How to remove yourself from Classmates
Classmates is a PeopleConnect-owned reunion site that exposes a different layer than typical brokers — your schools, graduation years and scanned yearbook photos, which can reveal your age and full name. Its opt-out runs through the PeopleConnect suppression system.
Name, school/graduation details, yearbook photos and approximate age.
Why removing yourself from Classmates matters
On Classmates, anyone can look you up — often for just a few dollars — and pull name, school/graduation details, yearbook photos and approximate age. That is more than enough to target you with spam and phishing, fuel robocalls, or in the worst cases enable stalking, doxxing or identity theft. Removing your Classmates listing cuts off one of the easiest public sources of that data about you.
Opting out of Classmates is quick and straightforward — it works via web form (PeopleConnect), and removals usually process in ~48 hours. It is free: under U.S. privacy laws Classmates has to honor opt-out requests, so never pay a "removal" fee. Most people finish it in just a few minutes.
How to opt out of Classmates, step by step
Go to classmates.com/account/optout/ (or the shared suppression.peopleconnect.us portal).
Search your name and identify your record / yearbook listing.
Submit the opt-out request with your email.
Confirm via the verification email to suppress the listing.
Link verified June 2026 — brokers change their forms, so confirm it’s the official classmates.com opt-out before entering anything.
Watch out: Yearbook photos are a distinct exposure — request removal of the yearbook image as well as the directory listing, since they can be handled separately.
Classmates is one of hundreds
Removing Classmates is a great start — but your data is on many more sites, and Classmates can re-list you within weeks. PersProtect removes you from 499 broker and people-search sites and keeps re-checking so you stay off.
Scan all 499 sites — free →Removing yourself from Classmates, answered
Why does Classmates have my yearbook photo?
It digitizes school yearbooks, which ties your name, age and photo together. Opting out suppresses that record.
Is the Classmates opt-out free?
Yes — it uses the PeopleConnect suppression system and requires no purchase.
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