How to remove yourself from TransUnion (Your Privacy Choices)
TransUnion operates a marketing-data and audience business (TruAudience) alongside its credit bureau, selling consumer information for targeting and profiling. Its consumer-privacy hub lets you opt out of the sale and sharing of your personal information without creating an account. The opt-out is separate from credit reporting and prescreened offers.
Marketing and audience data sold to advertisers via TransUnion's TruAudience/marketing solutions, distinct from your credit file.
Why removing yourself from TransUnion (Your Privacy Choices) matters
On TransUnion (Your Privacy Choices), anyone can look you up — often for just a few dollars — and pull marketing and audience data sold to advertisers via TransUnion's TruAudience/marketing solutions, distinct from your credit file. 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 TransUnion (Your Privacy Choices) listing cuts off one of the easiest public sources of that data about you.
Opting out of TransUnion (Your Privacy Choices) is fairly straightforward, with one extra verification step — it works via web privacy form or phone, and removals usually process in 10 minutes (up to 15 business days). It is free: under U.S. privacy laws TransUnion (Your Privacy Choices) has to honor opt-out requests, so never pay a "removal" fee. Have your details ready for the verification step, then re-check in a few weeks to make sure the listing stayed down.
How to opt out of TransUnion (Your Privacy Choices), step by step
Visit the TransUnion Consumer Privacy Rights page.
Choose 'Your Privacy Choices' and select the opt-out form instead of logging in.
Enter the personal details TransUnion needs to locate and match your record.
Submit the request, or call 866-310-8783 to file it by phone.
Expect processing within about 15 business days once your information is located.
Link verified June 2026 — brokers change their forms, so confirm it’s the official transunion.com opt-out before entering anything.
Watch out: The cookie-based 'Do Not Sell' in the footer only covers website trackers; use the privacy form to limit marketing-data sales.
Sample opt-out letter for TransUnion (Your Privacy Choices)
Some brokers accept (or require) a written deletion request by email. Here’s a ready-to-send template addressed to TransUnion (Your Privacy Choices) — open it in the generator to add your details and your state’s legal basis.
To the Privacy / Opt-Out Team at TransUnion (Your Privacy Choices), I am writing to request that you remove my listing and delete all personal information you hold about me, and that you stop selling or sharing it. I am making this request as a consumer exercising your opt-out and deletion process. To identify my records: Full name: [Your full name] Please take the following actions: 1. Delete all personal information you have collected about me. 2. Suppress my profile so it no longer appears on your website or any affiliated/partner sites. 3. Stop selling, sharing or licensing my personal information to third parties. 4. Confirm in writing once these steps are complete. Please process this request and respond within 45 days. If you need to verify my identity, contact me using the details above — but please do not require more information than is necessary to do so. Thank you for your prompt attention. Sincerely, [Your full name]
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Do I need a TransUnion account to opt out?
No. You can use the standalone opt-out form or call 866-310-8783 without logging in.
Is this the same as a credit freeze?
No. This limits marketing-data use; a credit freeze is a separate protection on your credit file.
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