Removal guide · PeopleConnect
PeopleConnect's Suppression Center is the best-value removal in this family - one free request covering four sites, named explicitly by the company rather than inferred. It asks for more identity detail than most opt-outs, and it covers less than people assume, so both are worth understanding before you start.
Want the background first? The PeopleConnect profile covers the brands, the corporate chain, the 2023 customer-account leak, and the yearbook litigation.
At a glance
Free
About 15 minutes in one sitting - two verification round-trips, no saved progress
No, but you verify twice
Email link, a code to a contact method already on your record, then setting the record to Suppressed
TruthFinder · Instant Checkmate · Intelius · US Search
Classmates · phone/address lookups · public records
Date of birth, legal name, and access to an email or phone on your record
Understand the limit before you start. Suppression applies to name-based search results. It does not stop a report pulled by phone number, address, or email, and it does not touch public records such as sex-offender registries. That's the company's own description of its tool, and it's the single thing most write-ups leave out.
The steps
Open the Suppression Center - the "Free - Start Here" panel is Step 1. Enter your email address, tick the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy checkbox, and hit Continue.
A masked or secondary address you can open straight away works fine here and is the better choice - you're about to hand this company a date of birth, so there's no reason to add your primary email to the pile if you don't have to.
A "Confirm your email address" email arrives from no-reply@verifications.peopleconnect.us. Click VERIFY EMAIL - nothing progresses until you do.
The email's own text says the link expires 15 minutes after it was sent, so open it right away rather than saving it for later. If it lapses, start over from the email form.
The next screen asks for your date of birth, with a checkbox confirming you've verified it. The site's stated reason is record matching - many names are similar, and the birthdate is how it tells records apart.
The birthdate is permanent. The page's own bold text: once set, it cannot be changed. Double-check it before hitting Continue, because a typo here can't be corrected later in the tool.
The Legal Name page takes your first, middle, and last name, with a "This is my legal name" checkbox. If you've gone by more than one name - a maiden name, a middle-initial variant - use add another name so the search covers them all.
The Matching Records page lists candidate records, each with its known aliases, location history, and partially masked email addresses and phone numbers. Check the locations and aliases before selecting - common names cluster together - then pick the record that's you and hit Continue.
The verification gate is a Verification Method dropdown of the contact methods already on your record - old phone numbers and email addresses, partially masked. Picking one does not send anything on its own: type the full, unmasked value into the field underneath, headed "Enter the matching email address and click 'Request Verification Code.'", then click Request Verification Code. A code field appears on the same page once you do.
If you don't have access to any of the contact methods in the dropdown, the tool dead-ends. Old numbers and addresses you've long since lost are exactly what tends to be on these records. When none of them work for you, you'll have to reach out manually at privacy@peopleconnect.us instead.
The page grows a Verification Code box under the contact you verified. Type the code in and click Submit Verification Code - it does not submit on its own, and a reader who types the code and waits sits on this screen indefinitely.
The code proves the record is yours; it does not hide it. The screen that follows says so - "Select 'Continue' to manage suppression rules for this record" - and the Control page behind it opens with your report still displayed. Open the Desired Behavior dropdown, choose Suppressed, and click Save. That one setting covers TruthFinder, Intelius, Instant Checkmate, and US Search.
Stopping at the green "Verified" banner leaves you listed. Verifying and suppressing are two different screens, and only the second one changes what the sites show.
The rest of the family
The suppression itself is what covers all four sites - TruthFinder.com, InstantCheckmate.com, Intelius.com, and USSearch.com are named on the page as the scope of the tool, so unlike most family opt-outs you're not relying on an inference about shared infrastructure. The Suppression Center's terms also reserve the right to discontinue the tool, which is not a reason to wait.
Classmates.com is explicitly excluded. It holds yearbook photographs and school records - the subject of most of the litigation against this company - and needs its own removal process on its own site. If an old school photo is what brought you here, the Suppression Center won't help at all.
Neither are the wider filings. Intelius, LLC's California data-broker filing alone lists twenty-two domains, several of which look like unrelated public-records sites - zabasearch.com, addresses.com, publicrecords.com, publicrecords360.com, peoplelookup.com, onlinesearches.com, courtreference.com, arrestrecordsearch.com, criminalrecords.com. Nothing states that suppression reaches those. Search yourself on the ones you recognise, and if you find a record, use that site's own removal route.
Full walkthroughs for two of the covered brands: the TruthFinder removal guide and the Intelius removal guide, if you'd rather work brand by brand or need to follow up on one.
Confirm
Search your name on all four covered sites a few days later. Don't use the turnaround figure you'll see quoted elsewhere - a "48 hours" number circulates in third-party guides and appears nowhere on PeopleConnect's own page, so treat it as unverified.
Also search for yourself by phone number and by address, not only by name. If you still turn up that way, that's the documented limit of suppression rather than a failed request, and it's the thing to raise with privacy@peopleconnect.us.
Keep the confirmation email. Roughly one in twenty deletion requests across this family's three registrants was denied in 2024, so proof of what you asked for and when is worth holding.
If it fails
No verification email. Check spam, then try a different address. The link is the only way in - there's no route that skips it. And it expires 15 minutes after it's sent, so a stale link failing isn't a broken flow - submit the form again for a fresh one.
Your record isn't in the results. Try the address the listing was built around rather than your current one, and try former names. These databases index history.
Suppressed, but still findable. Check how you found yourself. If it was a phone or address lookup, that's outside what suppression covers by the company's own description. Email privacy@peopleconnect.us and ask for deletion rather than suppression, naming the specific report type.
Ignore the unverified contact details. A phone number of 888-245-1655 and a 48-hour window appear in third-party guides and on none of PeopleConnect's own pages. privacy@peopleconnect.us is the address the company actually publishes.
You had a TruthFinder or Instant Checkmate subscription before 2019. Your customer account was in the 20.2-million-record backup that leaked in February 2023 - email address, name, phone number, and a hashed password. Change that password anywhere you reused it. Suppression does nothing about it.
Staying off
Suppression is a state your record is put into, not a deletion, and the family rebuilds its index from public records and purchased data continuously. A new address or a new court filing can produce a fresh record that your earlier suppression doesn't cover.
Recheck the four covered sites quarterly, and recheck Classmates separately since it was never included. It's one of the better-value checks in this directory - one tool, four sites - which makes it worth actually putting in the calendar. Redact's data-broker scan tracks the whole family, including the wider set of domains on the Intelius filing that suppression doesn't reach.
Redact scans 120+ 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.
August 10, 2026 · Steps up to record selection rebuilt from a real walkthrough of the Suppression Center: email link (15-minute expiry), date of birth (permanent once set), legal name, then record selection, with five step screenshots. There is no address step. That walk stopped at record selection, so the verification screens and the Control page after them are documented from the Intelius walk of May 21, 2026, which captured all of them: the code only proves the record is yours, and the record stays displayed until Desired Behavior is set to Suppressed and saved.