Configuring Your Phone and Email Scan Preferences
You can improve your scan results by opting in your emails and/or phone numbers for Optery scans
Navigate to the Emails tab of the Manage Profile page.
Add the email addresses you’d like scanned.
Click the "Use for scan" option near the respective email (on desktop) or the three little dots to the right of the email (on mobile) you’d like used for your scans.
Toggle ON or OFF the mark for scan / use for scan setting.
Navigate to the Phones tab of the Manage Profile page.
Add the phone numbers you’d like scanned.
Click the "Use for scan" option near the respective phone number (on desktop) or the three little dots to the right of the phone number (on mobile) you’d like used for your scans.
Toggle ON or OFF the mark for scan / use for scan setting.
You can only select one email and one phone number at a time for scanning. Optery's engineering team is working on adding more configuration options, such as running scans on demand for multiple email addresses and phone numbers.
The default setting for the Phone & Email Scan Preferences feature is OFF, which means that you must opt-in to using the phone numbers and emails you input for scans.
Optery does not consider searching for an email or phone number at data brokers as a privacy or security risk, although some people do. If you do not want your email or phone number searched at data broker sites, or if you view this as a risk, do not use this feature and leave it in its default setting OFF.
From the Optery Privacy Policy : "Optery does not sell or rent personal information to any third parties for any purpose. Optery is not a data broker."
Scanning Optery proactively searches for your phone and/or email address at data brokers to locate and attempt to remove your profile. Currently, only one phone and one email can be designated for the "Use for Scan" feature at a time. Future updates will support scanning for multiple phone numbers and email addresses.
Matching Optery compares the contents of the scan results with the information you provided in your Optery profile (such as your name, city, state, age, phone number, and email) to determine if the profile found matches you. If the data broker lists your phone or email, and we have a match, we can flag the profile for screenshots and removals.
Learn more about this topic in our Help Desk article: Does Optery share the email addresses or phone numbers I provide with data brokers when opting me out? .
To Configure This for Your Email
Navigate to the Emails tab of the Manage Profile page.
Add the email addresses you’d like scanned.
Click the "Use for scan" option near the respective email (on desktop) or the three little dots to the right of the email (on mobile) you’d like used for your scans.
Toggle ON or OFF the mark for scan / use for scan setting.
To Configure This for Your Phone Number
Navigate to the Phones tab of the Manage Profile page.
Add the phone numbers you’d like scanned.
Click the "Use for scan" option near the respective phone number (on desktop) or the three little dots to the right of the phone number (on mobile) you’d like used for your scans.
Toggle ON or OFF the mark for scan / use for scan setting.
Important Notes
You can only select one email and one phone number at a time for scanning. Optery's engineering team is working on adding more configuration options, such as running scans on demand for multiple email addresses and phone numbers.
The default setting for the Phone & Email Scan Preferences feature is OFF, which means that you must opt-in to using the phone numbers and emails you input for scans.
Optery does not consider searching for an email or phone number at data brokers as a privacy or security risk, although some people do. If you do not want your email or phone number searched at data broker sites, or if you view this as a risk, do not use this feature and leave it in its default setting OFF.
From the Optery Privacy Policy : "Optery does not sell or rent personal information to any third parties for any purpose. Optery is not a data broker."
Definitions
Scanning Optery proactively searches for your phone and/or email address at data brokers to locate and attempt to remove your profile. Currently, only one phone and one email can be designated for the "Use for Scan" feature at a time. Future updates will support scanning for multiple phone numbers and email addresses.
Matching Optery compares the contents of the scan results with the information you provided in your Optery profile (such as your name, city, state, age, phone number, and email) to determine if the profile found matches you. If the data broker lists your phone or email, and we have a match, we can flag the profile for screenshots and removals.
Learn more about this topic in our Help Desk article: Does Optery share the email addresses or phone numbers I provide with data brokers when opting me out? .
Updated on: 06/11/2024
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