CB Insights Opt Out Guide: Delete Your Personal Data

To opt out of CB Insights, use its Privacy Request Center or email privacy@cbinsights.com with the personal-data action you want. Select your actual country before choosing a request in the portal. Deletion, objection to processing, and sale-sharing opt-out have different scopes, while website cookie choices require a separate control.

This CB Insights opt out guide is based on the July 31, 2026 policy and public request center checked October 8, 2026. We inspected the available routes without submitting personal information. No request verification, account deletion, or successful removal was tested.

What personal information does CB Insights process?

CB Insights is operated by CB Information Services, Inc. Its privacy statement covers data collected directly and indirectly, including professional contact information obtained from public records, directories, partners, suppliers, and business-related websites. It also covers account users, event attendees, job applicants, and people who communicate with the company.

The statement describes publishing limited personal information about company leadership and key personnel as part of its services. That means someone can have a professional-data concern without being a paying subscriber. Company research, a person's professional details, and a subscriber account are related but distinct subjects for a request.

The data broker directory helps organize other professional-data requests. Start by identifying which record and organization concern you rather than assuming every business database contains the same information.

How do you use the Privacy Request Center?

Open the official Privacy Request Center through the current policy. Its introduction distinguishes personal-data requests from cookie controls and asks visitors to select a country of residence before choosing a request type.

1. Check the country selected by the portal and change it to your actual residence if needed.
2. Choose the request that describes your goal, such as deletion, access, objection, correction, or transfer when available.
3. Read the displayed explanation and provide the matching information requested by the current flow.
4. Describe the relevant personal record clearly, including a professional profile or association if that helps identify it.
5. Review the request and follow the portal's verification instructions before treating it as submitted or complete.

The inspected country setting was Germany and the landing page displayed several request types. The direct sale-opt-out shortcut showed an unsupported-location message in that session. This is evidence that the route can depend on location, not a reason to select a country where you do not live.

If the option you need is absent, return to the main request center or use the policy-authorized privacy email. We did not test every jurisdiction or later verification stage, so this guide does not promise a universal sequence of fields or confirmation messages.

How can you send a clear request by email?

The current privacy statement authorizes privacy@cbinsights.com for exercising rights. It asks for information that enables identity verification, with examples such as name, address, and email. State the desired action and the personal record you want addressed.

For a professional profile, explain the name, company affiliation, or professional contact information involved. Include a relevant record URL if you already have one, but do not buy a subscription solely to produce a URL that the privacy team may be able to locate itself. Ask what additional identifier is needed if the record cannot be found.

If you want deletion

Specify that your request concerns personal information about you. A request to delete an individual's details does not automatically require removal of every factual entry about a company, financing event, or market. Ask the provider to distinguish the personal-data response from any company-record correction process.

If you want marketing to stop

State whether you mean sales emails, calls, or broader processing. The policy describes a marketing suppression marker and a separate internal do-not-call request. Unsubscribing from a newsletter does not establish that a professional record has been deleted.

If you want both deletion and sale opt-out

Name both requested outcomes. A response confirming one action does not silently confirm the other. Keep a copy of the message and ask the privacy team to explain any exceptions or narrower action it applies.

What verification and response timing does the policy describe?

The general rights section says legitimate requests are answered within one month, with notice if more time or information is needed. The California section separately describes a 45-day response aim and a possible extension to 90 days with written notice. Keep those contexts separate rather than presenting one timeline as universal.

The policy says California verification uses a third-party vendor and cannot rely on authentication to an existing CB Insights account. It also says a verifiable request does not require creating an account. Being able to log in and proving that a requested personal record belongs to you are different checks.

Provide sufficient, accurate information for matching, but ask why additional sensitive details are necessary before sending them. The examples in a broad privacy policy are not an instruction to upload every identity document you possess. Use the provider's current secure process for any requested verification.

If the response denies or limits the request, keep the explanation and ask what could resolve a matching issue. Our general broker-removal guide offers a practical request log so that submission dates, verification exchanges, and final responses remain connected.

Why are cookies, customer data, and public sources separate?

CB Insights explicitly separates cookie-related sale-sharing choices from non-cookie personal-data requests because the controls operate differently. Its website footer provides Privacy Settings. The policy says browser preferences must be handled on relevant devices and browsers, and clearing cookies can affect stored preferences.

The privacy statement also excludes collection and use performed by CB Insights customers for their own end users. If your concern relates to another organization's use of information, that organization may need its own request. A CB Insights response does not establish deletion from every customer's independently maintained system.

Public source material can continue to exist outside the provider. Removing a professional record from one service does not change an employer biography, public registry, or another research database. Address an inaccurate source directly where appropriate, and avoid assuming that a provider's data came from one specific website without evidence.

For other professional datasets, the ZoomInfo opt-out guide and Enigma opt-out guide describe separate routes. These links are related reading, not a claim that either company supplied your CB Insights record.

How can you check completion and future reappearance?

Read the final response for the actual action: deletion, restriction, correction, marketing suppression, or another outcome. Retention for applicable purposes can differ from unrestricted continued use. Ask which identifiers and systems were covered if the reply leaves the scope unclear.

Because the policy describes external sources and ongoing services, a single response does not prove that every future variation of your information will always be recognized. If you later find specific evidence of the same data being used again, follow up with the original request reference and the new evidence. Do not interpret a generic search result or unrelated company entry as proof that your personal-data request failed.

The opt-out hub helps identify the next relevant organization. A free exposure scan can reveal some public listings, but is not a complete audit of subscriber-only research platforms or private customer databases. Keep the provider's written response even when there is no public page to revisit.

Frequently asked questions

Must I create a CB Insights account?

The California notice says making a verifiable request does not require an account. The public request center was accessible during inspection. Follow any identity-verification instructions associated with your actual request.

Why does the sale-opt-out link show an unsupported location?

The portal can adapt to location and applicable rights. In our inspected session, the direct shortcut showed that message while the main center offered other requests. Check your real country selection or use the designated privacy email.

Will deleting my personal data remove my company's profile?

Those are different subjects. Identify the personal details that concern you and ask for the relevant action. Company research and public business facts may require a different correction process or remain outside the personal-data request.

Does Reject All in the cookie banner delete my professional record?

No such result follows from the cookie control. CB Insights explicitly requires separate mechanisms for browser-cookie information and other personal information. Use the request center or privacy email for the latter.

Can a representative submit a request?

The policy permits legally authorized representatives in the applicable process and requires verification of identity or authority. An agent should use accurate authorization and follow the provider's current requirements. We did not test an agent submission.

Sources and verification

The CB Insights privacy statement, Privacy Request Center, and policy-linked shortcuts were checked October 8, 2026. Browser evidence records the country-dependent entry point. No consumer request or removal result was tested.