Anyone can ask Orelys to stop returning their email address, username, domain or phone number. It is free and done within 48 hours: see orelys.io/data-removal. Orelys does not host the records — they live in the Intelligence X archive — so it cannot delete them at the source. It blocks them on its side, and the API applies that block to every answer.

What you will see

A withheld file or archive (file_withheld) takes no request, like a search that finds nothing (see Limits). An archive Orelys cannot check (archive_unchecked) never takes one, and asking again for the same archive on the same day answers at once without asking the search service. Selectors are compared without case, spaces, invisible characters, surrounding quotes or brackets, a mailto: prefix or a trailing dot, and full-width characters count as their plain form. Phone numbers are compared by their digits, with or without the country code: once +33 6 12 34 56 78 is removed, 0033612345678, 06 12 34 56 78, 0612345678 and +33 (0)6 12 34 56 78 are all the same number. A number removed without its country code (0612345678, 4155550123) is matched as written and in its international forms, never as part of a longer number. A selector counts only as a whole: removing john@example.com does not hide bigjohn@example.com or john@example.com.au, and removing the username alice does not hide malice or a search for Alice Cooper.

Asking for a removal

Removals are handled by the Orelys team, not through the API. Use the form on orelys.io/data-removal or write to support@orelys.io.