DeleteMe is a subscription data-broker removal service operated by Abine, Inc., a private Boston-area company founded around 2010. To perform removals, customers complete a datasheet that can include name variants, date of birth, addresses, phone numbers, relatives' names, employers, political affiliation and ethnicity; some broker opt-outs involve redacted ID images. Per its own legal documents, fulfilling opt-outs necessarily shares portions of this data with the data brokers themselves. The company says it does not sell personal information, committed in 2019 to a six-month post-cancellation retention cap, and has held SOC 2 Type 2 attestation since 2021. Caveats include Google advertising and analytics tags on its marketing site, a 2018 breach at then-corporate-sibling Blur exposing data of 2.4 million users, and a 2024 Consumer Reports study rating DeleteMe a mid-level performer.
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DeleteMe's archived privacy policy, last revised 2019-12-31, committed to retaining user information for a maximum of six months after cancellation of a paid subscription (excepting basic transaction records and payment data kept for fraud purposes), and noted that PCI requirements oblige it to keep most non-financial data for at least 90 days after a deletion request.
DeleteMe's privacy policy, effective 2021-11-22, states that enrolling members fill out a datasheet whose optional fields include first, middle and last name, date of birth, gender, email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, relatives' names, employers, political affiliation and ethnicity, used to find and remove data-broker listings; the policy also says Abine may receive personal information from third-party sources such as marketing partners and data providers.
DeleteMe's privacy policy, effective 2021-11-22, identifies the operator as Abine, Inc. of Somerville, Massachusetts, together with its corporate subsidiaries and affiliates, and states that the policy does not cover Abine's separate Blur product or abine.com.
In a company press release dated 2026-03-24, DeleteMe announced it had acquired Block Party, a social media privacy and safety tool, and described itself as founded in 2010, headquartered in Boston, MA, and serving hundreds of thousands of consumers and more than 1,000 organizations; terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
DeleteMe's archived terms of service and privacy policy, last revised 2019-12-31, state that fulfilling opt-out requests requires sending member information to data brokers, that Abine cannot control how those third-party brokers treat the personal information, and that data disclosed to broker websites includes name, address and in some cases redacted ID images.
DeleteMe's privacy policy, effective 2021-11-22, permits sharing personal information with corporate affiliates, with service providers for hosting, analytics, email delivery, marketing and database management, and sometimes with business partners who may collect information directly via its sites, and includes a business-transfers clause covering personal information in any merger, acquisition, sale of assets or bankruptcy.
DeleteMe's security page states that the company has maintained compliance with AICPA SOC 2 Type 2 requirements since 2021, collaborates with external auditors to validate ongoing compliance, and encrypts personally identifiable information in transit and at rest with 256-bit AES and TLS 1.2.
SecurityWeek reported on 2019-01-03 that roughly 2.4 million users of Blur, the password manager then operated by DeleteMe's parent company Abine, had information exposed via a misconfigured AWS S3 bucket, including email addresses, IP addresses, bcrypt-hashed passwords and, in some cases, names and password hints; Abine said it became aware of the exposure on December 13, 2018.
The Record reported on 2024-08-08 that Consumer Reports' four-month evaluation of seven people-search removal services found DeleteMe was a mid-level performer, behind EasyOptOuts and Optery, with only 35% of measured data instances removed within four months across all services tested.
As of 2026-08-01, the joindeleteme.com homepage source loads Google Tag Manager (production container GTM-5278JM2) through a first-party server-side tagging endpoint at tagging.joindeleteme.com, a configuration that routes third-party tag traffic through DeleteMe's own subdomain.
DeleteMe's cookie policy (effective 2020-10-19, published within the 2021-11-22 privacy policy document) discloses Google DoubleClick advertising cookies, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and Stripe, Olark and Commission Junction cookies on joindeleteme.com, plus web beacons in HTML emails, and states the company does not respond to Do Not Track signals.