• Do Not share your personal email or pay any money to data brokers linked to from Optery

  When you submit opt-out requests directly to data brokers, use a separate email address created only for opt-outs, and keep your personal email private. Opt-out requests are free, so there's no need to make any payment to a data broker. These two steps keep your primary inbox protected while you remove your information. Why Optery Links to Data Broker Opt-Out Pages Optery believes everyone should have a way to remove their information from data brokers, including at no cost. That's whySome readers

• The Dishonorable Data Broker List

  Dishonorable Data Brokers use tactics to avoid fulfilling privacy requests. See who is on the Dishonorable Data Broker List, How Optery is Pushing Back, and What You Can Do about them.Popular

• Opt Out Coverage Limitations for Epsilon

  Currently, Optery delivers opt outs requests to Epsilon for their "Do not sell my personal information" opt out request type only. This provides some privacy benefits, but will not completely remove you from Epsilon's vast databases across its product portfolio. In the near future, Optery plans to provide more comprehensive opt outs and removals for Epsilon. After Optery completes the "Do not sell" opt out for Epsilon, Epsilon will still retain your information for other products and services in its portfolio. What this means is that even after Optery completes your opt out request, if you submit a data access request to Epsilon, you will likely receive a large summary of information about you that they are still retaining. Optery customers should be aware of this current limitation.Few readers

• Opt out coverage limitations for Acxiom

  Today, Optery's opt out service only delivers opt out requests for Acxiom's marketing data products. This provides our customers some privacy benefits, but will not completely remove you from Acxiom's vast databases. In the future, we do plan to offer more comprehensive and thorough opt outs and removals for Axciom. Even though Optery's removals services for Acxiom are limited today, we prefer not to give them a free pass, and this is why we still deliver opt out requests for Acxiom's marketing data products.Few readers

• Why do I see strangers listed as associated or related individuals on my profile?

  Sometimes you will find a data broker profile with your name that also lists people you have never met as your "Relatives" or "Associates." These errors are a systemic part of the data broker industry. Data brokers are not likely to verify your individual family tree through official birth or marriage records. Instead, they use data points they collect—like property records, utility bills, and credit card purchases—and try to make a best guess as to who is connected to you. If two people shareFew readers