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{
"id": "clustal",
"name": "Clustal",
"category": "people_search",
"priority": "high",
"jurisdictions": ["US"],
"search": {
"method": "url_pattern",
"url": "https://www.clustal.org/",
"fetch": "web_extract",
"match_signal": "record",
"by": ["name"],
"url_patterns": {
"name_index": "https://www.clustal.org/people-search/{letter}/{first-last}/",
"name_state": "https://www.clustal.org/people-search/{letter}/{first-last}/{st}/",
"record": "https://www.clustal.org/record/{first-last}-{8charID}/"
},
"url_format_quirks": [
"Name index: /people-search/{first-initial}/{first-last}/ e.g. /people-search/k/jane-public/ (lowercase, first letter of LAST name as the {letter} segment, hyphen-joined name). Optional state refine appends /{st}/ lowercase 2-letter.",
"Detail (removable unit): /record/{first-last}-{8charID}/ e.g. /record/jane-public-a1b2c3d4/ (opaque mixed-case 8-char id). The index page links each match to its /record/ URL.",
"Readable via web_extract (no hard bot gate as of 2026-07-01). Rich profile: age/DOB, current+prior addresses, phones, emails, relatives, neighbors, associates.",
"Name only: search is by name(+state); no reverse phone/email/address path observed. NOTE: clustal.org squats the 'Clustal' bioinformatics brand but IS a real people-search/data-broker site ('Find Your DNA Relatives'), not the sequence-alignment tool - do not dismiss it as a false positive."
]
},
"optout": {
"tier": "T0",
"method": "web_form",
"url": "https://www.clustal.org/privacy-control/",
"requires": {
"profile_url": true,
"email_verification": true,
"captcha": false,
"gov_id": false,
"account": false,
"phone_callback": false,
"payment": false
},
"inputs": ["profile_url", "contact_email"],
"notes": "Opt-out at /privacy-control/ using the /record/ profile URL; support help@clustal.org. Verify the exact form fields + any CAPTCHA live before submitting (requires flags below are provisional from the site's opt-out copy, not yet a live form walk-through).",
"email": "help@clustal.org",
"est_processing_days": 7,
"reappearance_risk": "medium"
},
"last_verified": "2026-07-01",
"source": "BADBOOL",
"confidence": "curated"
}