Free email exposure check

Digital Footprint Scan: See What’s Exposed About You Online

Your email address, phone number and old accounts leave traces across the internet. Run a free digital footprint scan to see which known data breaches your email appears in — and what to do next.

We don’t store your email address, and we never sell or share it.

Private by design Your email is checked against known breach records and never stored, logged or shared.
What you can check

Your online footprint is bigger than social media.

Information connected to your name, email, phone number and accounts can appear in many different places. Start with the area you want to understand.

Email Exposure

Learn where an email address may appear online and what information can potentially be associated with it.

Check email exposure

Phone Number Exposure

Understand what may be discoverable from a publicly exposed phone number and how to reduce unnecessary visibility.

Check phone exposure

People Search Sites

Learn how people-search websites can expose personal details and where to look for publicly available information.

Explore people-search sites
Process

How a digital footprint check works

A useful privacy check starts by understanding what information exists and where it may be visible.

Step 01

Find your identifiers

Start with your name, email addresses, phone numbers and usernames.

Step 02

Search where they appear

Check search engines, social platforms, directories, people-search sites and data brokers.

Step 03

Decide what matters

Separate harmless information from details you would rather keep private.

Step 04

Take action

Remove, limit or monitor information where appropriate.

Removal services

Compare the services that remove your data for you

Finding your exposure is free. Removing it from hundreds of data brokers and people-search sites by hand takes months. These services do it for you — here is how the main options differ.

Our top pick

Incogni

Best for most people

$7.99/mo billed yearly

  • Removal requests to 420+ data brokers and people-search sites
  • Repeats requests when your details reappear
  • Works in the US, Canada, UK and Europe
  • 30-day money-back guarantee
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DeleteMe

Best for human-reviewed removals

$129/yr per person

  • Removal requests handled by privacy staff
  • Quarterly reports showing what was removed
  • Couple and family plans available
  • Also offered in the UK, Canada and Australia
Compare DeleteMe

Scan My Shadow

Our sister service · one-time report

$9.99 one-time

  • One-off exposure report for your email and phone number
  • Plain-English PDF report with a do-it-yourself removal kit
  • No subscription and no recurring charge
  • Good starting point before committing to a yearly service
Get the one-time report

Prices checked October 16, 2026 and set by each provider. Availability differs by country. Scan My Shadow is run by the same team as Digital Footprint Scan. Compare all 7 services by country →

You don’t have to give us your personal information to learn how to protect it.

Our guides are designed to help you investigate your own online presence using publicly available information and practical privacy practices. Digital Footprint Scan provides educational information without scare tactics or unnecessary data collection.