How NumberGuru Collects, Sells, and Shares Your Personal Information
What is NumberGuru?
NumberGuru is a reverse phone‑lookup service that allows users to enter a phone number and obtain information about the owner, phone carrier, phone type (landline or cell), location, and sometimes user‑added comments or spam/scam‑reports associated with that number.
URL
numberguru.com
Support
support@numberguru.com
Type of Data Broker
People Search
Aggression level
High
What NumberGuru collects and how your privacy is at risk
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This company is listed in our Top 100 Most Aggressive Data Sellers based on sensitivity and reach.
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Collects and sells basic details like your name, address, phone number, and email address.
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Collects and shares information about your family members, relationships, and household makeup.
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The company’s practices pose a heightened risk for identity theft, scams, discrimination, and profiling.
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Tracks your browsing habits, online searches, shopping behaviors, and content preferences.
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Tracks and sells your location history, movements, and device-based geolocation data.
The risks shown are based on the types of personal data this company collects, sells, or shares.
Even limited data collection can expose you to serious privacy threats.
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How to Opt Out and Remove Your Information from NumberGuru
NumberGuru offers an opt‑out mechanism: you can request that publicly available data about you be omitted from their directory or not sold/shared. However, opt‑out processes are often optional, can be time‑consuming, and may not guarantee complete removal, especially for data aggregated from public records or third‑party sources.
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NumberGuru Privacy Risks and How to Remove Your Personal Data
They scrape and aggregate your personal data:
NumberGuru gathers data from publicly available records and third‑party data providers. This public information can include names, alias history, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. By combining this data, NumberGuru builds a reverse phone lookup directory that can link phone numbers to names, addresses, and other identity‑related data.
They engage in automatic data harvesting:
When people use NumberGuru’s website or mobile app, their search queries, comments (for spam/scam reporting), and usage activity may be collected. For users who connect the app with their contact lists or phone functionality, additional metadata like call logs may be involved. Transaction data, subscription status, and account history are also retained by NumberGuru for up to 10 years per their privacy policy.
Opting out is possible, but removal is difficult:
According to NumberGuru’s privacy policy, they do not “sell” personal information obtained directly from site visitors. However, they may share or disclose publicly obtained information to third parties under certain conditions (e.g., marketing, legal compliance), or provide access under data‑broker frameworks such as those regulated by laws like the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
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