Request to erase personal data · UK GDPR Articles 17 and 21

Free UK Data Removal Tool

Ask the companies that buy and sell people's details to erase yours. You send every request from your own email, so replies come straight back to you.

Free · no sign-up

Nothing you type leaves this device. This page has no account, no tracking and no server behind it. It is built so it cannot send anything anywhere; your emails go only when you press send in your own email.

PART 1

Your details

Only what the companies need to find your records. Put each item on its own line.

1.1Full nameInclude any middle names.

1.2Other names you have used

1.3Current address and postcode

1.4Previous addresses

1.5Email addresses

1.6Phone numbers

1.7I have worked in business or been a company director (adds the business contact databases)

Never neededDate of birth, National Insurance number, bank details or ID documents. If a company asks for ID, you can say no: a reply from the same email address shows the request is yours.

Remember my details and progress on this device only, so I can come back later.

PART 2

Your letter

The same letter goes to every company. Your details are blacked out here until you choose to see them.

Subject: Erasure and objection request under UK GDPR (Articles 17 and 21)

PART 3

Send them

Each button opens a new email with the letter already written. Check it, press send, then tick it off here.

I use

Gmail Outlook / Hotmail Email app

PART 4

The free extras

These stop a lot of the data at its source.

4.1

Open electoral register. Your council sells this copy of the register to anyone, and much broker data starts here. Opting out does not affect voting or credit checks.
Find your council at gov.uk/find-local-council, then send its electoral services team this:

PART 5

After you send

5.1

One month on: companies must reply within a month. Send this chase-up to any that have not, from the same email thread.

5.2

Still nothing? Complain to the Information Commissioner's Office for free at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint with copies of both emails.

5.3

Every three months: send the requests again. Companies refresh their data and often add people back.

A calendar file for the one-month chase-up and the three-month repeat.