USPhoneBook Opt Out Guide: How To Remove Your Info

How Do You Remove Your Information From USPhoneBook?

USPhoneBook is a reverse phone number lookup service and data broker that allows users to find personal information — including full names, aliases, names of family members, landline, business, and cell phone numbers, past and current addresses, work histories, and more. 

If your contact information is listed in the USPhoneBook database, it can open you up to excessive telemarketing, phone and mail scams, harassment, and even identity theft.

Unfortunately, data brokers such as USPhoneBook work by scraping data from federal, state, and local government records (along with social media and other public online sources), which makes them immune to most privacy laws. 

You can, however, manually request that USPhoneBook remove your data by following its online opt-out process.

How To Remove Your Personal Information From USPhoneBook

While USPhoneBook claims to offer an easy way to submit data opt-out requests online, the reality is that the process is far from straightforward — or guaranteed to work. 

The company’s privacy policy states that USPhoneBook may keep data active “for recordkeeping purposes” — which means your profile won’t necessarily be deleted from its online directory. 

In fact, the USPhoneBook profile on the Better Business Bureau (BBB) is littered with complaints from people whose private information either wasn’t removed or was quickly re-added after they submitted online opt-out requests [*]. 

To keep your data private, you’ll need to both manually opt out of USPhoneBook and use privacy tools to scan multiple data brokers — and then submit takedown requests on your behalf.

Here’s a step-by-step walkthrough of what to do.

Step 1: Use the online opt-out form on the USPhoneBook website

First, go to the opt-out page at https://www.USPhoneBook.com/opt-out (also found under “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” in the footer at the bottom of the homepage).

Next, agree to the terms and conditions and then enter your email address. Be sure to enter an email account to which you have access, as USPhoneBook will send a confirmation email to verify the removal of your records.

You’ll then be asked to complete the CAPTCHA and click on “Begin Removal Request.”

Next, find your profiles by searching all three of USPhoneBook’s records: phone number, name, and address. You can use the phone number lookup to search for landline numbers, business phone numbers, or home and cell phone numbers.

If USPhoneBook has a profile that matches your information, it will be displayed similarly to this one below:

If no records are located, you can search the database again by using your name or address to verify that there are no USPhoneBook records under your name.

Once you’ve located a record, click on the “Get Details” button to start the data removal process.

Briefly review the displayed profile to make sure it matches your information, and then click on “Remove Record.”

Here’s where things can get messy.

It’s not uncommon to encounter an error message while attempting to remove your record [*]. 

If this happens, you can try again later, clear your browser’s cache, or use an incognito browser to submit your request. 

Finally, you’ll need to check your email for a confirmation email from USPhoneBook. This will be sent to the email address that you supplied at the beginning of the opt-out process. If you can’t find it, check your spam folder. 

Click on the confirm button and your personal data should be removed from the database within 72 hours — however, many people have complained to the BBB that the process was delayed, or that USPhoneBook never removed their data.

If your information is still listed after 3-5 business days, you can contact USPhoneBook’s customer support by filling out this contact form or by calling them directly at 888-747-4095.

Step 2: Use a data broker removal service to keep your records off of USPhoneBook

Unfortunately, even if you complete the USPhoneBook opt-out process properly, the company can still re-add your information later on, create secondary profiles by using your personal data, and find other ways to host your information. 

For ongoing privacy protection, you need an automatic data broker opt-out service like Aura. 

Aura’s award-winning platform scans 30+ popular data broker databases, and sends takedown requests on your behalf — preventing brokers such as USPhoneBook, BeenVerified, and TruthFinder from re-adding your information. You’ll also get identity monitoring, digital security tools, and 24/7 U.S.-based support — all for just over $1/month.

How To Keep Your Personal Information Off of People Search Sites

Data brokers like USPhoneBook take advantage of publicly available information to circumvent privacy laws. This means that even if you remove your data from every data broker site, it’s still available somewhere — either via search engines or in public records. 

The best thing you can do to protect your privacy online is minimize the information that’s available about you.

Here are some steps you can take to remove your personal information from the internet:

• Reduce your digital footprint. The less information available about you online, the better. Make your social media accounts private, delete contact information from personal sites, and request that your contact details are removed from Google search results. For the last step, you can use Google’s information removal request form to try and remove your data from search results.
• Use email aliases for accounts, newsletters, and discounts. When signing up for new services, use a secondary email address to protect your main account. With Gmail, you can do this by adding a “+” sign and a descriptor to your email — for example: yourname+subscriptions@gmail.com. Or, you can let Aura create secure, new email aliases for you (these emails will still go to your primary inbox).
• When browsing online, use a virtual private network (VPN). Some data brokers collect browsing history to sell to marketers (and anyone else). A VPN encrypts your internet connection so that no one is able to spy on you or track your browsing history. 
• Remove your information from other people search and data broker sites. There are hundreds of data brokers in the United States alone [*], and each of them has its own removal process to follow. You can either try to manually opt out of every data broker website, or use a data broker removal service like Aura. 

Keeping your information out of the hands of data brokers and other ill-intentioned individuals can be an overwhelming and seemingly never-ending battle — but Aura’s Privacy Plans can help. 

With automated data broker opt-outs, powerful digital security tools, ID monitoring, and 24/7 support, you can rest assured knowing your identity and information are in safe hands.