Removal from the record

The registers this software reads — state business registers and federal records — name companies and the people who own and run them. If a record names your business, or names you on one, you can ask to be taken out of what is shown here.

What happens

• The request is matched by the name and the state, and by the identifier when you give one.
• A business leaves the map, its record pages and every export with the next nightly refresh. A person is dropped from every officer list and people view at once.
• It goes on a suppression list that is kept for good: when the register is read again, the record is not written back. A request that matches nothing yet stays on the list and is checked again every night.
• This removes the record from this software only. The state still publishes its own register; to change that, ask the state's Secretary of State.

This software is not registered as a data broker in California or any other state; a request here is honored whether or not a registration applies.

What is kept: the request as you sent it and what it matched, so the removal can be shown to have been made. The email address is used to answer you and is not added to any list.