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MyLife Opt Out: How to Remove Your Information and Reputation Profile From MyLife
To remove yourself from MyLife, open its opt-out form at the MyLife 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 | People-search sites |
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| Website | www.mylife.com |
| Opt-out method | Email request |
| Opt-out link | or email [email protected] |
| Legal basis | CCPA/CPRA §1798.105 (right to delete) |
| Typical time | about 30 days |
| Relisting risk | High |
| Automated check | MyLife blocks automated lookups, so this one needs a manual check. We say so plainly rather than invent a result. |
The exposure
What MyLife publishes about you
No reliable self-serve form; removal is an email request and often needs chasing. FTC sued MyLife in 2020 over its practices. We file a CCPA delete request and escalate.
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name
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age
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address history
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phone
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email
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relatives
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"reputation score"
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. MyLife 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 MyLife 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
MyLife 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 MyLife, 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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Write from your own address
Email [email protected] from an address you control, so MyLife can reply and verify you.
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State the legal basis
Say clearly that you are exercising your right to delete under the CCPA and CPRA and that you request deletion of your personal record.
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Give only what they need
Include your full name, city and state, and any listing URL so they can find your record. Do not send more sensitive data than the request requires.
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Keep the confirmation
Save their acknowledgement. Expect a response within about 30 days, and follow up in writing if it is missed.
MyLife is rarely the only site listing you. remove yourself from FastPeopleSearch, remove yourself from Nuwber, remove yourself from PeopleFinders. 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.
The same process for every other people-search site is on our data broker opt out list. Once the listing is gone, the cached result can linger, so also remove your name from Google search. Reading on what it takes to remove your home address from the internet.
Site specifics
MyLife, the Reputation Score, and the CCPA route
MyLife is the site that upsets people most, because it does not just list you, it grades you. Its profiles carry a Reputation Score alongside estimated income, net worth, political and religious affiliation, and any court records, liens or bankruptcies it has matched to your name. The good news is that the score is not removed separately: it lives on the profile, so suppressing the profile takes it with it.
Use the privacy request form, not the profile claim
File at mylife.com/privacyrequest, which is the CCPA-based deletion route. Do not go through the flow that invites you to claim or manage your profile, because that is an account signup on a site you are trying to leave, and it does not delete anything. Submit the request, then verify from the email MyLife sends. Expect one to two weeks for the profile and its score to disappear, which is slower than most of this category.
The email fallback, and how to word it
When the form fails, and it does fail, email [email protected] or [email protected] with your full name and a direct link to your profile. State plainly that you are opting out and requesting permanent deletion of your personal information under applicable privacy law, and ask for written confirmation once it is done. Naming a statute matters here: a request citing the CCPA starts a legal clock, while a politely worded complaint joins a queue.
Never pay MyLife to fix your own score
MyLife has a long history of steering people who find an unflattering score toward a paid subscription. Removal is free. Under the CCPA and comparable state laws you are entitled to deletion at no cost, and no site in this category may charge you to take down a listing about you. If you are being asked for a card to remove your own data, you are in the wrong flow, so back out and use the privacy request route.
Diary a re-check for three months out
MyLife relists more aggressively than most, commonly rebuilding profiles every three to six months from fresh public-record and marketing imports. A returning profile is not a failed removal, it is a new record the old suppression never matched. Keep your confirmation email, because re-filing is faster when you can point to the earlier request, and put a reminder in the calendar rather than trusting yourself to notice.
Much of what MyLife publishes about you started as a public record before it was bought and repackaged. Our guide to removing public records from the internet covers which of those source records can actually be sealed or redacted and which ones only come down at the commercial-copy layer. If what prompted this was an upcoming job or rental application, read background check removal first, because a listing like this one and the screening report an employer actually buys are two different things with two different fixes.
After removal
Will MyLife put you back?
MyLife has a high relisting risk. It re-ingests public records often, so a removed profile can reappear within weeks once a new record source is pulled in. A one-time opt-out is rarely permanent here, which is why we re-scan and re-file automatically.
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 MyLife 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 $14.50/mo billed yearly ($29 monthly) for one person, $24.50/mo yearly ($49 monthly) for a family of five, and $74.50/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
MyLife removal questions
Filed correctly with the confirmation clicked, MyLife 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.
MyLife has a high relisting risk. It re-ingests public records often, so a removed profile can reappear within weeks once a new record source is pulled in. A one-time opt-out is rarely permanent here, which is why we re-scan and re-file automatically.
Under the CCPA and CPRA (California Civil Code section 1798.105), a resident can require a business to delete the personal information it collected. MyLife processes deletion requests through the route below, and in practice most people-search sites extend the same process nationwide.
Yes. The MyLife 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.