How to remove yourself from Instant Checkmate

Instant Checkmate is a PeopleConnect background-check site selling reports on criminal records, contact details, and address history.

Open Instant Checkmate’s opt-out page →Opens on their site. Come back here for the steps.

Holder
Instant Checkmate
How you come off
Find your listing firstyou submit it
They may ask for
Nothing beyond the name and address they already hold.
Legal deadline
45 days · CCPA and equivalent state acts
Re-lists
No — once it is off, it stays off.
Time it takes
5–10 minutes
Difficulty
Medium

What Instant Checkmate holds about you

  • Full name
  • Addresses
  • Phone numbers
  • Criminal/court records

How to get removed

  1. Search your name on the opt-out page and select your record.
  2. Submit it and enter your email.
  3. Click the confirmation link they send.

PeopleConnect; email confirmation required.

Part of PeopleConnect, whose shared suppression tool generally covers Intelius and TruthFinder too.

This one does not re-acquire, so a completed removal holds. Most do not: the holders that buy public records re-buy them about every four months, which is why the rest of this register is re-checked rather than ticked off.

Opt-out processes change. If a step no longer matches what you see, tell us and we’ll update it.