RocketReach

What RocketReach knows about you

RocketReach is a business-to-business contact database. Sales teams pull cold-call lists from it. Recruiters source candidates. Journalists find contacts. Anyone who pays for a subscription can run a query, including people you would not want running one.

The record on you is professional: full name, work email, a direct phone number and sometimes a mobile, job title and rank, employer, a LinkedIn link, and your city and state. RocketReach builds it by scraping public LinkedIn profiles, business filings, press releases, and commercial data feeds.

If your department uses a predictable email format, like firstname.lastname@cityname.gov or badge@dept.org, RocketReach has probably indexed it. The same goes for work emails at hospitals, ambulance services, federal agencies, and courts.

Why it matters if you're on the job

RocketReach does not publish your home address, so that is not the main risk here. The risk is that your professional identity sits in one searchable record that anyone can buy.

Your name, rank, department, direct work line, and work email are enough to target you at work. Someone can flood your desk phone during a shift, send phishing to your work inbox, leave threatening voicemails on your direct number, or mail letters to the department addressed to you by name and rank.

It also feeds the wider profile. A person pulls RocketReach for your work details, then pairs it with a people-search site like Spokeo or Pipl for the home side. RocketReach alone will not put someone at your door, but it can become one piece of a broader profile someone assembles about you. For federal agents, undercover officers, and anyone whose work identity is supposed to stay separate from their name in public databases, that leak matters.

How to opt out

Go to rocketreach.co/claim-profile, or use the "Do Not Sell My Info" link in the site footer. Enter your name, employer, your LinkedIn or profile link, and the work email RocketReach has indexed, since that email is the matching key. Submit, then open the verification email, click "Claim Profile," and choose "Remove My Profile" to confirm.

Suppression can happen quickly, but the change can take a few weeks to show up across their database and in search results. If you have worked at more than one department or agency, run the process for every old work email they might still have. RocketReach keeps prior-employer records, and the cleanup misses anything you do not submit.

Confirm the current opt-out URL before you rely on it, because broker removal pages move. RocketReach also lists privacy@rocketreach.co for privacy questions.

How long until you're back

Plan on months, not years. Business contact data refreshes slower than consumer people-search but faster than most risk-data files. RocketReach scrapes LinkedIn heavily, so a job change, a new title, or a profile update can pull you back into the index. If your department posts a press release naming you, or your agency lists you on a public roster, RocketReach can pick that up on its next pass.

What we do that's faster

We file the removal request for every work email tied to your name, click the verification when it lands, and re-check RocketReach regularly. When you change roles or a new department posting puts your name in a feed, we file again. We handle most of the process and tell you clearly when a site needs something only you can provide, such as access to an old work inbox. We run the same drill across the rest of the business-contact data stack, including Apollo, ZoomInfo, and Lusha, because their records overlap and skipping one undoes the others.