Is it legal to search for someone online?

Sleuthly only works with information that people or organisations have already made public, public profiles, public business pages and public mentions, and links each result back to where it's published, so you can see it for yourself. We don't access private accounts and we don't build a database of faces by automatically collecting the web. This isn't legal advice, and our practices are under ongoing legal review.

Yes, completely. Searching your own name, email or photo to see what's public about you is the safest and most encouraged use of Sleuthly. You're the person the data is about, so there's no question of someone else's rights. This is what we recommend you try first.

It can be, when you have a lawful, legitimate reason (for example, checking that someone you're about to meet, rent from or buy from is who they claim to be) and you only use what's public. It is not okay to use Sleuthly to harass or intimidate someone, or to make decisions the law specifically regulates (see hiring and tenant screening below). You are responsible for how you use the results.

No. Searches on Sleuthly are private and silent. We don't notify the person you look up, and we don't tell them who searched. We also don't store your photo or build a profile of you.

Sleuthly is built privacy by design. We work only with public sources, we filter out sensitive categories of data, and anyone can ask to be removed from what we surface, free and without an account. If you appear in a result and want it gone, use our opt-out. In Europe, personal data is governed by the GDPR and overseen by national data protection authorities: you have rights of access, rectification and erasure, and you can remove yourself from Sleuthly for free anytime.

As for our own behaviour: we only search public information and we don't build a database of faces by automatically collecting the web. We run the search you ask for and return public sources. This isn't legal advice, and our practices are under ongoing legal review.

No. Sleuthly is not a consumer reporting agency and is not designed or permitted for hiring, tenant screening, credit, insurance or other decisions regulated by laws like the US Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) or similar rules elsewhere. Don't use our results for these purposes.

No. The penalties in this industry came from hidden trial-to-subscription billing, fake opt-outs and misleading accuracy claims. Sleuthly is the opposite: transparent pay-per-report, a real opt-out, sourced results, and no claim to be "the most accurate".