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 Phones & Emails tab of the Manage Profile page
Add your phone numbers and email addresses that you'd like scanned
Click the three little dots to the right of the email and/or phone number 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 for scans at this time. However, Optery's engineering team is actively working on providing more configuration options such as the ability to run scans on demand for multiple email addresses and phone numbers.
The Phone & Email Scan Preferences feature default setting is OFF. Learn more on our Help Desk article Does Optery share the email addresses or phone numbers I provide with data brokers when opting me out?.
Optery does not consider searching for an email or phone number at data brokers as a privacy or security risk, however some people do. If you search for an email or phone number at a data broker, by definition, you are providing it to them, which some people are not comfortable with. If you do not want your email or phone number searched for 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.
To reiterate 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 is when Optery pro-actively searches for your phone and/or email address at a data broker to locate and attempt to remove your profile. We currently do not support multiple phone and email records for the "Use for Scan" feature. Only one phone and and email may be designated as primary "Use for Scan" at this time. In the future, we plan to support scanning for more than one phone and email address.
Matching is when 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 is you (i.e. is matched to you). In this case, if the data broker is listing your phone or email, and we have a match for that in our records of what you've provided, that enables us to flag the profile as yours for screenshots and removals.
You can learn more about this topic on our Help Desk article Does Optery share the email addresses or phone numbers I provide with data brokers when opting me out?.
To Do This
Navigate to the Phones & Emails tab of the Manage Profile page
Add your phone numbers and email addresses that you'd like scanned
Click the three little dots to the right of the email and/or phone number 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 for scans at this time. However, Optery's engineering team is actively working on providing more configuration options such as the ability to run scans on demand for multiple email addresses and phone numbers.
The Phone & Email Scan Preferences feature default setting is OFF. Learn more on our Help Desk article Does Optery share the email addresses or phone numbers I provide with data brokers when opting me out?.
Optery does not consider searching for an email or phone number at data brokers as a privacy or security risk, however some people do. If you search for an email or phone number at a data broker, by definition, you are providing it to them, which some people are not comfortable with. If you do not want your email or phone number searched for 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.
To reiterate 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."
Other Notes
Scanning is when Optery pro-actively searches for your phone and/or email address at a data broker to locate and attempt to remove your profile. We currently do not support multiple phone and email records for the "Use for Scan" feature. Only one phone and and email may be designated as primary "Use for Scan" at this time. In the future, we plan to support scanning for more than one phone and email address.
Matching is when 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 is you (i.e. is matched to you). In this case, if the data broker is listing your phone or email, and we have a match for that in our records of what you've provided, that enables us to flag the profile as yours for screenshots and removals.
You can learn more about this topic on our Help Desk article Does Optery share the email addresses or phone numbers I provide with data brokers when opting me out?.
Updated on: 21/02/2024
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