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Melissa Data Opt Out: How to Remove Your Information From Melissa Data
To remove yourself from Melissa Data, open its opt-out form at the Melissa Data opt-out page, submit your listing, and confirm by email. Removals take about 30 days under CCPA/CPRA §1798.105 (right to delete).
| What it is | Data brokers |
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| Website | www.melissa.com |
| Opt-out method | Online opt-out form |
| Opt-out link | www.melissa.com/company/data-privacy |
| Legal basis | CCPA/CPRA §1798.105 (right to delete) |
| Typical time | about 30 days |
| Relisting risk | Low |
The exposure
What Melissa Data publishes about you
Melissa Data compiles a public profile from records it buys and scrapes, then shows it to anyone who searches your name.
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name
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address
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phone
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email
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address verification data
Your legal footing
The right you are exercising
Under the CCPA and CPRA (California Civil Code section 1798.105), a resident can require a business to delete the personal information it collected. Melissa Data processes deletion requests through the route below, and in practice most people-search sites extend the same process nationwide.
What this can do
Take your public Melissa Data listing down and, for a search tool, drop the result out of a name search. Filed correctly, the site is obliged to act on it.
What it cannot do
It does not erase news reporting, court filings or other lawful public records. Honesty about scope is the point: we never claim to delete something we cannot.
Why it comes back
Melissa Data re-ingests public records on a schedule, so a removed profile can return. The fix is to monitor and re-file, not to opt out once and hope.
Do it yourself
Remove yourself from Melissa Data, step by step
The honest DIY route. It is free, it works, and it costs you time and a little vigilance afterward.
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Find your listing
Search your name and city on https://www.melissa.com, open your own profile, and copy the full listing URL from the address bar. The form usually needs it.
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Open the opt-out form
Go to the Melissa Data opt-out page at https://www.melissa.com/company/data-privacy.
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Submit the request
Paste your listing URL, enter a contact email you control, and complete any captcha. You are exercising your right to delete under the CCPA and CPRA.
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Confirm by email
Open the confirmation email from Melissa Data and click the verification link. Skip this and the request is quietly dropped.
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Re-check after 30 days
Removals here usually complete within about 30 days. Search your name again to confirm the profile is gone, and watch for it coming back.
Melissa Data is rarely the only site listing you. remove yourself from Apollo.io, remove yourself from Lusha, remove yourself from NeighborWho. People who found themselves here usually also need to get off BeenVerified and get off Google personal information removal. To do all of them at once, run a free exposure scan or compare Deindex plans.
This broker feeds the consumer sites downstream, so pair it with the full data broker opt out list. For the end-to-end version of this job, see how to remove my information from the internet. The long-form guide on how to remove your information from the internet.
After removal
Will Melissa Data put you back?
Melissa Data has a low relisting risk. Once the deletion is confirmed it usually stays removed, though it is still worth a periodic re-scan because any new public-record match can create a fresh entry.
Let Deindex handle it
We file this removal and watch for it coming back
Deindex runs a real scan of 50 sites, files the lawful removal at Melissa Data and everywhere else you appear, keeps a dated before-and-after screenshot as proof, and re-files automatically if you get relisted. You approve, we do the paperwork.
The scan is free and unblurred: you see exactly where you are exposed before you pay anything. Plans are from $19/mo billed yearly ($29 monthly) for one person, $39/mo yearly ($49 monthly) for a family of five, and $119/mo yearly ($149 monthly) for the executive tier, with a Business option from $500 a month. Every tier files lawful removals only, and we tell you what cannot be removed.
People also ask
Melissa Data removal questions
Filed correctly with the confirmation clicked, Melissa Data usually completes the removal in about 30 days. If you miss the email confirmation step the clock never starts, which is the most common reason a removal appears to stall.
Melissa Data has a low relisting risk. Once the deletion is confirmed it usually stays removed, though it is still worth a periodic re-scan because any new public-record match can create a fresh entry.
Under the CCPA and CPRA (California Civil Code section 1798.105), a resident can require a business to delete the personal information it collected. Melissa Data processes deletion requests through the route below, and in practice most people-search sites extend the same process nationwide.
Yes. The Melissa Data opt-out is free and the steps are on this page. It costs time, not money. Deindex exists for people who would rather not repeat that across 50 sites, then chase every relisting by hand. We file the request, keep dated proof, and re-file when you reappear.