Start by Clicking on the "View" Links in the "Link to Profile" Column of the Dashboard

Q: Do I have to confirm "Yes, that's me" or "No, I'm not there" for each of my profile links on the Dashboard?

No - you do not need to confirm your profiles by selecting "Yes, that's me" or "No, I'm not there" for each of your profiles. This is an optional step that helps Optery improve its profile matching algorithms, but is completely optional and not required. <img src="https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/a2694c90838a2000/optery-yes-thats-me-function_psl1r6.png" alt="" />

What Optery does better than any other company, including Google, is help you quickly understand which people search sites (a type of data broker) have profiles on you and are exposing or selling your personal details to anyone in the world. Right now, we have 190+ people search data brokers in our database. Based on the information you provide when you sign up for Optery (e.g. first name, last name, middle name, birth year), we have assembled direct links to your exposed profile pages at the top data brokers.

Click the custom View links on the Dashboard to discover where you're exposed

Sometimes these links are not perfect, and other people may be listed, or you might not be there at all, but in most cases, they allow you to quickly view a snapshot of where your personal details are exposed online. The quality of our results sometimes varies, for example, if you have a common name like "John Smith" or "Mary Smith", it might be difficult to find your profiles among many others with the same name. Adding

Question 2

Do I have to confirm "Yes, that's me" or "No, I'm not there" for each of my profile links on the Dashboard?

Accepted Answer

No - you do not need to confirm your profiles by selecting "Yes, that's me" or "No, I'm not there" for each of your profiles.

This is an optional step that helps Optery improve its profile matching algorithms, but is completely optional and not required.

Question 3

What if a "View" link leads to an empty or not found page?

Accepted Answer

Clicking through and visiting the "View" links in your Dashboard is the first thing a new user should do after creating an account with Optery. These links direct you to our best initial attempt at finding pages about you at data brokers. Along with your first Exposure Report, this is a quick way to see how many data brokers are exposing your information online.

What is often confusing is that we display the “View” links for every data broker, regardless of whether we find your profile at the data broker or not. A subsequent iteration of our product will filter out the data broker “View” links if the profile is not found.

|| The "View" links are not intended to be perfect matches for your profile. Results will vary for each user, depending on your circumstances

Sometimes the "View" links are not perfect, and other people may be listed, or you might not be there at all, but in most cases, they allow you to quickly view a snapshot of where your personal details are exposed online. The quality of our results sometimes varies too, for example, if you have a common name like “John Smith” or “Mary Smith”, it might be difficult to find your profiles among many others with the same name. Adding a middle name or a full birthdate to your Optery profile often helps. Keep in mind, we are constantly improving our platform, and we have a lot of things in the works to improve these results.

If you find the "View" links too confusing or cumbersome to use, you can rely instead on yo

Question 4

Coverage Limitations for Dishonorable Data Brokers like PeekYou, Radaris, Persopo, BlockShopper, and others

Accepted Answer

This page explains Optery's coverage limitations for Dishonorable Data Brokers like PeekYou, Radaris, Persopo, BlockShopper, and others

Whereas most data brokers comply with opt out requests and completely remove personal information from their web sites without too much trouble, some data brokers like PeekYou, Radaris, and others are notoriously difficult and do not fully comply with opt out requests. We refer to these data brokers as "Dishonorable Data Brokers". For this reason, most of our competitors do not cover Dishonorable Data Brokers like data brokers listed below:

BlockShopper
Florida Residents
OkCaller
PeekYou
Persopo
PhoneOwner
PPLSCANNER
PrivateNumberChecker.com
Radaris
Verispy
VoterRecords.com
WhitePages.com

We prefer not to give Dishonorable Data Brokers a free pass, and continue to pursue multiple channels to have our customers' profiles removed from these data brokers.

| Through persistence and filing complaints with the Federal Trade Commission and State Attorney Generals offices, in many cases, we have been successful in removing profiles for our customrs, but it often takes months of time and effort.

Is there anything else we can do?

We're currently submitting complaints to the Federal Trade Commission through their ReportFraud.ftc.gov web site, and for our California-based customers, we are also submitting complaints to the California Attorney General's office. If you care about this issue as much as we do, we

Question 5

Ultimate Plan Offers Best Effort Removals for Unsupported Data Brokers through Custom Removals Requests

Accepted Answer

A unique feature of the Ultimate plan is customers can submit Custom Removals Requests for additional data broker profiles not already covered by the Ultimate plan, and we will make a best effort to remove the profile, even though it is not officially covered on our official list of covered data brokers.

|| Note: Processing Custom Removals Requests begins 30 days after the Ultimate plan subscription was purchased.

| Note: In practice approximately 75% of Optery's Custom Removals requests are successful in resulting in removing the personal information, but approximately 25% of the Custom Removals requests are unsuccessful.

Important Notes Regarding Custom Removals Requests:

Optery does not cover, and this procedure does not apply to, general web sites like blogs, news sites, community web sites, personal web sites, discussion boards, forum web sites, wiki sites, photo sites, video sites, computer programming web sites, legal records sites, documents posted online (e.g. PDFs, TXTs), or social media sites like LinkedIn, Pinterest, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, etc - Optery only removes from data brokers and people search sites.
When submitting Custom Removal Requests, you must submit the full URL(s) to the profile(s) you would like removed - Optery will not accept company names, screen shots, lists of the names of data brokers, or lists of domain names for data brokers - Custom Removals Requests must be s

Question 6

Opt out coverage limitations for Radaris

Accepted Answer

This page explains how Optery's Ultimate plan covers Radaris

Whereas most data brokers comply with opt out requests and completely remove personal information from their web sites without too much trouble, Radaris is notoriously difficult and does not fully comply with opt out requests. For this reason, most of our competitors do not cover Radaris. We prefer not to give them a free pass, and continue to pursue multiple channels to have our customers' profiles removed from Radaris. In many cases, we have been successful, but it often takes months of time and effort.

What information does Optery remove from Radaris, and what are the limitations?

Radaris has two profile types:

(a) a standard "For Sale" profile type

and

(b) a generic aggregated web scrape about your from various sources both past and present (e.g. social networks and public records)

At this time, Optery is able to successfully remove customer profiles from Radaris's standard "For Sale" profile type, however, after that profile is removed, they still do continue to publish their generic aggregated web scrape information about you.

Optery customers should be aware of this current limitation to removals from Radaris. But note that we are continuing to pursue multiple avenues in an attempt to get Radaris to fully comply with removal requests.

Is there anything else we can do?

We're currently submitting complaints to the Federal Trade Commission through their ReportFraud.ftc.gov web site, a

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