If you value your privacy, I recommend you Google yourself at least every 6 months to make sure that some new start-up company isn't publishing your info without your permission. In fact, if you read the "opt-out policy" for some of these, there is a limit to the "opt out" period (e.g. it's only 5 years for Archives.com) Most of these little start-ups inherit the information from the bigger ones (like WhitePages.com and InstantCheckmate, etc), but it's good to know about them and make sure that you're not on them.
Important safety tip: Make sure that you're using an "incognito" session, or that your browser is not going to be sending information to their website while you're there. These might be phishing sites.
Newsle
Remove yourself by emailing customer service with your email address and their URL to your profile.
Spoke
According to the instructions, you should be able to remove yourself by clicking the Edit button next to your profile, but I get a pop-up error. Instead, there's a footer link to request they remove your information. You will need to provide their URL to your profile on their form.
Pipl
Sorry; there's no way around this one. They are actually searching the internet for your profile elsewhere, so you will need to go to each one of these sites and remove yourself from those sites. The effect on the Pipl search is fairly immediate.
Scribd
This seems to be pulling information from social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc), EVEN IF YOU HAVE YOURSELF AS PRIVATE AS YOU CAN BE. Click on Customer support: Get help, which opens a modal. Enter "remove my info" in the search box. On the results, click "get in touch". Enter your information. They have not been responsive to me yet, but that's their process.
Profile Engine
You have to sign up first, so use a junk email. Then you can claim your profile and delete it. I don't know if it returns, but don't give them any more info than is on their page.
Public Records
Sounds official, but it's not. You will need to click the Contact Us in the footer, complete the form, including their URL to your profile, and hope for the best. I wasn't on this one, so I think that most of their information comes from somewhere else.
A I Hit
You'll need to click on the contact form, fill it out, and hope for the best. I have not heard back from them.
Mate Spotter
Click on the Contact Us and enter your information, including their URL to your profile. I wasn't on this one, but it appears to focus (right now, at least) on Australians.
Archives
Fill out the form for all of your aliases.
Radaris
This one is difficult. I'll get something more defined put together for you here shortly.
BackgroundReport360
There's no way around this: you have to call them. Their support links don't work on the page, so don't bother. Even tried chatting to get more info out of them, but based on the exchange I had with the chat, I would say it's a bot, not a person, so don't bother trying it. 1800-764-0104
Make sure you check my blog for previous removal tips from other websites, too.
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