How to remove yourself from SmartBackgroundChecks
SmartBackgroundChecks is a free people-search site that openly lists detailed contact data. It’s the third site in the same family as Cyber- and AdvancedBackgroundChecks, so if you’re on one you’re almost certainly on all three.
Names, phone numbers, current and past addresses, email addresses and relatives.
Why removing yourself from SmartBackgroundChecks matters
On SmartBackgroundChecks, anyone can look you up — often for just a few dollars — and pull names, phone numbers, current and past addresses, email addresses and relatives. 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 SmartBackgroundChecks listing cuts off one of the easiest public sources of that data about you.
Opting out of SmartBackgroundChecks is quick and straightforward — it works via web form, and removals usually process in ~24–48 hours. It is free: under U.S. privacy laws SmartBackgroundChecks 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 SmartBackgroundChecks, step by step
Find your listing on smartbackgroundchecks.com and copy its URL.
Go to smartbackgroundchecks.com/optout and paste the URL.
Enter your email and submit the removal request.
Confirm via the verification email.
Link verified June 2026 — brokers change their forms, so confirm it’s the official smartbackgroundchecks.com opt-out before entering anything.
Watch out: Opt out of all three sister sites — SmartBackgroundChecks, CyberBackgroundChecks and AdvancedBackgroundChecks — since they share data and removing one leaves the others up.
SmartBackgroundChecks is one of hundreds
Removing SmartBackgroundChecks is a great start — but your data is on many more sites, and SmartBackgroundChecks 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 SmartBackgroundChecks, answered
Is SmartBackgroundChecks free to remove from?
Yes — use the official opt-out page; never pay to remove a free listing.
Will the listing come back?
Free sites re-scrape often, so re-check periodically or monitor it.
Opt out of other data brokers
See the full list of 100+ brokers and the Google/Bing removal steps in the data-broker opt-out guide. New to this? What is a data broker? · Comparing services? Best data-removal services 2026.