How to Remove Yourself from PeopleSmart (2026 Guide)

Quick answer: Go to https://www.peoplesmart.com/svc/optout/search/contact_optouts, search your name and select your record, then click the link in PeopleSmart’s verification email and wait for the processed confirmation. Free, about 5 minutes. Listings usually come down within 24 hours of that confirmation.

What is PeopleSmart?

PeopleSmart started out as a consumer people search site and was bought by BeenVerified back in 2014. The version at peoplesmart.com today sells “contact search” and lead lists to salespeople and recruiters, drawing on the same pool of public records and professional data, and it still lets visitors look up individual people. Why care? A lead database is a call list waiting to happen. When a retiree’s phone number sits inside a product built for outreach at scale, unwanted calls and mailers follow, and the people running scams draw from the same well as the marketers.

Before you start

PeopleSmart’s privacy FAQ is unusually plain on this point: removing your own record is free, with no membership or account required. Keep it that way by refusing any paid “removal service” aimed at a single site.

All you need is a browser and an email address you can open within a day or two. A secondary address is a sensible choice, though PeopleSmart states it uses the opt-out email only for verification.

Doing this for a parent? This flow has no identity check beyond the email link, so an adult child can complete it with a parent’s permission in a few minutes. Sitting together is still the cleanest way, since you can confirm which record is really theirs. Every listing you clear trims the raw material behind the sales calls, the junk mail, and the scam texts that find their way to them.

How to opt out of PeopleSmart

A note on family ties: PeopleSmart belongs to The Lifetime Value Co., the company behind BeenVerified, PeopleLooker, NeighborWho, and Ownerly, but this request covers only PeopleSmart, so check those sites separately.

1. Go to https://www.peoplesmart.com/svc/optout/search/contact_optouts. The “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link in the peoplesmart.com footer and the “Opt-Out” link in its privacy FAQ both point here.
2. The page asks “Looking To Opt-Out of Our Contact Search?” Enter the first and last name and the city, and pick the state from the dropdown. The Job Title and Company boxes are optional, so skip them for a personal record. Click the Search button.
3. Find the record that matches, checking age and city details, and click the opt-out button beside it.
4. Enter your email address, solve the CAPTCHA, and click “Send Verification Email.”
5. Open the message from PeopleSmart and click the verification link. Skipping this click means nothing gets processed.
6. Watch for a follow-up email confirming the opt out has been processed.

If more than one record exists, the online tool will only remove one of them; PeopleSmart asks that you email privacy@peoplesmart.com to handle the rest. Yes, that means writing to a data broker about data it gathered without asking you, the kind of errand that makes this whole project feel like unpaid admin work.

How long it takes

By PeopleSmart’s own account, the removal shows up the next time its servers refresh after the confirmation email, which in most cases takes 24 hours. Give it a day, then search the name again through the opt-out page. If an old result lingers, clear the browser cache and check once more.

Check back in a few months

PeopleSmart openly admits that a data partner can deliver a new record different enough from the suppressed one that it slips back into results as a separate report. That is standard broker behavior, not a glitch, so re-check the site about every 90 days and email privacy@peoplesmart.com if a new report appears. KinKeeper’s Data Removal does this automatically across dozens of broker sites and re-checks every 90 days.