How to remove yourself from ContactOut
ContactOut is a recruiting-focused tool that finds people’s personal and work emails and phone numbers, often pulled from LinkedIn and the wider web. Removing yourself stops your contact details appearing to recruiters using it.
Personal and work email addresses and phone numbers scraped from the web and professional networks, sold to recruiters.
Why removing yourself from ContactOut matters
On ContactOut, anyone can look you up — often for just a few dollars — and pull personal and work email addresses and phone numbers scraped from the web and professional networks, sold to recruiters. 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 ContactOut listing cuts off one of the easiest public sources of that data about you.
Opting out of ContactOut is quick and straightforward — it works via opt-out form, and removal times vary. It is free: under U.S. privacy laws ContactOut 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 ContactOut, step by step
Go to contactout.com/opt-out.
Enter the email address(es) you want removed and submit.
Confirm via any verification email.
Re-check periodically, as it re-scrapes the web for contact data.
Link verified June 2026 — brokers change their forms, so confirm it’s the official contactout.com opt-out before entering anything.
Watch out: ContactOut specializes in finding personal emails behind work profiles — opt out with both your personal and work addresses to fully suppress the link.
ContactOut is one of hundreds
Removing ContactOut is a great start — but your data is on many more sites, and ContactOut can re-list you within weeks. PersProtect removes you from 499 broker and people-search sites and keeps re-checking so you stay off.
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What does ContactOut expose?
Your personal and work emails and phone numbers, tied to your professional identity. The opt-out suppresses those contact points.
Is it free to opt out?
Yes.
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