How to remove yourself from SmartBackgroundChecks
SmartBackgroundChecks is a free people-search site listing addresses, phone numbers, age, and relatives, compiled from public records.
Open SmartBackgroundChecks’s opt-out page →Opens on their site. Come back here for the steps.
- Holder
- SmartBackgroundChecks
- 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
- Easy
What SmartBackgroundChecks holds about you
- Full name
- Addresses
- Phone numbers
- Age
- Relatives
How to get removed
- Enter your email on the opt-out page, accept the terms, and complete the CAPTCHA.
- Search your name or phone number and open your listing.
- Click the option to request your record be removed.
- Click the verification link in the email they send.
Verify your email, then remove your record from search.
SmartBackgroundChecks appears to share data with SearchPeopleFree, USPhoneBook, and CyberBackgroundChecks, but each site needs its own opt-out request.
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.