How to Opt Out of Smaller People-Search Sites (2026)

Dozens of small, near-identical people-search sites publish the same kind of profile as the household-name brokers, just with a fraction of the traffic. This guide covers nine of them, Dataveria, Verecor, Centeda, Pub360, Kwold, PrivateEye, PublicDataUSA, Addresses.com, and OfficialUSA, and reports what could and could not be independently confirmed about each one's opt-out process.

Opt-out flow verified: August 14, 2026

What These Sites Have in Common

These nine sites were grouped into one appendix page because each one individually gets very little search traffic, not because they are confirmed to share one owner. The research for this guide found a mix of independent, template-sharing, and referral-only sites, and the differences matter for what a reader should actually do.

Only one site's privacy policy named its own operating entity in the text that could be read directly: Centeda's policy states it is "owned and operated by Centeda, Inc." None of the other sites' available pages named a parent company, and PrivateEye's footer names no company at all beyond "PrivateEye.com."

Two sites, Pub360 and Kwold, use an identical, unusually worded sentence on their homepages: "You can always request the extension of your personal information from our service. We guarantee data deletion within three business days." The same sentence, including the same odd phrasing, appears on both sites word for word. That is strong evidence the two run on the same website template or came from the same builder, though it does not by itself prove one company owns both.

Dataveria's own privacy policy and homepage marketing copy still contain sentences referring to "Inforver" and "Geekadelphia," which are not Dataveria's name. That kind of leftover branding happens when a site's text is copied from a template built for a different, unrelated site and not fully edited. It is the clearest evidence in this group that a page was assembled from reused content rather than written specifically for the brand shown on it.

None of this changes what a reader needs to do: identify which sites actually show your information, and submit a removal request to each one that does. A shared template does not mean a shared opt-out queue. Submitting a request to one of these sites does not remove your listing from any of the others, confirmed or not. If working through them one at a time is more than you want to take on, a paid service such as Aura's data broker removal is one option; compare its covered-site list with the sites that actually show your listing.

Dataveria

Flow verification: BLOCKED. Dataveria (dataveria.com) returned a Cloudflare bot-protection block page to both an automated fetch and a real browser on the date of this review. The live opt-out form's fields, CAPTCHA, and confirmation steps could not be independently confirmed.

What could be confirmed: an archived copy of Dataveria's own privacy policy and homepage, both captured by the Internet Archive in 2025, contain unedited references to "Inforver" and "Geekadelphia," names that do not match the Dataveria brand shown everywhere else on the page. That is a reused-template site, not evidence of who currently owns or operates it.

If you can reach the live site directly, look for an opt-out or profile-control link near the bottom of your listing or in the site footer. If the site remains inaccessible, the free options later in this guide (Global Privacy Control, California's DROP platform if you are a California resident, and a direct email to the contact address in the site's own privacy policy) are the fallback path.

Verecor

Flow verification: BLOCKED on the live site; confirmed via archive. Verecor.com blocked both automated fetch and a real browser with the same Cloudflare bot-protection page. An archived copy of Verecor's homepage, captured May 2025, shows the site consistently branded as Verecor throughout its marketing copy, with a footer that includes a "Do Not Sell My Info" link alongside its Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

The archived page did not show the opt-out form itself, so the specific fields, CAPTCHA, and processing timeline could not be confirmed. Verecor's own FCRA disclaimer states it is "not a consumer reporting agency" and that its information "may not be used to make conclusions about someone['s] employment, insurance, credit, housing" or any other FCRA-covered purpose, matching the personal-use-only framing every site in this group uses.

Centeda

Flow verification: BLOCKED on the live site; confirmed via archive. Centeda.com blocked both automated fetch and browser access. An archived copy of Centeda's privacy policy, captured November 2025, confirms the operating entity in its own words: "Centeda (the 'Site') is owned and operated by Centeda, Inc." The policy lists a contact address of support@centeda.com and includes an FCRA disclaimer matching the rest of this group (not a consumer reporting agency, not for employment, tenant, credit, or insurance decisions).

The archived text describes an "opting out of email communications" process for marketing messages, which is a separate thing from removing a profile listing. No listing-removal steps could be confirmed from what was archived, so this guide does not describe a specific removal flow for Centeda. If the live site is reachable for you, look for a profile-control or opt-out link on your listing page, or contact support@centeda.com directly.

Pub360

Flow verification: BLOCKED on the live site; confirmed via archive. Pub360.com blocked both automated fetch and browser access. An archived copy of Pub360's homepage, captured July 2025, shows a "REMOVE MY INFO" button and a separate "Do Not Sell My Info" footer link. The page's own text states: "You can always request the extension of your personal information from our service. We guarantee data deletion within three business days."

That three-business-day figure is Pub360's own stated claim, read directly from its archived page, not something this guide is confirming as accurate or current. Pub360's footer disclaimer also uses plural language, "these websites," "these services," when describing its FCRA position, phrasing more commonly used by a site built to be one of several near-identical properties than a single standalone brand.

Kwold

Flow verification: BLOCKED on the live site; confirmed via archive. Kwold.com is a real, active site, not the dead listing its near-zero search volume might suggest. It returned the same Cloudflare bot-protection block as the other four sites above. An archived copy of Kwold's homepage, captured June 2025, shows a "Control Your Info" button and the identical sentence found on Pub360: "You can always request the extension of your personal information from our service. We guarantee data deletion within three business days."

That exact wording appearing on both Kwold and Pub360 is the strongest single piece of evidence in this whole guide that specific sites in this group share a website template or builder.

PrivateEye

Flow verification: page confirmed live and readable; no removal page exists at the URL commonly cited for it. PrivateEye.com loaded directly. privateeye.com/removal, the removal URL described in several third-party guides, returned a 404 error on this site. privateeye.com/privacy redirects back to the homepage, and the footer's Privacy Policy link does the same. No working privacy policy, terms page, or removal form could be reached on the live site.

More importantly, PrivateEye's own homepage describes itself differently from the other sites in this group. Its "How It Works" section reads: "Secure Routing: PrivateEye routes you through secure, verified partner links," and "Review Results: Access available reports and public records on our partner sites." That is PrivateEye describing itself, in its own words, as a referral service that sends searches to other companies' sites rather than a site that holds and displays its own database of profiles.

That matters for what to do about it. There is no PrivateEye-specific listing to remove, because PrivateEye does not appear to host one. If your information turns up through a PrivateEye search, the profile shown is coming from one of its partner sites, and the opt-out has to happen there, not on PrivateEye's own (nonfunctional) pages. This guide could not confirm PrivateEye's ownership; rumors connect it to the same corporate family as BeenVerified (LTVCo), but PrivateEye's own footer names no parent company at all, and LTVCo's own published brand list does not include PrivateEye. Treat any specific ownership claim for PrivateEye as unconfirmed.

PublicDataUSA

Flow verification: domain does not resolve. publicdatausa.com failed to resolve on every method tried on the date of this review: an automated fetch tool, a real browser, and direct DNS lookups against three separate DNS resolvers. That is consistent with a dead, expired, or parked domain, not a live site with a working opt-out.

There is nothing to opt out of on a domain that does not load. If PublicDataUSA comes back online later, or if you find a listing for yourself on a currently working site using a similar name, treat that as a separate, newer site and verify it independently before assuming it is the same operation described here.

Addresses.com

Flow verification: not applicable, Addresses.com is not an independent data controller. Addresses.com's own homepage states it is "powered by Intelius" and that it "does not provide consumer reports and is not a consumer reporting agency... Personal identifying information available on Addresses.com is provided solely by Intelius, LLC." The site's footer reads "© 2026 Intelius LLC. All Rights Reserved," not a separate Addresses.com company.

Addresses.com does not run its own opt-out form. Its own "Exercise My Data Privacy Rights" link, read directly from the rendered homepage, goes straight to intelius.com/privacy-center. Intelius is part of the PeopleConnect Inc. family of people-search brands, which also includes TruthFinder, Instant Checkmate, Zabasearch, and USSearch, and appears to operate a shared cross-brand suppression tool used for opt-out requests across some of its brands. Because Addresses.com is drawing on Intelius's own data, submitting a removal request through Intelius's privacy center covers an Addresses.com listing too. There is no separate Addresses.com-specific step to complete.

If you are working through this cluster's broader broker list, the general how-to-opt-out-of-data-brokers guide covers the free options, Global Privacy Control and California's DROP platform, that apply regardless of which specific site turned up your listing.

OfficialUSA

Flow verification: could not connect. officialusa.com could not be reached by any method tried on the date of this review. An automated fetch tool timed out on DNS resolution, curl could not resolve the host, and a live browser returned a connection error on both the homepage and a guessed /opt-out/ URL. Unlike PublicDataUSA above, search results still show the domain indexed and referenced by other sites at specific, live-looking URLs (officialusa.com/opt-out/, officialusa.com/privacy.html), so this looks more like a temporary block or connectivity issue than a confirmed dead domain. Third-party opt-out guides describing OfficialUSA's process exist but were not opened or relied on for this page; a specific opt-out step needs to come from the site's own pages, not a competitor's summary of them.

No opt-out steps are published here because none could be independently confirmed. If OfficialUSA is reachable for you, look for a "Do Not Sell" or opt-out link in the site's footer or on your own listing page. Otherwise, the free fallback options described later in this guide, Global Privacy Control and California's DROP platform for California residents, apply the same way they do to every other site in this group.

Quick Reference

Your Rights Depend on Where You Live

Addresses.com is the one confirmed exception, it is a documented Intelius/PeopleConnect affiliate front, covered above. None of the other eight sites appear on the lists of confirmed operator families elsewhere in this cluster, so treat each of those as its own removal target rather than assuming one request clears several of them.

California residents have the strongest tool available for any of these sites if they are registered California data brokers: the CPPA's Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform (DROP), live for consumer submissions since January 1, 2026, at privacy.ca.gov/drop. Registered brokers have been required to retrieve and process DROP deletion requests since August 1, 2026, backed by an administrative fine of $200 for each deletion request for each day of noncompliance, imposed by the California Privacy Protection Agency under California Civil Code section 1798.99.82(d) for failing to comply with section 1798.99.86. DROP only reaches brokers that actually registered with the CPPA, so an unregistered or noncompliant site will not be reached by it. Check the CPPA's data broker registry directly to see whether a given site is listed before relying on DROP alone.

Residents of Colorado, Connecticut, Oregon, Texas, and other states with comprehensive consumer privacy laws generally have some statutory right to request deletion from a covered business, though coverage thresholds and enforcement mechanisms vary by state, and most of these laws are enforced only by the state attorney general rather than through a private lawsuit. Readers in a state without a comprehensive privacy law are relying on each site's voluntary opt-out process, which is the honest baseline for most of the country.

Enabling Global Privacy Control in your browser is free, takes a few minutes, and is a legally binding opt-out-of-sale signal for California-covered businesses regardless of which specific site you are dealing with. It stops future sales going forward; it does not erase a profile a site already built and is displaying.

FCRA and Background-Check Framing

Every one of these sites states, in its own terms or privacy policy where that language could be confirmed, that it is not a consumer reporting agency and that its information should not be used for employment, tenant screening, credit, or insurance decisions. That is not a technicality. The FTC has twice brought enforcement actions against people-search operators for crossing that line: a $800,000 settlement with Spokeo in 2012 for marketing profiles to employers and recruiters without following the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and a $5.8 million settlement with TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate in 2023 for marketing background reports for employment and tenant screening while allegedly overstating their accuracy.

Use these sites' opt-out tools only for your own privacy self-help. Never use a listing from any of them, including the ones covered on this page, to make a hiring, leasing, credit, or insurance decision about someone else. Doing so risks your own FCRA liability separately from anything the site itself might owe.

These Opt-Outs Do Not Last Forever

None of the sites in this group offer any guarantee that a removed listing stays removed. Where a site's own text made a promise (Pub360 and Kwold both state a three-business-day removal window), that is the site's own marketing claim, not a confirmed fact this guide is vouching for. Data brokers of every size re-acquire information from new sources over time and can rebuild a profile that was previously removed.

If your information was already indexed by a search engine before you opted out, the underlying page may still be gone from the broker's site but still show up in search results for a while. Google's "Results about you" tool at support.google.com can request removal of specific personal information, like your home address or phone number, from Google Search results directly, separately from whatever the broker itself does.

Set a reminder to search your own name every few months against this group of sites and the higher-traffic brokers covered elsewhere in this cluster. Relisting is common enough across the whole industry that a one-time opt-out should not be treated as permanent.

Related Guides

• How to Opt Out of Data Brokers (2026)
• US Data Broker Registration Laws and the Delete Act
• How to Submit a Data Deletion Request (2026)
• How to File a Data Privacy Complaint (2026)
• CCPA Opt-Out Rights: Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information (2026)
• Credit Freeze vs. Fraud Alert

Frequently Asked Questions

Are Dataveria, Verecor, Centeda, Pub360, and Kwold owned by the same company?

Not confirmed. Pub360 and Kwold share a verbatim, unusually worded sentence about their removal process, which strongly suggests they run on the same website template or were built by the same vendor. Dataveria's own text contains leftover references to two unrelated brand names, showing its content was copied from a template rather than written for Dataveria specifically. Only Centeda's privacy policy names its own operating entity directly, as Centeda, Inc. None of this confirms common ownership across the group, only that some of them share tooling.

Why couldn't this guide verify the opt-out steps for most of these sites?

Dataveria, Verecor, Centeda, Pub360, and Kwold all blocked both an automated fetch tool and a real browser with Cloudflare bot-protection challenges on the date of this review. Rather than describing steps pulled from third-party opt-out guides that were not independently confirmed, this page reports what could be confirmed from each site's own archived pages and marks the rest as unverified.

Is PrivateEye the same company as BeenVerified?

Unconfirmed. Some third-party sources link PrivateEye to LTVCo, the company behind BeenVerified and PeopleLooker, but LTVCo's own published brand list does not include PrivateEye, and PrivateEye's own footer names no parent company at all. What can be confirmed directly from PrivateEye's own homepage is that it describes itself as routing searches through partner sites rather than hosting its own database, which functions differently from a typical data broker regardless of who owns it.

What do I do if I find my information through PrivateEye?

Because PrivateEye describes itself as a referral service without a database of its own, and because its removal page returns a 404 error, opting out on PrivateEye directly is unlikely to remove anything. The listing is coming from whichever partner site PrivateEye routed you to. Identify that site from the search results and submit your opt-out request there instead.

Is PublicDataUSA still active?

Not as of this review. The domain publicdatausa.com failed to resolve on an automated fetch tool, a real browser, and three separate DNS lookups. That points to a dead, expired, or parked domain rather than an active site. There is no opt-out to complete on a site that is not loading.

Do these small sites get their data from the bigger brokers like Spokeo or Whitepages?

This guide could not confirm that for any of the nine sites covered here specifically. It is a plausible pattern in the people-search industry generally, since many smaller sites license or scrape data compiled by larger aggregators, but asserting it for a specific named site requires evidence this review did not find. Treat each site as its own removal target.

Should I pay for a removal service instead of doing this myself?

None of the sites covered on this page charge a fee to opt out where a working opt-out mechanism could be confirmed (Pub360 and Kwold both describe a free removal request on their own homepages). If a site's opt-out truly cannot be completed for free, treat that as unusual and worth a direct complaint to your state attorney general or, for California-registered brokers, the CPPA, rather than paying a third party.