How to remove yourself from yellowbook.com
What they publish
For the People Search product (yellowbook.com/people/): known aliases, current/previous addresses, phone numbers, marital status, birth month/year, family members, plus BeenVerified-sourced records such as bankruptcy, driving, and criminal record indicators. (The rest of yellowbook.com is a conventional local-business directory, which is a separate, non-personal-data product.)
Removing yourself, step by step
0 of 6 done- Go to https://www.yellowbook.com/people/ and search your name to find your profile URL.
- Copy the profile URL/details.
- Go to https://www.beenverified.com/svc/optout/search/optouts (the link Yellowbook itself designates for this).
- Search for and select your record in BeenVerified's opt-out tool, then follow their verification steps (typically email-based).
- Confirm via any email link BeenVerified sends.
- This suppresses the underlying BeenVerified record, which should also remove/prevent the yellowbook.com People Search listing.
Tap a step to tick it off. Progress is saved in this browser only.
How they confirm it
BeenVerified's standard opt-out flow (email-based confirmation is typical of their process; not independently re-confirmed on the Yellowbook page itself)
If they ignore you
If the yellowbook.com listing persists after the BeenVerified opt-out completes, contact Hibu's privacy team directly at privacy.officerUS@hibu.com or 1-800-700-7303, or use the request form at hibu.com/legal/privacy-form. Hibu's general "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" and CCPA page is at https://hibu.com/legal/ccpa.
Re-listing risk for this site: Medium — since Yellowbook mirrors the BeenVerified index for this feature, a listing can reappear if BeenVerified re-aggregates from public records after the opt-out window.
Common questions
How do I remove myself from yellowbook.com?
Use yellowbook.com's opt-out page (beenverified.com/svc/optout/search/optouts). Or email their privacy address, privacy.officerus@hibu.com. The guide above lists 6 steps, and this page writes the removal request for you to send from your own email.
Will my information come back on yellowbook.com?
Medium — since Yellowbook mirrors the BeenVerified index for this feature, a listing can reappear if BeenVerified re-aggregates from public records after the opt-out window. Check again in about 60 days.