BeenVerified
- ID:
beenverified
- Category: people search
- Jurisdictions: public listing opt-out appears generally available; statutory privacy rights vary by residence
- Review status: limited guidance; live form not readable during review
- Last reviewed: 2026-08-14
Official sources
Supported goals
opt-out — request that a user-confirmed public result be excluded from BeenVerified’s people-search results.
delete — use only when the live official privacy flow expressly offers deletion for the user’s residence; do not infer it from a public-result opt-out.
Channels and required capabilities
Minimum known fields
The official opt-out page blocked documentation access during review. Do not pre-collect fields from third-party guides. The user should select their own result and provide only values required by the current official form.
Procedure
- Open the official opt-out page and let the user search for and select their own result.
- Do not choose among people with similar names or expose unrelated search results in the progress file.
- The user enters any contact or verification values directly and completes submission.
- Record only the result identifier or URL the user approves, date, broad status, and a non-secret acknowledgment.
- Recheck only if the user requests monitoring and keep the outcome scoped to BeenVerified.
Manual checkpoints
- CAPTCHA: unknown; always manual if shown
- MFA or OTP: unknown; always manual if shown
- Login: unknown
- Identity documents: not reviewed; stop if requested
- Other: result selection is always user-controlled
Evidence and status interpretation
A submitted request or confirmation message is not proof that every BeenVerified record has been removed. A later absent result is evidence only for the query and result checked, not deletion from source records, affiliates, caches, or other services.
Limitations
- The official opt-out endpoint returned access controls to the documentation tools during this review, so the live fields and verification method remain authoritative.
- Brand coverage and affiliate effects were not verified and must not be promised.
- Stop if the live flow redirects unexpectedly or makes a materially different claim.