Complaint about an offending advertisement

Advertisements are placed on this website by our hosting service, Spanglefish.com who host community based websites free of charge in lieu of advertising.   In other words, hosting is free in return for advertisements.

We have no control over the adverts which should suit the readership of the website.  In fact, the adverts can sometimes be quite helpful.

Have said all this, a certain advert (which rotates in sequence with others) has offended some readers and we have written to Spanglefish about this.

Because the advert rotates you may not see it, but if you do please remember we are not responsible for it, as mentioned in our HOME page disclaimer.

We apologise for any offence the advert may have caused anyone.

The response from our hosting service:

"This isn't an advert we've placed on the site. We simply rent space out to Google Adwords. They've got fairly strict policies on the ads they accept, but clearly they're happy to accept adverts for dating sites.

I believe we can block specific adverts on the Adwords system, but I don't think we're able to block genre's, so even if I blocked this one there's no guarantee a similar advert for a different site wouldn't appear tomorrow.

We've only blocked one advert in all the history of Spanglefish so far - it was an advert looking for dancers for an adult club, and it was appearing on a girl guides site!"