The PeopleConnect Suppression Center at suppression.peopleconnect.us is the real, official, free opt-out portal for the PeopleConnect network — it is not a phishing page, and one completed request suppresses your background report across every people-search site the company runs at once. If you found yourself on TruthFinder, Intelius, Instant Checkmate, or US Search and a search led you to this oddly-named "suppression" subdomain, you're in the right place: PeopleConnect's brands don't run individual opt-out forms, so this single portal is where removal happens for all of them.
This guide walks the whole flow, then covers the two things most write-ups skip: what suppression actually is (it's not deletion), and what to do when the login or verification steps go sideways.
Go to the Suppression Center
Go directly to suppression.peopleconnect.us. Every PeopleConnect site also links here from its footer — "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information," then "View Public Data Tools," then "Manage My Suppression Rules" — but the direct link skips the maze. There is no charge at any point; if a site is asking you to pay for removal, you are not on PeopleConnect's portal.
Enter and verify your email address
Enter your email address, agree to the terms, and submit. PeopleConnect emails you a confirmation link — open it before doing anything else, because the rest of the flow stays locked until the email is verified. Use an address you can access immediately; the links and codes in this flow are time-limited.
Enter your name and date of birth
Provide your full legal name and date of birth, plus any alternate names you've used — maiden names, prior married names, common misspellings. Double-check the date of birth before continuing: the form warns it can't be changed once submitted.
Find and select your record
The tool searches PeopleConnect's data for matching records and shows you candidates. Match on age and location history, not just name — common names collide, and selecting a stranger's record helps no one. If nothing matches, retry with an alternate name or a previous city. One important quirk: records filed under a prior name (a maiden name, for instance) can exist as separate entries, and each entry needs to be found and suppressed individually — suppressing the record under your current name doesn't automatically pull the one indexed under a name you no longer use.
Verify your identity
Choose email or phone for a second verification code and enter it. This second check ties the suppression request to the specific record you selected. If the phone option shows a masked number that isn't yours, don't panic — that's PeopleConnect's (frequently stale) file data, and you can verify by email instead. We cover that situation in detail in our guide to the "not my number" verification problem.
Set your record to "Suppressed"
On the final screen, set the "Desired Behavior" dropdown to Suppressed and save. This is the step the form warns cannot be undone — read the screen before you commit. PeopleConnect states suppression requests process within 48 hours. After a couple of days, search your name on the network's sites to confirm the listing no longer displays.
What one suppression request covers
Because TruthFinder, Intelius, Instant Checkmate, and US Search all draw on the same PeopleConnect backend, a single completed suppression covers the whole family at once — you do not need to repeat the process per site. That makes this one of the more efficient opt-outs in the industry, and it's why our individual TruthFinder and Intelius guides both route through this same portal.
Two limits come straight from PeopleConnect's own terms of use. First, the Suppression Tool applies only to the people-search sites — it explicitly does not cover Classmates.com, even though Classmates is part of the same company; Classmates data is handled through its own account and privacy settings. Second, suppression governs your own background report: your name can still appear as a relative or associate inside other people's reports, and in phone or email lookups.
And beyond the network, it covers nothing. Spokeo, BeenVerified, Whitepages, Radaris, and the rest of the people-search industry are separate companies with separate files on you and separate opt-out processes. Suppressing PeopleConnect removes one network's listing, not your internet footprint.
Suppression is not deletion — here's the difference
The tool's name is precise: it suppresses the display of your background report when someone searches your name; the underlying data does not vanish from PeopleConnect's systems. Suppression is essentially a standing instruction — "don't show this record" — layered on top of the data (see suppression file). Two practical consequences:
- New records aren't automatically caught. Suppression blocks the record you selected. If PeopleConnect later ingests fresh data about you — a new address, a newly digitized record, a differently-spelled name — it can surface as a new listing your earlier request doesn't touch.
- Deletion is a separate request. If your state's privacy law gives you a right to delete, PeopleConnect's Privacy Center offers a deletion route in addition to suppression. Deletion reaches the stored data rather than just its display, though even deletion can't stop the company from re-acquiring public records about you later.
Login and verification problems
The searches for "suppression.peopleconnect.us login" mostly trace to a handful of snags:
- No confirmation email. Check spam, and make sure the sender domain is peopleconnect.us. The verification links expire — if too much time passed, restart with the same address.
- Codes not arriving or expiring. Request a fresh code and enter it immediately. Verification codes in this flow are valid only briefly.
- The phone on file isn't yours. Verify by email instead — full walkthrough here.
- "No records found" for someone who is definitely listed. Try alternate names, prior cities, and spelling variants. If a sibling site still shows your listing but the tool finds nothing to suppress, contact the privacy team through the Privacy Center with the listing URL.
- Managing an existing suppression. The Suppression Center doubles as the login for changing a previous request — re-verify with the same email address you used originally.
Why it's worth checking back
Suppression stops today's record from displaying, but PeopleConnect keeps ingesting data, and a fresh record under your name — or under a prior name you didn't hunt down in Step 4 — can put you back on its sites months later. A quarterly re-check of your name across TruthFinder, Intelius, Instant Checkmate, and US Search is the honest maintenance cost of this opt-out.
That re-checking is the part DelistMyData is built to automate: file the suppression, verify it took effect, then keep watching the network and re-file if your data reappears. We're in pre-launch now — join the waitlist for founding-member access as we bring it online.