As indicated on the About page, I've created this website on December 4th, 2000 to share my experience, passions and knowledge with anyone. As a result, Arachnosoft is a personal, non-profit website without any commercial goal. At the beginning, it was only a "personal page" which has progressively evolved through the years to become the website you're currently browsing.

The only fact that it's a non-professional website implies that I can only work on it during my free time, which lead to a certain number of rules about its use and its evolution.

Unless explicitly noted, all the information and data present of this website are offered for PRIVATE USE ONLY. Information, images, web pages and all the computer files related to this website are distributed FOR FREE by their authors, who keep their entire property on their own files.

You are not allowed to copy, reproduce, disassemble, modify or alter these data for public use (for example: their distribution on a website) or commercial use, without any written consent from their respective author(s). However, some files (such as my software or music) may come with their own documentation, either internal (as a text file, manual, or other form) or external (on their web page, for example) which can grant you additional rights and obligations regarding their use. Check the availability of such information if you have doubts about the terms of use of a given file.

Be also aware that all elements which are exclusive to Arachnosoft (any design elements, background textures, text layouts, colors, as well as the HTML code and programming of the webpages) are the exclusive property of Maxime Abbey, the webmaster.

Concerning myself, I'm very careful on the respect of the intellectual property. Thus, if you find on this site some information or files which belong to you, and that you don't want to be available publicly on a website, even for free, don't hesitate to inform me by e-mail so that I can correct this.

Some sections of this website allow you to express yourself about various topics, like the forum, for example. When you are using these tools, you agree personally with the rules and concepts defined by the "Netiquette", meaning that you will not express any racist, xenophobe, violent or sexually-oriented opinions, or more generally, subject to harm anybody.

You are ENTIRELY RESPONSIBLE for the messages you leave on this website. In any case, my web hoster, partners or myself can't be held as responsible of any comments made by the visitors of this website. I'm doing my best, as long as possible, to regularly check the contents of the public places in order to delete any message which would not respect those good behaviour rules. But, as said previously, I can't take care of this website outside of my freetime hours, which hence limits my control abilities. Thanks for your comprehension.

Of course, I retain the right to delete without further notice any message that I'll estimate as being shocking, insulting or harmful towards myself or any other person.

According to the French "Informatique et Libertés" law of January 6th, 1978 (or any other similar law applicable in your country), you have a right to access and ask for modification of any personal data related to yourself on this website. As a result, you can contact me by e-mail at anytime to ask for the correction of any mistaken information pertaining to you on this website (for example, an e-mail address, the description of a software you've created, etc.).

Also, to respect your privacy, I guarantee that I'll never sell, rent or reveal your personal data to any third-parties, without your authorization.

This website uses cookies, small files saved on your computer, to enhance your experience (remembering your language and display settings), as well as allowing the Members Area to work properly. Some other cookies could also be used by some third-party external contents (e.g. videos, advertising), mainly to grab statistic information. You can always prevent your browser from recording cookies on your computer by adjusting its security settings.The data stored internally is as follows:

• Storing your display preferences (language, size, with or without frames, theme)
• Storing your browsing session ID (when you are logged in with an account on the site to access the members' area, forum, and guestbook)

Externally, the data collected in cookies by partners outside the site includes:

• Personalization of advertising displays (operated by partners such as Google AdSense)
• Links to social networks you are logged into, for which access or information sharing buttons appear on this site (Facebook, Twitter).

As ​​this data is managed by external partner sites, this last list is not exhaustive.

In addition to the above-mentioned data, the following information will be collected if you use the following services:

• Your IP address, for security and technical analysis purposes, when you encounter an error page or a redirect to a newer URL (including to detect bot or hacker attacks). This collection is NOT performed if you visit pages that do not result in a redirect or an error;
• Your IP address, for security and statistical analysis purposes, when you complete the survey in the right-hand menu (to prevent the same person from responding multiple times). This collection is NOT performed if you do not interact with the survey;
• your IP address, for statistical analysis purposes only, to count the number of connected visitors (counter displayed at the bottom of each page of the site);
• your IP address and the email address you provide, for security and technical analysis purposes, when you use the contact form AND ONLY if the content to be sent is detected as spam, thus prompting the asking of an additional security question (in particular to prevent the sending of mass emails by robots). This collection is NOT performed if you are not affected by the previously mentioned cases (no error, no redirection, and sending an email from the contact form without asking a security question);
• the data you provide when you register as a member of the site in the Members' Area: login, name, email address, website address, gender, place of residence, hobbies/occupation, date of birth, and signature. This data can be modified or deleted by you at any time, directly from your Member Area.

If you do not explicitly consent to the collection and use of this data, the site will be presented to you in a restricted version, resulting in no data collection:

• Default display (fixed size, no frames, default theme, and language determined by your browser settings)
• No access to Member Area features
• Display of less relevant ads
• No social media sharing buttons

This website provides links to, or embeds videos hosted on YouTube; as a result, by accessing those videos from this website, you're agreeing to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service and Google Privacy Policy.

The YouTube contents, as being displayed on the Homepage and Arrangements section, are the following information publicly available from the videos, and provided by the video uploaders themselves:

• ID (generated by YouTube)
• title (as added by the video author)
• release date (YYYY-MM-dd)
• video duration (HH:mm:ss)
• name of the YouTube channel or username who published the video
• link to this YouTube channel or username (including the @handle)
• video's thumbnail
• author's thumbnail

There is NO other information fetched directly from YouTube; the other data you can see on those pages being added manually from the webmaster himself: original composer, author, editor, director, producer, publisher or distributor, original game/film/song title (if the video is a cover of another work), original release platform (if the video covers video game music), original release year.

All the above information is used to be displayed on this website only, and is not shared to any other internal or external parties. As a result, it's being cached and stored on your local device by your web browser, just like any other resource displayed on this website.

The contents fetched from YouTube are pulled manually (i.e. by the webmaster on his own machine during his free time) and NOT in realtime from the Arachnosoft website itself, to avoid huge bandwidth consumption and constant API calling. The calls are made using scripts running on a local machine (i.e. not publicly available through the internet) which rely on the YouTube's Developer APIs.

Those scripts are run on a regular basis (ideally daily) but not scheduled. As a result, the YouTube contents you can see on Arachnosoft can be out of date, depending on when the last update has been run and checked by the webmaster on his computer, and uploaded on the Arachnosoft website afterwards.

The YouTube videos featured on this website are only those which have been detected, by the same scripts, as using Arachno SoundFont or Maxime Abbey's music. The detection is based on keywords (such as "arachno" or "arachno soundfont") and search for those keywords in the video's description, title or public metadata.

As soon as the video appears among the search results, the webmaster analyzes the video, and if it complies to the criteria mentioned above (either using Arachno SoundFont or music), the video is added, MANUALLY, on the Made With Arachno SoundFont and Made With Arachno SoundFont - PART II playlists (just like you'd do it yourself on YouTube), which are publicly available.

After being added to those playlists, the scripts fetch their contents, and analyze each added video using the above-mentioned YouTube APIs to extract the above-mentioned video information, and store this data into text and images files, which are then uploaded by the webmaster, manually and after thorough checking and eventual corrections, to the Arachnosoft website.

The scripts can automatically detect deleted videos, or username/channel name changes, and update the previously grabbed data to reflect those changes accordingly. As a result, the information displayed is considered up-to-date as soon as it's being updated on the Arachnosoft website itself.

If the information appears incorrect or out-of-date to you, whether you're encuraged to reach the webmaster through the Contact page, and give which information should be refreshed, updated or deleted.

The webmaster will then ensure to take your feedback into account, but without any time guarantee whatsoever, as the contents and website are being updated during free time.

As the author of those contents, you're of course free to contact the webmaster to ask him to remove any contents belonging to you, even if the video is available publicly on YouTube and uses Arachno SoundFont or the music available on this website. This will involve a manual action to remove the contents from the YouTube playlists, the Arachnosoft website, or both, depending of your choice. The playlists can carry contents not displayed on the Arachnosoft website, and vice-versa; although the scripts rely on the playlist to detect and add/update the contents, the YouTube playlist and Arachnosoft website are not bond together.

When I created this website, I set myself a goal: only offer FREE stuff. Even today, this engagement continues to be applied, as you'll not find any paying software or contents to download from this website. I hope I'll be able to keep this "free-only" engagement for a long time, as it becomes more and more difficult in this world, to offer your work for free.

Also, I'm doing all my best to be available as much as possible to support my users and visitors, trying to offer the technical support which can suit their needs. I also care about updating, as often as possible, the information concerning my websites and creations, even if it becomes more and more difficult, as I've less and less free time for my IT activities... Thanks for your patience!

I hope that these rules will be respected by all, in the interest of anyone, so that this website can keep living in good conditions, and for a long time, for my own pleasure and the others. That's why I invite you to immediately leave this site if you don't agree with the rules defined on this page. Be also aware that the information given on this page can be modified at anytime without further notice. Thus, I advise you to come and read it regularly.

Thanks, in any case, for having took some of your time to read this information.

Maxime Abbey, Arachnosoft's webmaster.