Policies

Privacy Policy (#)

This website is made entirely of static HTML and CSS. No JavaScript is present. No other web programming is used either, unless it is somehow outside my awareness.

I have not added any tracking whatsoever to the website, nor do I ever intend to. If any tracking exists then it must originate from the web host's server (outside my control). In that regard, the only thing I have seen in the host's control panel is a visitor counter.

In other words, this is the most privacy-friendly kind of website you can ever visit on the internet. Even among web revival (old web) websites many use JavaScript, but this site doesn't even do that. This website is essentially just a hyperlinked text document.

Intellectual Property Policy (#)

Although many things are freely available for download on this website, the "intellectual property" (copyright, etc) rights for all of my creations remain mine unless otherwise stated. In other words: all rights reserved.

However, I am a steadfast proponent for user freedoms and for not restricting people's natural rights, so don't fret much if your intentions are genuinely benevolent. I'm a freedom-friendly and diversity-loving kind of person. Feel free to ask me if you have any doubt about your use case for anything on this website. This policy section is here as a defense against unethical people, not people who are acting in a good-natured way.

For a simple example, any teacher is free to reprint or copy any part of the website if they deem it has educational value. Likewise, I welcome fellow creative people to take human (not AI) inspiration from my work (but not to plagiarize or rip it off). You are also free to store copies of the website's content (including the site itself) and to pass copies of files around to friends and family and reasonable things like that too. Just behave ethically, basically.

Most importantly though, no form of data-scrapping generative "AI" may incorporate anything on this site into its database or generated results, to the maximum extent allowable by the law. Of all the forms of plagiarism that exist this is the one I am the most hostile to on ethical grounds. Such theft-based "AI" are easily probably the most immoral and exploitive trend I have ever witnessed in all my life of being involved in tech.

Procedural generation is only ethical when it isn't based on stealing other people's work. In fact, I actually have a long-standing interest in procedural generation and indeed in all emergent effects, but in contrast I have zero love for thievery disguised as "innovation". The fact that such theft-based "AI" aggregate data from multiple sources actually makes it worse not better (it just means they robbed a larger number of people), contrary to the propaganda of the parasites who have "created" these automated thievery systems.

In contrast though, merely searching the site via automated methods and adding it to a search-only database is of course permitted, otherwise the website couldn't fulfill its purpose. Search-only systems are ethical whereas theft-based "synthesis" will never be.