Who owns us
In 2024 a security journalist reported that the founder of a well-known removal service had also launched dozens of the people-search sites his company charged customers to scrub. Mozilla ended the partnership. That story is why this page exists — and why you should ask every company in this category for one.
The pledge
- We have never operated, owned, invested in or advised a data broker, people-search site or data aggregator.
- We do not and will not sell, rent, share or otherwise monetise customer data. Our only revenue is subscriptions.
- We take no commission, referral fee or payment of any kind from a broker, and never will. A removal service paid by the sites it removes you from is not a removal service.
- If any of this stops being true, it gets written here before it takes effect — not in a changelog, not in an updated policy nobody reads.
Who runs it
ScrubMyInfo is built and operated by Jay Walker, a web developer based in Irvine, California, trading as Municipal Web Works. There are no outside investors, no board, and nobody else with access to customer data.
What isn't settled yet
The legal entity is being formed. Until it exists there is no registration number, no state of incorporation and no registered agent to list — so this page does not list them. It will, before we take a single payment.
An incomplete page that says what is missing beats a complete-looking one with empty brackets in it.
The uncomfortable part
To show you where you are exposed, we query a commercial identity-resolution provider. That provider is itself, in every meaningful sense, a data broker. We are not going to bury that.
The defence is narrow, and we think it holds: it is your own record, looked up with your consent, shown only to you after you prove you hold the phone, used to delete the data, kept only while your case is open, and never resold. If any of those stop being true, the feature should be switched off rather than defended.