Veripages opt out and Unmask opt out, step by step in 2026: the real URLs, the email confirmation, the state law route, and what removal cannot undo.
The Veripages opt out and the Unmask opt out are free, and they are two separate requests to two separate companies. Veripages removals start at veripages.com/inner/control-privacy, are verified by email, and appear at the next server refresh, typically within about 24 hours. Unmask runs a Suppression Center at unmask.com/opt-out/ that asks only for an email address, sends a verification link, and says most requests take effect within 5 to 7 days. Neither removal touches the public records underneath, which is why listings reappear and why the state law route matters more than the form.
Veripages and Unmask are consumer people search sites. Type a name into either and you get a profile page carrying current and past addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, approximate age and likely relatives. The pages are indexed by Google, which is usually how people find out they exist.
They are covered together because anyone doing a serious cleanup hits both within an hour of starting, not because they are the same company. They are not, and that difference changes how you file.
Everything below comes from the operators’ own opt out and privacy pages. Where a detail is not stated by the operator, this guide says so rather than inventing a number.
Two Sites, Two Operators, Two Requests
The first thing to settle is whether one request covers both sites. It does not.
Veripages describes itself on its own about page as “a dedicated people search engine operated by Intelage Systems Corp.” Its terms name Veripages LLC as the contracting entity. It publishes a support line on (844) 217-0978, staffed weekdays 9 AM to 8 PM ET and Saturday 9 AM to 5 PM ET, and a support address at support@veripages.com. No street address appears in its policy documents.
Unmask is a different business. Its terms name UnMask, LLC and set venue in Orlando, Florida. Its privacy policy gives a postal address at 6900 Tavistock Lakes Blvd, Suite 400, Orlando, Florida 32827, a contact address at contact@unmask.com, and a blunt line on the business model: “Company is in the business of selling information and reports obtained from public records.”
Neither company publishes any corporate connection to the other. No shared parent, no cross-referenced policy, no common contact. Treat them as two unrelated brokers buying from overlapping suppliers, and file twice.
One detail is worth noting on the Unmask side. Its opt out page offers to “actively manage the display of your public information on people search websites owned by UnMask.com,” in the plural, but does not publish which sites that covers. If a listing turns up on a domain you do not recognise, the only way to know whether it sits inside that scope is to ask contact@unmask.com.
Both disclaim consumer reporting agency status. Veripages states it “is not a consumer reporting agency (CRA) under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).” Unmask states that “neither UnMask.com nor the websites and services reviewed herein are consumer reporting agencies under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.” Neither site owes you the dispute machinery the FCRA gives you against a credit bureau, so your leverage comes from state privacy law.
Step 0: Find Every Listing First
Both routes go faster if you know what you are removing. Veripages handles one record per request, so three records carrying name variants means three passes.
Search your name on each site in a private browsing window, then narrow by the cities and states you have lived in.
Repeat for every name variant: maiden name, married name, middle initial present and absent, nicknames that appear on mail. These are stored as separate records.
Run a site-restricted Google search for each domain plus your name. That catches profiles the internal search misses and shows what Google has indexed.
Copy the full URL of every profile that is yours into a note, with the date. You need both when chasing a request that has gone quiet.
Screenshot anything wrong as well as anything yours. A listing tying your name to an address you never lived at is still yours for removal purposes.
Route 1: The Veripages Opt Out, Step By Step
Veripages runs removals through a privacy control page rather than a bare form. The published entry point is https://veripages.com/inner/control-privacy, which routes you to the removal portal at https://veripages.com/inner/removal-service.
Open https://veripages.com/inner/control-privacy, or go straight to https://veripages.com/inner/removal-service.
Use the database search form to find the specific record you want removed. The portal works record by record, not name by name.
Complete the verification step. Veripages states that “your name, email address, and phone number may be requested in order to verify your identity.” Give the minimum required, using an email address you control and will keep, because that inbox is your paper trail.
Submit, then open the verification email. Veripages states: “A verification email will be sent to you shortly. To proceed, just click the link.” Nothing advances until you click.
Wait for the processing confirmation, then the refresh. Veripages says the change appears “during the next server refresh. Typically, you can expect this to take effect within 24 hours.”
If more than one record matches, repeat for each or email support@veripages.com, which is where Veripages directs people with multiple matching records.
Re-check the profile URL after 48 hours and again a week later. Keep the confirmation email.
There is no charge. Veripages says so in its own FAQ: “Absolutely not! You will never need to pay to have your own record removed from Veripages’ People Search Results.”
Hold the 24 hour figure with one caveat. It describes when a processed request appears in search results after Veripages confirms processing. How long processing itself takes is not published.
Route 2: The Unmask Suppression Center, Step By Step
Unmask takes the opposite approach. There is no search step and no record picker. You give an email address and the system matches on its side.
Open https://unmask.com/opt-out/. The page presents itself as the Suppression Center.
Enter your email address. It is the only data field on the form.
Tick both checkboxes. One agrees to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The other consents to transactional emails, which is how the verification link reaches you, so it is not optional.
Submit. Unmask states that “you will receive a verification email with a link to proceed.” Treat the submission as step one of two.
Follow the link and complete the matching step. Because the form collects only an email address up front, identifying which records are yours happens after you verify.
Diary the follow-up for day eight. Unmask states that “most requests will take effect within 5-7 days of submission.”
If a listing is still live, email contact@unmask.com, the only direct channel Unmask publishes, with the profile URL, the submission date and the address you used.
Unmask mentions no fee in that flow, and does not state what happens if the address you submit is not the one attached to the records it holds. If your listings carry an old address, submit from the one you control and follow up by email with the profile URLs.
The State Law Route: California, DROP And The Rest
The opt out forms are a courtesy. State privacy law is an obligation, with deadlines and a regulator behind it. If a form request is ignored, go here next.
California: CCPA and CPRA rights
Veripages sets the rights out in its own privacy policy: to know what data it has “collected, used, shared, or sold,” to request deletion and blocking of records, to correct inaccurate information, and to opt out of processing “for purposes such as sales or sharing, targeted advertising.” Unmask states that “you have the right, at any time, to direct Company not to sell your information.”
Make the request in writing rather than through the form. Email support@veripages.com or contact@unmask.com, say you are a California resident exercising your CCPA rights, list the profile URLs, and ask for written confirmation. A dated email chain is worth far more when you escalate, because the form leaves you nothing to show a regulator.
The DELETE Act and DROP
California’s DELETE Act created a single deletion channel that reaches registered data brokers at once. The California Privacy Protection Agency runs it as the Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform, or DROP, and it became available to California consumers on 1 January 2026 at consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov. You verify residency through the California Identity Gateway and submit basic identifying details.
The dates that matter in 2026 are the broker-side ones. Registered brokers must begin processing DROP deletion requests from 1 August 2026, and the CPPA requires them to “access the ‘accessible deletion mechanism’ at least once every 45 days.” Updates can take up to 90 days, with the first full cycle expected to complete around November 2026.
One limit gets skipped a lot. DROP reaches brokers registered with the CPPA and nobody else. Search the registry at https://cppa.ca.gov/data_broker_registry/ under the corporate entity name rather than the brand. If an operator is not listed, DROP will not touch it and the direct request is still your route.
If you do not live in California
Around twenty states have comprehensive consumer privacy laws in force during 2026, including Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Montana, Florida, Iowa, Delaware, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Tennessee, Minnesota and Maryland, with Indiana, Kentucky and Rhode Island joining on 1 January 2026. Details differ, but the core set is consistent: a right to know, to delete, to correct, and to opt out of sale. Name your own statute in the email. It converts the request from a favour into a legal obligation with a deadline.
What The Opt Out Cannot Undo
Removal from Veripages or Unmask suppresses the display of a record on that site. It does not delete the source. Both build profiles from public records and licensed databases: county property filings, voter files, court records, utility and marketing data. Those remain untouched and available to every other site.
Nor does it recall what somebody already bought. If a report on you was purchased and downloaded before your opt out went through, that file is on the buyer’s machine and no opt out reaches it. The same applies to anything scraped or cached while the listing was live.
Retention is the third gap. Veripages notes that “certain information may be retained for recordkeeping or remain in backup systems.” Unmask says it retains information “for the length of time necessary to fulfill the Business Purposes and Commercial Purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.” Neither publishes a number, so a suppressed listing and a deleted record are not the same thing.
When The Opt Out Does Not Work
Symptom
Likely cause
What to do
No verification email arrives
Filtered to spam, a typo, or the transactional email box left unticked on Unmask
Check spam and promotions, then resubmit with the box ticked and the address retyped
Veripages confirmed but the profile is still live after 48 hours
The refresh has not run, or the confirmation covered a different record
Wait to 72 hours, then email support@veripages.com with the profile URL, confirmation and date
Unmask listing still live on day eight
Past the stated 5 to 7 day window, or the email does not match the records held
Email contact@unmask.com with the profile URL, the date and the address used
Some listings vanish, others remain
Name variants are separate records, and Veripages processes one per request
Repeat for each variant, or email support to bundle multiple matching records in one thread
A removed listing reappears weeks later
A new upstream data load created a fresh record the suppression does not cover
File again, cite the original confirmation, and ask whether suppression is name-level or record-level
The form demands an ID document or photo
A verification step beyond what the published policy describes
Ask what is retained and for how long before uploading, or use the state law route instead
No reply after two weeks and two emails
The request is being ignored
Convert it into a written statutory request naming your state law, set a deadline, then escalate
Why Removed Listings Come Back
Listings reappear for a structural reason. These sites do not hold one permanent file on you. They ingest data continuously from public records and licensed suppliers, and each ingestion builds records from whatever it finds. Your opt out suppresses the record that existed when you filed. When a fresh load arrives carrying your name tied to a new address, the system can create a new record the earlier suppression does not recognise.
Reliable triggers include moving house, buying or selling property, registering to vote in a new county, changing your name, and any court matter that produces a public docket. So treat this as maintenance, not a one-off fix. Re-search both sites every quarter and within a month of any move, and keep every confirmation in one folder, because a second request goes faster when you can point at the first. If you would rather not run that loop, our roundup of the best people search removal services compares what the recurring re-scanning is actually worth.
Clearing The Old Page Out Of Google
Removing the listing and removing the search result are separate jobs. Google can keep serving a cached title and snippet for weeks after the page is dead, and the search result was usually the problem in the first place.
Confirm the page is genuinely gone. Open the profile URL in a private window. If it loads, you have a removal problem, not an indexing problem.
Use Google’s Refresh Outdated Content tool for each dead URL. It handles pages that no longer exist or no longer match the snippet, and does not require you to own the site.
Where the page is still live but exposes personal contact details, use Google’s “Results about you” tool. That can suppress a result without the site cooperating, which is the only lever you have when an operator goes quiet.
Submit every variant of the URL, with and without a trailing slash. Google treats them as separate URLs.
Re-check weekly for a month. A request rejected the first time is often accepted on resubmission once the page actually returns a 404.
Suppressing a Google result is not deletion. Do the site removal first and use the Google tools to close the gap while the index catches up.
Escalating, If Neither Site Responds
The operator first. Put it in writing, not in a form. Email support@veripages.com or contact@unmask.com with your name, the profile URLs, the date of your original request, the state privacy law you are relying on, and a deadline for written confirmation. Veripages also publishes (844) 217-0978, but follow any call with an email so the record exists.
Your state attorney general next. Every state with a consumer privacy law has a complaint route, usually through the attorney general’s consumer protection division. In California there is also the California Privacy Protection Agency. Attach the full email thread, the URLs, the dates and your screenshots. A documented ignored request lands very differently from a description of frustration.
The Federal Trade Commission last. File at reportfraud.ftc.gov. The FTC will not resolve your individual removal, and it is honest to say so. What it does is aggregate, and broker enforcement has repeatedly followed patterns visible in complaint volume.
If the listing is attached to harassment, stalking or a threat to physical safety, do not work through this ladder alone. Report it to local law enforcement in parallel, and say in your removal request that the listing creates a safety risk.
One Site Is Not The Problem
Clearing Veripages and Unmask changes what a casual search of your name returns. It does not clear your record from the market, because the market is not two sites. The same public records and licensed files feed dozens of people search sites and hundreds of brokers. The next one will have a different form, but the same data underneath. Our walkthrough for the FastPeopleSearch opt out covers one of the ones that surfaces most often in name searches.
If your name is tied to a professional profile, an active harassment situation, or a search result you cannot outrank, an opt out is only the first move. Doing it properly means filing across dozens of brokers, re-filing quarterly, and chasing the ones that ignore you. ReVerb tracks the firms that do this at scale, starting with our ranking of the best data removal services in 2026. Start there if the DIY route has run out of road.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does the Veripages opt out cost anything?
No. Veripages states it directly: “Absolutely not! You will never need to pay to have your own record removed from Veripages’ People Search Results.” Unmask mentions no fee either. A payment screen inside a removal flow means you have left the operator’s own page.
Are Veripages and Unmask run by the same company?
Not according to their own documents. Veripages describes itself as operated by Intelage Systems Corp and names Veripages LLC in its terms. Unmask names UnMask, LLC with an Orlando, Florida address. Neither publishes any link to the other, so file two separate requests.
How long does each removal take?
Veripages says the change appears at the next server refresh, typically within 24 hours of its processing confirmation. Unmask says “most requests will take effect within 5-7 days of submission.” Neither publishes how long processing itself takes, so treat both as display lag.
Do I have to confirm by email?
Yes, on both. Veripages states that “a verification email will be sent to you shortly. To proceed, just click the link.” Unmask states that after you submit “you will receive a verification email with a link to proceed.” An unclicked link means an unprocessed request, the most common reason a removal appears to have failed.
Will opting out delete the underlying public records?
No. Suppressing a listing changes what that site shows. It does not alter a county property filing, a voter registration or a court docket, and it does not stop another site building a listing from the same sources tomorrow.
Can I get back a report someone already bought about me?
No. Unmask states that it “is in the business of selling information and reports obtained from public records.” Once a report has been purchased and downloaded it sits on the buyer’s device. The opt out stops future sales of that listing, not past ones.
Does California’s DROP cover these two sites?
DROP reaches brokers registered with the California Privacy Protection Agency, who must begin processing DROP deletion requests from 1 August 2026 and check at least once every 45 days. Coverage depends on whether the operator is on the register, so search cppa.ca.gov/data_broker_registry/ under the corporate entity name. If it is not listed, the direct request remains your route.
Why did my listing come back after I removed it?
Because a new data load created a new record. Suppression applies to the record that existed when you filed. Moving, buying property, registering to vote or any court filing generates fresh public records, and the next ingestion rebuilds a profile. Re-check quarterly.
The Short Version
Two unrelated companies. Veripages is operated by Intelage Systems Corp, Unmask is UnMask, LLC of Orlando, Florida. File twice.
Veripages: start at https://veripages.com/inner/control-privacy, find the record, verify, click the email link. Typically visible within about 24 hours, one record per request, free.
Unmask: start at https://unmask.com/opt-out/, enter an email address, tick both boxes, click the verification link. Most requests take effect within 5 to 7 days.
Search every name variant first and save the profile URLs. Variants are separate records.
If a form request is ignored, convert it into a written state law request naming your statute.
California residents can also use DROP at consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov, live since 1 January 2026, with registered brokers processing from 1 August.
Removal suppresses a display. It does not delete public records or recall a report already downloaded.
Escalate in order: the operator, then your state attorney general or the CPPA, then the FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov.
