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.
Step 1: 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.
Step 2: 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.
Step 3: Enter your date of birth, then your name
The guided flow asks for your date of birth first, and you must tick a box confirming you understand it "cannot be changed once saved." Double-check it before continuing. The next screen, "Legal Name," takes your current legal name. Use its "add another name" link for maiden names or prior married names you've used.
Step 4: 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, go back and add an alternate name. The Identity tab also takes past addresses. 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.
Step 5: Verify your identity
The Verification screen lists the phone numbers and email addresses held in the record you selected, each partly masked, in a "Verification Method" dropdown. Pick one you control and type it out in full so it matches the mask. Then click "Request Verification Code" and enter the code you receive. If the email you signed in with is already on the record, the screen may show the record as verified with no code needed. If a masked number isn't yours, don't panic. That's PeopleConnect's (frequently stale) file data. Pick an email on the record instead, or use the screen's own help link, which emails privacy@peopleconnect.us with the record ID in the subject line. We cover that situation in detail in our guide to the "not my number" verification problem.
Step 6: Set your record to "Suppressed"
On the final "Control" screen, set the "Desired Behavior" dropdown to Suppressed and save. The dropdown's other setting is "Displayed," and you can switch back later by signing in again; the entry you can't change is the date of birth from Step 3. Suppression is commonly reported to take effect within about 48 hours, though PeopleConnect doesn’t publish a turnaround. After a couple of days, search your name on the network's sites to confirm the listing no longer displays.
Is the PeopleConnect Suppression Center legit?
Yes. The doubt is reasonable. The portal lives on a subdomain most people have never heard of, asks for your email, name, and date of birth before it shows you anything, and none of the consumer-facing brands link to it prominently. But suppression.peopleconnect.us is PeopleConnect's own site, named in its brands' privacy policies as the place removal requests are handled, and it is free. Three checks if you want to be sure you are on the real one: the address bar should read exactly suppression.peopleconnect.us, the page should never ask for a payment card or a Social Security number, and the verification email should come from a peopleconnect.us address. A "PeopleConnect opt out" that asks you to pay, or that arrives as a link in an unsolicited email, is not this portal.
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, so 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
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.
- Don't reach for "Delete My User Data" instead. The Privacy Center has a right-to-delete button, and it is not a stronger version of suppression. It deletes the user data PeopleConnect holds about your dealings with the Suppression Center, not the Public Data in background reports, and the page says so: "Deleting your user information will NOT prevent other users from searching for your information through the people search websites." It also takes your removal with it. In the same paragraph: "If you choose to delete your user data, we must delete your any and all suppressions associated with your user." PeopleConnect's own instruction is to keep the record on file: "To suppress your information from appearing on the people search websites, you must maintain your user information on file with the Suppression Center." Deleting the account is how people quietly undo a suppression they filed months earlier.
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 with an email address on the record, or use the help link on the verification screen. 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 Delist My Data 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.