Good idea having a separate thread. I get the impression that photos taken of unidentified people can be published, but add a name then it becomes personal data and the act applies. Whether that be in schools or anywhere else. It seems the Data Protection Act is often quoted by those who have no idea what is actually stated in it! Certainly personal photos taken for the family album do not come under the act, though it is often suggested that they do; an often perpetrated myth! I presume these organisations who peddle this misinformation get confused by the fact that they themselves are covered by the requirements of the DPA.

Thanks for clarification John, but begs the question as to why Google Street view blurs faces in their UK data if they don't need to.
Also the issues as to why schools forbid cameras at sports events and nativity plays.

It's one thing taking the photos for yourself, but surely another publishing them without the agreement of the subject? Or am I wrong?
If you got permission from the subjects then fair do, well done!

Don't forget your contract is with SRS, not Ricoh. If SRS cannot get it sorted, take it to the small claims court and/or Trading Standards..
SRS have basically confirmed it is a faulty camera so it should be replaced. The Consumer Rights Act 2015 applies, goods need to be of satisfactory quality. Given the cost of the camera one would expect it to last several more years yet.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBmLxdUlkW8

I reckon the main thing is to make Google aware of the site if you want it to show up in searches; that doesn't need analytics. But as you don't seem to have images titled or tagged and it seems to be run on flash there don't seem to be specific pages for Google to link to; for instance every Nature image has the same url.
If you want to sell the images from there I can't see how they are going to be found by a Google search.
I couldn't test Google out for that as I couldn't find anything definitive to search for to see it it has it indexed. The Google link to your gallery shows 'Coming Soon!' Google does have your 'Portfolio' indexed where the images can be found but not the actual photos. Aren't Gallery and Portfolio really the same thing? Personally I'd look to the gallery for the photos rather than the portfolio, but as I said, I can't see how you could get any specific image to show up in a generic or image search with that software.
I use Piwigo and often find my photos outrank Flikr images in Google searches even if their ones can be far superior to mine! Each image has its own url which Google can (and does) link to, Piwigo can be made to operate with much the same look and feel as your present site.
Have a look at some of their showcased galleries at: http://piwigo.org/showcase/
or there's mine at http://jkpg.ddns.net/piwigo/ and cookies aren't required! There are many customisation features, plugins and themes to get it how you want it to be; and the software is free and open source.
You're welcome to slate my site if you wish!

Nice, but one little point - if you don't click on the cookie notice to clear it you don't see the menu options hidden behind it. At first I thought it was a single page site! (Does it really need cookies?)

Are you aware that the K-50 can process / edit /crop etc. pictures in the camera without even the need for a PC? See pages 191 & 192 in the manual. You can even do special effects like extracting one or two colours, convert to monochrome, adjust levels and so on much like in PC software.
If you take the images in RAW format you'll get more leeway with any adjustments, be that in camera or on a PC and do the save as a jpeg.
If you want photo editing PC software (other than PDCU which I believe you have so try that first) Photoshop Elements is great but isn't free though can be purchased from retailers. If you want something for free and cannot do the download yourself, get someone to download an image editing program for you and save it onto a memory stick and install it from that. Something like Irfanview or Picassa are free and reliable programs and neither are disk hogs to clutter up your hard drive.

If the winner hasn't taken action within 48 hours of the competition close, why not invite the runner up to set it? If contact cannot be made to him/her then do as you are doing. It does seem JR is having to set quite A few of them lately!

I've put quite a number of my York flooding photos on my web server now including some Photo Spheres taken with my new toy, a Theta S, should anyone wish to see them. I can't upload those here as the site doesn't seem to have provision to display them.

Here's the link to the folder: http://jkpg.ddns.net/piwigo/index.php?/category/247

I had to PP most of them from the dng's in the case of the MX-1 ones and from the jpg's in the case of the Theta ones in PSE or Photomatix as the light was quite poor.

The Theta Photo Spheres have the globe icon overlaid.