How to remove yourself from Carney Direct
Carney Direct is a marketing-list company registered in California as Guidestar Direct, Corp. Send your opt-out or deletion request through its opt-out preferences page, or email privacy@carneydirect.com. It reported a median of 11 days to respond to these requests in 2024.
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- carneydirect.com
- Method
- Online form
- Privacy email
- privacy@carneydirect.com
- What you need
- Email address
- Time to remove
- About 14 days
- Last updated
How to opt out of Carney Direct
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Open the opt-out preferences page
Go to carneydirect.com/opt-out-preferences, Carney Direct's own page for opt-outs.
- 2
Or email the privacy team
Write to privacy@carneydirect.com. Give your full name, the postal address and email where you get its marketing, and say you want to opt out and have your data deleted under the CCPA.
- 3
Or use phone or post
Carney Direct's California registry entry also lists a phone number, 949-581-5100, and a postal address: 10 Hughes, Suite A201, Irvine, CA 92618.
- 4
Keep a copy
Save the date you sent the request and any reply. If the company doesn't answer, you have the record for a complaint to the California Privacy Protection Agency.
Watch out for
- The company registers with California as Guidestar Direct, Corp., with Carney Direct Marketing as its trade name. Use the registry name if you ever file a complaint.
- Carney Direct doesn't publish a removal deadline. In 2024 it reported a median of 11 days to respond substantively to delete and opt-out-of-sale requests.
- Carney Direct's published pages don't say whether it asks for ID.
What Carney Direct holds about you
- Full name and aliases
- Current address
- Phone numbers
- Email addresses
What Carney Direct is known to collect, not a check of your listing.
Does it come back?
Carney Direct doesn't publish a relisting policy. Marketing lists get rebuilt from new sources, so search for yourself again every few months and repeat the request if you start getting its mail.
Your rights
Carney Direct is on California's data broker registry. California residents can ask it to delete their data under the CCPA, and the Delete Act lets residents send one deletion request to all registered brokers through the state's DROP system.
California: CCPA. If you live in California, the CCPA lets you ask a business to delete the personal information it holds about you and to stop selling or sharing it. Businesses generally have 45 days to respond.
California: the Delete Act. Data brokers that hold information on Californians must register with the state. California residents can use DROP, the state's Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, to send one deletion request to every registered broker at once.
Other US states. Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Texas, Oregon and a growing list of other states give residents a similar right to delete. Vermont, Texas and Oregon also make data brokers register with the state. Where no state law applies, the broker's own opt-out above still works for most people.
General information, not legal advice.
Frequently asked
Is the Carney Direct opt-out free?
Carney Direct doesn't mention a fee for opt-out or privacy requests in its registry entry.
Who is Guidestar Direct, Corp.?
It's the company name Carney Direct uses in the California data broker registry, with Carney Direct Marketing listed as its trade name.
How long does Carney Direct take to respond?
It publishes no deadline. In its 2024 report to California it gave a median of 11 days to respond substantively to delete and opt-out requests.
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