How to remove yourself from MyLife
MyLife's free removal form is at mylife.com/privacyrequest, linked as Do Not Sell My Personal Information in its footer. You give your name, street address, state and birth year, and can add a profile URL. No account or payment is needed.
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Key takeaways
- Open mylife.com/privacyrequest and choose deletion, not only opt-out of sale, so matching profile listings are removed.
- The form asks for your name, street address, state and birth year. A profile URL, middle initial and maiden name are optional but help it find the right record.
- You do not need a MyLife account, and you never need to pay. MyLife's own form says no account is required.
- MyLife profiles show a "reputation score" and invite paid reviews. Removing the profile removes those too.
What MyLife shows, and why it is worth removing
MyLife is a people-search site with a twist: alongside the usual age, past addresses, phone numbers and relatives, each profile carries a “reputation” framing and invites visitors to leave reviews or buy a background report. For most people that profile ranks high when someone searches their name. That is why MyLife listings show up so often in a self-search.
In 2020 the Justice Department, on behalf of the FTC, sued MyLife and its CEO, alleging the site used misleading claims that people had criminal or sex-offender records to sell subscriptions. In December 2021 they settled: the company and its CEO were banned from negative-option (auto-renewing) offers and ordered to pay money for consumer refunds (FTC, December 2021). That history is a good reason not to buy anything from the site while you are there. Removing yourself is free.
Step 1: find your MyLife profile
Search your full name and state on mylife.com. Open each result that matches you (same age range, city or relatives) and copy the address from your browser’s address bar. The form treats the profile URL as optional, but it is the surest way to point MyLife at the right record, especially if you share a common name.
Search more than once: with and without your middle initial, under a maiden or former name, and in each state you have lived in recently. Keep a short list of every URL that is you.
Do not sign up to see your own profile
Step 2: submit the request at mylife.com/privacyrequest
As of October 2026 the form, reached from the Do Not Sell My Personal Information link in MyLife’s footer, works like this:
- Open mylife.com/privacyrequest.
- Choose the request type. The form offers opt-out of sale and deletion; the deletion option is the one that removes matching profile listings.
- Enter your first and last name, street address, city, state and ZIP code, and your birth year.
- Add the optional details that help it match: middle initial, maiden or alias name, and the profile URL you copied.
- Add an email address if you want a confirmation. MyLife’s form says it will also unsubscribe that address and delete any account registered with it.
- Complete the human check and submit.
MyLife’s form says requests are processed within the time limits the law requires, and that requests sent by California residents through its other channels are handled within 15 business days. Expect it to take longer than the 1 to 3 days some other sites quote.
Use an alias for the confirmation
Step 3: check it worked, and clean up search results
After a couple of weeks, reopen each profile URL and repeat your name search. If a profile is still there, submit the form again with that exact URL.
Search engines can keep showing a MyLife title and snippet after the page is gone. Use Google’s Remove outdated content tool for a dead page, and Results about you for any result that still shows your phone number or home address.
Removing a MyLife profile does not touch the records it was built from, such as property or court records, and it does nothing for other people-search sites. Work through the others with our data broker opt-out list. California residents can add the state’s free DROP request, which reaches registered data brokers in one go.
If you would rather not repeat this every few months
Profiles come back when new records arrive, often under a new URL. A removal service watches for that and resubmits for you. It cannot remove public records at the source either, so try the free route once first.
We compare Optery with DeleteMe, Incogni and others in data removal services compared.
Common questions
How do I remove my profile from MyLife?
Use MyLife's free form at mylife.com/privacyrequest, linked as Do Not Sell My Personal Information in the site footer. Choose deletion, enter your name, street address, state and birth year, add your profile URL if you have it, and submit. No account or payment is required.
Does MyLife charge to delete my information?
No. MyLife's privacy request form is free and says no account is required. Any page asking for payment to fix or remove your profile is a sales page, not the removal form.
How long does a MyLife removal take?
MyLife's form says it processes requests within legally required time frames, and says requests from California residents sent by email or mail are processed within 15 business days. Check again after about two weeks.
Why is my MyLife profile back?
New public records can create a fresh profile with a new URL. Search your name again every few months and submit a new request with the new URL.
Your next step
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Best for: People who want their address and phone number off people-search sites without doing dozens of opt-outs by hand.
Not for: Anyone willing to do the opt-outs themselves for free, or whose main worry is public records: no service can remove those.
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