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How to remove your information from Melissa Data Corporation

Address verification and consumer reference data sold to businesses, including name-to-address matching.

Website
melissa.com
Removal method
Web form
Typical time
30 days
Based in
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA

Don’t want to do it yourself?

We file this removal for you, prove it worked with a screenshot and a timestamp, then re-check it every 45 days and refile if Melissa Data Corporation puts you back.

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Remove yourself from Melissa Data Corporation in 3 steps

These are the complete instructions. You do not need us to do this — we publish them so you can check our work, or skip us entirely.

  1. 01Go to melissa.com/consumer-opt-out.
  2. 02Complete the form with the name and address you want suppressed.
  3. 03Submit and keep the confirmation.

Opt-out page https://www.melissa.com/consumer-opt-out

Verified 2026-09-28.

Mandatory disclosures

What Melissa Data Corporation tells the state it does with your data

Every data broker operating in California must file an annual registration under the Delete Act. These are that broker's own answers.

Sensitive categories collected

Melissa Data Corporation reported collecting none of the sensitive categories the state asks about. It still holds ordinary identifying data — name, address, phone, email — which is what makes you findable.

Sold or shared in the past year with
  • the federal government
  • other state governments
  • law enforcement
From Melissa Data Corporation’s own state filing
4,203
deletion requests received
99%
complied with in full
1%
denied outright

Source: California Data Broker Registry, 2026 filing. Figures are as reported by the broker.

Rights page they filed with the state https://www.melissa.com/privacy; https://www.melissa.com/california-privacy-notice

Privacy contact on file compliance@melissa.com

How we do it

Our route for Melissa Data Corporation

We file the strongest instrument available for your state, not whichever form is easiest.

  1. California residents
    A DROP filing through the state platform. Melissa Data Corporation is legally required to check it every 45 days and delete you — no form, no confirmation email, no discretion.
  2. The other 19 states with privacy laws
    A statutory deletion demand citing your state's own act, with the response deadline stated on its face.
  3. Everyone
    The opt-out flow above, including the confirmation step, handled end to end.
  4. Then, forever
    Re-verification at 7, 30 and 90 days, then every 45 days. If your listing reappears, we refile and tell you.

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