How to opt out of MyLife

MyLife publishes your name, age, addresses, phone numbers, and relatives — and then adds something most brokers do not: a “reputation score” attached to your name, which gives strangers the impression of a background verdict rather than a directory listing. Removing your profile is free and takes about 15 minutes per listing through the official form at mylife.com/privacyrequest. The flow has two traps that silently kill requests, so read the URL rule and the two-stage form note below before you start.

Step-by-step: opt out of MyLife

1. 1

   Find your profile in MyLife search results

   Search your name on mylife.com and locate the listing that matches you. Copy the profile URL directly from the SEARCH RESULTS page — it looks like mylife.com/pub-... or mylife.com/{first}-{last}/e{id}. Do not copy the URL from inside the profile page; the form rejects those.

2. 2

   Open the privacy request form

   Go to mylife.com/privacyrequest and paste the profile URL into the form, along with your name and an email address you can check right away.

3. 3

   Enter the email verification code

   MyLife sends a verification code to the email address you provided. Check spam if it does not arrive within a few minutes, then enter the code.

4. 4

   Complete the form a second time

   After the code is accepted, the opt-out form appears AGAIN. This is not an error. Fill it in and submit it — if you close the tab here, the request never completes.

5. 5

   Repeat for every additional profile

   Each MyLife profile — name variants, maiden names, old addresses — must be submitted separately. Search your name again with previous cities and run the full flow for every listing that is yours.

The first trap is the profile URL. MyLife’s form only accepts the URL format that appears in its search results — an address like mylife.com/pub-... or mylife.com/{first}-{last}/e{id}. If you click into the profile and copy the address bar from there, the form rejects it. So the workflow is: search your name, find the listing that matches you, and copy the link straight off the results page without opening it. Confirm it is really you by the age and city shown in the result snippet.

The second trap is worse because it looks like success. After you submit the form and enter the emailed verification code, the opt-out form appears a second time. Most people assume the code was the final step, close the tab, and walk away — and their request silently dies. The second form is part of the flow, not a glitch. Fill it in again, submit, and only then is the request actually filed. If you opted out of MyLife in the past and your profile never disappeared, this is almost certainly why.

If the form breaks or a listing survives the process, MyLife has working fallbacks: email privacy@mylife.com or support@mylife.com with your name and the exact profile URL, or call 1-888-704-1900 during Pacific business hours. The email route creates a paper trail, which is useful if you need to escalate later.

How long MyLife takes to process the removal

MyLife’s stated window is 10–15 days, noticeably slower than brokers like Spokeo, which processes in a day or two. In busy periods the window can stretch further. Mark a calendar reminder for two weeks out, then search your name on mylife.com in a private browsing window. If the listing is still live, resubmit once — checking both traps above — before escalating by email or phone.

While you wait, run the second search pass. MyLife commonly holds multiple profiles per person: one per past address, plus variants like a maiden name or middle initial. Each needs its own trip through the form, including its own email code and second-form pass. And since the same records feed every other people-search site, this is a good moment to run a free exposure check and see which other brokers — Whitepages, Intelius, and the rest — are showing the same data.

Where MyLife stands on CCPA and state privacy laws

The privacy request form is MyLife’s standard opt-out channel, but residents of California and other states with comprehensive privacy laws have a stronger lever: a written deletion request to privacy@mylife.com citing the applicable statute. A formal CCPA-style request obligates a documented response and creates a record the web form does not. State your state of residence, the right you are exercising, and the exact profile URLs — a short email is enough.

The catch: your data comes back

MyLife does not generate data about you; it re-scrapes public records on a cycle, and a removed profile can reappear when a fresh batch arrives under a new address or a slightly different rendering of your name. The opt-out suppresses a listing — it does not stop the pipeline that built it. Treat MyLife as a site to patrol, not a box to tick: re-search your name every 3–4 months, including old cities and name variants.

And MyLife is one node among well over 100 people-search sites drawing from the same public-record sources — Spokeo, Whitepages, the PeopleConnect family behind Intelius, and a long tail of mirrors, each with its own opt-out process. Manually, that means a standing calendar reminder. The automated alternative is a removal service that files and re-files these requests across the whole network for you.