However, when you look up their domain, you will find that their webhost is bluehost.com, a webhosting company which provides anonymous hosting, but whose terms and conditions all their customers, including Scots-titles.com, are obliged to comply with. And this is where you are in luck. If you scroll down to T&C no. 9, you will see that Scots-titles.com are in fact in breach of several of Bluehost's terms, inter alia:
- 9-05 ("Subscribers may not post or disclose any personal or private information about or images of children or any third party without the consent of said party") and
- 9-14 ("Use of the Services to store, post, transmit, display or otherwise make available obscene, defamatory, harassing, abusive or threatening language is prohibited").
How to get your details removed from the website:
We have investigated this for you. Scots-titles.com are not allowed to publish any of your personal information, and personal information is defined by Bluehost's legal team as; first and last name used together, home address, home phone number, private pictures, etc.
What they would like you to do: Send an email to legal[at]bluehost.com where you have included the form below:
"Request for the Removal of Personal Identifying Information
We define personal Identifying Information as providing a persons First and Last name in conjunction with each other, a phone number, email address, physical address, Social Security Number, etc. If the material you are requesting to be removed is one or more of the listed items, please fill out the following form.
1. Identification of the material that you are claiming needs to be removed, with information about its location, reasonably specific to permit us to locate the material
Description of Infringement: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Location of Infringement
Infringing URL or Web Address: _______________________________
2. Please fill in the following statement:
I _______________________________, have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by me.
3. Please fill in the following statement:
I _______________________________, swear under penalty of perjury, that the above information in this notification is accurate.
4. The infringement reporter or authorized persons:
Name: _______________________________Addresses: _______________________________Telephone Number: _______________________________Email Address _______________________________
5. The electronic/typed or physical signature of the owner of the copyright or the person authorized to act on the owner's behalf.
6. Please attach a scan of a Government Issued ID."
If you send this information to the above email address, stating all the pages of Scots-titles.com referring to you, your personal information will be removed from the site. We encourage all who have been mentioned on Scots-titles.com to get their information removed forthwith. This will show Scots-titles.com that they cannot publicly denounce persons with whose views they disagree. There are actually privacy protection acts in place which prohibit such behaviour.
