Free data removal
Take back your phone, your post and your address
These free steps stop most sales calls and junk mail, and take your address off the best-known public listings. Each one asks you to confirm it's really you, by email, by signing a form or through your own council or phone provider, so they're quickest done yourself. Most take a couple of minutes.
Stop sales calls and junk mail
Telephone Preference Service (TPS)
The official free register that stops sales and marketing calls to landlines and mobiles.
Register online, or call 0345 070 0707. It's free and takes up to 28 days to work fully. Ignore any company that charges for it.
Mailing Preference Service (MPS)
The official free register that cuts addressed junk mail.
Register online for free. It can take up to three months to take full effect. It doesn't stop unaddressed leaflets or post for "The Occupier".
Royal Mail door-to-door leaflets
Unaddressed leaflets your postie delivers with the post.
Email optout@royalmail.com asking to opt out; Royal Mail posts you a form to sign. Lasts two years. Post: Door to Door Opt Outs, FREEPOST RLZL-LHZH-JZHT, Royal Mail Customer Services, PO Box 740, Plymouth PL9 7YB.
'Your Choice' leaflet opt-out
Unaddressed leaflets delivered by other distributors.
Register online. It can take up to 12 weeks, and only covers distributors who are members of the Data & Marketing Association.
Fundraising Preference Service
Stops charities you name from contacting you by post, email, text or phone.
Choose up to 10 charities at a time. You can also do it for someone you care for, or for someone who has died. Free.
Take your address off public listings
192.com
People-search site that lists names, addresses and who lives with you.
Fill in 192.com's own removal form (called C01). It is free.
The open electoral register
The version of the electoral roll that anyone can buy. Sites like 192.com get addresses from it. Opting out doesn't affect your right to vote or your credit rating.
Ask your council's electoral registration office to take you off the open register.
ukphonebook.com
People-search site built from the open electoral register, phone directories and bought consumer data.
Fill in its removal form. If the form doesn't work, email dpo@simunix.com.
BT Phone Book and directory enquiries
Directory listings of landline numbers and addresses, which also feed sites like ukphonebook.com.
Ask your landline provider to make your number ex-directory. It's free, and it removes you from the central directory database that other directories copy.
Members, after sign-up
Then we tell the data brokers for you
Credit agencies' marketing arms and UK data brokers buy, build and sell profiles of where you live and how you spend. Members won't need to write to them: Debreach sends the requests under UK data protection law, tracks each company's one-month deadline, chases the slow ones, and asks again every three months so you stay off their lists. For you and the people you look after.
- Experian Marketing Services
- Equifax (marketing services)
- TransUnion (marketing services)
- Acxiom
- CACI
- Data Locator Group (DLG)
- and more being added
One email when sign-up opens. Stored encrypted. Remove it any time.
General information, not legal advice. Each service's details were checked on 11 November 2026.