Draft — pending legal review. This page was written from what the software actually does and is accurate to the best of our knowledge, but it has not yet been reviewed by a lawyer. If anything here matters to a decision you're making, please get in touch and we'll confirm it.

Information for businesses listed in Yibbit

If you run a local business and found your way here from our crawler, this page is for you. It explains what we hold, why, and how to get it removed.

Last updated 28 July 2026

What happened

Yibbit is a tool used by web designers and marketing agencies to find local businesses whose websites have fixable problems. It searches Google Places for businesses in a given city and trade, then runs an automated check on each one's public website.

You didn't sign up for this and we've never spoken. We're telling you because if you're a sole trader — or your business phone and address are also your personal ones — that record is personal data about you, and you're entitled to know we have it.

What we hold

What	Where it came from
Business name, address, phone number, website	Google Places API
Google rating and review count	Google Places API
Business category	Google Places API
Technical measurements of your website — load speed, SEO tags, broken links, accessibility check results, JavaScript errors	An automated visit to your public website
A screenshot of your homepage	The same visit
An AI-written summary of what could be improved	Generated from the measurements above

We only ever look at pages that are already public. We don't log in anywhere, we don't fill in your forms, and we don't collect customer data from your site. Our crawler identifies itself as Yibbitbot and honours robots.txt — details and how to block it.

Most of what comes from Google is deleted and re-fetched on a rolling 30-day cycle, because Google's terms don't allow us to keep it longer than that.

Why we think we're allowed to

We rely on legitimate interests: identifying businesses whose websites have problems that our customers can fix, using information that is already published. We've weighed that against your interests, and it's why we only use public data, keep the technical footprint of our visit small, and operate this page.

If you disagree, you don't have to justify it. Use the form below and we'll remove you.

Get removed

Removal is permanent. We delete what we hold and add you to a do-not-collect list, so future scans skip you — including scans run by other customers of ours. We keep only the minimum needed to know to keep skipping you.

Prefer email? Write to [email protected] with your website address and we'll do the same thing.

Your other rights

As well as removal, you can ask for a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to restrict how we use it. Email [email protected] and we'll reply within a month, free of charge.

If you're unhappy with how we've handled it, you can complain to the UK's Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk or your local data protection authority. Our full privacy policy has more detail.

Who we are

Yibbit is operated by Josiah Bedford, trading as a sole trader.

Postal address: 6080 N Marks Ave, APT 126, Fresno, CA 93711, USA

General enquiries: [email protected]
Data protection and privacy requests: [email protected]