How to remove yourself from OpenCorporates
Open OpenCorporates’s opt-out page →Opens on their site. Come back here for the steps.
- Holder
- OpenCorporates
- How you come off
- Online formyou submit it
- They may ask for
- Nothing beyond the name and address they already hold.
- Legal deadline
- Not set by statute here
- Re-lists
- Yes — re-imported from the official register, which is the actual problem. We re-check every 30 days.
- Time it takes
- About ten minutes
- Difficulty
- Hard
How to get removed
- Find the OpenCorporates page showing your name — usually an officer record — and copy its URL.
- Open their service desk and choose the data privacy request option.
- Say what your position in the company is, why you are asking, and what you are already doing with Companies House to correct the underlying record.
- They apply a temporary redaction lasting four weeks. If you do not return with evidence the register correction is still in progress, it becomes visible again automatically.
- Send that evidence before the four weeks are up to keep the redaction.
- The real fix is at the source: Companies House form SR01 removes a residential address from the public register, and OpenCorporates re-imports from there.
Republishes company registry data from over 140 jurisdictions, so any UK resident who has ever been a company director or LLP member is listed — sometimes with a former home address. This is NOT a normal opt-out: their position is that the data is public record.
Why you come back
Most people-search sites keep buying fresh public records, and OpenCorporates is one of them — re-imported from the official register, which is the actual problem. A removed listing can reappear months later under a new URL. The reliable fix is cutting off the source where you can — in the UK that is the open electoral register — and re-checking on a schedule.
Opt-out processes change. If a step no longer matches what you see, tell us and we’ll update it.