CCPA Do Not Sell or Share request template for California

Your rights

• Right to opt out of sale or sharing

  Tell a business at any time to stop selling your personal information or sharing it for cross-context behavioral advertising (Civ. Code § 1798.120).

• No verification, no account

  The business can't require a verifiable request or make you create an account. It may only ask for what it needs to identify whose data to stop selling (11 CCR § 7026(c)-(d)).

• One opt-out for everything

  The business can offer partial choices, but it must also offer a single option to opt out of all sale and sharing (11 CCR § 7026(h)).

• Proof it worked

  The business must give you a way to confirm your opt-out was processed, such as an Opt-Out Request Honored message or a setting in your account (11 CCR § 7026(g)).

General information, not legal advice.

Fill in the parts in [brackets] before you send it.

Subject: Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information (CCPA opt-out request)

[Your full name]
[The email address or phone number the business knows you by]
[Date]

To: [Business name], privacy team
[The opt-out method from the privacy policy: web form, email address or mailing address]

Dear [Business name] privacy team,

I am a California resident. Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (Civil Code section 1798.120), I direct you not to sell or share my personal information. This covers all sale and all sharing, including sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising.

[Optional, delete if you don't want it: Under Civil Code section 1798.121, I also ask you to limit the use and disclosure of my sensitive personal information.]

You can identify my records with these details:
- Name: [your name]
- Email address and phone number: [list]
- Account or customer number: [number, if any]

This is a request to opt out of sale and sharing, so please don't ask me to verify my identity or create an account.

Please:
1. stop selling and sharing my personal information as soon as feasibly possible, and no later than 15 business days after you receive this request;
2. notify any third parties to whom you sell or share my personal information between receiving this request and complying with it, direct them to comply with my request, and ask them to forward it to anyone they have passed my information on to in that time;
3. tell me how I can confirm that my opt-out has been processed.

[If an authorized agent is sending this: This request is sent on my behalf by [agent name], my authorized agent. My signed permission is attached.]

Sincerely,

[Your name]

Data brokers that list people in United States

Each guide shows how to opt out of that site, step by step.

• Remove yourself from CourtRecords.us
• Remove yourself from TruePeopleSearch
• Remove yourself from Spokeo
• Remove yourself from LexisNexis
• Remove yourself from TruthFinder
• Remove yourself from FastPeopleSearch
• Remove yourself from BeenVerified
• Remove yourself from Intelius

Sources

• privacy.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/357/2026/03/ccpa_regulations_eff_20260101-1.pdf
• oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa
• oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa/gpc
• oag.ca.gov/contact/consumer-complaint-against-business-or-company
• cppa.ca.gov/webapplications/complaint
• privacy.ca.gov/submit-a-complaint/ccpa-complaints/
• privacy.ca.gov/drop/