Remove your personal information online

You can remove your information from data broker sites yourself, but it's a significant undertaking. Each site has its own opt-out process: some require forms, others want emails, a few make you mail physical letters. You'll need to find dozens of sites, submit requests to each one, follow up when they don't respond, and then do it all again in a few months when your information reappears.

Lifeguard handles this for you:

• We know which sites have your data and how to reach each one
• We submit removal requests on your behalf
• We track progress and follow up when needed
• We keep monitoring so if your information comes back, we remove it again

It's the difference between spending hours every month on tedious paperwork and having someone take care of it quietly in the background while you focus on your family.

We wish we could promise that, but we want to be honest with you: no service can make you completely disappear from the internet.

What we can do is remove your personal information from the data broker and people-search sites that make it easiest for strangers, scammers, and marketers to find you. These are the sites that pop up when someone searches your name, showing your address, phone number, relatives, and more.

What we can't remove:

• Information you've posted yourself on social media
• Public records maintained by government agencies
• News articles or other published content
• Data held by companies you have direct relationships with

We focus on the sites that expose your information without your consent. The ones that create real risk for you and your family.

We target data brokers and people-search sites. These companies that collect and sell personal information, often without people knowing they exist.

These include:

• People-search sites like Spokeo, WhitePages, BeenVerified, and TruePeopleSearch
• Background check services that compile records for anyone willing to pay
• Marketing data companies that sell contact lists to advertisers and telemarketers
• Public records aggregators that scrape court records, property records, and voter registrations

These sites gather information from many sources like public records, data breaches, purchase history, social media and then bundle it into profiles that anyone can access. That's what makes them useful to scammers looking for targets.

Lifeguard covers 190+ data broker sites through our removal service. This includes the major people-search sites you've probably heard of, plus dozens of smaller brokers that fly under the radar.

Some of the sites we monitor and remove from:

• Spokeo
• WhitePages
• BeenVerified
• TruePeopleSearch
• Intelius
• PeopleFinder
• Radaris
• FastPeopleSearch
• And many more

We continuously update our coverage as new data brokers appear and existing ones change their practices. Our goal is comprehensive protection across the sites most likely to expose your family's information.

Removal timelines vary because each data broker handles requests differently:

• Fast responders: 1-2 weeks
• Standard sites: 2-4 weeks
• Slower brokers: 30-90 days

Most families see significant progress within the first month, with the majority of exposures resolved within 60-90 days. Some particularly stubborn sites take longer, and we continue following up until they comply.

You'll be able to track progress in your dashboard as removals complete. We'll also send you updates when we hit milestones—like when half your exposures are resolved, and again when we've cleared them all.

Data brokers are persistent. Even after we remove your information, some sites re-add it weeks or months later from their other data sources. That's why one-time removal isn't enough.

Lifeguard provides ongoing monitoring:

• We regularly check the sites we've already cleared
• When your information reappears, we automatically submit new removal requests
• You don't need to remember to check or re-request anything

This continuous protection is what separates a real data removal service from a one-time scan. We keep watching so you don't have to.

We remove the personal details that data brokers collect and expose:

Contact information

• Home addresses (current and past)
• Phone numbers
• Email addresses

Identity details

• Your full name and any name variations
• Age and date of birth
• Photos (when posted on broker sites)

Connections

• Names of relatives and family members
• Known associates

Background information

• Employment history
• Property ownership records
• Court and legal records (where removable)

When you set up protection, you can provide alternative names you've used, maiden names, nicknames, previous married names, so we can find and remove profiles that might be listed under those as well.

Yes, there are limits to what any removal service can do:

• Government records: Court records, property deeds, voter registrations, and other official government documents are public by law. We can remove them from data broker sites that aggregate this information, but we can't remove them from government sources.
• Content you control: Social media posts, profiles you've created, reviews you've written. These are yours to manage. We don't access your accounts or remove content you've published yourself.
• News and media: If your name appears in news articles, press releases, or published content, we can't remove that from the publisher's site.
• Non-compliant brokers: A small number of data brokers refuse to honor removal requests. We track these and continue attempting removal, but some sites simply won't cooperate.
• Information outside the US: Our coverage focuses primarily on US-based data brokers. International sites may have your information that falls outside our reach.

We're transparent about these limitations because we want you to understand exactly what protection looks like.

You're trusting us with personal details to remove your information from data brokers. We take that seriously:

Secure data handling

• Your information is encrypted when stored
• We use secure connections for all data transmission
• Access is limited to what's needed for removal

Privacy by design

• Only you and authorized family members can see your exposure status
• We don't sell or share your information with third parties
• We're a security company and protecting your data is our whole purpose

Minimal data collection

• We collect what we need to find and remove your profiles: name, address, date of birth, email
• We don't ask for more than necessary

You stay in control

• You can see exactly what we're doing on your behalf
• You can disconnect the service anytime
• Your data doesn't linger if you decide to leave

We're asking data brokers to stop exposing your information. It would be hypocritical if we didn't protect it ourselves.