How it works

1. Finding what's out there

You give us a phone number. We query a commercial identity-resolution provider — the same kind of source every service in this category uses, because nobody scrapes six hundred sites in real time — and show you what comes back, masked.

To see it unmasked, you prove you hold the number. That is not friction for its own sake: if anyone could type any number and read back a home address, we would have built a people-search site pointing the wrong way.

2. Filing, under the strongest instrument available

Not every removal request is equal. A polite opt-out form can be ignored. A statutory demand has a deadline and a penalty behind it.

• California: the state's own DROP platform, which reaches every registered broker at once. We guide you through it and do not charge for it.
• The other 19 states with comprehensive privacy laws: a deletion demand citing your state's statute, sent to the privacy contact each broker filed with regulators, with their response deadline attached.
• Everywhere else: the broker's own opt-out process, plus search-engine suppression where it applies.

We never file against a record we are not confident is yours. Removing the record of a stranger who shares your name is the worst thing this system could do, and the threshold is set accordingly.

3. Proving it, then checking again

Each removal gets a capture before and after, the HTTP response we received, a SHA-256 hash of the evidence, and a timestamp. You can open any of it.

Then we re-check at 7, 30 and 90 days, and every 45 days after that. Brokers re-list people constantly — they buy new datasets and re-scrape public records — so a removal nobody re-checks is a removal you cannot rely on. When something comes back we re-file, and we tell you.

What we ask you for, and what we don't

Names you have used, addresses you have lived at, phone numbers, email addresses, and your year of birth. Old values matter most: brokers keep an address long after you have moved, and it is often what ties a record to you.

We never ask for your Social Security number — there is no field for one anywhere in the product. We ask for a year of birth, never a full date. Payment details go straight to Stripe; we only ever see a customer reference.

What you give us is encrypted with a key belonging to your record alone, so deleting you means destroying one key rather than hunting rows across tables. We will not claim we cannot read it — we have to, in order to tell a broker who to remove. What encryption buys you is that a stolen copy of our database is useless to whoever took it.