MyLife Opt-Out: Remove Your Profile & Reputation Score (2026)

Search your own name and there is a decent chance MyLife shows up near the top, flashing a "Reputation Score" next to your face and teasing that there might be court records, arrests, or worse hiding behind a paywall. It is one of the more aggressive people-search sites online, and it has the legal track record to prove it: in 2020 the FTC and Department of Justice sued MyLife for deceptive background reports, and the 2021 settlement banned the practice and put roughly 21 million dollars on the table for misled consumers. Opting out is free and takes a few minutes. The catch is that it does not stay gone, and MyLife is one broker out of dozens. This guide walks the exact 2026 removal flow by web form, phone, and email, explains the Reputation Score problem honestly, and shows you how to make the cleanup count.

What MyLife knows about you

MyLife stitches together public records, white-page directories, social profiles, marketing lists, and user-submitted reviews into one searchable page, then attaches a score. A typical listing can expose:

• Full name, age, and date of birth
• Current and past home addresses
• Phone numbers and email addresses tied to you
• Relatives, household members, and known associates
• Employment, education, and estimated income or net worth
• A "Reputation Score" plus teasers hinting at court, criminal, or financial records

The teaser is the part that gets MyLife in trouble: the page is designed to make you anxious about what a stranger might find, then funnel you toward a paid subscription to "see the full report." That fear-then-upsell pattern is exactly what regulators went after.

The Reputation Score problem

MyLife assigns people a "Reputation Score" on a 1-to-5 scale, presented as if it were an objective rating drawn from "government, social, and other sources, plus personal reviews written by others." It is not a credit score, not a court finding, and not an official anything. It is a number MyLife generates, and it can be dragged down by reviews from people you have never met.

This is not just opinion. In July 2020 the DOJ, acting for the FTC, charged MyLife and CEO Jeffrey Tinsley with showing teaser reports that implied a person had arrest, criminal, or sex-offender records even when none existed, to push consumers into hard-to-cancel auto-renewing subscriptions — citing the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act, and the Telemarketing Sales Rule. The December 2021 settlement banned that deceptive negative-option marketing and ordered about 21 million dollars in consumer redress, part of judgments totaling roughly 33.9 million dollars. The takeaway: a low MyLife Reputation Score is a marketing device, not a verdict on your character, and you are well within your rights to remove the whole listing.

The MyLife opt-out, step by step

There are three free removal routes. Use the web form first; fall back to phone or email if it gives you trouble or you cannot locate your listing. You never need an account, and you should never pay to remove your own data.

Option 1: The web form (most reliable)

1. Find your listing first. Go to mylife.com, search your name (ideally with a city you have lived in), open the profile that is genuinely you, and copy the full URL from your address bar.
2. Open the opt-out form. Scroll to the bottom of any MyLife page and click Do Not Sell My Personal Information. That link opens the official removal form (the same flow is also described in MyLife's footer FAQ).
3. Paste the listing URL into the box, and select your state of residence if asked.
4. Enter a confirmation email. MyLife uses it only to verify the request, so a secondary or alias address is fine — there is no reason to hand a broker your primary inbox.
5. Solve the CAPTCHA and submit.
6. Confirm via the email. This is the step people skip. MyLife emails a verification link or code; the opt-out is not active until you click the link or re-enter the code. Check spam if it does not arrive within a few minutes.

Option 2: By phone

Call MyLife at (888) 704-1900, Monday through Friday, 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific. Tell them you want your profile removed and your data deleted. Have the listing URL ready if you have it. Phone is useful when the web form will not surface your exact profile.

Option 3: By email

Email privacy@mylife.com with your full name, current address, and a clear statement requesting deletion of your profile. Include any listing URLs you have already found. A written request also gives you a timestamped record, which is handy if you later need to prove you asked.

If you have lived in several places, more than one profile may genuinely be you, and each listing needs its own opt-out.

How long it takes

MyLife's stated policy allows up to 15 business days to process a removal after you confirm it. In practice, results vary: some listings drop out of search within 24 to 48 hours, others take the full window. Check back after about two weeks. If your profile is still live, do not assume it failed silently — re-run the search, grab the current URL, and submit again. Listings sometimes get a new URL when the data refreshes, which can make an already-removed profile look like it "came back" when it is really a fresh record.

Why your listing comes back (and what to do about it)

This is the part nobody likes. People-search sites are not static archives — they continuously re-ingest public records, marketing databases, and leaked data, then rebuild profiles from scratch. An opt-out clears the listing that exists today; it does not tell MyLife to stop collecting tomorrow. A new profile can reappear weeks or months later, assembled from the same sources you can never fully shut off.

The realistic approach is maintenance, not a one-time fix:

• Re-check MyLife every 60 to 90 days and resubmit if a new profile has surfaced — a calendar reminder keeps it from getting forgotten.
• Reduce what feeds the brokers. Locking your credit, keeping social profiles private, and trimming public directory listings slows how fast a new profile rebuilds.

If re-checking a dozen brokers every quarter sounds exhausting, that is the honest tradeoff of doing it yourself. Paid removal services such as DeleteMe, Optery, and Kanary automate recurring opt-outs across many sites for an annual fee — worth it if your time is scarce or your exposure is unusually high.

MyLife is one broker out of many

Here is the bigger picture most opt-out guides skip: removing yourself from MyLife does nothing for Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, Radaris, TruePeopleSearch, Intelius, or the dozens of other people-search sites holding overlapping copies of your data. Each has its own database and opt-out process. Clearing only MyLife while ignoring the rest is like locking one window in a house with the front door wide open.

That is why it pays to know exactly where you appear before spending hours on forms. Our full guide to removing your info from people-search sites covers the broader broker landscape, and our Spokeo opt-out walkthrough handles the other heavyweight that usually sits beside MyLife in search results. Because so much broker data and so many account takeovers trace back to leaked credentials, run an email breach check to see which breaches and infostealer dumps have already exposed your email, address, and passwords.

Scan yourself first, then opt out

The smartest order of operations is not to start with MyLife at all — start by seeing what is actually public about you. Running a check of your own digital footprint shows you, in one pass, which people-search sites list you, which usernames and social profiles are tied to your name, and what breach exposure you carry. That turns a blind cleanup into a targeted checklist instead of guesswork.

To be clear about what a scan can and cannot do: PrufAgent maps your public footprint and verifies real breach exposure. It does not log into private apps, delete listings for you, or claim to confirm hidden accounts with certainty. For a thin online presence, an honest "no strong matches" is a good result, not a failure — what it gives you is an accurate starting map, so your opt-out time goes to listings that genuinely exist.

The bottom line

The MyLife opt-out is free, fast, and worth doing — and given the company's history of fear-based teaser reports and a Reputation Score that is more marketing than measurement, removing your listing is one of the higher-value privacy moves you can make. Find your profile, submit the form via the Do Not Sell My Personal Information link and confirm by email, or just call (888) 704-1900 or write privacy@mylife.com. Go in with realistic expectations: removal can take up to 15 business days, your profile can rebuild within months, and MyLife is one of many brokers. Treat it as recurring maintenance, scan yourself first so you know the full scope, and the work you do will move the needle.