Removal guide · Background Checkers
For most of the summer this page told you removal here couldn't be done, because the old form ended on a scribble nobody could read. That form is gone. In its place Background Checkers serves a single Privacy Requests page with a plain removal option, eight details about the person listed, and an email box. A request was walked through it from the first screen to the confirmation page on October 8, 2026, and it went through.
Who is behind this? The Background Checkers profile traces the operator, what the BBB says about it, and the sites filed beside it.
What changed
Nothing, and no login
Remove My Information, the lower of the two
Name, full date of birth, city, ZIP and state, plus an email for the link
10 business days to acknowledge, 45 calendar days to finish
If you tried in August and gave up, try again. The earlier form raised a hand-drawn CAPTCHA with no letters in it, twice, and never sent anything. None of that is on the page today.
The steps
Open the Privacy Requests page. It loads with Your Privacy Choices already ticked, and the page admits in bold that this one doesn't take a listing down. Tick Remove My Information underneath it and the form below changes to match.
A box headed The person in the listing asks for a first name and a last name, a birth month, day and year from three dropdowns, then a city, a five-digit ZIP and a state. Every one of those carries a star. The middle initial is the only box you can skip.
No search runs and no list of matches comes back, which is the biggest difference from the old flow. You never see the record you're asking about, so the details you type are the whole match.
Under Confirming your request, type an email address you can open today. The site says it needn't belong to the person listed. Leave the box about acting for someone else alone unless that's what you're doing, because ticking it calls for a signed permission as a PDF.
Then press Submit removal request. The form shows no are-you-human check, though the site may add one on the way through.
On our walk the message came from BackgroundCheckers at support@backgroundcheckers.net under the subject OptOut Request Confirmation, and Gmail put it in spam, so look there first. It holds a single link, Click to Remove your information, and nothing is removed until that link is clicked. Clicking it opened a page headed Removal confirmed. From then on, Background Checkers says it stops returning results for that person in new searches, in reports its members already hold, and in matching records it takes in later. It also says it can't pull back a copy somebody has already downloaded.
If the link never comes
Ring (833) 714-0641 first. The page offers that number to anyone who'd sooner not use the form, or whose link doesn't arrive, and says the request gets completed on the call.
Behind that sits the paperwork. backgroundcheckers.net appears on Private Records LLC's California data-broker registration, filed beside privaterecords.net, PeopleSearch123 and Person Searchers, and the contact on that filing is support@privaterecords.net. A dated email there naming this domain is your fallback. Californians can also file once through the state's DROP platform, which registered brokers have had to honor since August 1, 2026.
Three more sites share that filing, and each has a page like this one. Nothing on Background Checkers' form says a request here reaches them, so plan on sending one per site.
Afterwards
Save the confirmation email and write down the day you clicked.
Checking the result takes a workaround. When we went to search the site after confirming, on October 8, 2026, it asked for a credit card before showing anything, for what it called identity validation with a temporary $0.30 hold. Don't hand over a card to check on a removal. Search the web for your name with site:backgroundcheckers.net instead. If a listing page still turns up 45 days on, it's past the deadline Background Checkers printed on its own form, and the email is how you show it.
Records here are rebuilt from public sources, so run that search again a few times a year.
Redact scans data broker sites from your device, finds where your details are listed, and submits the removal requests for you. If a broker relists you, it files again.
October 8, 2026 · Rewritten after Background Checkers replaced its removal form. The new Privacy Requests page was walked to the end that day. The request was submitted, the confirmation email arrived in the spam folder, and its link opened the Removal confirmed page. The form captures are from the same day. We couldn't check whether the listing was gone, because the site's search asked for a credit card first, and the deadlines and the phone route are the site's statements. The operator's ties still rest on Private Records LLC's California filing and researcher JayeLTee's 2024 list of fifteen brands.