Guides · 27 September 2026 · 6 min read

How to Get Off Radaris

A step-by-step guide to removing your personal information from Radaris, plus what to expect afterwards and why listings often come back.

To get off Radaris, find your profile on the site, use its control or removal option to request that the listing be hidden, and confirm the request by email. Radaris ties removal to an account or an email verification step, so you will need access to a working inbox. The process is free and takes a few minutes, but expect to repeat it later because the data tends to reappear.

Below is the full method, what each step involves, and the limits you should know before you start.

Before you start

Radaris pulls its records from other sources. It combines public records with data bought or licensed from other brokers and marketing feeds. That has two consequences worth understanding up front.

• Removal is not permanent. When Radaris refreshes its data from those upstream feeds, a profile you hid can be rebuilt. Listings often return within a few months. This is normal and not a sign you did anything wrong.
• Public records cannot be deleted. Court filings, property ownership, corporate registrations and voter roll entries are public by law. Radaris may display information drawn from these sources, and hiding a profile does not erase the underlying records. You can suppress how Radaris presents them, not the records themselves.

Find your profile first

You cannot remove a listing until you know exactly which one is yours.

1. Go to Radaris and search for your full name. Add your city or state to narrow the results if the name is common.
2. Open the profile that matches you. Check the listed ages, past addresses and relatives to confirm it is really you and not someone with the same name.
3. Note the address of that profile page. You may need it to identify the record during the removal request. If several profiles refer to you, you will have to handle each one separately.

How to remove your Radaris listing

Radaris handles removals through a self-service control tied to the individual profile. The exact wording of the buttons can change, so follow the intent of each step rather than expecting an identical label.

1. On your profile page, look for the option to control or manage the information shown. This is usually reached through a link on the listing itself rather than a separate opt-out page.
2. Select the option to remove or hide the profile. Radaris will ask you to confirm ownership before it acts.
3. Provide the email address it requests. Use an address you can access straight away, because verification depends on it.
4. Open the email Radaris sends and click the confirmation link inside. The request is not processed until you complete this step. Check your spam folder if nothing arrives within a short while.
5. Follow any remaining prompts to finish. Some records ask you to confirm which pieces of information should be suppressed.

After you confirm, the listing should stop appearing in Radaris search results. It may take a little time to drop out of view rather than vanishing instantly.

Send a CCPA deletion demand

If you are a California resident, you have a further right under the California Consumer Privacy Act to ask a business to delete the personal information it holds about you. This is separate from hiding a public profile.

1. Look for the privacy section in the Radaris site footer. Businesses subject to the CCPA are required to provide a way to submit deletion and access requests.
2. Submit a request to delete your personal information. State clearly that you are exercising your rights under the CCPA and that you want your data deleted.
3. Include enough detail for them to find your records, such as your name and the addresses shown on the profile. Do not send more sensitive information than they actually need.
4. Keep a copy of what you send and any reference number or reply you receive. This is useful if you have to follow up.

Note that the CCPA applies to residents of California. If you live elsewhere, your local law may give you similar rights, or none at all. The self-service removal above is open to everyone regardless of location.

Check the result

Wait a few days, then search for your name again in a private or incognito browser window so old results are not cached. Confirm the profile no longer appears. If it is still visible, repeat the confirmation step, as an unclicked email link is the most common reason a request stalls.

Why your listing may come back

Radaris is one broker among many, and they feed off each other. Even after a clean removal, your details can reappear because:

• An upstream source still holds the data and passes it back into Radaris during a refresh.
• A public record you cannot delete gets re-indexed and rebuilt into a new profile.
• A related broker republishes the same information under a slightly different profile.

Because of this, treat removal as maintenance rather than a one-off task. Set a reminder to search for yourself every few months and repeat the process whenever a new listing appears. Reducing your exposure across several brokers at once slows down how quickly any single one can rebuild.

Reduce the source data too

Hiding profiles helps, but the fewer active feeds carry your details, the less there is to rebuild from. Practical steps include opting out of other people-search sites you find yourself on, limiting how often you hand over your address and phone number to sign up for services, and keeping a note of which brokers you have already contacted so you can check them again later.

Doing this at scale

Removing yourself from one broker is manageable. The problem is that there are dozens of them, each with its own process, and each rebuilds on its own schedule. Doing all of this by hand and repeating it every few months is a real time cost.

Vanish is a Mac app that automates this. It finds where data brokers publish your personal information and sends CCPA deletion demands on your behalf, then keeps checking as listings return. It is one option if you would rather not track every broker manually. Either way, the manual method above works and costs nothing.