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Website image update

Happy to report that my image has been taken down from the website in question and replaced by an image from  iStock.

For the record, I have no objections to my photos being used on websites as long as permission is asked, the image has been purchased and photo credit is given. Not too much to ask is it!

Just for fun, here’s the photo of Madge which caused the fuss in the first place. She was such a pretty and flamboyant dog.

Madge

EDIT: The owner of the facility called me today to let me know that it had been taken care of, which was much appreciated.

I still don’t know where their website admin got the picture from, I may never know.

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Image Theft

I was recently alerted to the fact that a doggie daycare in the GTA was using one of my photos on their website with no photo credit, and worse still – NO PERMISSION!

Contact info leaves much to be desired – no names of any of the staff on their website and just an “info@” email address. Sent an e-mail last week, no reply, so sent a second e-mail today.

The photo has obviously been lifted from one of my websites, as opposed to being scanned from a magazine as the exif is still intact with MY information included.

I would have still been oblivious if it wasn’t for a sharp-eyed friend alerting me to the image.

The moral of this story is – if you don`t want people using your images, don`t post them on the internet AT ALL. Or – if you do post them on the internet – watermark the heck out of them!

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Site Move Complete!

OK – so the nameservers are switched over and the blog is migrated. I can send and receive e-mails.
There is still a small problem needing to be ironed out for the online ordering system which I am working on. Orders are still processed, but an error message appears at the top of the screen. Most disconcerting. Hopefully I’ll have it figured out before long.

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New Host

My website host sold out to another company. I have been so pleased with the service from Webstrike Solutions over the years, I hope that the new host is as good. My site was ported to the new servers last week so it’s time to test that everything’s working as it should.

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