Our web crawler
ElderhubBot is the web crawler that Elderhub runs. If you run a website and saw ElderhubBot in your server logs, this page explains what it is doing and how to stop it.
Who runs it
Intelligence Limited, a limited company registered in New Zealand. Registered address: 85 Pooles Road, Greerton, Tauranga 3112, New Zealand.
What it reads
It reads the public pages of care home, retirement village and other operator websites to find a published business phone number or email address and up to two photos of the facility. Ministry of Health, LINZ and register data are separate: we do not crawl for them.
What it does not do
- It obeys robots.txt. A path you disallow, for ElderhubBot or for all crawlers, is not fetched. We also limit how often we ask each site, whatever your robots.txt says.
- It fetches only public pages. It never logs in, never submits forms and never reads anything behind a login.
- It stays on the website of the facility, or of the organisation that operates it. It does not follow links to other sites.
What we keep
A contact detail is used only to reach the facility about its listing. We do not publish it without verifying it. A photo is shown with a credit linking to the page it came from. We keep a contact detail or photo only while the facility is listed, and we remove it, with any copy we hold, when you ask.
Asking us to stop, or to remove a photo or detail
- Email [email protected].
- Use the "Report this photo" link on any listing.
- Block ElderhubBot in your robots.txt.