How to Remove Yourself From MyLife in 2026
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Opt-out forms and policies change; we checked this one on 10/09/2026.
Quick answer: You can opt out of MyLife for free: find your profile with the “This is Me” search, then send MyLife's privacy request with your profile URL and an email code. MyLife's site didn't open from our connection on 10/09/2026, so the steps below come from its archived pages, its policy and an outside guide.
- You need your name, city, ZIP code, the URL of your MyLife profile and an email address for a verification code. No account or payment.
- MyLife's policy gives no time frame. One owner on BBB was told to allow 35 business days.
- MyLife builds profiles from public records and can list you again. A removal service makes sense when MyLife is one of many sites to clear.
What MyLife shows about you (and where it gets it)
MyLife.com, Inc. runs people-search profiles it calls “Reputation Profiles.” Its archived homepage (09/04/2026) invites you to “Check Anyone’s Reputation or Just Get in Touch” and promises background checks, contact details and reputation scores. The search box has a “This is Me” toggle for people looking up themselves.
MyLife’s privacy policy (updated 08/20/2026) says it collects names, addresses, phone numbers and more from “publicly available sources” and other data providers. It also describes a profile-claiming feature: a non-member can claim a Public Profile by verifying their identity, then edit which fields show.
I couldn’t open mylife.com on 10/09/2026. Every page, including the privacy request form, sat behind a security check that never finished from our connection. The steps below come from MyLife’s archived pages and policy, from Redact’s walk-through (updated 05/21/2026, and Redact sells its own removal tool) and from what owners describe on BBB.
Step 1: Find your profile with “This is Me”
On the homepage, type your name, flip the “This is Me” toggle and click Search. On the results page, open the listing that’s you. Per Redact, the button reads “View Reputation Profile.”
MyLife then shows a “gathering information” screen with checkboxes and a box labeled “This is me - Needed to Edit Public Profile.” Redact says to check it, click Continue and wait: the animation runs for a few minutes. MyLife may offer a paid membership along the way. You don’t need it to opt out.
Step 2: Copy your profile URL and open the privacy request form
When the animation ends, you land on your profile page. Copy the address from the browser bar. You’ll paste it into the form.
Then go to mylife.com/privacyrequest, the page MyLife titles “MyLife Opt-Out Form.” The Wayback Machine has a snapshot from 09/08/2026, but the form loads with scripts, so the archive shows only the title. By Redact’s guide, the required fields are your state, first and last name, city and ZIP code, and an email validator. The last field is labeled “Enter the profile URL for your profile listing.”
The policy backs this up. It says removal requests for a Member Profile or Public Profile go through the Help section or Customer Care. MyLife adds that it “will take reasonable steps to validate that you are the correct owner of the profile.”
Step 3: Confirm by email code
Per Redact, you enter your email, click Verify Email, then paste the numeric code MyLife sends into the same field. It’s a code, not a link. After the URL field there’s a reCAPTCHA box, then Submit. MyLife shows a confirmation page and sends a confirmation email.
Give only what the form requires. One BBB complaint (06/20/2026) says the email verification step was broken for that person. If the code doesn’t arrive, Redact suggests trying another address or emailing privacy@mylife.com with the profile link.
Step 4: Wait and check again
MyLife’s policy gives no time frame for profile removal (its only number, seven to ten days, is for unsubscribing from marketing email). A BBB complainant wrote on 09/12/2026 that MyLife had told them “to allow 35 business days for my account and profile to be completely removed.” MyLife’s replies on BBB say the user account and “any profiles that may have been published on MyLife.com” were deleted on receipt.
After a few weeks, search your name on mylife.com in a private window. If a listing remains, MyLife’s standard BBB reply asks for “the specific link (URL) for the profile page” and says it can remove the page once it has the link.
What came back: why your profile can reappear
MyLife’s policy says that after removal “some portions of the information contained in your profile may remain in our backup systems.” It builds profiles from public records, so a new record can produce a new listing. Redact rates the re-listing risk as high and suggests a check every 90 days.
The same BBB complainant from 09/12/2026 described a half-removal: the Reputation Profile went blank, but a search-result listing with their name stayed up.
No opt-out removes your data permanently. MyLife can list you again from new records, so search for yourself again every few months.
MyLife’s FTC case, and what it means for your request
In July 2020 the Department of Justice sued MyLife and its CEO on the FTC’s behalf in the Central District of California. The FTC’s press release of 07/27/2020 says MyLife’s search results implied “often falsely, that the subject of a search may have records of criminal or sexual offenses.” It also says MyLife was a consumer reporting agency that didn’t follow the Fair Credit Reporting Act’s rules on permissible purpose and accuracy.
The complaint also covered auto-renewing subscriptions that were hard to cancel.
The court entered a stipulated order on 12/15/2021 (No. 2:20-cv-06692). It permanently bans MyLife and its CEO from offering any product with a negative option feature and requires a Fair Credit Reporting Act monitoring program. The judgments are $28,945,968 against the company and $5,000,000 against the CEO, with MyLife paying $16,000,000.
None of it gives you a removal right. But it’s why MyLife’s “court records found” banners deserve a second look before you panic about what’s on your profile.
Extra rights in California and other states
MyLife’s CCPA section (last modified 04/09/2026) covers California residents. They can opt out of the sale of their data through its “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” link or by email. Deletion, access and correction requests go by email. It answers within 45 days, extendable once by 45 more.
The same section notes that deletion rights “only apply to information that we have collected ‘from’ consumers,” which it says doesn’t cover much of its database. That’s why the profile removal request above is the path that matters.
Opt-out rights vary by state. California residents can also use the CCPA “Delete my personal information” request (CCPA, California Attorney General).
What owners report
Reddit blocked our connection, so I read BBB. Mylife.com, Inc. isn’t BBB-accredited and has 528 complaints in three years (10/09/2026). Of the 20 latest (06/17/2026 to 09/14/2026), 14 were about removing a profile or false data in it. The rest were about charges and cancellations.
- One said the free opt-out “phone lines and web forms produce error message and disconnect calls” and that editing required a paid subscription (08/31/2026, unanswered).
- One sent the “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” form and was still listed (06/30/2026).
- Two said their profiles showed court records that had been expunged (06/17/2026 and 07/31/2026).
MyLife answered 19 of the 20. Its replies follow one template: the account and profiles were deleted, and if anything remains, send the profile URL or name variations for a second review. So a BBB complaint with the profile link has worked for others.
When a removal service is cheaper than your time
MyLife is one request, but it’s a slow one: a profile claim, a wait through the animation, and a form with a code and a captcha. Then weeks of waiting, repeated when the profile comes back. OneRep’s published list alone has 314 people-search sites (10/09/2026).
If you’d rather hand it off, I’d look at Optery. Its Core plan lists MyLife, and Core was $39 a year on 10/09/2026, the cheapest plan on any published list that includes mylife.com. The free Basic account scans first, without a card, so you can see your MyLife profile before paying.
Its Core checkout didn’t show a total or renewal price before asking for a card. More in the Optery review.
See Optery plansAffiliate link · how it works →
| Service | MyLife on its published list (10/08/2026) | Cheapest plan that lists it |
|---|---|---|
| Optery | Yes, from Core | Core, $39/year |
| Incogni | Yes, every plan | Standard, $95.88/year |
| OneRep | Yes, people-search list on every plan | Individual, $99.95/year |
| Cloaked | Yes | Individual, $119.99/year |
| DeleteMe | Yes, marked Standard | Standard, $129/year |
More on each: Incogni review · OneRep review · DeleteMe review · best data removal services.
Other people-search sites to opt out of
- Intelius opt-out
- Whitepages opt-out
- BeenVerified opt-out
- TruthFinder opt-out
- FastPeopleSearch opt-out
- PeopleFinders opt-out
- All data broker opt-outs
- How to remove your personal information from the internet
What we checked
- mylife.com, its search and its privacy request form: not opened on 10/09/2026, a Cloudflare check blocked our connection with no way through. No form sent, no test search
- MyLife's homepage (archived 09/04/2026) and privacy policy with its CCPA section (updated 08/20/2026, archived 10/01/2026) from the Wayback Machine
- Form fields and steps: from Redact's guide (updated 05/21/2026), not from our own run
- FTC press releases of 07/27/2020 and 12/16/2021 and the stipulated order entered 12/15/2021, read on ftc.gov
- Owners: 20 most recent BBB complaints about Mylife.com, Inc. (06/17/2026–09/14/2026) and MyLife's replies; Reddit blocked our connection
- Removal services: published coverage lists of OneRep, Optery, DeleteMe, Incogni and Cloaked (10/08/2026); Optery's list re-checked 10/09/2026
- Where the run stopped: mylife.com and its privacy request form didn't open from our connection on 10/09/2026 (a Cloudflare check with no way through), so the steps come from MyLife's archived site and policy, an outside guide and BBB complaints, not from our own form run
FAQ
Is MyLife opt-out free?
Yes. MyLife's privacy policy (updated 08/20/2026) says you can ask it to remove a Public Profile through its Help section or Customer Care, with no fee mentioned. Redact's guide says the same: the paid membership MyLife offers during the flow isn't needed for removal.
How long does MyLife take to remove a profile?
MyLife's policy doesn't give a number. One BBB complaint from 09/12/2026 says MyLife told the person to allow 35 business days. Its emails to BBB complainants say the account and profiles were deleted on receipt of the request. Search your name again after a few weeks.
Why is my information back on MyLife?
MyLife's policy says that after removal, some information “may remain in our backup systems,” and it builds profiles from public records that it can collect again. Redact rates MyLife's re-listing risk as high and suggests a check every 90 days.
Do I have to give MyLife my email address?
By Redact's walk-through, yes: the privacy request form sends a numeric code to your email and won't submit without it. Give an address you can open right away. MyLife keeps it on file to confirm the request.
What was the FTC case against MyLife about?
In July 2020 the Department of Justice sued MyLife on the FTC's behalf. The complaint said its teaser reports implied, often falsely, that people had criminal or sex offender records. It also said MyLife acted as a consumer reporting agency without following the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The December 2021 order bans MyLife from negative option offers and requires an FCRA monitoring program.
Does a removal service cover MyLife?
Yes, most do. On their published lists (10/08/2026), Optery covers MyLife from its Core plan, Incogni and OneRep on every plan, DeleteMe on Standard, and Cloaked lists it too.