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
- Search your name on the opt-out page and select your record.
- Submit it and enter your email.
- Click the confirmation link they send.
PeopleConnect; email confirmation required.
Part of PeopleConnect, whose shared suppression tool generally covers Intelius and TruthFinder too.
Why you come back
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.