You do decide who can access to your information. If you chose to create a public link to your add_me page, this page can be found and indexed by anyone that can find that public link. Without this public link, the page is not retrievable.

And yes you can take down this page, quickly and easily. I was simply trying to be forthcoming that the current method is not the most elegant solution, but it will have no impact on any current information you maintain. We will improve this in future releases, as well as look into providing individual users the ability to specify if they wish the page to be indexed and cached.

And as for adding one line to our robots.txt file, this would be true if we wanted to fully disable the ability for people to have their add_me page indexed. But how do you handle people who wish this page to be indexed so it can be easily found when someone “googles” their name. If someone wishes to create a public link to their add_me page, the initial design and intent of the add_me page was to allow it to be found. Perhaps this is not appropriate for everyone, but many members appreciate this ability.

And as I noted in our previous correspondence, in order to protect the privacy of the individual, we have obuscated the information on the add_me page so as to make it difficult for bots to gather the specific details on this page.

But if after this and our previous correspondence, you feel that Plaxo is not appropriate for you, please note that you can delete your account at any time by going to:
https://www.plaxo.com/delete_account

and click the Delete My Account button.

If you have any further questions or concerns, please let me know.

Thank you,

Stacy Martin
Plaxo Privacy Officer
privacy @t plaxo.com