How to opt out of Cubib
Cubib is a site that is worthwhile looking yourself up on because of the vast amount of detailed free personal information it provides. Here is what you can expect to see on this site:
These are only a few of the categories of information you can expect to find.
People search data – it’s not unusual to find yourself listed multiple times.
- Marketing data – this will include invasive personal information such as address, birthday, gender, email addresses, estimated household income, ethnicity and more.
- Public property records.
- Vehicle sales records.
- Business registration records.
- Whois records.
- US voter registration records.
- Court records.
- Public campaign donations.
- US White House visitor list.
- US patent application search.
Although opting out is quite easy, it’s time consuming because you must do a separate opt out for each record that you want to remove and you will likely have many separate records on this site.
- Find yourself by going to Cubib and entering your info into the search fields.
- Click on your name in the first record you see that belongs to you.
- Click on “Opt Out” in the information that pops up.
- Fill out the form completely followed by clicking on “Proceed.” HINT: Use the information already listed in the result to complete the form, even if the information is not accurate. As a general rule, avoid giving out any new information as you do your opt out.
- You will receive a message in a green box saying, “Your message has been successfully sent!”
- Repeat (patiently) for every single result you want to remove.
Give Cubib time to process your removal and verify it’s gone before you assume it will be automatically taken care of. Cubib sources their info from many different locations and not all of your information will be removed at once. This means that time, tenacity and patience are key… something that is true for many of these types of sites.
Here are links to some removal tutorials for other sites. These sites can come and go and they also occasionally make changes to their removal processes.If you run into issues on any of these, be sure to leave a comment following the article and I’ll respond as soon as possible.
How to opt out of Whitepages and whitepages Premium
How to opt out of Instantcheckmate
How to opt out of BeenVerified
How to opt out of AdvancedBackgroundChecks
How to Opt out of Peoplefinders
You can also go to this link to see them all in one place.
Until next time, … Stay Cyber Safe!
I am having problems removing info from publicrecords.directory and ufind. Cubib recently removed a listing, but those two other sites will not remove info and there is no way to contact them. Do you have any information on how to remove info from those sites?
I have not written tutorials for those two sites yet.
For anyone who had issue before in removing your info from cubib they have now simplified the process. Find your info as stated before/select listing/opt out. Now they ONLY ask for your name and email address instead of address/phone, etc. MUCH easier now.
Note – use email listed in listing if available, if not listed make sure you have a fake/internet removal email handy.
Note – publicrecordsdirectory and ufindname use the same info. Remove from cubib and this should remove from ufindname and publicrecordsdirectory.
Note – email address for cubib.com and publicrecords.directory is support(at)123qr.com BUT ONLY use if necessary. They usually don’t accept/perform removal request – remove via online form 1st.
That is very helpful information. Thanks for sharing. 🙂 I’ll update the article soon.
Do you have any removal info on number2name.com – unable to remove my info from this website?
Note – your “contact me” option isn’t working – I keep receiving error message.
I don’t have a number2name tutorial yet, sorry. Also, I checked my contact form and it’s working. When I tested it I had to put in a code (to prove I’m human) and then after it sent I got a message back confirming delivery. I wonder why it’s not working for you?
I cannot get cubib.com to honor the opt-out requests. An email was sent to support(at)123qr.com, but I’ve received no answer. Meanwhile, the data remains present. I’ve managed to get personal information removed from every other people search site, cubib.com is the only one I’m having trouble with. Any suggestions.
I’ve not heard back from Cubib by email when I’ve tried to reach them. But most of the time I have removal success by following each step of my tutorial. Alternatively, you can reach out to me privately and I can look at the problematic information. I can possibly remove it as a paid service, if you want me to.
In order to remove your info from cubib you MUST select name (click name) then select “opt out” at top right corner of listing and then fill in requested info (first/last name, email address). Again, I suggest using a “fake” email that you have established solely for Internet removal and for safety I use the library’s computer so my IP is NOT connected to the request.
And you MUST receive the message below in a green box. If NOT received then repeat opt out process until you do receive the message.
Your message has been successfully sent!
Note: If you are requesting to opt-out or remove information, we have created a simple system to expedite the process. Please click on the information you would like to opt-out or remove, and then click “opt-out”. Fill out this form and we will process your request ASAP.
One important detail not mentioned here about using the opt out on that website.. their Terms page says if you give them your personal details name address email phone, which you have to for the opt out, they say you give them consent to give your data to “partner firms which may include third party marketing companies, affiliates, advertising agencies, and data aggregation companies”. So any dodgy third party company with a disregard for personal data that might track you, spam you or put your details on another website. It’s like email spammers that use unsubscribe links to validate real addresses to sell. They are breaking the law. I am an EU ( European Union ) citizen and it is illegal under EU GDPR data protection law for a company to publish our personal data against our wishes, there is the Right to erasure which means permanent deletion of personal data from current databases and backups, also the Right to restrict processing which means they are not allowed to use the data or give it to others to use. I doubt that website owner knows or cares. They scraped or bought others databases to get data they publish publicly and make money from their website pages adverts and selling personal data. Their terms claim you cannot use their data without their consent. No it’s not their data. It’s my data by law and I have the legal right to it. Thanks for letting people know about that website. But I don’t know if I can trust contacting them to opt out if they are going to give my data to more companies. If they openly admit unethical and illegal behaviour there is no way to ensure that doesn’t happen. What do you think about that?.
Below is the relevant section from their Terms page. By the way they don’t use the website “usdata” any more so don’t try to contact them using that.
“11. CONSENT TO RECEIVE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS FROM PARTNER MARKETERS
Without limitation, by registering for the Service and/or by providing Your name, email, postal or residential address, and/or phone number through the Service, You hereby consent to receive, and openly and knowingly solicit, electronic communications, including email communications, from partner firms which may include third party marketing companies, affiliates, advertising agencies, and data aggregation companies regarding their services, including offers, promotions, and other related matters. You may opt-out of receiving electronic communications at any time by (a) following the unsubscribe instructions contained in each communication; or (b) sending an email to SUPPORT at usdata”
Unfortunately, I’ve noticed most of these data brokers state the same thing in their privacy policies. In essence, using these websites results in an automatic opt in but they have a legal obligation to opt out EU residents upon request. In the USA, there is no legal obligation to do so but most of the sites will do it anyway. In 2020, CA residents will get that same option. The difference is EU residents currently have the right to be forgotten, even in Google, and that is not an option in the USA now, nor will it be part of the California privacy protection act. The mistake is to assume one is not on these sites. These sites harvest so much data I get the feeling that a number of them don’t even know how to easily opt out those who ask.
It’s all a work in progress with people on both sides of the fence. The battle is on!
Cubib.com are also listing my details although they state that it is a directory of US citizens. I am from the EU. I have already created a trustpilot entry for them with one star rating (feel free to add to that with additional bad ratings). In the EU I am protected under European Law from having my details published online (GDPR, or General Data Protection Regulations), so Cubib may be facing a multimillion Euro fine if they continue listing EU citizens. I have reported them to the GDPR regulators.
Have you tried to contact them via their contact form? They limit message size significantly so I’d be sure to include “EU Opt Out” in your message. I ultimately manage to remove most information on that site but I have found that sometimes I need to make repeated opt out attempts. In the meantime, I”m hoping that your report to GDPR regulators will get them to do their opt outs more accurately and much faster than they’ve been doing them. Thanks for sharing your situation, Steve. I would greatly appreciate hearing what transpires.
YES!. Another European Union citizen here. Please reply if you hear from GDPR regulators or notice the website removes EU data. Before GDPR the website owner used domain privacy to replace their postal address with registrar Domains By Proxy LLC in Arizona. An EU regulator would probably have to contact the hosting company to warn the owner to delete EU content and comply with EU law properly or pass their details to the regulators to deal with. And read their Terms it says if you contact them at all they might sell your data to other companies, also illegal. I hope they get the message and take it seriously.
I repeatedly attempted to contact Cubib through their web site (and was careful to stay within the 100-character limit that their contact page requires), but received no results. I was even mindful to wait several weeks between attempts in order to give them a chance to fulfill my request. However, months passed and my personal information was still plastered on their site. I decided to contact the Federal Trade Commission. It was only through filing a formal complaint with the FTC that my personal information was removed. I strongly suggest that others do the same.
I find I sometimes need to repeat the opt out. Have you tried that approach yet?
Yes. As I stated originally, I made multiple attempts to opt out with Cubib directly… and waited months for them to remove my information. They never did. The FTC, however, was quick and effective. Again, I suggest that others who are having a similar issue file a complaint with them instead of dealing with Cubib.
Debbie,
Did Cubib end up removing your information after being contacted by the FTC?
Hayley
I chanced upon your website, and I just want to thank you for such a comprehensive list and detailed instructions. I’m having success with several websites so far, but am having problems with cubib. The opt out form, after clicking ‘proceed’, repeatedly times out. I have not had any response to my email contacts with them, either. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! thank you!!
As a starting point, try to do your opt outs from a different browser. Once in a while I find that I end up in an endless loop on Google Chrome. Try Safari or a browser I like to use is called “Epic.” Sometimes I also find the sites have a technical glitch that causes an unusual situation like this with a one of my clients. When that happens, I do whatever I can to contact that site for help. In the case of Cubib, they can be contacted using the “contact us” link on their home page. Please let me know what happens in the end. Good luck. 🙂 Hayley
Hi I found two entries that are both saying the information they got was from WHOIS which publishes my website registration info.
The strange thing is one of the domains is no longer active or registered to me but they still have my info published, and there is nowhere on the listing saying “opt out”.
It does say that it was last updated in august of 2013 though… maybe they only update it every 5 years or something? I understand that the info has to be available by law, but I don’t understand why they would still be sharing that info for a domain name that I haven’t owned/registered for a few years now….
and I am unable to remove that info for some reason. Ever encountered this?
I have not encountered that so far. If you want to email me the link, I’ll take a look and see if I can do it for you. Alternatively, you can contact Cubib directly to ask them to remove it. Click on their “Contact Us” link at the top of their home page.
their contact page DOES NOT WORK!
I think it does work. But you have to be concise because you are limited to 100 characters.
Ditto. But seemingly no one runs the website, and the contact page doesnt even work. Looks like it was designed by a child
Some sites are not compatible with all browsers. When one doesn’t seem to work, try another. (Chrome, Safari etc)
On Cubib, the contact form only accepts 100 characters so be concise.
Thank you SO much for compiling this list! I went through the entire list and requested my info be removed from the sites it was listed on.
You are welcome, Fay. Now remember, the follow up is key. wait a few days and then confirm all the information they said was removed was actually removed. 🙂