For performers protecting their legal name and home address

Your stage name is public. Your address should not be.

Curtain keeps the log of every people-search site — when you looked, whether you were listed, when the opt-out went, when the listing came down and when to look again — so you can run your own removals instead of paying a service. It will not sign a quarterly sweep while a listing has no opt-out or a site is overdue a look.

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Opens in this browser with an invented performer already in it. No account, no email address, nothing installed.

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The problem

Taken down in spring. Back by autumn.

People-search sites publish legal names, home addresses and relatives, and listings that are removed come back. Removal services charge around $129 a year for one person and work in quarterly rounds for exactly that reason. The same work can be done by hand, an evening a quarter — if somebody keeps the log and nags.

$129

a year for one person with a leading removal service, $329 for a family of four, paid up front.

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Quarterly

is the rhythm the services report on — removal is described as ongoing, not done once.

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950+

data brokers on one service’s list; its automated opt-outs reach about a hundred. The rest is manual either way.

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Will not sign the sweep with a listing left up.

Not a reminder. Sign this quarter’s sweep refuses, with each site named, while any site has never been looked at, is overdue its re-check, or shows a listing with no opt-out sent. A listing cannot be marked gone without an opt-out. There is no override.

How it works

An evening a quarter

Look yourself up

On each site in the list, and any you add. Press what you found: not listed, or listed.

Send the opt-out

The same week. Press opt-out sent; Curtain says when to chase it and when to look again once it is gone.

Sign the sweep

Once a quarter, when every site is looked at and every listing has an opt-out. A listing that comes back is caught at the next look.

What it will never do

It protects your details by never holding them.

A log of which sites, what you found and when. Nothing a stalker could use if the device were lost.

No legal name, no address.A note that looks like an email, a phone number or a street address is refused.

It does not search for you.You look yourself up; Curtain keeps the record.

It sends nothing.You send the opt-outs. Curtain tells you when.

It never touches a payment.The fee for Curtain is flat and it is for software.

Pricing

A fraction of a removal service

Because you are doing the work, not paying somebody to.

Performer

$39/month

One person, billed yearly.

Fourteen sites to start, add your own
Re-check schedule
Quarterly sweep gate, no override

Most chosen

Household

$59/month

You and up to three people at your address.

Everything in Performer
One copy per person
Export your log

Agency

$199/month

An agency helping up to ten performers.

Everything in Household
One copy per performer
Priority support

Flat fee, billed yearly. Your bank statement says Curtain Software. Your licence key is emailed to you within two working days of payment.

Checkout is our own bitcoin server, not a card processor — nobody we had to apply to and nobody who can close the account. The button takes you straight to it. Give your email address there — that is where your key is sent.

Questions

The ones we actually get asked

Why not just pay a removal service?

You can. Curtain is for people who would rather do it themselves, keep control, and spend a fraction of the price.

Which sites does it list?

Fourteen well-known people-search sites to start with. Add any others you find; Curtain treats them the same.

Why won’t it keep my address?

Because a log of where you live is the thing you are trying to make disappear. Curtain refuses notes that look like one.

What if I am being threatened?

Contact the police. Curtain is housekeeping, not protection.

What do I actually get when I pay?

The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, emailed to the address you give at checkout within two working days. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.

The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.

Open the demo at quarter end

Last quarter’s sweep was clean. This one will not sign: Spokeo is showing the same listing again under a new city, and Radaris has not been looked at since June. MyLife’s opt-out went in August and is overdue a chase.

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