Website uses Madeline McCann to advertise holidays to Portugal - Polidicks

[IMG]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/60087000/jpg/_60087481_madmc1.jpg[/IMG] [B]A travel firm has said the use of an image of Madeleine McCann on an independent website to promote its holidays in Portugal is "vile".[/B] The advert, on VoucherDigg.co.uk, used a photo of Madeleine released by her parents soon after she disappeared. It was used to illustrate deals offered by lowcostholidays.com. The travel firm said it had no advertising contract with VoucherDigg and had been trying to get the image removed. t described VoucherDigg as a company that "picked up deals and offers via an affiliate network" and said it had "previously featured holidays from lowcostholidays.com as well as many other well known holiday companies". [B]But consent to feature their holidays had not been given, it added.[/B] Chief operating officer Lawrence Hunt said: "We have no contract with VoucherDigg to advertise our holidays and we are doing all that we can to contact the website and get the picture removed. [B] "We discovered this vile material yesterday and immediately broke all the [web] links to our site and contacted our lawyers.[/B] "We apologise for any distress this may have caused which is completely beyond our control and are disgusted by the use of this image." No-one from VoucherDigg was available for comment. Madeleine, of Rothley, Leicestershire, was nearly four when she vanished from her family's holiday apartment in the Algarve. Last week, her parents Kate and Gerry McCann said they "have no doubt" Portuguese authorities will reopen the investigation. [URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-17991038[/URL]

AW fuck thats just wrong!

Oh wow, that's just... how do you even go about rationalising doing that?

As horrible as it still is i still laughed. If there is a hell i am certainly going down there...

Think that voucher website has been taken down, probably wasn't a serious website to be honest, or just got hacked.

Sure we aren't great, but we aren't that bad. And thats just disgusting...

I wonder if someone looked for a random image of a kid on holiday in Portugal to throw on the website, and didn't bother checking the image they found.

Honestly I would've never noticed it was her if someone hadn't pointed it out. Even then I still don't recognize her.

It looks like one of those shitty "affiliate" scam/spam websites. They clearly ripped most of the website from Digg.com; [url=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:WkjGDTzZXQ0J:www.voucherdigg.co.uk/+VoucherDigg&hl=en&gl=us&prmd=imvns&strip=1]they[/url] didn't even change the "About Us" section. [/url]

a lot of people around here don't want their parents in portugal anymore, i still want to know why they aren't in court for leaving their fucking child alone in a hotel room while they go out to have dinner.

But the McCann's have to admit that they did have one of there more memorable holidays there.

[QUOTE=Kendra;35873706]Oh wow, that's just... how do you even go about rationalising doing that?[/QUOTE] Someone decided to be cheap and snag an image of the internet so they did a google search looking for a picture of a small happy girl Someone saw this image. They liked this image They didn't bother to check if there's any story behind that image.