How to remove yourself from Specialists Marketing Services
Specialists Marketing Services (SMS) runs separate request pages for opting out of sale or sharing, limiting sensitive data, correcting your data and seeing who it was shared with. Email dataprivacyteam@sms-inc.com if the form doesn't fit.
View all 506 brokers- Opt-out page
- sms-inc.com
- Method
- Online form
- Privacy email
- dataprivacyteam@sms-inc.com
- What you need
- Email address
- Time to remove
- About 14 days
- Last updated
How to opt out of Specialists Marketing Services
- 1
Opt out of sale and sharing
Use the do-not-sell-or-share page on sms-inc.com.
- 2
Limit sensitive data
A separate California page, limit my sensitive personal information, handles that request.
- 3
Ask for a correction or a list of recipients
SMS has one page for correcting your data and one for seeing who your data was shared with.
- 4
Email for anything else
dataprivacyteam@sms-inc.com is the contact in the registry, and the full policy is on the privacy notice.
Watch out for
- Each right has its own page, so an opt-out of sale doesn't also delete your record. Check the deletion route in the privacy notice.
- SMS denied 2,313 of 58,307 deletion requests in its California filing, so keep proof of what you sent.
What Specialists Marketing Services holds about you
- Full name and aliases
- Current address
- Phone numbers
- Email addresses
- Age and date of birth
What Specialists Marketing Services is known to collect, not a check of your listing.
Does it come back?
SMS doesn't publish a relisting policy.
Your rights
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
How fast does SMS respond?
Its California registry filing reports 3 days to respond to deletion requests and to opt-out-of-sale requests.
How many deletion requests does SMS handle?
The filing reports 58,307 deletion requests, with 55,994 completed in whole and 2,313 denied.
Is SMS regulated as a credit reporting agency?
The filing answers no for the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Gramm-Leach-Bliley and HIPAA.
Related guide Guide: How to Delete Yourself from the Internet Something changed? If these steps no longer match the Specialists Marketing Services opt-out, tell us and we'll re-check it.
