LexisNexis Opt-Out: How to Remove Yourself (2026 Guide)

LexisNexis Risk Solutions has no single form that removes you from everything. Its consumer opt-out page, consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/opt (optout.lexisnexis.com redirects there), offers three opt-outs: Prescreen, for firm offers of credit and insurance; Direct Marketing; and Public Safety, a suppression for public officials, judges, law enforcement officers and people at risk of physical harm, who send documents. Asking LexisNexis to delete your data, or to stop selling it, is a separate privacy request under state law, which starts at consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/privacy.

LexisNexis Risk Solutions' U.S. Consumer Privacy Notice says it sells, and has sold in the past 12 months, categories of personal information that include identifiers, commercial information, professional or employment-related information, inferences and sensitive personal information, to its customers and third parties. It says it collects that information from sources such as its affiliates, public sources, resellers, social networks and news outlets. The notice also says LexisNexis Risk Solutions is a data broker under Texas law and is registered as one in California, Oregon and Vermont.

Checked against LexisNexis Risk Solutions' consumer opt-out page, its online opt-out request form, its printable opt-out form and that form's instructions, its privacy rights page, its consumer request portal and its U.S. Consumer Privacy Notice (last updated July 1, 2026) on October 23, 2026. We read the pages; we did not fill in or submit anything.

Which request do you need?

Fewer firm offers of credit or insurance: the Prescreen opt-out. LexisNexis says these are lists creditors and insurers use to send you firm offers, and its form says the opt-out is permanent.
Less unsolicited marketing built on LexisNexis data: the Direct Marketing opt-out.
You are an official, a judge, a law enforcement officer, or your safety is at risk: the Public Safety opt-out, with documents.
Delete what LexisNexis holds, or stop it selling your information: a state privacy request (below).
See what it holds first: the consumer portal at consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/request has a Request Your Consumer Disclosure Report option.
Lock your LexisNexis consumer report: the opt-out page also offers a Security Freeze. The printable opt-out form says security freezes use other forms, and this guide doesn't cover them.

How to file the opt-out online

Go to consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/opt and click Request Opt-Out/Opt-In. It opens the form at consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/optrequest.
Say whether the request is for yourself or for someone else you are authorized to act for.
Enter your details. The required fields, marked with an asterisk, are first name, last name, street address, city, state, zip and date of birth. Middle name, suffix, Social Security number, phone, driver's license number and state, and email have no asterisk.
Tick the opt-outs you want: Opt-Out of Firm Offers of Credit and Insurance (Prescreen), Opt-Out of Direct Marketing Services, Opt-Out due to Public Safety, or more than one.
For Public Safety, pick a reason: public or elected official, law enforcement officer, judge or judicial officer, or at risk of physical harm. Officials give a title and agency; the judge option asks for the court or judicial agency, and the law enforcement option for the police agency. The at-risk option asks for the police jurisdiction, the report number and the nature of the risk.
Attach documents if you have them: up to 5 Word, pdf, txt, png or jpg files under 5 MB. Attaching is optional. For each reason, the form says you may attach a file, or LexisNexis will follow up with you by US mail.
Tick the reCAPTCHA "I'm not a robot" box above the button, then click Submit Request.

You must be at least 16 to submit the online form (the printable form says 18). The form also warns that opting out may cause difficulties with future online identity or insurance verification.

We didn't submit the form. Its page text says that after you do, LexisNexis confirms the request has been received and is under review, and that you will receive notification of the resolution of the request.

About your Social Security number

The form page says LexisNexis may need your name, address and date of birth, and either your Social Security number or your driver's license number and state, to identify you. The Social Security number field has no asterisk: the form says providing it is optional but is the most precise way to identify you. The instructions for the printable form say there is no way to opt out without identity verification.

Documents for a Public Safety opt-out

Officials, judges and officers: documentation of your role, or a letter from your supervisor. The opt-out page says the letter must state that your position exposes you to a threat of personal safety; the online and printable forms describe it as a threat of death or bodily harm.
Anyone else at risk: a copy of a court protective order, a copy of a police report, or similar documentation, such as a letter from a shelter administrator or a health care professional.
New Jersey covered persons: the online form says covered persons submitting under New Jersey law (P.L. 2023, c.113; P.L. 2021, c.371; and Section 3 of P.L. 2015, c.226) are not required to provide supporting documents at this time.

LexisNexis says it decides, in its sole reasonable discretion, which documents meet the criteria, and that if your suppression request is not approved, it will promptly tell you.

To mail documents instead of uploading them, the form page gives LexisNexis Risk Solutions Consumer Center, Attn: Opt-Out/Opt-In, P.O. Box 105108, Atlanta, GA 30348-5108, and asks you to include your name, address and contact number. It says not to send original documents, because LexisNexis does not return supporting documentation. Once LexisNexis receives the documents, it says processing can take up to 30 days.

The printable form

The opt-out page links a printable opt-out form to download, print and mail back. The PDF is 8 pages: a 5-page opt-out form, then a 3-page opt-in form. The opt-out form:

covers Direct Marketing, Prescreen and Personal Safety (its name for Public Safety)
says you must be at least 18 to submit it
requires, with an asterisk, your first and last name, residential address (street, city, state and zip), date of birth (written DD/MM/YYYY on the form), and the date and your signature; suffix, middle name, a mailing address if different, telephone, email, Social Security number and driver's license number and state are not marked required
for a request on someone else's behalf, asks whether it is for a minor child (under 16), a protected consumer (under a guardian or conservator, or in foster care) or neither, and requires authorization documents: a court order, a foster care certification from a county welfare or probation department, or a lawfully executed and valid power of attorney
for Personal Safety, asks officials, officers and judges for a supervisor letter plus their title and the name of their agency, and people at risk for a protective order, a police report, or a letter from a shelter administrator or health care professional, plus the jurisdiction, report number and nature of the risk

Sign and date it, then mail it to LexisNexis Risk Solutions Consumer Center, Attn: Opt-Out/Opt-In, P.O. Box 105108, Atlanta, GA 30348-5108. The form says you'll get a letter by U.S. Mail once your request is processed. The instructions say to submit a separate request for each person.

By phone

The opt-out page says you can also call 1-888-497-0011.

What these opt-outs don't do

The Prescreen opt-out covers LexisNexis lists only. The online form says it permanently opts you out of lists that LexisNexis Risk Solutions Inc. provides to businesses for firm offers of credit or insurance. The printable form adds SageStream, LLC, and its instructions say SageStream is now part of LexisNexis Risk Solutions Inc., so a prescreen request is also reflected in your SageStream file. The page says it does not opt you out of Equifax, TransUnion, Experian or other third-party lists. For those, it says to call 1-888-567-8688. For the prescreen opt-out itself, the form gives 1-866-490-1920 if you want to contact LexisNexis directly. It also says opting out does not affect your ability to apply for or obtain credit or insurance.
The Direct Marketing opt-out covers LexisNexis services only. The page says it will not stop other companies sending you direct marketing, and links to the DMA's dmachoice.org and to donotcall.gov.
Public Safety suppression has limits. The page says LexisNexis generally does not suppress information from products available to law enforcement or products regulated by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, that suppression covers only LexisNexis Risk Solutions FL Inc.-owned databases, and that it won't stop other companies or public records agencies from collecting or sharing your information.

How to ask LexisNexis to delete your data

LexisNexis's privacy rights page lists 20 states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia. Subject to your state's law, it says you may be able to get a report of your information, delete it, correct it, or tell LexisNexis not to sell or share it.

Go to consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/privacy and choose Submit Online. It opens the consumer portal at consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/request.
Enter your details. The required fields, marked with an asterisk, are first and last name, date of birth, street address, city, state and zip, and your Social Security number or driver's license number (the form says at least one is required: either the Social Security number, or the driver's license number and state). Middle name, suffix, phone and email have no asterisk.
Choose the request. When the portal first loads, it shows only Request Your Consumer Disclosure Report and Request a Description of Procedure Letter. The privacy options are in the page but hidden: Delete My Personal Information, Full Opt-Out: Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information (for California residents), a partial opt-out that still allows the sale of your professional information, and an opt-in. We didn't fill in the form, so we didn't see what makes them appear.
Tick the reCAPTCHA box, then click Submit Request.

The portal says you'll get a message by US Mail within the timeframe allowed by law, and to call 888-497-0011 if none arrives within 10 days.

The portal contradicts itself on ID numbers. Its option text says a Social Security number or driver's license isn't required for an opt-out or opt-in, only for a copy of your information or a deletion request, but the form marks one of them as required for every request.

You can also call 1-888-217-1591, or mail the printable request form. The U.S. Consumer Privacy Notice gives the mailing address for privacy requests, including disclosure, correction, opt-out and deletion, as LexisNexis Risk Solutions Consumer Center, Attn: U.S. Consumer Privacy Request, P.O. Box 105108, Atlanta, GA 30348-5108. The privacy rights page says there is no charge to make a privacy request.

Know the limits before you file:

The portal says an opt-out does not apply to information that is exempt from state privacy laws.
The portal says deletion is subject to the requirements and application of your state's privacy law. The notice says deletion is subject to certain exceptions, and that LexisNexis may keep information for reasons including complying with legal obligations and detecting and preventing fraud and abuse.
Correction requests don't go through the online form; the portal sends them to US Mail, the Help page or the phone line.

The privacy rights page frames these rights by state law and lists the 20 states above; it doesn't say what happens to a request from anywhere else.

How long does it take?

The online opt-out form gives no timeframe for a request without documents. When documents are involved, it says processing can take up to 30 days after LexisNexis receives them, and that you will receive notification of the resolution. The printable form says you'll get a letter by U.S. Mail once your request is processed, without a timeframe. For privacy requests, the portal says a message comes by US Mail within the timeframe allowed by law, and the notice says LexisNexis responds as the applicable state privacy laws require.

If it doesn't work

Call the Consumer Center at 1-888-497-0011.
Appeal. The U.S. Consumer Privacy Notice says that if LexisNexis refuses to act on your privacy request, you may appeal within a reasonable period through its online portal at consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com or by calling 1-888-217-1591.
Use an authorized agent. The notice says an agent can make a request for you, subject to proof of identity and your written authorization, through the Consumer Center at 1-888-497-0011 or by email to consumer.documents@lexisnexis.com. On the online opt-out form, someone acting for you chooses "Someone Else" and uploads proof, such as a court order naming them guardian of your financial affairs or a valid power of attorney.
Daniel's Law. If you may be a covered person under Daniel's Law, the opt-out page gives 888-497-0011.
California residents. LexisNexis Risk Solutions FL Inc. is on California's data broker registry, so the state's free DROP request reaches it too. See the California Delete Act guide.

LexisNexis Risk Solutions isn't one of the people-search sites in Defynta's free scan, and Defynta doesn't file requests with it: this one is do-it-yourself. The scan looks you up on the people-search sites we track and gives you a direct link to check each one.

Full list: the master opt-out guide.

Frequently asked questions

Can I remove myself from LexisNexis completely?

Not with one form. The opt-out page covers prescreen lists, direct marketing and, for people who qualify, public safety suppression. Deletion is a separate privacy request under state law, and LexisNexis says it is subject to exceptions.

Do I have to give LexisNexis my Social Security number?

Not on the online opt-out form, which says it is optional but the most precise way to identify you. On the privacy portal, the form marks a Social Security number, or a driver's license number and state, as required, although its option text says they are needed only for a deletion request or a copy of your information.

Is the LexisNexis prescreen opt-out permanent?

The online form says it permanently opts you out of the lists LexisNexis Risk Solutions Inc. provides to businesses for firm offers of credit or insurance.

Does the LexisNexis prescreen opt-out stop all credit card offers?

No. LexisNexis says it does not opt you out of Equifax, TransUnion, Experian or other third-party lists, and gives 1-888-567-8688 for those.

Does a LexisNexis privacy request cost anything?

The privacy rights page says there is no charge to make a privacy request.

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