How to remove your info from National Public Data

Go to nationalpublicdata.com/optout.html. The page states its own terms. You find your profile and bring back its URL. Click the nationalpublicdata.com link in its first instruction - the search opens in a new window, and this opt-out tab has to stay open, because you'll be pasting into it in step 5.

In the new window, enter your name and city & state in the search form and hit Search. Results load in batches as you scroll, so keep scrolling until the list stops growing before deciding a record isn't there.

Each result card carries a name, age, address history, phone numbers, an email, and relatives - check those details before deciding a card is you, then click its green View Full Profile button.

With your profile open, click into the address bar, select everything there and copy it. The long token at the end is what identifies your record, so the whole thing has to travel.

Switch back to the opt-out tab from step 1, paste the URL into the Your Profile Link box, and click Request Removal. If nothing resolves, you pasted a search URL - go back and copy the profile page's own address.

The site echoes the matched profile back - name, city, and the link - above a Your Email Address field whose caption says the opt-out confirmation link goes there. Check the echo (a This is not the correct profile link backs you out), enter your email, and click Confirm Removal. Disposable-email domains are rejected on this platform - use a mainstream address.

An email from support@nationalpublicdata.com headed "Your opt-out request" lands - within minutes on our walk - saying your confirmation is required to initiate processing. Click the green Remove button; that click is what actually files the request. Keep the email as your receipt.