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Are you saying you deleted your portfolio at Fotolia, closed the account, and your images are still showing up for sale at a Chinese "partner" site?

If that's what actually happened, and Fotolia doesnt have a sensible explanation, that may mean they've lost control of your images and the "partner" may have full size image files, and not just the ability to show thumbnails produced by Fotolia's servers. And if that turns out to be  true I'll close my account immediately, and I probably won't be the only one.

How do you locate you images on tuweimei.com without knowing Chinese?

Has Fotolia responded to you on this, and if so what did they say?

How do you know that this "partner" can't still sell your images?

Only someone who reads Chinese could answer that question.

1. You may use an online translator.  Google...

2. Yes, may times.  Always the same response: "We apologize for the inconvenience.  We have informed technical department in order to completely remove your files."

3. I don't know. I would have to register.  But as I said above, they sell images through Fotolia, so I don't think they can sell images which have been removed from Fotolia.  They just display them.  But they should not even do that.

It's really quite easy, Fotolia has an API that allows any "approved" site to sell Fotolia's images. All, of which must access the Fotolia database to download the full resolution image. The thumbnails are a different story. If I am an "approved" site I can query all the thumbnail images as of today's date and store them in my own personal database (which Fotolia would have no control over) and display them for as long as I please. But Fotolia retains the master database of the full resolution images, so if they attempt to sell one and they access the Fotolia API to get the full-res version, they will be denied. Do you really think Fotolia would send full resolution images to their partenr sites??? That is just rediculous.

It's part of "cloud" computing - for example, Amazon's content delivery network, which caches redundant copies of data at "edge servers" in various locations around the world.  People in China will, generally, get faster downloads of content located on servers in China than in Europe.   When I said "enhance the performance of their servers" I meant performance as seen by their customers, who don't know where the downloads are comong from, and that's why I put it in quotes, because it isn't really about server performance, but location.

But that was just a facetious example.  In general I don't share your faith in the ethics of these agencies.  If a business gets in financial trouble,  creditors and lenders are demanding payment and the owners are facing repossession of their Audis, funny things tend to happen. 'Contributor agreements' with anonymous people on the other side of the world could start to look pretty disposable.  A "partner" with fewer scruples than yourself, with servers safely offshore, offers a big wad of cash for a couple of removable hard drives full of images.  It will happen sooner or later.