Find the exact listing before you file
Search your full name in quotes, add your city, and open the BeenVerified result that comes back. Copy the exact URL out of the address bar and keep it where you can paste from. Write down every address and every relative's name the page shows you, because those are the details their matcher has to line up against when you ask for the page to come down.
While you're looking, note who else is holding your first page. Nothing in their privacy policy or their terms attaches a fee to a removal request. The terms say one thing about the whole process: if you wish to remove your personal information from the Site, please visit the Opt-out page. That sentence is everything they say about it.
Open the opt-out on a normal browser and a normal connection
The form is at beenverified.com/svc/optout/search/. The short address most guides print, /optout, still redirects there, and so does the older /app/optout/search, which means a stale link forwards instead of failing. But /opt-out/, /do-not-sell/, /ccpa/ and /dsar/ are all 404s, checked September 8, 2026, so a guide pointing you at one of those hasn't been opened in a long time.
Load it in a regular browser on your home connection. The opt-out is the most bot-hostile page on the domain. The homepage serves instantly, but this one answers automated clients with a challenge they don't clear. A VPN, a locked-down work network or an automated removal tool can stall here, and a tool that stalls can still hand you a receipt. Verify by searching your own name afterward, and never trust a confirmation screen.
If the form won't load, email the request instead
Their privacy policy sanctions it outright. Section 18.3 says you may exercise your opt-out, access or deletion rights by filling out our online request form, emailing us at privacy@beenverified.com, or contacting us via the phone number or postal address listed above. Email is one of the three routes they name themselves, and it goes around the challenge wall completely.
Give them what their matcher needs. Their policy tells an authorized agent that a delete or right-to-know request has to carry first, middle and last name, a valid email address, age and address. Hand over that same set for yourself, plus every address the listing displays and the exact profile URLs you copied. The postal address it keeps referring to is a dead end, because the only postal addresses it lists are its EU and UK data-protection representatives, and it never lists a phone number at all.
Their general contact form loads normally and has a Do Not Sell My Info topic in its dropdown. It isn't the documented opt-out route. Send it as a second copy of your request, not as the request.
Two forms, and the one their own policy uses
There are two opt-out flows, and BeenVerified never explains the difference between them. The footer link, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, goes to /svc/optout/search/optouts. The privacy policy's own online request form link goes somewhere different, and that's the one it hands you for right to know, right to delete and right to opt out: /svc/optout/search/comprehensive_optouts.
Use the one their policy uses for rights requests. Nothing published anywhere says what the comprehensive flow adds, so pick the narrower one and you could be under-removed with nothing on screen to say so. If you're emailing instead of using a form, name the rights you're exercising in the message: opt out and delete. Don't just ask them to remove you.
What comes back, and how long their own numbers say it takes
No page states how long the listing takes to disappear. What BeenVerified publishes is its 2025 California request metrics, and those measure time to respond, not time to vanish. Opt-out requests averaged 9 days with a median of 10, and delete requests averaged 4 with a median of 1. Their California notice separately promises a response to a verifiable request within forty-five days, extendable to ninety with written notice, so anyone quoting you 24 hours invented it.
The same page shows which requests get refused. Opt-outs: 68,352 received, 68,352 complied with, none denied. Requests to Know: 660 received and 342 denied. So the suppression request sails through, while the request that would tell you what they actually hold gets turned down, and don't re-file to be safe either, because their listed denial reasons include prior removal under another request, including duplicate submissions.
Live in Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas or Virginia, and got refused? You have a right to appeal. Email privacy@beenverified.com, say which state you're writing from, and attach what you have. If the appeal fails, the policy links your state Attorney General, and that complaint is your practical lever. BeenVerified isn't a consumer reporting agency, so no FCRA dispute rights attach, and their terms force individual arbitration with a class-action waiver.
Do the other eight the same day
One company. Nine sites. Nine separate forms. BeenVerified never says a single request covers the other eight. Each of these redirects into that brand's own opt-out: PeopleLooker, NeighborWho, Ownerly, NumberGuru, Bumper, PeopleSmart, ReversePhone and MoneyBot5000.
Do them in one sitting, while your addresses and URLs are already in front of you. Same name, same details, same anti-bot page waiting on every one. Keep the list somewhere, because you'll need it again at the re-check.
Check it again, and what to do if Google still shows it
Search your name in quotes a week after you file, then again a month later. Say the BeenVerified page no longer shows your data but the Google result is still sitting there. That's an index problem, not a removal problem, so push the URL through Google's Remove Outdated Content tool, which only works once the live page has actually changed.
Then re-check every quarter, and again straight after you move or change your name. Their own footnote is the reason. Where the data came from an outside source, that source was never touched and keeps feeding them, and a fresh ingestion under a slightly different spelling of your name or address builds a new record your old opt-out doesn't cover. Nothing notifies you when that happens.
Be clear about what none of this does. It doesn't delete the underlying record, it doesn't reach the public sources that record came from, and it doesn't stop a new listing forming. Doing it yourself means nine forms today, then a search you have to remember to run every quarter after that.