The internet is an amazing place, but it has the potential for much wrongdoing. Some web sites are covered with advertisements.
Some might cover your screen with popup advertisements, or some might even sell your personal information to advertisers!
Worse, some particularly nasty sites may infect your computer with viruses, spyware, adware, or other malicious programs! The internet just isn't a safe place.
At CornCornCorn.com, we don't advertise, sell your information, or infect your computer, or so we say. But how do you know you can trust us?
You just can't be sure. And we understand that. We understand that you might not trust our games or downloads. Were we in your place, we probably wouldn't either.
That doesn't mean we can't tell you what our site won't have. And if you really don't believe us and fear that we might infect your computer, you can always decide not to visit corncorncorn.com anymore.
We promise that…
CORNCORNCORN.COM WILL NOT SELL YOUR INFORMATION! …though how we'd get your information, we don't know.
CornCornCorn.com never asks for your personal information. You'd have trouble giving it to us even if you wanted us to have it.
CornCornCorn.com does not have a "Contact Us" page, and we do not take high scores.
That said, we do count "hits." This means we count visits to our site, but we don't sell those. Besides, who would pay money to know that on May 26, 2007, from 11:00 PM to 11:59 PM, one web page was viewed?
CORNCORNCORN.COM WILL NOT ADVERTISE!
We have three popups, but none of them are selling anything. Two have short poems about corn, and one has a link to http://www.CoconutCreamPi.com. (CoconutCreamPi.com is the Pi Day web site, just like CornCornCorn.com is the Corn Day web site.)
These popups were visible on the home page, but we have decided not to use them since the site renovations.
These popups really only exist to mock the proliferation of popups on other sites.
We do, however, link to sites that advertise, but these sites are related to corn, and we link to them so you can find related information. While we do try to make sure that our linked sites are respectable and trustworthy, we make no guarantees as to the content of sites to which we link.
In other words, if you have a problem with a site to which we're linked, take it up with them, not us.
Should you like to see our popups, you can see all three of them here. (Popup blockers may block this.)
CORNCORNCORN.COM CONTAINS NO MALICIOUS CODE!
(Joke) Except for that darn "Click the Corn" game. That thing is just evil! (Joke) (That was a joke. "Malicious" means evil, malignant, malevolent, or harmful. The game is very frustrating, so many might jokingly call it evil. The game is in no way harmful, and it will not damage your computer.)
Sorry about the joke. Anyway, we have no viruses, adware, spyware, trojan horses, or malware of any sort. Unless somebody hacked into the server and put it there. But as far as we know, nothing on our site will harm your computer.
We understand that many will, understandably, still not trust our downloads. So, should you worry about accidentally downloading anything, we have a few safeguards.
On our home page, the downloads are grouped into a section called "Downloads."
When the mouse hovers over a link to a download, the description will have, in big red letters, "THIS IS A DOWNLOAD."
Even if you mistakenly click the link, you will be taken to a page with a description of the download and any extra information. Following that link will not begin the download.
That page will have a specific animation. The animation shows a poorly drawn computer on the left, the CornCornCorn logo on the right, and an ear of corn flying from the logo to the computer. This animation will only be found on pages that contain downloads.
Finally, the download will not begin until you click the link saying "To download whatever, CLICK HERE" or "DOWNLOAD whatever."
Our downloads are safe, but you still should know that you're downloading something.
Image Usage / Content Usage / Source Code Usage
Everything on this site is ours, except the Corn Day Flyer. The Corn Day Flyer was found in a recycling bin, so we don't really know whose it is.
Anyway, since we have published to the internet an original work, and since we can prove that it is indeed our original work, we own it, and we can allow or disallow rights to it just as we could with any copyright we own.
Please understand that this is not only a legal issue; it is also an ethical issue. An enormous amount of effort has been put into the creation and maintenance of this web site, and to steal content is to lazily benefit from another's effort. That is immoral and illegal. Don't do it.
However, we know knowledge is to be shared. It would be wrong of us to disallow all use of our information. Knowledge needs to be shared, but not stolen.
Therefore, we have certain rules regarding usage of our content, source code, and images.
When using our content, images, or source code,
Don't sell it. No matter what. Never ever. No way. That would be profiting from another's work, without the other profiting. That is stealing, in our eyes and the eyes of the law. Don't do it.
Say it's from here. In a web page, say it visibly. Say "Part of the source code" (or "This image" or "Some of this content" or whatever)"is/are taken from CornCornCorn.com." Be sure to identify which image, which part of the source code, or what content it is you're talking about.
Use our restrictions. Don't sell it, say it's from here, blah blah blah. Even "Use our restrictions." That all has to apply to your web page, paper, or whatever. When putting it in a web page, the entire page must use these restrictions, again including the one entitled "Use our restrictions." This ensures that nobody using our code, code based on ours, code based on code based on ours, or any code descending from code based on ours, can ever sell the content or misuse it. You also have to say you're using these restrictions.
When using it in a web page, in addition to the above rules,
Link to us. Visibly. Put a visible link to http://www.corncorncorn.com/ in the page using our content / source code / images. You used our [whatever you used], so at least give us a link.
THERE IS ONE EXCEPTION TO THESE RULES! Since we don't know who owns the Corn Day Flyer, we own no copyright on it, and we cannot restrict the use of it. Besides, handing out fliers with copyright restrictions printed on them would not be very fun.
