site that builds a public “Reputation Profile” for nearly every American adult. A profile can show your name and aliases, age, current and past addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, relatives, work history, and a made-up “Reputation Score” hinting at court or criminal records. In 2021, MyLife agreed to pay $21 million to settle a lawsuit the Justice Department filed on behalf of the FTC over misleading background reports and hard-to-cancel subscriptions. Pages like these are a gift to scammers: age, phone number, and home address on one screen is a targeting profile for fraud aimed at older adults.

Before you start

Plan on 10 to 15 minutes to submit the request, then a wait of a week or two for the removal itself. It is free. Do not pay for removal, and do not buy a MyLife subscription for any reason.

You will need the URL of the MyLife profile and an email address that can receive a verification link. A secondary or throwaway address is safer here, because data brokers have been known to add contact emails to their databases.

Doing this for a parent? The verification email goes to whatever address you enter on the form, so you can sit down and complete this for them, together or entirely on their behalf. It is a small chore that buys real quiet: fewer spam calls, a thinner stack of junk mail, and fewer scam texts landing on their phone. And MyLife is just one site. A full sweep by hand means slogging through twenty-plus brokers, each wanting different fields filled and different proof clicked.

How to opt out of MyLife

1. Go to www.mylife.com and find the profile. You can search the name directly, or use the “Find URL of Reputation Profile by last name” link on the opt-out form and click through the alphabetical name lists. Close any pop-up that appears over the profile.
2. Copy the full profile URL from your browser’s address bar.
3. Scroll to the bottom of the MyLife homepage and click the “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” link. This opens the privacy request form at www.mylife.com/privacyrequest, titled “Deletion and Opt Out of Sale of Personal Information.” It is slow to load, so give it a several-second head start on a blank screen. The form serves state privacy laws (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Texas, Virginia, and others) but MyLife says it takes requests from residents of other states at its discretion.
4. Fill in the requested details about the person, their name, location, and an email address you can check, and paste the profile URL where the form asks for it. Complete the CAPTCHA and click the submit button.
5. Watch the inbox for a verification email from MyLife and click the link inside. The request does not count until you click it.

If the form fails, there are backup routes. The form page itself points to MyLife Customer Care at membersupport@mylife.com. Third-party guides also list privacy@mylife.com (send the profile URL, the person’s name, city, and date of birth) and the phone line at 1-888-704-1900 during Pacific business hours.

How long it takes

MyLife is slower than most brokers. Third-party removal guides consistently report 7 to 15 days from the moment you click the verification link. If the profile is still up after two weeks, send the same request once more, or switch to the email or phone route.

Check back in a few months

MyLife has a reputation for putting people back. Removal guides report profiles reappearing within three to six months as new public records arrive, sometimes at a new URL. So set a reminder: search the name again every 90 days and repeat the request for anything that has returned. Multiply that upkeep by every broker on a hand-worked list and it turns into a quarterly project all by itself. KinKeeper’s Data Removal handles the removals automatically and circles back every 90 days to catch profiles that resurface.