How to opt out of US Search

US Search sells reports built from your name, address history, phone numbers, and relatives. It is a PeopleConnect property, which changes the opt-out math in your favor: instead of a site-specific form, you file one suppression at the PeopleConnect Suppression Center — suppression.peopleconnect.us/?brand=USSearch — and it covers US Search, Intelius, TruthFinder, and Instant Checkmate together. If you already completed the flow from our Intelius guide, US Search is already handled; just verify the listing is gone. If not, budget 15 minutes in one sitting.

Step-by-step: opt out of US Search

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   Open the PeopleConnect Suppression Center

   Go to suppression.peopleconnect.us/?brand=USSearch and enter an email address you can check immediately. US Search has no public per-person listing URL — the opt-out runs through this account flow.

2. 2

   Click the email link within 15 minutes

   The sign-in link PeopleConnect emails you expires in about 15 minutes. Open it as soon as it arrives and finish the whole flow in one sitting.

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   Match your record with your legal name and DOB

   Enter your full legal name and date of birth so the system can find your records. It then sends a verification code — note that the code goes to an email address or phone number already on your record, not necessarily the one you signed in with.

4. 4

   Set Desired Behavior to 'Suppressed' and save

   Open the 'Desired Behavior' dropdown on your record, choose 'Suppressed', and save. The account alone does nothing until this setting is saved. Choose Suppressed — never the delete option.

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   Verify across all four PeopleConnect brands

   This one suppression covers US Search, Intelius, TruthFinder, and Instant Checkmate. Check each site after a few days, and allow up to two weeks for US Search listings to fully disappear.

Three things break this flow for people. First, the sign-in link in the initial email expires in about 15 minutes — start with your inbox open in another tab and click the link as soon as it lands, because a lapsed link means restarting. Second, a quirk of this flow worth planning around: after the full-legal-name and date-of-birth match, the verification code goes to an email address or phone number already on your record — the contact details PeopleConnect has for you, which may be an address you abandoned years ago. If you still control any of them, pick that one. If you control none, the self-service flow is a dead end and you should go straight to the escalation channels below rather than burning attempts.

Third, the finish line is further than it looks. Completing verification creates your Suppression Center account, and an account by itself suppresses nothing. The opt-out only takes effect when you open the Desired Behavior dropdown on your record, select Suppressed, and save. And resist the delete option entirely: deleting your data in the tool wipes your suppressions without stopping PeopleConnect from re-listing you. Suppress, never delete.

How long US Search takes to process the suppression

PeopleConnect self-reports a median processing time of under 1 day, but observed US Search listings can take up to about 2 weeks to fully disappear — plan around the longer figure before escalating. Check all four brand sites separately: one suppression covers them, but they do not necessarily clear on the same day, and Intelius records typically drop faster than US Search’s.

If the two weeks pass and you are still listed — or you never got through the code step — escalate to privacy@peopleconnect.us, or by phone at (888) 245-1655. A short written note with your full name, DOB, and the state you live in is enough. Then widen the lens: the same records feed MyLife, Whitepages, Spokeo, and many more, each with its own process. A free exposure check shows which of them still list you.

Where US Search stands on CCPA and state privacy laws

The Suppression Center is PeopleConnect’s designated opt-out mechanism and works regardless of your state. Residents of California and other states with comprehensive privacy laws can also send a written deletion request under the applicable statute to privacy@peopleconnect.us or via (888) 245-1655 — the practical route when the code-delivery problem locks you out of self-service, and the formal route when you want a documented statutory response rather than a dashboard setting. The suppress-don’t-delete rule applies only inside the tool; a statutory request by email is a separate, safe channel.

The catch: your data comes back

Suppression is a standing instruction matched to the records PeopleConnect currently associates with you. It does not touch the public-record sources, so when new batches arrive under a new address or a variant of your name that fails to match the suppressed identity, fresh records can surface on US Search and its sister brands. That is the structural reason the delete option backfires — it removes the standing instruction while the intake pipeline keeps running.

And PeopleConnect, for all its four-brands-in-one convenience, is a single cluster in a network of well over 100 people-search sites drawing on the same records — BeenVerified, Radaris, and a long tail of smaller mirrors among them. The manual routine is a re-search of the major brokers every 3–4 months; the automated alternative is a removal service that files across the whole network and re-files whenever something reappears.