How to remove yourself from SmartBackgroundChecks

SmartBackgroundChecks is a background-check site. Here is exactly how to ask them to take your listing down. It is free, it takes a few minutes, and you do not need us to do it.

The steps

Search for your record at smartbackgroundchecks.com
Copy the URL of your record page
Visit smartbackgroundchecks.com/optout
Paste your record URL
Provide your email for verification
Click the confirmation link in the email

Their opt-out page: https://www.smartbackgroundchecks.com/optout
Where to write, if the form fails: privacy@smartbackgroundchecks.com
They will check it is you by: email
Usually takes: about 7 days

What SmartBackgroundChecks publishes about you

Your full name
Your home address
Your phone number
Your email address
Criminal records with your name on them
Court records with your name on them

Then it happens again

Opting out of SmartBackgroundChecks does not stop the next company, and it does not stop SmartBackgroundChecks rebuilding your listing from a fresh property record or voter file later. That is not a trick; it is how the industry works. We have catalogued 710 of these companies, and being removed from one of them is one of 710.

Doing it by hand is genuinely possible. Keeping it done is the part almost nobody sustains, and that is the only honest reason to pay anyone for this.

The other companies, and how to opt out of each →

Not sure which of them have you?

That is the part worth doing first, and it is free. One email address, about 15 seconds, no account and no card. You see which of your details have leaked and where they are published, and you can decide about everything else afterwards.

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Or keep going by hand. Everything on this page works without paying us, and it is written so that it does.