Apollo.io's opt-out is a one-field form at apollo.io/privacy-policy/remove: enter your work email address and click Get verification information. Apollo says it honors the request by removing your profile from its services. You don't need an Apollo account.
Apollo is a business-contact database. Its privacy policy says it "operates as a registered business-to-business data broker" and may make your business contact information available to its customers. It lists your name, email addresses (including business ones), employment history, current job title and department, phone numbers and social networking URLs. It gets them from public websites, professional directories, public regulatory and government sources and third-party data providers, and it may use data its customers submit to grow and verify what it calls its Contributor Database.
Checked against Apollo's live removal page, its Privacy Center, its privacy policy (last updated August 10, 2026) its State Privacy Statement (effective August 10, 2026) and its help center article on removal requests, on October 22, 2026. We read the pages; we did not submit the form.
How to remove yourself from Apollo.io
- Go to apollo.io/privacy-policy/remove. The Submit opt-out request button in Apollo's Privacy Center and the Don't Sell My Info link in the site footer open the same page.
- The form is headed "To opt-out, please enter your Business Email Address." Enter it in the Work email field. It is the only field.
- Click Get verification information and follow the steps Apollo gives you. The page runs a reCAPTCHA check in the background.
- Apollo's Privacy Center says all the information in your profile is then removed, and your record becomes unavailable in its products as soon as possible.
We stopped before clicking the button, so we did not see the verification step. Follow what the page shows.
Which email address to use
The form asks only for a business email address, and the page says Apollo keeps the address you enter solely to store and respect your opt-out.
- Start with your current work email.
- Repeat with past work emails, since a profile can carry an address from an old job.
- If you think Apollo also holds a personal address or a phone number of yours, email privacy@apollo.io and list each one. The removal page doesn't say whether it accepts a personal address.
If you have seen instructions telling you to find your Apollo profile URL first, the form we read on October 22, 2026 asked only for a work email.
Global Privacy Control is not a removal
Apollo's privacy policy says that, where the law requires it, it treats the Global Privacy Control signal in your browser as a request to opt out of sale, sharing and targeted ads. It also says honoring that signal does not, by itself, remove information from its Contributor Database, and that the signal only covers that browser and device. If you want your profile gone, use the form.
Want to see what Apollo holds before you remove it? The Privacy Center has a separate Submit information access request button that leads to a form at apollo.io/privacy-policy/information-claim. It also asks for a work email, and Apollo says it will send you a report once it has verified your identity.
How long does it take?
The removal page gives no timeframe; the Privacy Center says "as soon as possible". Apollo's State Privacy Statement says it responds to verifiable consumer requests within 45 days of receipt, and up to 45 days more if it tells you within the first 45 days that it needs longer and why.
The same statement reports that, during the previous calendar year, it received 21,641 requests to opt out or delete from California residents, complied with 21,455 in whole or in part, denied 186, and took a median and mean of under one day to respond.
If it doesn't work
- Email the privacy team. The privacy policy and the State Privacy Statement both give privacy@apollo.io. Neither lists a phone number.
- Write. The privacy policy lists ZenLeads Inc., 440 N Barranca Ave #4750, Covina, CA 91723-1722.
- Be ready to show it's you. Apollo says your request must give it enough to verify your identity. Where it cannot verify a deletion request, it says it treats it as a request to opt out of sale and sharing, and where it cannot fully delete, it says it will tell you why.
- Use an authorized agent. Someone can file for you. The agent must show proof of your written authorization, and Apollo may still ask you to verify your identity directly.
- Appeal. If Apollo turns a request down, the State Privacy Statement says to email privacy@apollo.io with "Privacy Rights Appeal" in the subject line, describe the request and why you are appealing, and that it answers appeals within 45 days, or 60 where the law allows. Whether you can appeal depends on where you live.
- Judges, law enforcement and other covered people. People covered by New Jersey's Daniel's Law or a similar law can ask Apollo not to disclose their protected information by emailing privacyrequests@apollo.io.
- UK and EEA. The privacy policy names HelloDPO as Apollo's Data Protection Officer there, at dpo@apollo.io.
- California residents. Apollo says it is registered as a data broker in California, takes part in the state's DROP deletion platform, and checks it at least once every 45 days. See the California Delete Act guide.
Why your details can come back
Apollo says it keeps the minimum information needed in a suppression list, so that your details are not re-added to its Contributor Database and your profile is not reactivated. The removal page says the record it keeps is the email address you enter. The pages we read don't say whether a profile built later around a different work address is caught by it. Check again after you change jobs, and run the form with the new address if you need to.
A removal also doesn't reach copies Apollo's customers already made. Apollo's help center says customers who saved, exported or synced your details before the removal keep them; Apollo flags the removal to those customers and asks them to delete your data unless they have their own legal basis to keep it.
Apollo.io is a business-contact database, so it isn't one of the people-search sites in Defynta's free scan, and Defynta doesn't file removals with it: this one is do-it-yourself. Run the scan to see which of the sites we track list your name, phone and address.
Related pages
- RocketReach, another business-contact database with a one-email opt-out
- ZoomInfo, another business-contact database with a one-email opt-out
- ContactOut, an email and phone finder sold to recruiters and sales teams
- AllPeople, a business-contact directory
- How to remove your phone number from people-search sites
- The California Delete Act
Full list: the master opt-out guide.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Apollo.io opt-out free?
Neither the removal page nor the Privacy Center mentions a fee, and Apollo's State Privacy Statement says you don't need an Apollo account to submit a request.
Do I need my Apollo profile URL?
No. The form we read on October 22, 2026 asked only for a work email address.
Does Global Privacy Control remove me from Apollo?
No. Apollo says it treats the signal as an opt-out of sale, sharing and targeted ads where the law requires it, but that honoring it does not, by itself, remove information from its database. Use the removal form.
Who runs Apollo.io?
ZenLeads, Inc., doing business as Apollo.io, with a mailing address in Covina, California. Its State Privacy Statement says it is registered as a data broker in California and in other states where required, including Texas, Oregon and Vermont.
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