Radaris is the broker that privacy professionals complain about to each other. The data is the usual public-records composite — addresses, phones, relatives, property, court mentions — but the exit is built differently: the self-service flow suppresses rather than deletes, the verification leans on your phone number, and full erasure usually takes a written request on top. Plan for two passes.

Opt-out: radaris.com/control/privacyTime: ~20 minutesRemoval: 48 hours–2 weeksRe-listing: 3–6 months

You will need a phone that can receive a verification code. If you are uneasy giving Radaris your main mobile number, a secondary or temporary number works.

Pass one: the self-service suppression

  1. Find your profile. Search your name and state at radaris.com. Open the profile and check the details carefully — Radaris is fond of splitting one person across several part-profiles under name variants.
  2. Copy the profile URL for every listing that is you. You will want these for the escalation email later.
  3. Open the information-control page at radaris.com/control/privacy and search for your profile from there.
  4. Select the profile and choose to make the information private. Radaris frames the options around "controlling" rather than deleting your information; take the most restrictive option offered.
  5. Verify by phone. Radaris sends a code to the number you provide. Enter it to confirm the request. This is the step where a secondary number earns its keep.
  6. Re-check after forty-eight hours. The main profile should stop resolving. Part-profiles under variants of your name often survive — note their URLs.

Pass two: the written request

Suppression hides the public page. It does not necessarily erase the underlying record, and it rarely catches every variant listing. For that, write to support@radaris.com — one short email, listing every profile URL you collected, requesting deletion (not suppression) of all records, and citing the California Consumer Privacy Act (section 1798.105) or UK GDPR Article 17 as applicable. Ask for written confirmation. Radaris answers these more reliably than its reputation suggests, but on its own schedule: allow up to two weeks.

Radaris suppresses by default and deletes on insistence. The difference is one written email, and it is worth sending.

The mirrors

Radaris data has a habit of surfacing on associated lookup properties and regional mirrors. After your main removal lands, search your name once more across the open web — if a Radaris-formatted profile appears on a sister domain, the same two-pass routine applies there, and the same support address usually covers it if you include the URL.

The re-listing cycle

As with every broker in this series, removal is a snapshot, not a state. Refreshed source feeds rebuild profiles, and we see Radaris listings — usually part-profiles under a middle initial or an old address — return within three to six months. Keep the support email thread; replying to it with a new URL is faster than starting the whole dance again.

Radaris alone is twenty minutes plus an email plus a fortnight of waiting — and it is one broker of the 150+ that matter. Nox Æterna files, escalates, and re-checks the lot for one £89 payment, with PDF proof at the end.