How to opt out of ThatsThem

ThatsThem publishes your name, address, phone numbers, email addresses, and even IP-linked data in free people-search results that rank well in Google. Opting out is free, requires no account, and takes about 10 minutes through the official form at thatsthem.com/optout. The form itself is straightforward — name, address, email, phone, CAPTCHA — but the site’s ownership creates a trap that catches a lot of people, so read the Spokeo note below before you consider yourself done.

Step-by-step: opt out of ThatsThem

1. 1

   Find your ThatsThem record

   Search your name on thatsthem.com and open the record that matches you. Check the address, phone, and email details to confirm it is actually yours before you file anything.

2. 2

   Open the opt-out form

   Go to thatsthem.com/optout. The form asks for your full name, address, email, and phone number, plus a CAPTCHA.

3. 3

   Fill the form and submit

   Enter the details as they appear on the record you want removed, complete the CAPTCHA, and submit. The form handles one record per submission.

4. 4

   Watch for the confirmation email

   ThatsThem sends a confirmation email within 72 hours. Click the link inside it to verify the request — check spam if nothing arrives.

5. 5

   Repeat for any additional records

   Each record needs its own submission. Search name variants and past cities, and run the form again for every listing that is yours.

The detail most guides miss: ThatsThem is owned by Spokeo, but the two databases are managed separately and removals do not propagate either way. Opting out of ThatsThem leaves your Spokeo profile untouched, and a completed Spokeo opt-out leaves your ThatsThem record standing. You will also notice “Sponsored by Spokeo” results woven into ThatsThem pages — those come from Spokeo’s database and only disappear through Spokeo’s own opt-out. Treat them as two separate brokers that happen to share an owner, because functionally that is what they are.

The web form handles one record per submission, so inventory your listings first. Search your current city, past cities, and name variants — a middle initial or maiden name often carries its own record. If the form gives you trouble on a particular record, there is an email route at optout@thatsthem.com, but it requires a screenshot of the record you want removed, which makes the form the faster path in almost every case. Whichever route you use, the request is not complete until you click the link in the confirmation email, which can take up to 72 hours to arrive.

How long ThatsThem takes to process the removal

Plan on roughly 3 days from submission to removal, with the confirmation email arriving within 72 hours of filing the form. After that window, check your listing directly on thatsthem.com in a private browsing window — not through Google. Search-engine caches can keep displaying a removed listing for around 2 weeks after it is gone from the site itself, and mistaking a stale cache for a failed opt-out leads to pointless resubmissions. If the record is still live on the site after the processing window and you never received a confirmation email, check spam, then resubmit once before falling back to the email route with a screenshot attached.

While you wait, this is a good moment to run the same check across the rest of the ecosystem. The data ThatsThem shows — address history, phones, emails — is the same public-record feed that populates Radaris, Whitepages, and dozens of similar sites. Our free exposure check scans the major brokers for your name and shows you which ones still have a listing, so you can work through them systematically instead of discovering them one Google search at a time.

Where ThatsThem stands on CCPA and state privacy laws

Because ThatsThem sits under Spokeo’s ownership, formal privacy-law requests route through Spokeo’s channels: the Spokeo privacy webform, privacy@spokeo.com, or 1 (877) 864-0183. If you live in California or another state with a comprehensive privacy law and want a formal deletion on the record rather than a listing suppression, a written request to that email citing the statute creates the paper trail. For simply getting delisted, the web form works regardless of where you live — but remember that a CCPA request to Spokeo covers Spokeo’s obligations, and the ThatsThem record still needs its own opt-out filed at thatsthem.com/optout.

The catch: your data comes back

The ThatsThem opt-out suppresses the record that exists today. It does not touch the public-record and commercial sources feeding the site, so a future data refresh — a move, a new phone number, a re-scraped records batch — can generate a fresh listing your original request never covered. The realistic maintenance plan is a re-check every 3–4 months, and because of the ownership split, that re-check should always cover both ThatsThem and Spokeo as separate items.

And these two are a small slice of the wider problem. The same records feed more than 100 people-search sites, each with its own opt-out flow and its own reappearance behavior. Doing it manually is viable if you keep a calendar reminder and a checklist; the alternative is a removal service that files and re-files the requests across the whole broker list on a schedule, which is what our comparison of removal services evaluates.