How to Remove Yourself from TruthFinder (2026 Guide)

Quick answer: Go to https://www.truthfinder.com/opt-out/, confirm your email with the PeopleConnect Suppression Center and enter your name, date of birth, and street address, then mark your report as suppressed and save. Free, about 15 minutes. Listings usually come down within 72 hours, and the same request removes you from Intelius, Instant Checkmate, and US Search.

What is TruthFinder?

TruthFinder is a background check site owned by PeopleConnect. It sells reports built from public records, and a report on you can list your name, age, address history, phone numbers, email addresses, relatives, and sometimes criminal or traffic court records. Anyone with a subscription can look you up by name. For older adults, that is a real risk. A page that shows someone’s age, phone number, and home address gives a scammer everything needed to pick a target and sound convincing on the phone.

Before you start

Plan on about 15 minutes. The opt out is free, and it should be. No one should ever charge you for it. Brace yourself for the bigger picture, though: TruthFinder is one stop out of more than twenty a household ends up making, and no two broker sites use the same form or the same verification hoop.

Have an email address open and ready, because the verification link expires within minutes. A secondary email is fine if you prefer not to use your main one. Keep your phone handy too, since you may be asked to confirm a code by text.

If you are helping a parent, know that PeopleConnect verifies the request through the person’s own email. The easiest approach is to complete the steps together at their computer. There is a formal authorized-agent route, but it requires a signed written authorization or a power of attorney, and PeopleConnect still confirms directly with the person. For most families, doing it together is faster, and it pays off where it counts: fewer junk calls, a lighter mailbox, and fewer scam texts reaching them.

How to opt out of TruthFinder

The same request also removes you from Intelius, Instant Checkmate, and US Search, since all four sites share one owner.

1. Go to https://www.truthfinder.com/opt-out/. It takes you to the PeopleConnect Suppression Center, or you can go straight to https://suppression.peopleconnect.us.
2. Enter your email address, check the box to agree to the terms, and submit.
3. Check your inbox for a message from PeopleConnect titled “Confirm your email address” and click the link right away. It expires in about 15 minutes. If it lapses, start again from step 1.
4. Enter your full legal name, date of birth, and complete street address. City and state alone are not enough. Save the form.
5. You may be asked for verification codes sent to your email and your phone. Enter each one.
6. The center lists records that match your details. Compare the age, relatives, and cities shown to find yours. Find the setting on your report that controls whether it is shown, choose the suppressed option, then save.
7. Look out for a confirmation email once the request is processed.

How long it takes

PeopleConnect says suppression usually takes effect within 72 hours. Allow up to 10 business days for your report to disappear across all of its sites. One note on what this does: suppression hides your report from name searches on these sites. The original public records still exist at courthouses and county offices, and PeopleConnect may retain the data internally.

Check back in a few months

These sites pull in new public records constantly, and a new court filing, a move, or an updated voter registration can generate a brand new listing that your earlier request does not cover. Doing this by hand means running the full circuit of brokers again every three months or so just to stay ahead. KinKeeper’s Data Removal takes over that chore, submitting removals automatically and re-checking every 90 days.